LOVE this. My YouTube attention span usually gives out at around the 2:30 mark. Not with this piece of visual brilliance. (via Mystery Man on Film)

I know I’ve railed just recently about how very very derivative Hollywood can be. But isn’t this American Teen one-sheet (click to see it larger) just really going ridiculously far? I understand that it’s a documentary and as such may find some challenges in marketing itself as a viable piece of movie entertainment. But it’s [...]

Thought we’d try something a shade different this week with our movie foodgrab and see if you can guess the title of the 1995 film where we see the following at just over the seven-minute mark:
Or is that too subtle? Well, I’m not a cruel man, so I’ll give you a too-easy clue found [...]

You wouldn’t be reading this right now if you didn’t have some kind of a passion for blogging as a writer yourself or as a reader of the format. With that in mind, ask yourself this question: do you get more of a thrill out of writing your own site, posting and sparking a discussion [...]

I’ll admit that our foodgrab this week isn’t all that spectacular or insightful or metaphoric or any of those usual things, but perhaps that’s the true beauty of the foodgrab. Its mystical powers are not always known to us, its meaning not always clear. O, foodgrab; how you do vex us so.

Still, today’s grab from [...]

Hollywood simply doesn’t make movies like this anymore. Such truth…and triumph of the human spirit. Makes me proud to be an American.
2008 looks like it’s going to be filled with all the old stuff that Hollywood is famous for – and everything we’ve already seen. Is this the year that the reimaginings, reinventions, revampings and [...]

Who doesn’t enjoy a good prison movie? The squalor, the man-on-man violence, the solitary confinement – the triumph of the human spirit and/or the unceremonious crushing of it. Prison movies have enjoyed a long and storied history in cinema, and the symbolism of food in these movies is easy to spot. Movie prison food tends [...]