Top Five: Foodie Movies
I have been lentil-lovingly vegetarian for over twenty years, yet eighty minutes into a screening at Sony last week I was hit with the alarming and overwhelming urge to see a roast duck dismembered. What fresh madness was this? The power of film my friends. Essential to the climax of Julie & Julia (reviewed here) [...]
Top Five: Molly Ringwald
What do you know about Molly Ringwald? That she is the redhead who (broke the unwritten rule about ginger hair and) dared to be Pretty in Pink, starred in the three greatest teen movies of the 1980s and has a striking party trick involving cleavage and a lipstick. Anything more?
Did you know, for example, that Ms Ringwald lived through [...]
Top Five: Janeane Garofalo
There are many injustices in Hollywood today: inequality of pay, the resurrection and desecration of classic 80’s movies and Nicole Kidman continuing to get the big bucks though her face has been expressionless since 2003. The biggest of all still remains why, oh why, no one will cast Janeane Garofalo in anything decent. She co-starred for five years [...]
Quick Top Five: Paul Rudd
For many moons, I have been waiting in vain for a certain star to rise. Yes I should be grateful that lovely Mr. Apatow came back and resuscitated the profiles of Jason Segel, Seth Rogen and the other (lesser known) Freaks & Geeks boys after their years of comparitive obscurity, but you know what…it’s not [...]
Quick Top Five: Robert Downey Jr.
Day is now breaking in America over the 44th birthday of Robert Downey Jr. An actor, musician and part-time mad man, Downey has fitted a lot of living into four decades of life. In honour of this, I present to you my Quick Top Five RDJ performances.
5. Weird Science: His contribution to 80’s smart/casual fashion has never [...]
