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Control (2022) - Official Movie Trailer (HD)

Dir: James Mark Star: Sara Mitich / George Tchortov / Evie Loiselle

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Last winter, James Mark was a 2018 James Beard Award finalist. A few months later, both GQ and Bon Appétit magazines ranked Big King, Mark's newest Rhode Island restaurant, as one of the country's best places to eat.

But in 2018, the Providence chef and restaurateur spent almost double his personal income on health insurance for his employees: $54,000 to cover a dozen or so people, compared with the $35,000 he paid himself as a salary.

Mark spends most of his time at Big King, which he describes as his "small and strange," experimental Asian restaurant in Providence's trendy West Side. The handwritten menu changes daily. At downtown's Dean Hotel, he also runs the small cocktail bar and the no-reservations restaurant North, which serves dishes like smoked shiitake ice cream and crab and fried kabocha with pumpkin miso.

Mark employs fewer than 50 people, all told, so he isn't required to provide them health benefits. But he thinks doing so helps with staff retention and is the right thing to do.

After all, if a sous-chef needed an emergency appendectomy, the bill for a patient without insurance could be financially devastating. Offering health benefits, he says, is crucial to treating his employees' jobs as "viable, long-term work."

That's why Mark, who studied at nearby Johnson & Wales University and trained at restaurants in Providence and New York City, has joined a growing chorus of small-business owners who are supporting "Medicare for All," or some other type of government-sponsored, universal health plan.

He says his concern with the way things are right now is not just the financial burden he feels in paying for his employees' benefits, though that's part of it.

A Top Restaurateur Thinks Single-Payer Health Care Could Boost His Bottom Line

Photo: Christine Chitnis for KHN Caption: James Mark (center) inside his restaurant Big King, along with cooks (from left) Oscar Lange, Emily Joslyn, Peter Kachmarsky and JC Kuvaszko. Mark employs fewer than 50 people so isn't required to provide health benefits. But it helps with staff retention, he says, and is the right thing to do.

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Here’s the new trailer for Enhanced. You may not recognize all the names and faces involved in this project but I can tell you they know how to put together one hell of an action sequence. This looks like a lower budgeted X-Men and I’m all for it. These small stunt crews can pull off magic sometimes.

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Hunting Grounds (2025): Why all the Hate?

The 2025 Canadian action thriller Hunting Grounds has not been well received at all. So, why all the hate? The story itself is odd and a little wacky , but doggone it, the film is pretty darn good. The film offers a brilliant shift in the traditional “hero” story. And the shift itself is pretty darn impressive. Hunting Grounds the Story Chloe is fleeing her ex husband; a gangster who wants his…

Hunting Grounds (2025): Why all the Hate?