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Just a Taste – HUNGER GAMES, AMERICAN REUNION, CABIN IN THE WOODS
Here’s my quick roundup from last Saturday’s triple feature: The Hunger Games is still riding high at the box office. It was very wise of Suzanne Collins to write a book that brings together the best of Reality TV – the savagery of Survivor, the mentoring of The Voice, the back biting of The Apprentice and the pageantry of Dancing with the Stars. Food in Film: most of the Districts are starving in this Dystopian future, willing to eat crusts of bread used for feeding pigs. However, once chosen, the Tributes are offered ample displays of food both savory and sweet. Feasting on banquet after banquet, leading up to game…
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Technically, It is Food in Film – LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
I had a writer, Camiele White, contact me requesting to be a guest blogger. She works at a costume shop – Star Costumes which offers a scholarship to students studying to work in the horror film industry. Cleverly, as a way to promote these endeavors, she’s been writing posts for movie blogs. Since I can’t make any money from Tinsel & Tine, I like to at least be a possible conduit for others. Camiele came up with a rather dark, but original take on the whole Food in Film theme: You Are What You… When it comes right down to it everyone’s appetite amounts to about the same thing. Greed,…