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Strangers With Cabins : Partridge’s Uncomfortable Sophomore Film

Returning behind the camera for the first time since his 2000 debut indie film Interstate 84, actor Ross Partridge reaches uncomfortable and unpredictable heights with Lamb, an adaptation of a novel by Bonnie Nadzam. Exploring a socially inappropriate relationship between a middle aged man and a pre-teen female barely on the horizon of adolescence, Ross reaches a perfect emotional pitch in-between punctuations of queasy discomfort. With impressive finesse, Partridge, who adapted the screenplay, maintains the sense of dense characterization sometimes lost in cinematic translations dealing with material as fragile as this.

Having just buried his father and in the midst of a divorce, Chicago businessman David Lamb (Partridge) finds himself adrift in an increasing tangle of little white lies and untruths that have forced him into a stagnant personal ennui. He’s having a tepid affair with co-worker, Linny (Jess Weixler), though...

A massive highway accident in eastern Oregon involving approximately 100 people and 26 cars, left 12 people injured Saturday. Heavy winds and fog, combined with icy road conditions on the stretch of Interstate 84, resulted in a dangerous mix for drivers causing three separate collisions, primarily with semi trucks. And one 27-year-old man, Kaleb Whitby, has become the public face of the incident, thanks to one wild picture captured by truck driver Sergi Karplyuk, 32, on Twitter. Crazy photo sent into us by a viewer. Man pinned between two semi trucks in I-84 wreckage http://t.co/yXBIXSFWht pic.twitter.com/h2ZArIVQze— Ktvb.

A massive highway accident in eastern Oregon involving approximately 100 people and 26 cars, left 12 people injured Saturday. Heavy winds and fog, combined with icy road conditions on the stretch of Interstate 84, resulted in a dangerous mix for drivers causing three separate collisions, primarily with semi trucks. And one 27-year-old man, Kaleb Whitby, has become the public face of the incident, thanks to one wild picture captured by truck driver Sergi Karplyuk, 32, on Twitter. Crazy photo sent into us by a viewer. Man pinned between two semi trucks in I-84 wreckage http://t.co/yXBIXSFWht pic.twitter.com/h2ZArIVQze— Ktvb.

I never thought that I'd see the Lifetime network develop a Stephen King movie, but they are. It's called Big Driver, and it will star Maria Bello (A History of Violence). The story seems to fit in with some of the other TV movies that the network has aired over the years... thrillers about women who want revenge.

Big Driver was published in 2010 as part of King’s short story collection Full Dark, No Stars. It revolves around a successful mystery novelist, who will be played by Bello, devastated after a brutal attack and hell bent on revenge.

I'm a huge fan of King, and this is a solid story, so it looks like I'm going to have to tune into Lifetime, which I never do, to watch the movie.

Here's a more detailed description of the story:

Tess is a successful cozy mystery writer who has a speaking engagement at a library inChicopee,...