The Film: The Dish The Reason: A steady diet of vodka martinis, yellowtail sashimi platters, quaaludes and cocaine. That should get you on the way to emulating the 90’s Wall Street excesses of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo di Caprio) in Scorcese’s latest three hr epic. It’s reported that in filming the final scene between Jordan Belfort […]
Oscars festival
And so Oscarsfeast 2014 begins. It starts this year… with Her. The film: The Dish The Reason Is it possible to hold love in the palm of your hand? Spike Jonze thinks it might be, with Her. The OS1 is not just an operating system. It’s a consciousness. ‘Samantha’ is portable, responsive, and ever evolving. […]
Nine nominees for best picture, nine courses. From cocktails through to Petit Fours. Here it is, all together; Oscars Feast 2013. Now all that’s left is to choose which one to give the Oscar to (accepting votes below).
The film: The dish: The reason: Def: Zero Dark Thirty: Military terminology referring to 30 minutes past 12, or a time when it’s just darn dark outside. One might think these falafels are the perfect match for Kathryn Bigelow’s mysteriously titled filmic hunt for Osama because it takes exactly twelve and a half minutes to […]
The film: The dish: The reason: I stole a loaf of bread. My sister’s child was close to death, and we were starving… (Jean Valjean) And so it begins. At the end of the day, this is a Gallic soup for poverty, leaning heavily on the thrift of onions, broth and hunks of stale bread. […]