Poor Alex (Alex Lee Williams) is suffering from parasomnia clear at the beginning of the film he is a danger to himself and as the movie progresses a danger to his sweetheart, unsuccessful documentary filmmaker Mallory (Mallory Drumm). As appropriate, given his self destructive bent he is receiving medical care. Off Mallory and Alex travelContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Dream Eater”: Bereft of Terror”
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RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem
Mia Sunshine Jones is a struggling arts programme student unable to complete a project telling the world who she really is. Her professor and fellow students are far from impressed with her efforts and Mia is given a one-week deadline by her professor to produce a passable artwork. It isn’t too long before the viewerContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem”
RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025
The breakout 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos film “Dogtooth” commences a North American theatrical release in a 4K restoration format. Parents confine their three adult children in a family compound in a state of childlike innocence through manipulation, violence and abuse. Sexual perversion including incest is omnipresent. Outrageous falsehoods and childlike games and contests preoccupy the adultContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025”
RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities
“The Legacy of Cloudy Falls” is set in Niagara Falls, Canada, you know the “better side” of the Falls! They say the best part of Las Vegas is leaving it. The same may be said, but in a more compelling fashion, about the town Niagara Falls, Ontario. Tacky and seedy may be a polite descriptionContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities”
RKS 2025 Film: “BA”: Ba Ba Black Sheep for the Grim Reaper
Daniel (Lawrence Kao) is down on his luck. In Manadarin “ba” can refer to both father and dad and that he is for his 8-year-old daughter Collette (Kai Cech). Daniel and Collette are living an extremely penurious “living in his car” existence. During this “camping car adventure” Daniel discovers a wooden box in a bagContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “BA”: Ba Ba Black Sheep for the Grim Reaper”
RKS 2025 Film: “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse”
Watching the Mexican horror film “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse” be prepared for a film like you’ve never seen before. Chalked full of suspense, horror, comedy with The Book of Revelations and the seven trumpets thrown in made more compelling by superb black and white cinematography, costuming and an adaptive soundtrack. Salvador (Farid Correa), 17,Continue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Dogs”: A Suggestive Brain May Be Popping Around Like Popcorn Watching This One
Perhaps my brain has popped around just a bit too much and after reviewing 200 films yearly how do you think your brain would be? Of late many “horror movies” are more suggestive of the horror of mental illness than in ghoulish figures and spooky noises. Think of “Chucky” or “Freddy”. Both meet the definitionContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Dogs”: A Suggestive Brain May Be Popping Around Like Popcorn Watching This One”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “A Fly on the Wall”: Caution You May be Swatted and Squished!
Assuming you were terminally ill and suffering. Would you fight and suffer until the end or turn to medically assisted in dying (MAID)? Sixty-year-old Chika Kapadia is in the last stages of an aggressive terminal cancer. He has requested his long-time friend and filmmaker Shonali Bose to film him in Geneva to the point heContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “A Fly on the Wall”: Caution You May be Swatted and Squished!”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Mongrels”: Horror, Fantasy, Reality and the Concealment of Truth
Sonny Lee (Jae-Hyun Kim) newly arrived Korean to British Columbia is hired by hunter and farmer Scott Larson to eradicate packs of feral dogs in the neighboring woods. They snarl, howl and growl as a menacing, omnipresent and quasi surreal force. His daughter Hana (Sein Jin) and adolescent son Hajoon (Da-Nu Nan) have emigrated withContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Mongrels”: Horror, Fantasy, Reality and the Concealment of Truth”
RKS 2025 Film: “Timestalker”: Disturbing Pyscho Horror Thriller
The film community apparently categorizes “Timestalker” as comedic. If there is humour, I would say it is an attempt at such that transforms itself to generate a powerfully disturbing film documenting a dangerous delusional stalker. Initially one might strain to identify humour but it is weak and it is the splendiferous acting of Alice LoweContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Timestalker”: Disturbing Pyscho Horror Thriller”
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