Seven Winters in Tehran (Germany and France) 95 Haulout (Great Britain) 94 Before the Sun (Canada) 94 Theatre of Violence (Germany and Denmark) 93 The Eternal Memory (Chile) 93 Pay or Die (USA) 93 Food and Country (USA) 92 Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law (USA) 92
Metronom (Romania) 96 Holy Emy (Greece) 96 Woman Meets Girl (Canada/Short) 96 Subtraction (Iran) 96 Scarpedicemente (Canada) 96 The Marines That Never Returned (Korea 1963) 96 Rose (Denmark) 96 Godland (Denmark) 95 Bloom (Canada/short) 95 Iman (Cyprus) 95 Sisu (Finland) 94 Eight Mountains (Italy) 93 Jules (USA) 93 Blackstone (Greece) 93 The Beasts (France) 93… Read More RKS 2023 Film: Best Feature Films in 2023
“ROJEK” is Canada’s official selection for Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature Film at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards. “ROJEK” is available on all major VOD platforms in North America and will be launched on CRAVE on 8December2023, Canada’s prestige entertainment streaming platform. “ROJEX” was directed by Canadian director Zaynê Akyol who was… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “ROJEK”: Behind the ISIS Killing Machine
On 1July1997 British rule ended in Hong Kong and its fate was handed over to the People’s Republic of China which promised democracy would live on but who believed that? And authoritarian rule gradually seeped into Hong Kong. Youth led protests to the anti-democratic manoeuvres by PRC to eliminate democracy really crystallized with promulgation of… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Hong Kong Mixtape”: PRC’s Iron Fist Suffocates Hong Kong
Some say this Bowen Island (British Columbia) set and shot film is an ensemble drama that is similar to “The Big Chill”. I can agree with that. It is in the reunion genre of film. Let’s sort out the bad and good. Sound echoes in the early moments of the film seem not to have… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Re: Uniting”: Together Again For The Final Big Chill
If you were to select the genre of the film as apocalyptic, I would partially accept that. There is much more going on here than you might think and it might very well have to do with Canadian Indigenous lore and history if your mind lets you escape from the obvious message of “Finality of… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Finality of Dusk”: Begging for Your Interpretation
Patrick Tate (Craig Fairbrass) is a British criminal. The wind is not blowing in his favour as in the opening scene his attempt at armed robbery with friend Kenny goes wrong. Kenny loses his mask so he is identifiable, a security guard is wounded and the big heist is but for ₤ 2,500. Kenny is… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier”: Bad Good Boys Chasing Bad Guys
The German-Canadian co-production animated film “Butterfly Tale” serves as an example of the “modern child animated film”. If you grew up on Disney animated films, the classics and not the post classic Disney films churned out like Big Macs in a profit grab, you may have been imparted with lessons on life but in the… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Butterfly Tale”: A Welcome to Your Third Childhood?
Surely you must have watched a film that you thought was so bad up pops a mushroom of sentiment egging you on saying that it was so bad it was good! “Escape From New York” was a 1981 film with Ernest Borgnine and Kurt Russell serving as an example of this as regards the performance… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Going In”: So Bad Could it Be Good?
This documentary follows a team of firefighters from the Cal Fire Lassen-Modoc unit battling the 2021 monstrous Dixie Wildfire in California that burned for 104 days destroying 963,309 acres of forest and 1,329 structures. 1,973 firefighters were involved. The cost of firefighting was $637 million USD. A combination of global warming, too dense of a… Read More RKS 2023 Film: “Fireline”: Global Warming and Wildfire are Good Bedfellows
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