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Food in Film Blog Post: THE TRIP
Perhaps it doesn't matter, as truly the scenes involving Coogan & Brydon's banter across the table from each other are the meat of the movie and even more appealing than the actual food preparation. As well as some of Brydon's dry asides, like - A waiter describes the latest dish brought to the table as cooked in it's own juices- Brydon: If I were cooked in my own juices, I'm sure I couldn't manage a thimbleful.
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Commentary – BEGINNERS
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at Mike Mill’s BEGINNERS Beginners is a love story: love between a father and son / son and mother / a man and woman / a man and his father’s dog. Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is a handsome, talented commercial artist, who has recently lost his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer) to cancer. The story is told in a timeline that jumps around between Oliver’s present in which he’s falling in love with a winsome, French actress, Anna (Mélanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds), his childhood memories of a slightly off kilter mother (Mary Page Keller), and a time of about 3-5 years ago, when his 75 year old…
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CIRCUMSTANCE (Director, Maryam Keshavarz Q &A)
Atafeh and Shireen's friendship escalates to a physical expression of their fondness for each other. These girls are really too young to make judgments on their sexual orientation. This exploration may be done as part rebellion, part experimentation and part comfort...
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BRIDESMAIDS
SNL wacky woman, Kristen Wiig has co-written a surprisingly textured humorous tale of woe. Directed by: Paul Feig Bridesmaids mixes a crazy cast of characters, laughter and heart to create a pleasing pre-summer bouquet of comedy. Life began crumbling for pastry chef, Annie when her bakery stopped making her dough ($$). Soon after closing the shop, her boyfriend leaves her, she’s forced to moved in with her mother, and finds herself in a degrading – no friends, just benefits relationship with a self-inflated prick (Jon Hamm). Now on top of everything, she’s got to muster up money, energy and enthusiasm for her best friend from childhood, Lillian (Mya Rudolph) who’s…
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Pom Wonderful presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
What I like most about this documentary is Spurlock himself. One scene in the film has him going through a rigorous Q & A session with a brand specialist to come up with his own brand in order to sell himself to the brands he wants to sell the movie to. (make sense?) Anyway, what they come up with is that Spurlock's own brand is Mindful and Playful, and this is a very good assessment...
