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First Stills From the 'Julie & Julia' Movie [Photographs]
Sony Pictures released new stills from Julie & Julia, set to be released August 2009. The film, directed and written by Nora Ephron, is an adaption of the Julie and Julia, the blog-turned book by...
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Watchmen Nite Owl Dark Roast Coffee [tie-ins]
As part of the endless market saturation that's prefacing the March 6 release of the Watchmen movie, Warner Bros has partnered with the Organic Coffee Cartel to produce a limited-edition tin of Nite...
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This Is Spinal Tap Cheese Rolling Trailer [video]
After we posted the video of the speeding wheels of cheese on the Amazing Race, a tipster reminded us of the trailer to This Is Spinal Tap, featuring a cheese festival in Denmark that holds an event:...
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Dalia Jurgensen's Spiced Coming to TV?
Photo by Sam Horine / Metromix It's barely been on bookstore shelves a week, but already New York chef Dalia Jurgensen's culinary coming of age story Spiced is being shopped around as a potential...
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What's Wrong With Julie & Julia
We've had a couple of days to digest the trailer for Julie & Julia, the movie based on the book based on the blog based on Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and we've decided that...
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June is Food Documentary Month: End of the Line, Food, Inc., Fresh, the NYC...
Forget summer action blockbusters, nothing beats the heat like a food documentary, and three of them are headed your way in June: End of the Line, about the perils of overfishing, opens June 19th in...
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Food, Inc Review Wrapup [metacriticsm]
Food, Inc opens Friday, and reviews so far have been extremely favorable — for example, it has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Here, in no particular order, are a bunch of reviews (including gasp!...
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The Redesign of the Julie & Julia Book Cover
View larger Julie & Julia — and here we're talking about the book (buy at Amazon) — has gone from a classy design to, in its new tie-in form, basically a poster for the movie. In fact, the...
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Trailer for The Informant, a Big Ag Caper-Comedy [video]
Here's the trailer for The Informant, Steven Soderbergh's film that has a chubby Matt Damon playing an informant helping to uncover a major price-fixing scam at ADM (Archer Daniels Midland): "Corn...
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Thanksgiving Trailer from Grindhouse to Become Feature Film
News to us: Eli Roth (the director of Hostel) is going to be making Thanksgiving into a feature film. Based on the promising "fake" trailer he directed shown during the "intermission" of Grindhouse,...
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Taxidermia Film Trailer [video]
Opening in New York City and Los Angeles on August 14th is the dark comedy/horror film Taxidermia, which explores the dangers of gluttony not seen since Monty Python's The Meaning of Life,...
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Trailer for the Documentary Tapped [video]
Here's the trailer for the documentary Tapped (warning: window-resizing website), a film about the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry and its effect on "climate change, pollution, health and...
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Julie & Julia's Real Star: Mastering The Art of French Cooking
Photo via iloveupstate on Flickr The conversation surrounding the release of Julie & Julia has fluttered around plenty of topics: this is a movie about old media versus new; this is a movie about...
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Julie & Julia Review Wrapup [metacriticsm]
Well, the reviews are in: The general consensus, as expected: Meryl Streep is great, the Julia Child half is great, the Julie Powell half: not so much. Overall, it's not tracking well: As of this...
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Teaser Trailer for Bitter Feast [video]
Here's a teaser trailer for the film Bitter Feast, a comic thriller about a television chef who kidnaps one of his critics after a bad review. Super-low budget, it claims to be the first feature to be...
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The Short Film Hala Hala's Uncommon Economic Indicator at the Blackout Film...
The annual Blackout Film Festival is this Saturday in New York City, and this year's theme is The Great Recession. Among the shorts is the film, Hala Hala's Uncommon Economic Indicator, an animated...
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Whip It Food Fight [video]
What can’t be missed in Drew Barrymore’s Whip It, the new roller derby dramedy, is the B-movie-esque food fight scene. The french fry with ketchup stuck to the face is a valiant first assault, but...
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Brittany Murphy in The Ramen Girl [movies, video]
Brittany Murphy (RIP) starred in the 2008 film The Ramen Girl (Amazon), playing Abby, an American dumped by her boyfriend in Tokyo who finds her true calling: to make ramen. Brittany Murphy was...
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Trailer for Le Grand Chef: Kimchi War [video]
Here's the trailer for Le Grand Chef: Kimchi War, currently playing in theaters. The prequel to the 2007 film Le Grand Chef, Kimchi War follows two chefs competing in a culinary contest created to...
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Zoom and Pan: The Gleaners and I
Still from The Gleaners and I Welcome to the first edition of Zoom and Pan, Eat Me Daily's newest column! Each week, Soleil Ho of Heavy Table will tear apart a food-centric movie scene and, with luck,...
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