I love movies that combine my love of food, my love of beautiful scenery, and my love of a good story. The 100 Foot Journey did just that. Photo Source: IMDb The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory’s Michelin-starred eatery. ( IMDb) Based on Richard C. Morais’ beloved novel of the same name, this movie is deliciously romantic. It stars Dame Helen Mirren as Madame Mallory and Manish Dayal as Hassan Kadam, a cook who not only charms sous chef Marguerite, but Madame Mallory. Om Puri stars as […]
It's Just a Game
The Legend of Bagger Vance is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I watched it twice this weekend. Based on the book by Steven Pressfield, the movie tells the story of Rannulph Junah, a disillusioned war veteran who reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf with Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones. Photo Source: Amazon “He finds the game futile until his caddy, Bagger Vance, teaches him the secret of the authentic golf stroke which turns out also to be the secret to mastering any challenge and finding meaning in life.” (Written by M. Fowler, IMdb) At the beginning […]
An Indie Film Lover's Paradise
Every January, independent filmmakers, industry professionals, actresses, actors, and the press travel to Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival. And every year, indie filmmakers, and up-and-coming actors and actresses, dream of getting their film featured and picked up at the Sundance Film Festival. Photo Source: Fodors The Sundance Film Festival has given us such films as the recently nominated Boyhood and Whiplash. Photo Source: IMDb / Forbes As always, this year’s festival will feature documentaries as well as comedies and dramas. Check out the festival program HERE. This festival loves the indie filmmakers and the out-of-the-box documentaries. There […]
Finally, A Movie My Husband Liked
My husband and I watched a movie that he actually liked. The Equalizer. Rotten Tomatoes The movie stars Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, who sets out to rescue, of sorts, Teri (played by Chloe Grace Moretz), a teenager who gets roughed up by Russian mobsters. Huffington Post In the process, he uses his specific set of skills to help out some people who are close to him. The movie takes place in Boston, Mass. Marton Csokas stars as the bad guy, Teddy, who makes it his mission to take down Robert McCall, but not before McCall takes out more than […]
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