“Movie Man” is a Canadian documentary about 5 very special theatres and the man that created them. Keith Stata started construction of Highland Cinema in 1975 and in 1979 the theatre opened and through gradual expansion there are now 5 cinemas. Stata bluntly states it was his “stupid idea” to build Highland Cinemas. Architecturally youContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Three!”
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RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Two!
No beautiful people (other than myself) are greeting us and where is the red carpet? A local Kinmount matron with a big smile ushers us into the cinema with a bag of popcorn. Speaking of food why is there no mall with a Montana’s and 16 other restaurants down the street? I mean we areContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Two!”
RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part One!
A film critic slaves away under the oppression of well intentioned but unpaid blogs. Wowzers the return is incredible! All the movies you can watch which you can spend 6-7 hours writing about after watching a film with an occasional thank you. No way to make a living but rather an endorsement of poverty. SoContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part One!”
RKS 2024 Film: “Inay” (Mama): The Mutual Pain of the Filipina Absent Mother
“Inay” is a Canadian documentary probing the pain of Filipina mothers leaving the Philippines to work as domestic workers in Canada primarily as child and elder minders. I knew several work colleagues that hired Filipina nannies to mind their children. Some of these nannies had left children and husbands behind and had not returned forContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Inay” (Mama): The Mutual Pain of the Filipina Absent Mother”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival (Canada): “Markings of Murder”: Fatherly Love of a Self Diagnosed Serial Killer
Donald Brubaker Jr. (Griffin Cork) is the son of serial killer whose last words from his father were, “Good luck Junior”. Dad’s toll was 6. Brubaker can’t shake the blackness of his past. It begins to overtake him causing him to sleepwalk at night waking up who knows where. It certainly can’t improve his mentalContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival (Canada): “Markings of Murder”: Fatherly Love of a Self Diagnosed Serial Killer”
The 4th Annual Greek Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Operation Star”
“Operation Star” is a WW II film set in Northern Greece. British planned Operation Star mission fails. Eight men, 5 Greek and 3 British, are sent to blow up a mountain railway bridge but are ambushed by the Germans leaving two survivors Major Vasilis Kostakis (Konstantinos Lagos) and Seargent Pavlos Linos (Lefteris Dimiropoulos). They mustContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Operation Star””
RKS 2024 Film: “Starve Acre”: Don’t Mess with the Sacred Oak Tree!
Juliette (Morfydd Clark) and her academic archaeologist husband Richard (Matt Smith) live in an inherited family farm in the English countryside. Richard, who teaches the history of ancient British tribes, believes there was once a sacred oak tree on the property where the ancient gathered and may have even hung people. At a county fairContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Starve Acre”: Don’t Mess with the Sacred Oak Tree!”
RKS 2024 Film: “Kryptic”: No Horror but You’ll Be Caught in The Gordian Knot!
Kay (Chloe Pirrie) joins a newly formed walking ladies club and with their guide they hike up Kryptic Peak. Kay separates from the group and encounters a hairy brute creature called a Sook as it is referred to in local lore. As the guide explains thousands of hikers disappear in the mountains each year withoutContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Kryptic”: No Horror but You’ll Be Caught in The Gordian Knot!”
RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm
In this American short directed by Zao Wang, Eva (Kahyun Kim) and her boyfriend Peter (Craig Newman) are in the high-country hunting deer with Eva’s parents June (Maragret Cho) and Sam (Keong Sim). Peter is one of those self-sufficient as the world is ending believers so Eva killing and field dressing a dear carcass will,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm”
RKS 2024 Film: “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”: A Photographic Grand Queen
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) is the subject of a documentary shortly to be released in United States theatres entitled “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”. His story is recounted by a former lover, art historians, museum curators, former models, family members, former employees, film directors, gallerists and most importantly his photographs and correspondenceContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”: A Photographic Grand Queen”
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