The movie commences with some “active sex” in the washroom of a club between an angelic and prim rocker vocalist Kim (Stacie Mistysyn) and her ponytailed boyfriend Charlie (David La Haye) both in the “adulterer’s club”. Two morally bankrupt characters….devils? With the smell of sex in the air Kim goes to her evening shift asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Charlie Tango”: Sympathy for The Devils?”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality
The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) add to their horror output with “Consumed” a dual personality horror film. What or who is the real beast here? Beth (Courtney Halverson) and her husband Jay (Mark Famiglietti) are hiking and camping the wilds of New Jersey ostensibly to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Beth beingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Consumed”: Horror with a Dual Personality”
RKS 2024 Film: “Last County”: Pedantic Then Taratinoish!
“Last County” opens with a dead cop and two criminals fleeing the scene. Then a brief glimpse of an older silver long haired gentleman (Nicholas Campbell) waving an enormous pistol. What is happening? Then struggling alcoholic Abby (Kaelen Ohm) who likes her vodka laced smoothies has an automobile accident with her daughter Grace and smoothieContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Last County”: Pedantic Then Taratinoish!”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Secret Art of Human Flight”: Psychiatry and Reality vs. Dreams and Fantasy
Ben Grady (Grant Rosenmeyer) has lost his 31-year-old wife Sarah. He had left the house to pick up some mac n cheese and upon returning 30 minutes later she was dead. Ben is in deep grief. He sits like a zombie wrapped in a blanket including in front of his house for three successive days.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Secret Art of Human Flight”: Psychiatry and Reality vs. Dreams and Fantasy”
RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Three!
“Movie Man” is a Canadian documentary about 5 very special theatres and the man that created them. Keith Stata started construction of Highland Cinema in 1975 and in 1979 the theatre opened and through gradual expansion there are now 5 cinemas. Stata bluntly states it was his “stupid idea” to build Highland Cinemas. Architecturally youContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Three!”
RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Two!
No beautiful people (other than myself) are greeting us and where is the red carpet? A local Kinmount matron with a big smile ushers us into the cinema with a bag of popcorn. Speaking of food why is there no mall with a Montana’s and 16 other restaurants down the street? I mean we areContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Sailing with the H.M.S. Hollywood Suite to The Highland Cinemas in Kinmount, Ontario: “The Movie Man” Up Close and Personal! Part Two!”
RKS 2024 Film: “The G”: Revenge of a Mean Old Goat
The movie opens with two men finishing off the burial of an “old goat” in the countryside. Before their departure one lights a cigarette, moves aside a bit of sand to expose a gaping mouth and the soon to be deceased has a last puff before biting the hand that proffered the cigarette. Seventy-two-year-old AnnContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The G”: Revenge of a Mean Old Goat”
RKS 2024 Film: “Crossing”: Exotic Road Trip Searching for A Georgian Trans Women
Mrs. Lia (Mzia Arabuli), a retired Georgian history teacher, is on a hunt for her trans niece Tekla. Finding Tekla is the dying wish of her sister. The hunt commences in a Georgian seaside village where Tekla was last seen, but Tekla has disappeared. Achi (Lucas Kankava), a young villager, claims to have Tekla’s addressContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Crossing”: Exotic Road Trip Searching for A Georgian Trans Women”
RKS 2024 Film: “Inay” (Mama): The Mutual Pain of the Filipina Absent Mother
“Inay” is a Canadian documentary probing the pain of Filipina mothers leaving the Philippines to work as domestic workers in Canada primarily as child and elder minders. I knew several work colleagues that hired Filipina nannies to mind their children. Some of these nannies had left children and husbands behind and had not returned forContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Inay” (Mama): The Mutual Pain of the Filipina Absent Mother”
RKS 2024 Film: “Starve Acre”: Don’t Mess with the Sacred Oak Tree!
Juliette (Morfydd Clark) and her academic archaeologist husband Richard (Matt Smith) live in an inherited family farm in the English countryside. Richard, who teaches the history of ancient British tribes, believes there was once a sacred oak tree on the property where the ancient gathered and may have even hung people. At a county fairContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Starve Acre”: Don’t Mess with the Sacred Oak Tree!”
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