Category: Ralph Fiennes

Film Review: ‘The Menu’: Hostile Haute Cuisine Versus Pretentious One-Percenters

R | 1h 46min | Drama, Comedy, Satire, Mystery, Thriller | 18 November 2022 (USA) The second film this week to feature a maniacal, uber-obsessive “artiste” chef, “The Menu” is a searing satirical thriller that lacerates and skewers both those who conceive and create impossibly ornate and fussy dishes and those who view eating them as gastronomical nirvana. In a manner not…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Dig’: Our Past Can Speak to Our Future, If Only We Preserve It

PG-13 | 1h 52min | Historical Drama | 2021 In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, stood at its door. After a prolonged excavation, or “dig,” in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Carter was the first human in some 3,000 years to set foot there. In typical British understatement,…