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I love food. I love TV shows about food. And I love movies about food. Basically, I just love food. I cook quite a bit—I'm a pretty good chef if I do say so myself—and it's one of my absolute favorite hobbies. It's fulfilling, it's creative, and it just makes me happy. I love eating food, I love talking about food, and when I was doing my radio show, food was a regular topic. We had chefs on as guests, we cooked live on the air, we did tastings—it was always a blast. I still

My Film Critic pants are on, and I plan to put on my Film Critic shorts soon. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, March 28th, 2025. 1) DEATH OF A UNICORN Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so gloriously unhinged, so unapologetically ridiculous, and so sneakily smart that you just want to stand up and applaud.  Death of a Unicorn  is that movie. It's a deranged mashup of high-concept horror, pitch-black c

The sixth and final season of the brilliant and hilarious FX  series "What We Do in the Shadows"  is rapidly coming to a close, so I thought I'd write a little appreciation to celebrate its fabulous run. Based on the outstanding 2014 New Zealand film of the same name, written by Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi, WWDITS premiered on March 27, 2019, to much acclaim and cult popularity. The mockumentary style and structure are taken directly from the film but with a different