The Canadian documentary “Summer Qamp” delves into a summer camp for LGBTQ youth. Camp fYrefly in Alberta, Canada. Here is a comforting and safe space for the bullied, insecure, confused and unsure seeking to establish their queer identity in this Alberta camp. This is no “Meatballs” and diametrically opposed to the conversion camp in theContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: Toronto International Film Festival: “Summer Qamp””
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RKS 2023 Film: “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”: Hollywood, Bollywood and Now Wakaliwood!
A documentary about an African country that very well may put a smile on your face instead of a sigh. The last documentary I watched on Uganda, “Theatre of Violence” was about a civil war and child soldiers. Not exactly cheerful. “Once Upon a Time in Uganda” follows the struggle of Ugandan director Issac NabwanaContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”: Hollywood, Bollywood and Now Wakaliwood!”
RKS 2023 Film: “King of Killers”: Daddy is a Killer!
Marcus Garan (Alain Moussi) from Chicago is a former hitman for The Company that kills domestically and internationally “bad guys”. A hitman with morals? Garan has a wife and his darling little daughter Kimberly. Unfortunately his wife is set up to be killed in the “crossfire” at a messy hit Garan has accepted as anContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “King of Killers”: Daddy is a Killer!”
RKS 2023 Film: “Iron Butterflies”
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17 from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by a Russian missile killing all 298 persons aboard the Boeing 777. On November 17, 2022 a Dutch court found 3 of the four Russian defendants guilty of 298 counts of murder imposing a lifeContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Iron Butterflies””
RKS 2023 Film: “Storage Locker”: A Clunker Any Way You Categorize It?
The public relations blurb received concerning “Storage Locker” rather indicated it was a horror movie. In fact it won the award of Best Feature and Best Director at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival and has been screened at a few horror film festivals. If you are looking for a “serious” horror film here and enjoyingContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Storage Locker”: A Clunker Any Way You Categorize It?”
RKS 2023 Film: “PIGLADY”: Can the PIGLADY Bring Home the Bacon? The Great White Pigs!
“PIGLADY” is an American horror film although if you can’t take vicious man-eating pigs seriously there is a comedic element in PIGLADY. PIGLADY is remotely founded in fact. Susan Monica was a former Navy sailor who served in the Vietnam War as a man and eventually became a she and the owner of a pigContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “PIGLADY”: Can the PIGLADY Bring Home the Bacon? The Great White Pigs!”
RKS 2023 Film: “Jules”: Of Ageism and Aliens
Who doesn’t like a good film about aliens arriving on earth and interacting with humans? “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? “ET”? or Donald Trump running for President? We have a great one here with seniors in the lead roles and with ageism in our society what I think just might be the movie ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Jules”: Of Ageism and Aliens”
RKS 2023 Film: “The Battle for Chile”: Part 3 “Popular Power”
This is the third and last part of the seminal and historic Chilean documentary from Patricio Guzmán. Salvador Allende was elected as the President of Chile in 1970 and died in a coup in 1973 which was actively supported and financed by the United States government. “The Battle for Chile” offers viewers a front rowContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “The Battle for Chile”: Part 3 “Popular Power””
RKS 2023 Film: “The Battle for Chile” (La Battala de Chile): Part One: “The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie”
If you were alive in 1973 you may have been aware of the leftist coalition Popular Unity winning the March 4, 1973, Chilean general election under the leadership of Salvador Allende. Unfortunately the opposition Christian Democrats and various national parties controlled the Chilean Congress. From Congress they attempted to block progressive legislation, remove Allende appointedContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “The Battle for Chile” (La Battala de Chile): Part One: “The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie””
RKS 2023 Film: “The Beasts”: The Bullies That Smell Like “Manure”
Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and Olga (Marina Foϊs) move from their native France to a remote mountain village in Spain’s Galicia district. They farm organic vegetables and Antoine renovates homes. Fellow farmers are not accepting of Frenchie as they call him. One senses it is the surly and spiteful farmer Xan (Luis Zahera) that generates theContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “The Beasts”: The Bullies That Smell Like “Manure””
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