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The Kitchen Review: If You Can’t Stand the Mediocrity…

Jason Gorber — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:00:05 +0000

It gives no pleasure to convey how middling The Kitchen is. The film just lays there limp and lifeless, trying desperately to inject some interest for the audience. Its dullness is almost impressive, as if it would be harder to make a film this meandering than to take the genre elements, throw in some action...

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TIFF Journal: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek

Philip Brown — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:00:42 +0000

It’s impossible not to think of Reservoir Dogs while watching The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Safe to assume that’s deliberate. Debuting writer/director Henry Dunham clearly hopes that his claustrophobic stage-play-as-movie will garner similar barnstorming acclaim through its talky thrills and constant threat of violence. The themes are relevant. The acting is excellent. Something about the...

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Now Playing: Beyond the Grassy Knoll

Bryan Kluger — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:00:18 +0000

I currently reside in Dallas, TX. Whenever friends or family members come to visit, one of the things on their list to see is the 6th floor book depository where Lee Harvey Oswald fired his infamous shot to kill President John F. Kennedy. The site is now a museum, and there’s actually an “X” painted...

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Now Playing: Who Was That Masked Man?

Bryan Kluger — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:00:59 +0000

Director Gore Verbinski borrows heavily from his animated Western ‘Rango’ and some other choice films for his latest mega-budget action adventure, ‘The Lone Ranger’. In what seems to be a project greenlit only because Johnny Depp was willing to get into costume and makeup again, this remake is deeply flawed and way too long. Running...

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‘Rubicon’ Pilot Recap: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma

Josh Zyber — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:00:34 +0000

The AMC network may be slow to develop original programming, but its track record thus far with ‘Mad Men‘ and ‘Breaking Bad’ is enviable by any standard. (Let’s all do ourselves a favor and pretend that the misguided miniseries remake of ‘The Prisoner’ never happened, shall we?) This week, the network has rolled out its...

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