Sep 9, 2019under the skin / not chocolate cakeWhat: a non-mortal in ScarJo-clothing preys upon men in dreary Scotland, effectively depicting the plight of being a woman in a cruel,...
Sep 4, 2019austere luxury / graceful grainsFood movies are few and far between, but Babette’s Feast is likely the pinnacle of them.
Sep 2, 2019Pieta / a consolation eelWhat to pair with a screening of Kim Kim-duk's cruel psycho-sexual drama?
Aug 30, 2019blanched optimism / american standbys+ WANDA (Barbara Loden, 1970) Wanda, you've been on my mind. Your movements frantic and outsized, but motivations sequestered. Your...
Aug 30, 2019gritty city, disinfectant ginTHE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS as it turns out is the miasma of desperate ambition and compulsory workaholism spread thin between fame and...
Aug 25, 2019Muddled dreams / bad coffeeTom DiCillo's oneiric film Living in Oblivion unfolds less like sleep paralysis and more elliptically like Groundhog Day.
Aug 25, 2019sqirl / geminiI have never been to Sqirl. My toes have not graced the state of California in fact since the place opened. But, Jessica Koslow’s cooking...
Dec 8, 2018a little romance / a can of beansA LITTLE ROMANCE George Roy Hill, 1979 Romance when transposed onto the likes of tykes yields tenderness. She's a bougie American living...
Jul 30, 2018Sota Atsumi x Le SamouraiIn the onyx and marble den of Chef's Club: French techniques with a Japanese flourish from Sota Atsumi of highly acclaimed Paris bistro...