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 [...]

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 [...]

Hey, did you know that the Oscars are being given out this weekend?
If you’ve been paying attention, you know how lame I’ve been in any Oscar-related reporting and/or speculation this year, even more so than previous years. But although Burbanked has never been an awards prognostication site, you should not misunderstand that to mean that [...]

Do you know the drill yet? throughout this year we’ll be looking at screengrabs from the first appearance of food in classic and new movies. Food, movies, fun – what could be better? If you don’t like it, go defect to another country.
In 1990’s The Hunt for Red October, we get a delightful screengrab of [...]

Apologies for the light posting this week, movie snark fans. I’ve been pretty tied up with freelance work, so I’ve been pulling late nights and early mornings – which SERIOUSLY cuts into my precious blogging time. I’ll be back up and running regular-like again soon.
But here’s the deal: throughout this year we’ll be looking at [...]

Here’s the deal: throughout this year we’ll be looking at screengrabs from the first appearance of food in classic and new movies. And if you’re lucky and patient, maybe you’ll get a fun recipe to go along with it!
In the 1974 film Blazing Saddles, we see our first food at the 41-minute mark:

Of course, this [...]