kitchen-sink

Speaking of movies, I doubt whether The Girls is any more misogynist than those British “kitchen-sink” narratives of the 1950s and 1960s, still touted for their social consciousness, in which the working-class bride turns into a dragon overnight.

Monster of Marriage 2010

Instead, led by Macolm McDowell's magnetic lead performance, it's become a fable, a reckless cautionary tale that seems far more relevant than many of the kitchen-sink dramas that came out of England in the previous decade.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: What's The Best Sitcom On Thursday Nights? Michael Giltz 2011

Indeed, both show how you can go indie and still pull off something other than kitchen-sink realism; one is a pretty slick-looking high school movie, the other a teen musical -- i.e. both are aiming for places in very commercial Hollywood niches where the sheen of production counts.

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Small and unpretentious, Welcome to the Rileys would be considered a kitchen-sink kind of personal drama, were there a kitchen sink involved.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Welcome to the Rileys Marshall Fine 2010

Patrick and I endured another family dinner, though Trent was absent from this one—in town with the “kitchen-sink blonde” who managed the hotel.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

(Well, it would depend on the book, I suppose - most indie filmmakers can't afford to stage spectacular space battles ... but they can do decent kitchen-sink drama very faithfully).

Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

It is part of a wave of 17th-century plays which were kitchen-sink dramas avant la sink, which turned to middle-class life as opposed to aristos for their subjects and sought a new naturalism of manner.

A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

The success of David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole," a jokey kitchen-sink drama about a family in crisis, was foreordained, right down to its winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.

Lindsay-Abaire's Southie Class Portrait Terry Teachout 2011

In this grim, post-second world war setting, familiar from kitchen-sink film dramas, Hamlet's the original angry young man, stuck between the old world and the new, and feeling betrayed and caught up in the political paranoia of the cold war.

This week's new theatre 2011

Speaking of movies, I doubt whether The Girls is any more misogynist than those British “kitchen-sink” narratives of the 1950s and 1960s, still touted for their social consciousness, in which the working-class bride turns into a dragon overnight.

Monster of Marriage 2010