Suffice to say that those in search of gritty kitchen-sink realism tend to head for Ken Loach films and not movies that feature talking crockery.
The arrival of commercial television in the UK in the mid-1950s provided new opportunities, and Ken made a formidable name for himself as a writer of gritty, kitchen-sink drama.
You may wish Mr. Butler would go off into some other movie — another "Bounty Hunter," maybe, since Jennifer Aniston is a more suitable antagonist for him than an unseen African warlord — and leave Ms. Monaghan and Mr. Shannon to act out a touching and gritty kitchen-sink melodrama.
THOUGH the western chunk of Midtown that its boosters call Clinton may be proud of its gritty Hell's Kitchen past, the streets where gangs once roamed are yielding to the tides of gentrification.
It was neither kitchen-sink gritty nor carry-on smutty.
They are never elitist, because, bottom line, they care about how we live--about the nitty-gritty, the bathrooms, the kitchen sinks.
They were free, ending a gritty and macabre Hell's Kitchen tale of three longtime friends who relied on each other in many ways to get out of fixes and to survive the streets.
Minutes earlier, he had returned to his apartment from a short-term Army assignment to find his lock changed and a notice on his door: his rent, for a converted hotel bedroom without a bathroom or kitchen, in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, would increase by four hundred dollars, to one thousand and fifty dollars, on December 1st.
While Leigh employs a style of so-called kitchen-sink realism so gritty you're spitting gravel for a week however, Mills – while clearly paying homage – prefers a more effervescent approach.
