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East Texas Kitchen guest Stewart Smith shares the recipe for his mouth-watering fried chicken sandwich
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KLTV's Stewart Smith walked away impressed by Kenneth Branagh's latest outing with Hercule Poirot.
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It’s difficult to think of another action film franchise that so starkly puts its protagonist at odds against what we know he’s there to do.
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A trial for a former waste management worker accused in the death of someone who was sleeping near a dumpster continued Wednesday.
A trial has begun for a former waste management worker accused in the death of someone who was sleeping near a dumpster.
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This is one of the most impressive, thoroughly entertaining tentpole blockbusters of the last decade.
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"It’s a touching, meaningful ending to an immortalized character who has never felt more human than he does now at the end of his adventures."
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Film critic Stewart Smith says this trilogy-capper is as funny as it is heartfelt.
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Derek Hamm wanted the agreement withdrawn due to his disagreement with sentencing enhancements proposed by the United States government.
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A woman's alleged attempt to rob a grocery store didn't go as planned. Then she went shopping.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a colorful, fun (albeit thin) romp for kids and Nintendo fans alike.
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Reviewer Stewart Smith: "Director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves, however, have delivered a movie with such ferocious style and breathtaking intensity that I walked away wondering if I’d hallucinated half of it."
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has a real shot at being one of my favorite movies of the year.
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Creed III manages to rise above these shortcomings and cements itself as a terrific boxing movie in its own right and Johnson proves himself more than capable behind the camera.
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A jury trial has begun for a Tyler man who is accused of leaving a man to die after the defendant crashed through a fence in January 2021.
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The second day of a trial for a Tyler man accused of leaving a man to die after crashing through a fence began Friday with the victim’s father on the stand.
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2022 turned out to be a banner year at the movies for KLTV film critic Stewart Smith. Here's his top 10 favorite movies from the year.
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When the credits finally rolled, I was left wishing he had simply made a couple of faux documentaries about Pandora narrated by Sigourney Weaver.
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The Fabelmans is as heartfelt as anything Spielberg has ever made or likely ever will make.
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The Menu asks: “What if David Fincher, director of Fight Club and Gone Girl, directed his own version of Ratatouille?”
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This is a deeply human, emotionally-driven film to a degree that you rarely get in blockbuster movie-making, and for that alone I’m grateful it exists as it does.
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Black Adam has convinced me it’s time for Dwayne Johnson to resume calling himself The Rock.
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It’s taken more than 30 years, but we finally have a Predator sequel that feels worthy of standing next to the stone-cold classic that is the 1987 original.
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The jury handed down the sentence after about 30 minutes of deliberation.
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The Black Phone is an immensely enjoyable crowd-pleaser of a supernatural horror movie.
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If I ever see a frame of Jurassic World: Dominion again it’ll be too soon.
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I can definitively say that while we did not in any way need a sequel to Top Gun, boy am I glad we got (this) one.
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With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Sam Raimi has delivered a movie the likes of which I wasn’t sure I’d ever see within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a paean to one of cinema’s most misunderstood stars. It’s a veritable love letter to Nicolas Cage starring Nicolas Cage as Nick Cage.
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To our great benefit, however, Bay’s latest supercharged cinematic offering, Ambulance, is of a piece with the director’s absolute best.
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Stewart Smith thinks Morbius is better left undead.
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The truest testament to the strengths of The Batman as a movie and piece of entertainment is the fact that I loved it in spite of itself.
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Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a former Harrison County deputy sheriff accused of mistreating a prisoner.
The trial for a former Henderson County Deputy Sheriff, accused of mistreating a prisoner, is underway.
For all of the fretting about the sustainability of The Theatrical Experience expressed throughout 2021 (and to be certain, the future of it all is no sure thing), this year was a surprisingly fantastic year for movies.
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The Matrix Resurrections almost feels like an impossible film: The work of a true auteur that delivers blockbuster thrills and a heartfelt romance but also mocks the very idea of its existence and serves as an act of meta-narrative commentary.
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KLTV's Stewart Smith says Spielberg's remake of the Broadway classic is one of the best movies of the year.
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The jury found Martin Reynolds guilty of first degree murder on Wednesday night.
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The jury delivered the guilty verdict on a charge of murder Wednesday night following five hours of testimony. The jury will hear testimony on punishment on Thursday.
Multiple witnesses during the second day of the trial unanimously stated that they never expected violence to escalate beyond a possible fist fight.
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Monday morning a Whitehouse man accused of shooting and killing a Tyler man in November of 2017 was in the 114th District Court court in front of Judge Reeve Jackson.
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Netflix’s latest original blockbuster offering, Red Notice, is the movie equivalent of a Canadian brand of grocery store items.
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A Longview man facing federal criminal charges for his participation in the January 6 insurrection at the United States capitol is petitioning for a pretrial release from detention.
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A Flint man received the maximum prison sentence after pleading guilty to a 2020 shooting at a transmission shop in Tyler.
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Smith County Elections Administrator Michelle Allcon says 1,452 people had voted in-person across Smith County as of about 10:30 a.m.
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Dune is undoubtedly half a movie, but what a compelling, arresting half it is.
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No Time To Die is an excellent send-off for Daniel Craig’s tenure as the world’s most iconic superspy.
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A multi-agency operation resulted in at least seven arrests of men accused of soliciting prostitution early Wednesday morning.
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The fifth day of the trial of a former East Texas nurse got underway Monday.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings more or less immediately became one of Stewart Smith's favorite movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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