Entries tagged with 'movies'
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This probably should have been in the Media entry, but whatevs. The Year That Was continues. Top: Wallace and Gromit as bakers in "A Matter of Loaf or Death." Above, clockwise from left: Amy Adams, Julie Powell, Meryl Streep, Julia Child. Nominated for five Oscars, Ratatouille wins Best Animated Feature category. A movie based on the Julie/Julia blog-book is announced, with noted foodie, author (Heartburn), and director (Sleepless in Seattle) Nora Ephron at the helm. Our own Ed Levine gets a part as an extra and has dinner with Ephron after his scene wraps. Martha Stewart claims the movie is about her! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to be made into a movie. New Wallace & Gromit movie, A...
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"A Michelin-level chef tries to make a comeback from major personal issues. He gathers his old friends together as his ‘dream team’ and ends up falling in love with the newest member of the group.” Whoa or no, folks? Whoa or no? [Slashfilm, via Eater LA]...
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Times are tough and turkeys are expensive. Don't be shocked if your host serves you a stewed shoe tomorrow. But let's hope that host is a reincarnated Charlie Chaplin. (And that your vision turns entirely black-and-white.) Savor those shoelaces (the best part) and beware of evil shoe bones. This scene comes from Gold Rush, a mostly-silent film about the Little Tramp's adventure to an Alaskan gold rush town. The video, after the jump....
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Wallace and Gromit, our favorite clay-modeled inventor and his beagle, take a break from cheese enthusiasm to become baking entrepreneurs. The thirty-minute short film A Matter of Loaf and Death will debut on BBC ONE in December, and be released on DVD next year. Business is booming at their "Top Bun" bakery—where facilities include robotic kneading arms—until a cereal killer gets loose. Gromit is nervous (but can only make petrified facial expressions since he lacks an actual mouth for talking) while the endearingly absent-minded Wallace is in la-la land, pining for Piella Bakewell, a former Bake-O-Lite bread commercial star. This is the duo's first showing since the Oscar-winning film The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in 2005. [via Kottke]...
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Clockwise from top left: Jerome "Chef" McElroy from South Park, Mrs. Lovett the baker from Sweeney Todd, Ned the pie-maker from Pushing Daisies, TV chef Jackie Chan from Mr. Nice Guy. Unlike the pies of Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) in Sweeney Todd—made of priests, poets, and other victims of the upstairs barber shop—those of Ned (Lee Pace), the pie maker on Pushing Daisies, are not alive. (You know, berries and butter and stuff.) Either way, pie has a special significance in television and cinema, as does food in general. Zap2it put together this slideshow of 43 fictional characters who spend their time in the kitchen. Who are your favorites?...
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Last night, Julie Powell watched a "rough" cut of Julie and Julia, the movie (where Ed makes a tiny cameo!) inspired by Powell's 365-day and 524-recipe blog project. "I see my name in magazines in very close proximity to names like 'Meryl' and 'Nora' and take it in stride. But somehow seeing yourself—or a Rom-Com-ed, slimmed-down, considerably less foul-mouthed version of yourself—on a movie screen is a whole different thing."...
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Frank, the freaky Donnie Darko bunny-man who knows exactly when the world will end, is a lot more manageable when he's made of hot dog franks. Because that way, you can destroy him! Frank: 28 days...6 hours...42 minutes...12 seconds. That...is when the world...will end. Psh, you'll be in my stomach by then, Frank!...
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Watching a giant human-sized doughnut skateboard is funny; watching a giant human-sized doughnut wipe out is funnier. Señor Donut is a character in the recently released movie Sex Drive, a tale of boy-meets-girl, except the boy has to dress up in a clunky doughnut outfit for his job at a pastry shop in the mall. Video after the jump....
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The buzz at the Toronto Film Festival this month was all about food. The new documentary, "Food Inc.," premiered at the festival to rave reviews. Entertainment Weekly called it "an important movie, one that nourishes your knowledge of how the world works," the Los Angeles Times labeled it "a riveting cautionary tale," and Variety says it's "a civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry." The documentary from the producers of an "Inconvenient Truth," is all about the "highly mechanized underbelly" of the nation’s food industry. It includes graphic footage of poultry sheds and meat packing plants (some of it shot in secret) and appearances by familiar foodie faces Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan. The...
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From the left: an episode of Top Chef; Pressure Cook. For those of you who love the big and small screens: last week, Amazon announced Video On Demand, a PC and Mac-compatible service that provides instantly watchable content of TV shows and movies, with some available for rental ($2-4) and purchase (around $10). You can also buy complete seasons of TV shows for a discounted price. After clicking around a while and finding some quality food programming, my computer almost froze up and I discovered some of the service's quirks. The most annoying feature is that video previews play without warning. Some content can only be watched online and saved in "Your Video Library," while others can't and must...
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