With another film festival in the books, we look back on a season of cooks, dishes, and legendary screen performances. Plus: Hot Topic, 4DX, crowning Top Chef, and announcing the next thrilling season of Film Fest!Film Fest is brough...

In the pantheon of bad movie haircuts (wigs??), one film rises above. We reach the end of another great festival with a new comfort classic, the double biopic Julie & Julia. Is the Julie half really all that bad? Is Chris Messina so hot it ...

Bonjour madames et monsieurs et bienvenue a le cinema du Sexy Chocolatiers hon hon hon! It's time to get down and dirty with Swede king Lasse Hallstrom's ode to all things cocoa: the great (?) 2000s time capsule Chocolat. Marie Sicola joins us ...

Ayyyy I'm making pizza heah! Journey with us to the world's most famous Italian neighborhood: Little Italy, Toronto, with one of the world's famous famous Italo-Americans: Tara Giancaspro. We try our hardest to get into a truly wild movie, from...

If you've ever wondered what it would feel like to live inside a Renaissance painting, today's episode is for you. We all fall head over heels in love with Peter Greenaway's lush and disgusting 1989 confusingly titled classic The Cook, the Thie...

The Loeb Boathouse...Katz's Deli...Cafe Luxembourg...grapes and paprikash and dressing on the side... Who says When Harry Met Sally's not a food movie??Certainly not the great Hooman Yazdanian, who brought the iconic Reiner/Ephron colla...

Remember when Bradley Cooper trained to be a professional chef so he could play Anthony Bourdain on TV, and then when his TV show bombed he was like wait...what am I supposed to do with all of these chef skills now? We certainly do! The great K...

Nicolas Cage goes to Portland in search of his pignapped best friend: a logline that kind of sells itself. Underground sous chef fight clubs, Alex Wolff's little mustache, a beautiful swine named Brandy...we get into it all with librarian and r...

Welcome to FILM FESTATOUILLE: a celebration of movies about food!! 🍽The long-awaited fourth season of Film Fest is officially here, and what better way to kick things off than with iconic baker and James Beard Award winning (!) c...

Another awards cycle comes around as we draw this season of nightmares to a close - goodnight, Scaredy Cats of the world! Find out who's taking home the gold and which of this season's spoooooky movies is crowned Scariest. Plus: what Miya, Brad...

Grab your Reese's Pieces and your red hoodie because it's E.T. time, baby -- and who better to talk about Spielberg's paean to California families with than Miya's own California family, Kimi Singer! Is E.T. scary? Is E.T. real? Is thi...

Fire up pizza dot net and order your favorite pie: it's time to talk The Net with early internet enthusiast Brian Oliu! Could anyone touch Sandra Bullock on her '90s hot streak? What happened to online culture? Will we ever learn to touch grass...

Sometimes it seems like you can't walk down the street without coming across a kid whose dad died and was reincarnated as a snowman thanks to a magic harmonica and the snowman didn't look like George Clooney when he was a man but definitely doe...

Hop on our comically beautiful bicycle and take a ride with us back to a time when Tim Burton was just a weirdo animation school grad with something to prove and an SNL reject named Paul Reubens suddenly had the keys to the Hollywood kingdom. W...

Barbie, eat your heart out. Nothing says the spirit of Halloween quite like camp queen Jennifer Tilly, except maybe Brad Dourif being a little prick - and guess what? This movie's got both! We're talking all things Chucky with the great Sarah S...

In 2002, nothing was scarier than an unmarked VHS, a sickly green filter, and Brian Cox wrapped in extension cords. We're talking all things THE RING with the great Erin O'Brien—from Halloween Horror Nights to flop queen Naomi Watts to the cree...

From the day we arrive on the planet and, blinking, step into the sun, we dream of a podcast brave enough to discuss the movie that defined one billion Millennial childhoods. Well, dream no more: we're talking The Lion King with writer...

Get lost with us and our new best friend Hoggle in an impossible maze of imagination and puberty - we're taking on Labyrinth! Polite bescarfed worms, giant gentle beasts, gloved hands with minds of their own...we leave no stone unturne...

What's that? On the wind? An unfamiliar scent...a nip in the air...the birds are flying in an odd formation...it must be a new FILM FEST!Our third (!) season, Scaredy Cat Film Fest - movies that kept you up at night - kicks ...

From Robsten to Paunifer (still workshopping), today we're looking back on all of the power couples we were gifted throughout this season of Film Fest. We can't honor them all, but we do our best to award our favorite performances, romantic duo...

Russell Crowe was nominated for Best Actor three times in a row in 2000, 2001, and 2002, then never again. We catch up with him at the tail end of his hot streak as Michelle Lee returns to Film Fest to talk all things A Beautiful Mind:...

On this week's episode of Power Couples Film Fest, say shava with us as we dive into Bollywood, K3G, and the tangled love lives of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan with the one and only Ikya Kandula. Great music, great dancing, GREAT sweaters, and mor...

Today Film Fest takes you back to the halcyon days of 2005: shimmery tank tops, cheap bangles, emo bangs, Crash vs. Brokeback Mountain...and, of course, Brangie. Go on a trip through time with us and the great Nti Aning a...

What drives someone to climb a mountain by themselves with no rope? More importantly, what drives someone to love that someone? We go on a quadruple date with author-poet-illustrator (and Brad's wife) Lena Moses-Schmitt to tackle the Oscar-winn...

Start your engines, folks, because it's race day in America. We're rounding the first turn of this season with Tony Scott's fuel-injected NASCAR romance Days of Thunder. How did one of Hollywood's most notorious nineties couples g...