I will admit it. I simply can’t watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” yet another time as that squeaky clean piece of cinema is beginning to grate on the nerves. Diametrically opposed to that Ivory Soap piece of cinema is “Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas” teeming with sacrilegious smut perhaps justContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas”: Groaning Through a Very Smutty Christmas”
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RKS 2023 Film: “Nisei”: An American Short Film That is Far From Sweet
Inspired by stories by the writer and director’s grandfather the award winning “Nisei” follows the journey of two Japanese American brothers during World War II, John and Minoru Miyasaki. Although many Japanese Americans were interned in “segregation camps” John and Minoru volunteered to join the 442nd Regimental Combat Team an all Japanese American unit thatContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Nisei”: An American Short Film That is Far From Sweet”
RKS 2023 Film: “Rose”: Danish Epic Film Exhausts: Travels with a Schizophrenic
The Danish film “Rose” is an epic physical and spiritual journey of Inger (Sofie Gråbøl) on a bus trip from Denmark to Paris. Inger is institutionalized with schizophrenia but she is sufficiently functional (if not driven) to travel with her sister Ellen (Lene Marie Christensen) and husband Vagn (Anders W. Berthelsen) on a group coachContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Rose”: Danish Epic Film Exhausts: Travels with a Schizophrenic”
RKS 2023 Film: “Another Body”: Misogynist “Sewage”
“Another Body” is a documentary journey into a filthy and disgusting pool of sickening misogynist sewage. Taylor, a university student, (not her name and not her body in front of the doc camera) lives a quiet life in suburban United States until a friend messages her that she has seen Taylor on Pornhub a pornographicContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Another Body”: Misogynist “Sewage””
RKS 2023 Film: “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”: Is it Bird With Glowing Eyes, a UFO or Possibly a Christmas Film?
Sam Wanoutsky (Jeremy Davies) is a frantic conspiracy theorist and that certainly shows by listening to his podcast “The Naked Umbrella”. He is a convicted arsonist currently out on parole so as one says, “He’s gotta keep his nose clean”. Even his parole officer Yolanda Johnston (Darnell Rhea) is pulling for Sam but the factContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella”: Is it Bird With Glowing Eyes, a UFO or Possibly a Christmas Film?”
RKS 2023 Film: “Verona”: Canadian Teen in Turmoil Film
If you are of a certain vintage you may have seen a fair share of “teen turmoil” genre films. In “Verona” gone are the “Rebel Without a Cause” monikers of teen turmoil such as boys, cars, teen hanky panky and overbearing parental authority. “Verona” as a Segway into modern teen turmoil becomes a bit moreContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Verona”: Canadian Teen in Turmoil Film”
RKS 2023 Film: “Whose Y’er Father?” Easy on the Mind Silly Canadian Spoof: Magnum PEI!
Larry Constable (Chris Locke) is the sole detective in the tiny Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island known for its lobsters and mussels, beaches and delicious potatoes. Constable is a good natured and trustful soul whose detective skills place him between inept and the village simpleton. Like Tom Selleck in “Magnum PI” he has aContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Whose Y’er Father?” Easy on the Mind Silly Canadian Spoof: Magnum PEI!”
RKS 2023 Film: “Waikiki”: Vacillating Between Gritty, Fantasy, Myth and Reality
Writer and Director Christopher Kahunahana’s “Waikiki” shatters the myth and fantasy of Waikiki, Hawaii held by many. The opening scene features a massive cruise ship arriving and the closing scene a cruise ship departing. Beautiful Hawaiian scenery weaves in and out of the film. The opening scene also includes happy Hawaiian hula dancers performing forContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Waikiki”: Vacillating Between Gritty, Fantasy, Myth and Reality”
RKS 2023 Film: “Trafficked Voices”: Sex Trafficking Canadian Style
“Trafficking Voices” is a Canadian documentary in which the voices of victims, parents of victims, police, trafficking specialists in law and finance lend their commentary to the sale, trading and exploitation of young vulnerable women some as young as 14. 93% of human trafficking victims are Canadian. The ultimate message is that trafficking of fleshContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Trafficked Voices”: Sex Trafficking Canadian Style”
RKS 2023 Film: “Pay or Die”: You Will Understand Big Pharma Profiteering on Insulin in The United States: The Solution Seems Typically American
Those who suffer from Type 1 diabetes require multiple daily insulin injections failing which diabetic ketoacidosis sets in and death ensues. Quite simple isn’t it? A vial of insulin currently sells for $10 in Italy, $12 in Canada and $14 in Japan. In the United States when the film was produced $300. Three Pharma’s controlContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Pay or Die”: You Will Understand Big Pharma Profiteering on Insulin in The United States: The Solution Seems Typically American”
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