The main event in Oscarsfeast The dish: The film: The reason: Gil (Owen Wilson in the best interpretation of chicken-legged Woody Allen since the auteur himself) believes there is nowhere finer than Paris, at night, in the rain. He and his fiancée Inez thought they were just hitching a visit with her parents to the […]
Oscars festival
Oscarsfeast continues The dish: The film: A story about an orphan boy who lives in the clocks in Paris’ Gare Montparnasse station in 1930 and the magic of cinema. This Boursin soufflé does not stand in for Hugo because a baguette with Boursin cheese is the classic picnic to take on a train. It does […]
Oscarsfest continues, with the last of the snacksThe dish: The film: The reason: Where does life begin and end? Where is mercy? Are they eating mince for dinner again? These are some of the questions that dog Terrence Malick’s loosely plotted family drama/examination of our place in the universe. For some the appeal lies in […]
Oscarsfeast continues: The dish: The film: The reason: Matt King is just trying to keep his head above water, what with his tempestuous daughters and coma-bound wife. As he’s keen to point out to us, it might look like heaven in Hawaii, but the tips and turns of life are just as rough as elsewhere. […]
The film: The reason: These are not baseballs. They’re lumps of popcorn, a dandruff of parmesan and a lick of truffle bound together like an island of misfit toys. It’s worth noting; these do not contain real truffle. If you can afford real truffle in your popcorn, you’re probably not making snacks. Your butler is. […]