With another film festival in the books, we look back on a season of cooks, dishes, and legendary screen performances. Plus: Hot Topic, 4DX, crowning Top Chef, and announcing the next thrilling season of Film Fest! Film Fest is brought to you by wig-wag: personal essays on movies.
3 Feb 2025
Julie & Julia with Madeline Wells
In the pantheon of bad movie haircuts (wigs??), one film rises above. We reach the end of another great festival with a new comfort classic, the double biopic Julie & Julia. Is the Julie half really all that bad? Is Chris Messina so hot it excuses his rude behavior? Does this movie hit different in a Substack's America? We get into all of it, plus a lot of Adam and Streep talk, with food reporter Madeline Wells! Read Madeline's reporting at SF Gate here. Film Fest is brought to you by wig...
27 Jan 2025
Chocolat with Marie Sicola
Bonjour madames et monsieurs et bienvenue a le cinema du Sexy Chocolatiers hon hon hon! It's time to get down and dirty with Swede king Lasse Hallstrom's ode to all things cocoa: the great (?) 2000s time capsule Chocolat. Marie Sicola joins us to help break down the careers of Binoche, Dench, Molina, and oui, le sigh, un petit Johnny Depp, as well as the wacky ins and outs of post-war provincial France. This one's a little darker than you might remember!Film Fest if brought to you by wig-wag:...
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