I suppose that the warmth and jolly feelings of the holiday season have melted my cold, cold heart just enough to bring back Friday Meals on Reels in which we celebrate the gastronomic delights of a movie’s first screengrab in which food is seen.
And naturally, it simply wouldn’t be a true Christmas season without my [...]

To link a pair of Hollywood actors not only through the roles they’ve played and the costars to whom they’re connected; and to do so through the fact that one of them was born and the other one died on this! very! day!; and to also connect the relatively small criteria that one of these [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Have you missed me around these parts? I’ve started a new job this week, so blogging has grievously taken a back seat while I get up and running. My new employers actually expect me to “get up to speed” and “hit the ground running”. I’m so busy I have to come up with my own [...]

Hopefully my newly-coined term “foodgrab” is soon to enter the film blog venacular. That being, of course, a screengrab from a classic or new movie which represents the first time the filmmaker shows us – wait for it – food.
In screenwriter/blogger John August’s film The Nines, we see food for the first time at the [...]