“Sometimes I Think About Dying” offers viewers triple captivation. Daisy Ridley as Fran captivates. The offbeat musical score captivates. The inventive and tight directing and writing captivates. Fran is a most uncaptivating woman. Awkward, isolated, lonely and seemingly unable to make any meaningful human connection. In the midst of fellow workers at a small officeContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Sometimes I Think About Dying”: Triple Captivation”
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RKS 2024 Film: “The Great Salish Heist”: Of Rezy Indians, Well Meaning White Folks and Russian Mobsters
If you enjoy a good heist movie with tension, action, humour, sarcasm and more than a few double crosses you will enjoy the Canadian feature film “The Great Salish Heist”. No state secrets, secret and revealing information on a disc, gold or diamonds are the object of the heist. Steve Joe (Darrell Dennis) is aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Great Salish Heist”: Of Rezy Indians, Well Meaning White Folks and Russian Mobsters”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Madones”: The B Side Life of a One Hit Wonder Group
No typo here. This film is not about rockers The Ramones but a fictional all female Canadian rock group The Madones. They had their only big hit,” Mad Ones” twenty years ago. We know these bands as one hit wonders. Three sisters Rose (Lucy De Coutere), Gladys and Stella (Terra Doyle) were in this all-girlsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Madones”: The B Side Life of a One Hit Wonder Group”
RKS 2024 Film: “Unshook”: Part of the Telus Celebration of Black History Month
Telus Originals honours Black History Month in Canada with the launch of Documentary Features “Union Street”, “Handle with Care” and two shorts “Unshook” and “Out There”. “Unshook” is a short film documentary in which 19-year-old Afro-Cuban Canadian René Osmani Diakité copes with the recent death of his African born physician father and his grandfather dyingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Unshook”: Part of the Telus Celebration of Black History Month”
RKS 2024 Television: Turner Classic Films: “The Power of Film” Series
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is premiering an all-new original documentary series, The Power of Film, which explores some of the most popular and memorable American films of all time. New episodes of the six-part series will premiere every Thursday beginning January 4 at 8pm ET. Hosted and curated by renowned UCLA professor emeritus, founding chair ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Television: Turner Classic Films: “The Power of Film” Series”
RKS 2024 Film: “Come Lie with Me” (Arrête avec tes mesonges): The Torture of Remaining in the Closet
I take issue with the translation of “Arrête avec tes mesonges” which in my French means “stop with your lies” far more appropriate than “Come Lie with Me” given the path and plot of the film. You see Stéphane Belcourt (Guillame de Tonquédec) is a gay novelist who is quite out of the closet. OnContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Come Lie with Me” (Arrête avec tes mesonges): The Torture of Remaining in the Closet”
RKS 2024 Film: “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer”
“Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer” is a documentary scanning the live and films of German director Werner Herzog. Herzog quips all his films emanate from pain and not pleasure. While many of the actors and directors in the documentary laud Herzog as a dreamer Herzog says he rarely dreams but sometimes when walking or driving longContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer””
RKS 2024 Film: “There is a Monster”: I Have Seen This Monster
Jack Terry (Joey Collins) is a successful commercial photographer. He is on the verge of an enormously successful series of shoots. Everything is going his way except his relationship with his wife Carol (Ena O’Rourke) which hit the skids after a brief drunken fling with a model he was photographing. Jack frequently sees a monsterContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “There is a Monster”: I Have Seen This Monster”
RKS 2024 Film: “Fireworks”: Hunting Rabbits and Homosexuals
“Fireworks” is set in a small Sicilian town in 1982. The film has a rabbit hunting scene at its beginning and near its end and at its end the last hunt is left to your imagination. Teenager Gianni (Samuele Segreto) is a shy fellow working as a mechanic for his stepfather. Gianni has had someContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Fireworks”: Hunting Rabbits and Homosexuals”
RKS 2023 Film: “Re: Uniting”: Together Again For The Final Big Chill
Some say this Bowen Island (British Columbia) set and shot film is an ensemble drama that is similar to “The Big Chill”. I can agree with that. It is in the reunion genre of film. Let’s sort out the bad and good. Sound echoes in the early moments of the film seem not to haveContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Re: Uniting”: Together Again For The Final Big Chill”
