Rest assured “Stockholm Bloodbath” offers the viewer exactly what the title suggests. Hangings, beheadings, burning at the stake, deadly cannonballs, torn limbs and arrows wreaking havoc on the human body and all manner of ghastly terminations of lives. In 1532 Danish King Kristian II (Claes Bang) launches yet another campaign against the head of stateContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Nasty Bad Ass Danes Terrorize Poor Swedes in “Stockholm Bloodbath””
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RKS Travel: Greek, Dutch and United States Air Travel Disaster
Ten days in Thessaloniki, Greece attending the 65th Annual Thessaloniki Film Festival had me beat watching and reviewing two movies daily. Attending opening ceremonies and press conferences and yes experiencing an earthquake tremor and even cooking up almost all my meals with the most basic ingredients. What was my masterpiece? Norwegian salmon filets gently poachedContinue reading “RKS Travel: Greek, Dutch and United States Air Travel Disaster”
RKS 2024 Wine: Stratus Alto: An Assemblage and a Winner!
I suppose an “assemblage” would be considered as a blend but it sounds a bit more “exotic” than a blend, right? Or why not another French sounding name like a “Meritage” as you might like the possibility it has merit to it. Names, names, names but what is the quality in the bottle? Strange thatContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Stratus Alto: An Assemblage and a Winner!”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Fauna”: Corruption Lost in Itself
In a 2024 Greek film director Stratoula Theodoratou delves into moral and political corruption in Greek society. Corruption respects no boundaries, and it may be those attempting to expose corruption are equally corrupt as those they strive to expose. Anna, an Athenian photojournalist, when escaping from a violent demonstration, encounters severely demented Lambros eating aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Fauna”: Corruption Lost in Itself”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Natatorium”: Supressed Evil Takes a Lunge
Eighteen-year-old Lilja visits grandmother Áóra and grandfather Grimur to be proximate to an audition for an international performance group unable to contact her father Magnus about her stay. How sweet, a stay with granny and grandpa! Kalli, the son of Granny and Grandpa, is bedridden in their home seriously ill. Their daughter Val owner ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Natatorium”: Supressed Evil Takes a Lunge”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “The Best of All Worlds”: Portuguese Disaster Movie
In 1775 one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history measuring 8.5-9 on the Richter scale devastated Lisbon. Its centre was in the ocean some 325 kilometres off the coast of the island of Madeira. A tsunami followed. Seismologists predict another similar powerful earthquake in Portugal and the sole question is when. Consider its powerContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “The Best of All Worlds”: Portuguese Disaster Movie”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Giannis in the Cities”: Chilling and Legitimate Child Brutality
“Giannis in the Cities” is a wounding and penetrating journey into “Childcare Cities” established during the Greek Civil War as told through a “survivor” author Yannis Atzakas. There are haunting similarities to the establishment of “residential schools” in Canada amounting to little more than kidnapping of Aboriginal children for purposes of assimilation into colonial correctnessContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Giannis in the Cities”: Chilling and Legitimate Child Brutality”
RKS OLD GEEZER: Am I an Old Geezer Yet?
A significant birthday looms in a few months one that is recognized as a mark of old age and a right to a state pension in Canada. But then again reach a certain age and each birthday is a significant event as you creak and moan to another, hopefully walking and not “gliding”. Who areContinue reading “RKS OLD GEEZER: Am I an Old Geezer Yet?”
RKS Travel: Thessaloniki’s Best Coffee?
Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, is a rich city culturally and gastronomically. Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Italian and French architecture. The proliferation of coffeeshops is nothing short of stunning. As I look out my back and front window there is a coffee shop called “Coffee Island” and out back a Gregory’s. Then 20 steps away thereContinue reading “RKS Travel: Thessaloniki’s Best Coffee?”
RKS 2024 Wine in Greece: Nicolas Repanis Agiorgitiko from Nemea
Here in Greece as far as red wine goes in larger urban areas, you’ll find a great deal of Agiorgitiko in supermarket and corner market shelves. You have to discover a large liquor store where for example here at Thessaloniki at a Cash and Carry Store primarily supplying restaurants there must have been close toContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine in Greece: Nicolas Repanis Agiorgitiko from Nemea”
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