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A Place at the Table (PG)

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Justin Souther | 02/26/2013

Genre: Documentary

Director: Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Mariana Chilton, Tom Colicchio, Ken Cook
The Story: A documentary focusing on America’s continually growing hunger problem. The Lowdown: Well-intentioned and informative, but never quite manages to be as engrossing as it needs to be as entertainment.

3 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: We're ready for our close-ups, Mr. DeMille

Ken Hanke | 04/17/2009

As a kind of passive guilty pleasure, Wife Swap held just the right level of appeal to make me say yes. So I immediately called Justin Souther and asked, "Hey, you wanna be on Wife Swap?"

21 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Illegal immigrant movies

Ken Hanke | 04/10/2009

By and large, even a movie savvy town like Asheville simply isn't that keen on subtitled films.

17 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: The Florida Film Festival experience

Ken Hanke | 04/03/2009

I spent a couple days this past weekend in Orlando and Winter Park (that's Orlando with attitude) at the Florida Film Festival. I was curious to see the event and compare it to our own Asheville Film Festival.

11 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: A trip down (bad) Memory Lane

Ken Hanke | 03/27/2009

I admit that it's often more fun to write a bad review, even if it's not so much fun to sit through a bad movie.

5 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Reflections on the Fine Arts

Ken Hanke | 03/20/2009

Stop for a minute and think back on what we've seen in Asheville strictly because of the Fine Arts.

10 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: The "Slumdog Millionaire" backlash

Ken Hanke | 03/13/2009

What interests me most about the criticisms leveled against Slumdog lies in the general nature of the remarks. Each of the critiques rests — at least in part — on the concept of realism. The idea is that the film isn't realistic.

13 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Most in need of a DVD release

Ken Hanke | 03/06/2009

The bigger picture isn't just the lack of titles. It's far more than that. It's the fact that making these titles unavailable is causing a younger cineastes to have a very skewed view of the history of film. Put simply, you cannot understand the various eras of movies without having access to a broader cross-section than is now available.

23 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: What is a classic movie?

Ken Hanke | 02/27/2009

We’ve been besieged by movies bearing the critical designation “an instant classic.” A what?

15 comments

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Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Catching The Midnight Meat Train

Ken Hanke | 02/20/2009

Midnight Meat Train may be no classic of the genre, but it's certainly a better and more interesting film than most of what passes for horror movies these days.

14 comments

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Asheville independent film 'Anywhere USA' to be screened in Chicago

Jason Sandford | 12/03/2009

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