Kenzaburo (Lily Franky) loses his wife Akiko to a degenerative neurological disease. Her last wishes as communicated in a letter given to Kenzaburo at her funeral ceremony requested that the family scatter her ashes in the waters of Lake Windemere in the Lake District of England, the home of Peter Rabbit and his sister Cotton-tail.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Cottontail”: Death and its Ripple Effect”
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RKS 2024 Film: “In a Violent Nature”: Horror on the Screen and in the Screening Room
As a journalist I have learnt over the years that you never know when your next story can jump out at you while in the midst of working on your target story. Years ago I was doing a sociology project which took me to a large theatre on St. Catherine Street in Montreal by theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “In a Violent Nature”: Horror on the Screen and in the Screening Room”
RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Sisters”: Where Does Friendship Evolve into Sisterhood and Vice Versa?
In the feature film “Sisters” Lou (Susie Yankou) and Esther (Sarah Khasrovi) are best buddies doing all manner of events together platonically. Lou is an out of the closet bisexual. Lou and Esther have a fantasy about having sisters. Then out of the woodwork at her father’s funeral. Up pops Pryia (Kausar Mohammed) and instantContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Sisters”: Where Does Friendship Evolve into Sisterhood and Vice Versa?”
RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Local Heroes” Short Programme: Reality and Dreams are a Mess for the Dreamer in “How’d You Sleep”
The Dreamer (Spencer Glassman) is self described as a 29-year-old hot Jewish chick in an unconventional way but not yet famous. Unfortunately, she slept in and missed her latest audition. “What’s wrong with me?” she muses. The Dreamer has difficulty in sleeping despite her melatonin, hot milk, exercise, porn watching for some sexual release purposes,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Local Heroes” Short Programme: Reality and Dreams are a Mess for the Dreamer in “How’d You Sleep””
RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Local Heroes” Short Programme and Ruth has a Brand-New Bag!
In the short “Ernesto’s Bag” Ruth (Bea Santos) works at a bridal salon. It has been three years and she has had enough of smiling and mumbling platitudes accompanied by crying mothers, radiant brides and the popping of cheap bubbly lubricating the wardrobe selection process. It is above her. The soon to be brides areContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s 2SLGTBQ+ Inside Out Film Festival: “Local Heroes” Short Programme and Ruth has a Brand-New Bag!”
RKS 2024 Film: Inside Out 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival: “All Shall Be Well”
Angie Wang (Patra Au) and Pat Wu have been in a lesbian relationship for some thirty years. They live together in a spacious upscale Hong Kong condo. They do what many couples do, eating together, shopping together and entertaining. Both are in their sixties and retired although Pat has dreams of opening a Senior FashionContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Inside Out 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival: “All Shall Be Well””
RKS 2024 Film: “Join the Club”: Politics/Cannabis/AID’s Cali Style All with Retrospect Stupidity: Canada’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
If you reside in a legal recreational or medicinal cannabis consumption area perhaps you should take a moment to contemplate how “all those dope stores” you hear in frequent negative snippets of conversation may have ended up on the corner. It has been a mighty struggle to legalize both medicinal and recreational cannabis. Many haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Join the Club”: Politics/Cannabis/AID’s Cali Style All with Retrospect Stupidity: Canada’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival”
RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero”
Watching the documentary “Tish” about British photographer Tish Murtha the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” are most appropriate. “A working-class hero is something to be.” Although the late Tish Murtha now has a permanent exhibition of her photos at the Tate Museum in London she never reached the status of a working classContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero””
RKS 2024 Film: “Limbo”: Outer Planetary Experience
The Australian film “Limbo” is an outer planetary experience. Filmed in black and white in opal mining territory of the Australian outback. The terrain, mining “holes”, abandoned equipment and vehicles and caves with howls of dingos and cries of birds in the distance create an otherworldly setting for “Limbo”. Heavily tattooed murder detective Travis HurleyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Limbo”: Outer Planetary Experience”
RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream”
Jamaican Dalton Harris wins the 2018 X Factor UK “talent contest”. He had been preparing for an X Factor UK appearance for seven years winning several Jamaican talent contests including “Rising Star”. Now translate the X Factor UK win into stardom, fortune and fame! Pictures circulate showing Dalton hugging a man and sitting on theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream””
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