A brilliant approach in Gabriele Mainetti’s martial arts film “The Forbidden City” filmed in Rome. One lead character Marcello (Enrico Borello) speaks in Italian and co-lead Mei (Yaxi Liu) speaks Mandarin. Their limited inter-personal dialogue is through a Google translation app on Mei’s phone. The dual language technique opens possibilities of commercial success in bothContinue reading “RKS 2026 EURO Film: “The Forbidden City”: A Sino Italian Spaghetti Kung Fu Roman Holiday?”
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RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Dream Eater”: Bereft of Terror
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”
RKS 2025 Film: “Green Border”: Trials and Tribulations of Refugees and Migrants Crossing Belarusian Border into Poland
This Polish feature film opens with a Syrian refugee family flying from Turkey into Belarus where a taxi arranged by a family member living in Sweden will transport them to the Polish border where they will “illegally” cross into Poland the assumption being the trip from Poland to Sweden can be made without any difficultyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Green Border”: Trials and Tribulations of Refugees and Migrants Crossing Belarusian Border into Poland”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Loathe Thy Neighbor”
“Loathe Thy Neighbor” is a low budget Canadian indie film shot in Bruce County, Ontario. One can’t deny certain of its comedic elements but it is more of a character study than a comedy. Deeply unhappy characters seldom craft a comedy. City slicker Will Larkfield (Brennan Clost) inherits a farm from his father who hadContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Loathe Thy Neighbor””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Well”
The film commences with crackling and staticky news reports and desperate human cries. The world is running out of clean water. Special blue zones are established where water is available but access is largely denied. Mass migrations occur. Refugee “camps” are established. Chaos in the streets. Much of the water supply is contaminated with aContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Well””
RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Stelios”: Yet Another Shining Example of Greek Cinema
“Stelios” is yet another example of why widely ignored Greek cinema should be no longer ignored by filmgoers. It is an epic film marking the rise of legendary Greek singer Stelios Kazantzidis (Christos Mastoras) from abject poverty in an Athenian refugee camp into Greece’s most beloved singer. “Big Stelios”, affectionately referred to in his nativeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Greek Film: “Stelios”: Yet Another Shining Example of Greek Cinema”
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: “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 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was
The McDowell family loses 24-year-old son Jimmy in Vietnam in 1972. His cause of death is not entirely clear to younger brother Peter McDowell fudged with shame and mystery. Despite a June 1972 telegram arriving to advise the family of his death is the cause of death on the death certificate the truth? The contentContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Jimmy in Saigon”: Who Jimmy Really Was”
Crazy8s: “The Reveal”: Sweet, Tender and Compassionate Sewn Nicely Together with a Chuckle: A Comedic Fairy Tale?
“The Reveal” if I may remark in a cheesy way using a word my Grade One teacher drilled in our young noggins never to write in a sentence is nice. It is also sweet, tender, compassionate and at times humorous. It operates in a dual universe of two different reveals. The reveal is an eventContinue reading “Crazy8s: “The Reveal”: Sweet, Tender and Compassionate Sewn Nicely Together with a Chuckle: A Comedic Fairy Tale?”
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