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RKS 2024 Film: The Worst Films of 2024

“Zombie Town” Canada 56/100 “Café 404” Greece 56/100 “Omicron Killer” USA 61/100 “Beehive” Canada 67/100 “Cold Road” Canada 67/100 “Pure O” USA  69/100 “Jeanne duBarry” France 69/100 “Guy Manley Super Spy” United Kingdom 68/100 “One Must Wash Their Eyes” USA  67/100 “What Mary Didn’t Know” Greece/France 64/100

RKS 2024 Film: The Best Documentaries of 2024

“A Photographic Memory” United States 96/100 “Devil Put Coal in the Ground” USA 96/100 “Russia At War” Russia 95/100 “Tish” United Kingdom 94/100 “To Kill a Tiger” Switzerland 94/100 “And So It Begins” Philippines 93/100 “Copa 71” United Kingdom 93/100 “Space Cowboy” United Sates 93/100 “Praying for Armageddon” Norway 93/100 “Cherry” Canada 92/100 “Stolen Time”Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The Best Documentaries of 2024”

RKS 2024 Film: “Deaner’ 89”: Satire? Comedy? Socially Relevant?

Dean Murdoch (Paul Spence) known as “Deaner” finally after enduring many “shit bands” achieves stardom in 1989 and has moved into his mansion where he shares his story. Dean and his sister Jen (Star Slade) are adopted and advised of their Indigenous heritage late in their teens by their mother telling them the government toldContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Deaner’ 89”: Satire? Comedy? Socially Relevant?”

RKS 2024 Film: “Fairy Creek”: Not One Big Happy Family

In August 2020 opposition to logging old growth forests in British Columbia’s South Vancouver Island’s Fairy Creek’s 1183 hectares gained momentum. Old growth forests were dwindling in British Columbia and Fairy Creek was unique as a fully intact valley of old growth trees with its own complex biodiversity. Teal Jones Group had legal rights toContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Fairy Creek”: Not One Big Happy Family”

RKS 2024 Film: “Resident Orca”

Southern Resident Killer Whales also known as Southern Resident Orca Whales are found in the Salish Sea in Washington and British Columbia. Presently there are 75 known South Resident Orca Whales facing extinction. In the 1960’s and 1970’s some 50 were captured and transported to “marine parks” including infant Orca, Lolita, as she was named,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Resident Orca””

RKS 2024 Film: “The Gutter”: Full of Stereotypes and Lacking Originality

Walt (Shameik Moore), a man with few social or business skills, finds employment as general help at the dilapidated Alleycatz Bowling Alley. There he meets Skunk (Darcy Carden) on a bar stool a former female pro bowler and now a voracious consumer of beer, preferably warm for breakfast. A city building inspector gives bowling alleyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Gutter”: Full of Stereotypes and Lacking Originality”

RKS 2024 Film: “Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties”: Trailer Park Boys Head Over the Pond

Bubbles’ (Mike Smith) new band “Bubbles and the Shitrockers” graduates to a provincial tour of veteran’s halls performing to handfuls of patrons in barrooms that also function as bingo halls. The Shitrockers unimpressive playlist of country-trucker music fails to generate a fan base. Then a big break playing for 100 inmates at a maximum-security penitentiaryContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties”: Trailer Park Boys Head Over the Pond”

RKS 2024 Film: “Moon Under Water” (Short): Dementia and the Dance of Agonized Oppression

Jack (Tom Heyes) minds his dementia ridden uncle, Glenn (Lalor Roddy) who had taken Jack in after the death of his mother. The tables are turned as it is Jack’s choice to mind Glenn. It is a grind of a job and Jack’s dancing which opens the short is one of pain and oppression almostContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Moon Under Water” (Short): Dementia and the Dance of Agonized Oppression”

RKS 2024 Film: “Guzzle Buddies” (Short): Symbiotic Misery

The short opens with one roommate guzzling a full glass of liquor then helping his roommate suffering from severe anxiety and panic attacks he attributes to being sparked by a “cold brew”. His roommate uses a variety of techniques to calm his anxiety ridden roommate. The rescuing roommate over a bottle of liquor, he refersContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Guzzle Buddies” (Short): Symbiotic Misery”