One can’t deny the Swedish film “Live a Little” falls within the on the road genre with two mid twenty buddies Laura (Embla Ingelman-Sundberg) and Alex (Aviva Wrede) seeking to tear up Europe on a trip they have been planning for years. But as in the Brit film “How to Have Sex” the surface glossContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Live a Little”: Bosom Buddy Interrail On the Road Picture?”
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RKS 2025 Film: “A Soil A Culture A River A People”: Ignoring the Director’s Statement or at Least Some of It
“A Soil A Culture A River A People” is in the abstract museum-art galley genre. I watched this 15-minute short three times arriving at three different interpretations of its purpose. Perplexing, challenging and fun! As a film critic I receive films to review from production companies or public relations firms attaching a viewing link forContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “A Soil A Culture A River A People”: Ignoring the Director’s Statement or at Least Some of It”
RKS 2025 Film: “Drowning Dry” (Sesė)
The Lithuanian title of the film is “Sesė” meaning sisters but the English title is “Drowning Dry”. Both titles co-exist in a symbiotic relationship. Drowning dry happens after a near drowning victim has their lungs drained of water by various revival techniques, I know well being a member of the elite Royal Lifesaving Society, yetContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Drowning Dry” (Sesė)”
RKS 2025 Film: “Cloud”: Up in the Sky or Down Far Below?
Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) is an internet reseller of whatever he can bargain cheaply for and hopefully resell at retail or wholesale at an enormous profit. Good freedom of enterprise all legitimate unless the merchandise is counterfeit. Operate in the cloud as Yoshii does under a pseudonym Ratel then the transactions are all anonymous andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Cloud”: Up in the Sky or Down Far Below?”
RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025
The breakout 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos film “Dogtooth” commences a North American theatrical release in a 4K restoration format. Parents confine their three adult children in a family compound in a state of childlike innocence through manipulation, violence and abuse. Sexual perversion including incest is omnipresent. Outrageous falsehoods and childlike games and contests preoccupy the adultContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025”
RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable”
In “Super Happy Forever”, a Japanese feature film, director Kohei Igarashi plays with your mind right off the bat with the film’s name. A cultish misnomer. A fantasy. The film is more a dive into unhappiness derived from wishful thinking. And temporally Igarashi plays with you but not me as I have the film downContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Super Happy Forever”: Perhaps Instead “Eternally Miserable””
RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities
“The Legacy of Cloudy Falls” is set in Niagara Falls, Canada, you know the “better side” of the Falls! They say the best part of Las Vegas is leaving it. The same may be said, but in a more compelling fashion, about the town Niagara Falls, Ontario. Tacky and seedy may be a polite descriptionContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “The Legacy of Cloudy Falls”: Quasi Infinite Parade of Oddities”
RKS 2025 Film: “BA”: Ba Ba Black Sheep for the Grim Reaper
Daniel (Lawrence Kao) is down on his luck. In Manadarin “ba” can refer to both father and dad and that he is for his 8-year-old daughter Collette (Kai Cech). Daniel and Collette are living an extremely penurious “living in his car” existence. During this “camping car adventure” Daniel discovers a wooden box in a bagContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “BA”: Ba Ba Black Sheep for the Grim Reaper”
RKS 2025 Film: “Treadmill”: The Never-Ending Run of Aggression and Repression
Fiftyish Dimitra lives in Athens with widowed mother Rea. Dimitra has ordered a treadmill which Rea disproves of. It can’t fit in the flat unless several objects are moved so it rests out on the balcony for the time being. We often hear families are dysfunctional but do we know what that term means? ItsContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Treadmill”: The Never-Ending Run of Aggression and Repression”
RKS 2025 Film: “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse”
Watching the Mexican horror film “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse” be prepared for a film like you’ve never seen before. Chalked full of suspense, horror, comedy with The Book of Revelations and the seven trumpets thrown in made more compelling by superb black and white cinematography, costuming and an adaptive soundtrack. Salvador (Farid Correa), 17,Continue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse””
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