REVIEW: The Hundred-Foot Journey [2014]

“You cook to make ghosts” With Chocolat and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen under his belt, The Hundred-Foot Journey isn’t anything approaching new territory for director Lasse Hallström. But if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, right? Honestly, if he can continue making feel good tales like this—bona fide crowd-pleasers—we should all be happy since it keeps him busy and away from the allure of helming a hat trick of Nicholas Sparks adaptations. There may be no surprises in this cinematic version of a novel Oprah Winfrey selected as part…

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VIDEO: Jenny Lewis’ “Just One of the Guys”

Indie-folk/Alt-country, genre hyphenate singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis is back with her third (second if you don’t count her collaboration with The Watson Twins) solo album entitled The Voyager. It follows a successful duo disc with beau Johnathan Rice and last year’s Rilo Kiley effort Rkives. And it’s great. The first video has been released for track “Just One of the Guys”—a song dealing her biological clock and perhaps indifference to joining the maternal club. Directed by Lewis herself, it features Anne Hathaway, Brie Larson, a hilarious Kristen Stewart, and a fourth…

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