One of the most honoured Canadian films of all time, Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter” (1997) was nominated for 16 Genie Awards and won eight, including best picture, director and actor. It also won three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay and director. Widely regarded asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter””
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RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy
I returned two days ago from 10 days at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where I watched and reviewed 20 movies. Three were Greek films about making a movie about a movie. They weren’t comedies as “All You Need is Blood” which is a movie about making a movie about making a movie. Bucky (LoganContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Meat”: Twice Out of Control and Twice Dead
Takis (Aky Ilaskarazisis) raises sheep in a small Greek village. Takis has a longstanding feud with Kyriakou (Dimitris Xanthopoulos) over land ownership. A situation of two hot heads colliding in a violent verbal spar starting the film with Kyriakou without much community support just being released from three years in prison. Community standards run highContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Meat”: Twice Out of Control and Twice Dead”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “She Loved Blossoms More”
“She Loved Blossoms More” is a film difficult to categorise as to genre and the best I can suggest is “psychedelic horror”. Consider it a combination of “The Wizard of Oz”, the blue pill from “The Matrix”, “Back to the Future”, “Mad Max” and the LSD trip in New Orleans in “Easy Rider”. The plotContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “She Loved Blossoms More””
RKS 2024 Film: “Don’t F* With Ghosts”
In the film “Don’t F* With Ghosts” Stu Stone and Adam Rodness are two Canadian filmmakers without commercial success. They visit studio executives to pitch their “Bigfoot” project but instead are steered towards producing a film that will prove there are ghosts as after all that is where the international interest is according to theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Don’t F* With Ghosts””
RKS 2024 Film: “Zombie Town”: Don’t Be Sucker Punched by Rent a Star
If you aren’t zombified by the time the final credits roll you are a superhuman and perhaps ready to star in the 467th Marvel movie. Not being attracted to zombie films I watched “Zombie Town” because Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase were featured actors. Their screen appearance was minimal all for the better as theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Zombie Town”: Don’t Be Sucker Punched by Rent a Star”
RKS 2024 Film: “Russians at War”: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) issued a statement on 12September2024 the Canada-France film “Russians at War” directed by Anatasia Trofimova would be “paused” and there would be a screening “when it is safe to do so”. TIFF said it was aware “of significant threats to festival operations and public safety”. It would seem thereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Russians at War”: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!”
RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready”
Documentaries are rarely uplifting preferring an endless stream of negativity and when the topic is Canadian indigenous life the negativity is often escalated to misery. Another plate of angry misery fills the screen in Hayley Morin’s documentary about jaye simpson a poet, activist and drag queen. Abandoned as a child her single mother died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready””
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Fantasia”: A Movie That Sings with Its Heart and Soul
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada) screens in 11 Canadian cities 1-31October2024. “Fantasia” will be one of the films presented and it sings to you with its heart and soul. Like much of the traditional Greek music that is full of suffering and personal agony heard in the film many of theContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Fantasia”: A Movie That Sings with Its Heart and Soul”
RKS 2024 Film: “Only the River Flows”: A Murder Investigation Takes Centre Stage
If you are an aficionado of murder mysteries you will enjoy the film. A twist of clues with no obvious viewer conclusions to be made. If you enjoy film noir there is almost enough stylistically here to merit slotting the film into that genre. If you enjoy symbolism in film and subtle political criticism itContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Only the River Flows”: A Murder Investigation Takes Centre Stage”
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