“Sometimes I Think About Dying” offers viewers triple captivation. Daisy Ridley as Fran captivates. The offbeat musical score captivates. The inventive and tight directing and writing captivates. Fran is a most uncaptivating woman. Awkward, isolated, lonely and seemingly unable to make any meaningful human connection. In the midst of fellow workers at a small officeContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Sometimes I Think About Dying”: Triple Captivation”
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RKS 2024 Film: “The Great Salish Heist”: Of Rezy Indians, Well Meaning White Folks and Russian Mobsters
If you enjoy a good heist movie with tension, action, humour, sarcasm and more than a few double crosses you will enjoy the Canadian feature film “The Great Salish Heist”. No state secrets, secret and revealing information on a disc, gold or diamonds are the object of the heist. Steve Joe (Darrell Dennis) is aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Great Salish Heist”: Of Rezy Indians, Well Meaning White Folks and Russian Mobsters”
RKS 2024 Film: “Orah”: Omnipresent Corruption and Raw Justice: Mommy Vengeance!
“Orah” is a stellar Canadian-Nigerian co-production where Nigerian corruption meets Canadian-Nigerian raw justice. Orah (Oyin Oladejo), a 15-year-old Nigerian, starts off the film by blasting vengeance style an older man sitting in a Lagos barber’s chair with a home-made shotgun. Considering who her victim was poetic justice is dished up in Lagos, Nigeria. Teenage OrahContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Orah”: Omnipresent Corruption and Raw Justice: Mommy Vengeance!”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Omicron Killer”: A Film Trying to Discover Itself
I am uncertain how many viewers want reminders of COVID triggered by “The Omicron Killer”. The Omicron Killer is a New York City serial killer preferring kills of the bashing as opposed to the slashing method. I can’t find any scenes that remind me of New York City. Outdoor scenes could be in New Jersey!Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Omicron Killer”: A Film Trying to Discover Itself”
RKS 2024 Film: “Total Trust”of the Good Comrades or Total Mistrust of the Paranoid Comrades
The documentary “Total Trust” enables a better understanding of the oft use phrase the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a “surveillance society” where Big Data and surveillance are attempted to be sold by the good comrades running the state apparatus as desirable for “public safety” and “good order” with a good dose of “foreignContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Total Trust”of the Good Comrades or Total Mistrust of the Paranoid Comrades”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Madones”: The B Side Life of a One Hit Wonder Group
No typo here. This film is not about rockers The Ramones but a fictional all female Canadian rock group The Madones. They had their only big hit,” Mad Ones” twenty years ago. We know these bands as one hit wonders. Three sisters Rose (Lucy De Coutere), Gladys and Stella (Terra Doyle) were in this all-girlsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Madones”: The B Side Life of a One Hit Wonder Group”
RKS 2024 Film: “Union Street”: Being Black in Vancouver and Beyond
“Union Street” is a Canadian documentary focusing on a microcosm of black history in the City of Vancouver, particularly a district known in East Vancouver as Hogan’s Alley. It had a rich history for black Vancouver for almost a century where train porters, speakeasies, juke joints, restaurants and thriving businesses existed with musicians such asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Union Street”: Being Black in Vancouver and Beyond”
RKS 2024 Film: “Unshook”: Part of the Telus Celebration of Black History Month
Telus Originals honours Black History Month in Canada with the launch of Documentary Features “Union Street”, “Handle with Care” and two shorts “Unshook” and “Out There”. “Unshook” is a short film documentary in which 19-year-old Afro-Cuban Canadian René Osmani Diakité copes with the recent death of his African born physician father and his grandfather dyingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Unshook”: Part of the Telus Celebration of Black History Month”
RKS 2024 Film: “Our Time to Be Kind”: Of Tears and Trust: Of Science and Hysteria
“Our Time to Be Kind”, a Canadian documentary, is ostensibly a profile of Dr. Bonnie Henry the Provincial Health Officer of the Canadian province of British Columbia during that time of COVID pandemania where science and hysteria co-existed. As a Torontonian, British Columbia is a 5-hour flight away but Dr. Bonnie Henry was often onContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Our Time to Be Kind”: Of Tears and Trust: Of Science and Hysteria”
RKS 2024 Film: “Cold Road”: The Revenge of the Thin Ice
Tracy (Roseanne Supernault) and her dog Pretzel (Karibou) are on a 12-hour winter drive to the Canadian “Far North” to attend her mother’s death bed. Tracy can’t seem to do anything right and has a miserable personal relationship or lack of it with her husband Danny. Even her sister Eve criticizes and disses her forContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Cold Road”: The Revenge of the Thin Ice”
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