The City of Baltimore has a murder rate just about over 300 a year and the cause according to newly elected (in 2021) mayor Brandon Scott is not drugs or gangs but cases of interpersonal violence. The solution espoused by Scott is not increased policing which has failed in Baltimore time and time again butContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Body Politic””
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The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Behind the Haystacks”: Reality Trumps the Façade
If you travel through farmland you often see haystacks. They can be domed, square or circular and pleasing to look at, almost artistic. Behind the perfect structure what is hiding? In “Behind the Haystacks” could it be that the haystack is the public persona and the private person is what hides behind the haystack. ItsContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “Behind the Haystacks”: Reality Trumps the Façade”
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!”
The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “The Strangers’ Case”
“The Strangers’ Case” was filmed in Jordan, Turkey and Greece. It recounts the journey of several refugees from Aleppo in Syria to the island of Lesvos, Greece in the Eastern Aegean Sea. Amira is a successful pediatric radiologist working in a hospital that is running short of supplies but is never short of blood andContinue reading “The 4th Annual Greek International Film Festival Tour (Canada): “The Strangers’ Case””
RKS 2024 Film: “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground”: West Virginian Tragedy a la Master and Margarita
If you have watched the seminal 1973 American documentary “Harlan County” about a coal miner’s strike in Harlan County, Kentucky you know coal miners are a tough and proud lot and mine owners are ruthlessly if not murderously driven by profits. In “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground” about coal mining in West VirginaContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground”: West Virginian Tragedy a la Master and Margarita”
RKS 2024 Film: “Population Purge”: The Story That May Not Be The Story You Think
Sometime in the future the United States government initiates a population purge in its population management programme. The governmentally introduced virus is genetically engineered to spare a relatively small group; those with AB+ blood. The few survivors of the governmental purge only survive with transfusions of AB+ blood. The government issues transfusion cards for “legalContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Population Purge”: The Story That May Not Be The Story You Think”
RKS 2024 Film: “Copa71”: Patriarchy, Cash and Greed and the Great Forget
Copa 71 was the first women’s football world championship held in Mexico in 1971. It was scorned by FIFA in its true patriarchal view of football. It was not recognized as a “true championship” even by the Women’s Football Association of England. In 1921 the English Football Association stated any of its members that permittedContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Copa71”: Patriarchy, Cash and Greed and the Great Forget”
RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS: “The Ride Ahead”: Determination, Grit and Suffering
In “The Ride Ahead” expect a massive dose of suffering and genetic injustice alleviated, if not conquered, by a strong spirit resentful of being talked down to armoured by a boundless will to overcome obstacles facing severely handicapped Samuel afflicted with GNA01 Neurodevelopmental Disorder a progressive disorder so rare that there are a mere hundredsContinue reading “RKS 2024 FILM: HOT DOCS: “The Ride Ahead”: Determination, Grit and Suffering”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Strike”: Memories of the East German Circus
Amidst great political and bureaucratic clapping the California Department of Corrections (CDC) opened the “state of the art” Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) in 1989. Pelican Bay was designed for solitary confinement. Hundreds spent years in solitary confinement some as long as thirty years despite the United Nation’s maximum set at 15Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “The Strike”: Memories of the East German Circus”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Qoryqpa” (Streets Loud with Echoes)
Being a part of the Soviet Empire when the Berlin Wall fell Kazakhstan declared itself an independent democracy but not having much of a history of democracy it quickly slipped back into the comfortable ways of totalitarianism. It was the 19July2018 murder of Kazak 25-year-old figure skating Olympic bronze medalist (Sochi 2018 Olympics) Denis TenContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS 2024: “Qoryqpa” (Streets Loud with Echoes)”
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