Chick Flicks on Food
September 28, 2014
Chick Flicks on Food
Food movies have always been popular – Julie & Julia comes to mind. This summer saw four very good chick flicks about food, cooking and eating – Le Chef, The Hundred Foot Journey, Chef and The Trip to Italy. Also a great food flick, Haute Cuisine is an excellent rental.
Le Chef (Comme un chef)
(2014) - 84 min - PG13
Comedy, Foreign
This charming French comedy with English subtitles has just opened in selected theaters. It is my favorite of all the movies in theaters now. Jacky Bonnot has worshipped at the feet of Alexandre... More
Hundred-Foot Journey, The
(2014) - 122 min - PG13
Comedy, Drama
I had high expectations for this film….Helen Mirren, The South of France, Cute Poster-"What is not to like?". The only thing I was not crazy about was the title. Well, my expectations were met... More
Chef
(2014) - 115 min - R
Comedy, Drama
Fun story of Chef, Carl Casper, who is ordered by his restaurant's owner, Dustin Hoffman, to cook their traditional menu even though that night a very influential restaurant critic is coming for... More
Trip to Italy, The
(2014) - 108 min - R
Comedy, Drama
If you liked their first film, The Trip, in which Steve and Rob visited and reviewed restaurants in the Lake Counties of England, you will enjoy The Trip to Italy especially because in addition to... More
Haute Cuisine (Les saveurs du Palais)
(2012) - 95 min - PG13
Biography, Comedy, Drama, Foreign, History
Fascinating story, told as a flashback from Antarctica, of Hortense Laborie (the fictional name of Daniéle Delpeuch) who ran a truffle farm yet was asked to become the personal chef for French... More
Magic In the Moonlight
(2014) - 97 min - PG13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
This magical movie by Woody Allen is truly wonderful. Set in the Côte d'Azur in the 1920's, Sophie is a psychic and Stanley, himself an illusionist, is called in to debunk her. Instead he comes to... More
This Is Where I Leave You
(2014) - 103 min - R
Comedy, Drama
This funny charming movie based on the bestselling book, highlights all the tensions of family. In this case a family "trapped" in their childhood home with their newly widowed Mother and... More
Begin Again
(2014) - 104 min - R
Comedy, Drama, Musical
Dan is down and out, separated from his wife and teenage daughter and being ousted from the music production company he founded. In an alcoholic daze, he wanders into a bar with music and hears... More
Most Wanted Man, A
(2014) - 121 min - R
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
This final role for Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fine role and a fine performance. Hoffman plays Günther, head of a secret German intelligence unit, which is trying to prevent further terrorist... More
Calvary
(2014) - 100 min - R
Drama
This movie stars Brendan Gleeson as James the local priest who is a widower with a grown daughter, Fiona. She comes for a visit with bandaged wrists from a suicide attempt just after James during... More
Love Is Strange
(2014) - 94 min - R
Drama, Romance
This is a lovely, bittersweet story of Ben and George who marry after 39 years together. George is a music teacher at a Catholic school and is fired when his marriage is discovered by the... More
I Origins
(2014) - 107 min - R
Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
This is the most fascinating movie I have seen all year. The premise, as it develops, grabs your imagination as does the story. Ian Gray is a molecular biologist who is trying to prove evoluation... More
Pride
(2014) - 120 min - R
Comedy, Drama, History
While the trailers for Pride show the more comedic scenes, the movie is serious and historic as well. Led by a handful of gay activists in London, they collect money for the miners who very lives... More
And So It goes
(2014) - 94 min - PG13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Rob Reiner, this charming movie is reminiscent of Something's Gotta Give and As Good As It Gets. Apparently, even folks in their mid 60's can have romance ( I say this tongue in cheek!)... More
Skeleton Twins, The
(2014) - 93 min - R
Comedy, Drama
While this is a comedy, it is also a drama. The twins, Maggie and Milo are now in their 30's. Maggie is still in upstate New York where they grew up and Milo is in California trying to be an actor.... More
Lucy
(2014) - 90 min - R
Action, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller
Scarlett Johansson plays Lucy, a graduate student studying in Asia, when her boyfriend of one week traps her into making a delivery to a luxury hotel of a locked briefcase containing a new synthetic... More
Life Itself
(2014) - 120 min - R
Documentary
This movie about the life of Roger Ebert was finished despite Ebert's death five months into its filming. Even though I have followed Ebert for 40 years, I learned many things I did not know about... More
Wish I Was Here
(2014) - 105 min - PG13
Comedy, Drama
Aiden and Sarah are raising two children, Grace and Tucker, in Los Angeles. Aiden is a would-be actor who seldom works while Sarah brings home a paycheck from the Water Department. Grace and Tucker... More
Yves Saint Laurent
(2014) - 106 min - R
Biography, Drama
Since his death in 2008 Yves Saint Laurent's life has been extensively covered. The 2010 documentary," L'amour fou" covered more of his life in detail. This drama shows his early years as a shy... More
Tammy(2014)
(2014) - 96 min - R
Comedy
If you are a Melissa McCarthy fan, you will like this movie but probably not love it. Otherwise, it is not really so funny. The trailers seem to have the funniest parts and you usually feel a... More
Third Person
(2014) - 137 min - R
Drama, Romance
The new Paul Haggis movie, Third Person, wtih Liam Neeson and a cast of others is in selected theaters. Our guest reviewer says that she disliked almost every minute of the film. It seemed like an... More
Sex Tape
(2014) - 94 min - R
Comedy, Romance
This lame movie is just about what you would expect. Except you do see the good looking behinds of both of the lead stars (Diaz and Segal). We see Annie and Jay in flashback to their first date,... More
Happy Christmas
(2014) - 86 min - R
Comedy, Drama
I really wanted to like this movie because it was written, directed, and starred Joe Swanberg who is beginning to make a name for himself. This Indie seems a bit amateurish…understandably the... More
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Penelope
(2006) - 104 min - PG13
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
This charming fantasy is probably more attractive to our younger members. Never-the-less, I enjoyed this fairy tale of Penelope who was born with the nose of a pig but clearly otherwise is an... More
Amazing Spider-Man,The
(2012) - 136 min - PG13
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Through a series of deaths, Peter becomes the senior male in this tale of Spider-Man. Along the way, he falls for Gwen, daughter of a police Captain in New York City. Gwen, played by Emma Stone,... More
