I think I am going to have review the way I watch films about food in future.

To stave off feelings of utter starvation and to stop me from pausing the film every few minutes to look up recipes online, I'm going to stuff my face beforehand and then maybe my bloated state will make for a less interrupted viewing. Because this was practically exactly the same experience I had when I recently watched Chef too.

I literally paused this film for about 20 minutes so I could look at recipes and pictures of timpano. And I've got no chance of ever making that or dragging the kids to somewhere around here that might do that dish, so it was…

Everyone talks about the "food porn" in this movie, and for good reason. The cuisine on display is decadent and scrumptious looking. But I didn't really think there were an excess of shots of the food, or that the food that was shown was so much more delicious looking that the food in other movies.

So getting past the food the question is, "is there anything else in this film worth talking about?". I say yes there is. I found the movie to be a quiet character study about immigrant brothers and about family dynamics. It is a great time capsule film too. The low budget look and feel of this movie doesn't exist anymore. Low budget films today are…

To eat good food is to be close to God.

I absolutely loved this. I can't remember exactly how it ended up on my Watchlist but it may have had something to do with the comparisons between it and Jon Favreau's Chef when that film came out. I liked Chef quite a bit, but Big Night is even more successful.
Primo and Secondo are two Italian brothers struggling to make a go of their restaurant in America. Primo (Tony Shalhoub) is an artist in the kitchen and will not compromise for ignorant customers who don't understand his food. Secondo, (Stanley Tucci who also directs) has already been seduced by the American Dream and is unaware that he is selling out…

Film #1 of the "Scavenger Hunt 2" challenge
Task #1 - A Food Themed Film

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For the scavenger hunt challenge I tried my best to pick films I hadn't seen before which meant I just had to turn to Google for some help in selecting some of the films I picked. The moment that I realized Stanley Tucci was in "Big Night" I knew that this film would easily be my pick.

Of course Tucci didn't disappoint in the film, I feel he rarely does. The other two big surprises in the film were Tony Shalhoub and Ian Holm. While I knew that I already liked Holm from his work on "Alien" and "The Lord of the Rings" I…

BIG NIGHT is one of those movies that's so good it makes you reevaluate what you consider to be a "good movie". Primo and Secondo are two Italian immigrant brothers trying to make a good life for themselves in America through their restaurant. Primo is aggressively passionate, driven and cares almost exclusively about the quality of his food and his own honour as a chef whereas Secondo is a logical businessman who tries to set realistic goals for them, especially as their business is failing. Their friend and fellow restaurant owner Pascal sympathizes for them and says he can help save their business by getting his friend Louis Prima, a famous real-life singer, to come to their restaurant for a…