When a top chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) gains unexpected custody of a little girl (Abigail Breslin), her life gets thrown off course. Things get even more complicated when some sexy chef competition (Aaron Eckhart) enters her kitchen and her heart. Read more
| Starring | Catherine Zeta Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson |
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| Director | Scott Hicks |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Drama, Romance |
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It was in Breakfast of Champions that Kurt Vonnegut imagined life on a planet devoid of all plants and animals save humanoids. These humanoids took pleasure in (to our minds) an exotic, even aberrant form of pornography. It wasn't the sexual act that repelled and transfixed them. It was images of food and eating. For an hour and a half, the movie camera barely strayed from close ups of lips, teeth, and bobbing Adam's apples as a family pigged out over a simulated meal. At the film's climax,... Read more
Action sequel The Bourne Ultimatum has stayed at the top of the UK box office chart again this week, suggesting that audiences love Matt Damon as the amnesia-stricken spy Jason Bourne. According to data from AC Nielsen, Knocked Up was the second most popular movie of the week, taking over £1.42 million for the weekend starting August 31st. New entry 1408 took third place. The film stars John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson, and is a horror adapted from a novel by Stephen King about a hotel... Read more
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the cinema! Kitchen movies are quite the fad right now, what with Waitress on release, and Pixar's Ratatouille at your local car boot(-leg) sale. A remake of the well-liked German film Mostly Martha, No Reservations is a polished, upscale Hollywood romance. The menu may be somewhat predictable, but the presentation is clean, the flavours are simple but sweet, and it has a nice, light texture. Catherine Zeta Jones is Kate, chef at 22 Bleeker Street, a... Read more