daily stream: stirring some extra stress into the cranberry sauce
2003’s Pieces of April is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK.
Oliver Platt
Chef movie review: very tasty
Jon Favreau’s midlife artistic crisis rendered as food porn. Funny, poignant, and wise, though the wish-fulfillment romantic fantasy of it is a tad much.
The Oranges (review)
I’m not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies…
The Oranges (trailer)
Oh, goodie. Another movie about a man having a mid-life crisis, and the woman young enough to be his daughter he has it with.
Frost/Nixon (review)
This was the sort of hopeless dread the news that Ron Howard was directing this left me with. I felt like Robert Stack in *Airplane!*: ‘It’s a goddamn waste of time — there’s no way he can land this plane!’
