“The Shade” has very little traditional horror in it. Yes, there is a terrifying ghoul and some menacing Druid like figures but the focus is on mental illness and post traumatic stress disorder so please don’t expect ghouls jumping out of the bushes. Ryan Beckman as a boy watches his father commit suicide by firearm.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Shade”: Mental Illness as the Horror?”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Breakfast of Champions”: Back After 25 Years
“Breakfast of Champions” based on a Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name has returned to the big screen 25 years later with a 4K restoration. Just about all “champions” in the film are a far cry from being champions of a normalcy. Characters here are champions of an eccentric otherworld. Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis)Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Breakfast of Champions”: Back After 25 Years”
RKS 2024 Film: “SALLYWOOD”: Has Hollywood Abandoned Sally?
Sally Kirkland (playing herself) starred in the 1987 film “Anna” winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress and an Academy Award nomination for the same. But ageing women in Hollywood fade from the public spotlight being eaten alive by a younger tier of female stars. Zack (Tyler Steelman) has been a childhood admirer of SallyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “SALLYWOOD”: Has Hollywood Abandoned Sally?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Stolen Time”: Repressive, Oppressive, Saddening, Infuriating but a Necessary Watch
Many years ago attending university in Montreal I worked at a Extendicare nursing home now more commonly referred to as a long-term care facility. I worked in the dining room and as an occasional orderly. The first days were shocking for me with many residents lined up in wheelchairs talking to themselves or with headsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Stolen Time”: Repressive, Oppressive, Saddening, Infuriating but a Necessary Watch”
RKS 2024 Film: “Curl Power”: Or Should it Be Girl Power?
I heard a friend remark about the game of curling about as exciting as watching paint dry. Unfair to those who curl and are passionate about the sport. In “Curl Power” five British Columbian female teens are passionate about curling and compete as the “The 4K Girls”. Gently coached by Canadian Olympian curling moms theirContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Curl Power”: Or Should it Be Girl Power?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Chosen Family”: Romcom in a Free Fall
Ann (Heather Graham) a yoga teacher has a family causing her stress. Her father is a religious fanatic dispensing righteous commands of salvation to Ann. Her mother Dorothy (Julie Halston) laments that her marriage and children ruined her career. Sister Clio (Julia Stiles) is a drug addict in and out of rehab. They ply AnnContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Chosen Family”: Romcom in a Free Fall”
RKS 2024 Film: “Don’t F* With Ghosts”
In the film “Don’t F* With Ghosts” Stu Stone and Adam Rodness are two Canadian filmmakers without commercial success. They visit studio executives to pitch their “Bigfoot” project but instead are steered towards producing a film that will prove there are ghosts as after all that is where the international interest is according to theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Don’t F* With Ghosts””
RKS 2024 Film: “Compulsus”: Angry Lesbian Serial Attacker and the Bi with an Almost “Fatal Attraction”
Wally (Lesley Smith) is inundated with stories from queer and straight friends of abuse of women by men that goes unpunished. Wally is a part time poet and full-time furniture manual writer. Her rage swells to the point it is time to attack men to achieve “poetic justice”. She is officially an angry lesbian. AndContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Compulsus”: Angry Lesbian Serial Attacker and the Bi with an Almost “Fatal Attraction””
RKS 2024 Film: “Take Cover”: The Dangers of Retirement
I recently watched an episode of “The Sopranos” where a lower-level member of “the family” inherited two million dollars and wanted to retire to Florida with his wife and young children. You can’t retire from the Mafia. And the British film “Take Cover” starts with Sam Lorde (Scott Adkins) as a sniper for the “Company”Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Take Cover”: The Dangers of Retirement”
RKS 2024 Film: “Zombie Town”: Don’t Be Sucker Punched by Rent a Star
If you aren’t zombified by the time the final credits roll you are a superhuman and perhaps ready to star in the 467th Marvel movie. Not being attracted to zombie films I watched “Zombie Town” because Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase were featured actors. Their screen appearance was minimal all for the better as theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Zombie Town”: Don’t Be Sucker Punched by Rent a Star”
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