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Cutthroat Kitchen (2013)
I love it
I didn't want to watch this show. I thought it was just another stupid
competition program designed to bring out the worst in people. I was appalled that Alton Brown would do something like this. However the crazy commercials and my love of Alton Brown inspired me to give it a try any way. Now I'm hooked. It's actually silly, playful fun. Alton Brown is as wonderful as ever. The sabotages are delightfully deranged. This is what a cooking competition should be. You don't get more original than this. Chefs have had to cook with miniature cooking tools, gardening tools, no tools. They've made meat dishes without meat and bread dishes without bread. I don't know how long they can continue coming up with new ideas but I hope it's a good, long time.
The Warriors (1979)
Amazing directorial art
The acting and the dialog aren't the best, but the cinematography is the real star of this movie. The shots are all framed to feel gritty, dark, garish. The gangs are outrageous but fitting in this dreamlike interpretation of reality. The rain washed streets streaked with light, the music, the magnificent Lynne Thigpen as the DJ, the reports to the Warlord of the Riffs done in silhouette. The movie is more art than film. It is violent and it's initial message is more frightening today than it was in 1979. As a woman I also have to note that the men in this movie are very easy on the eye, to say the least. I also like the message that we are given at the end, that you can make your world a better place. Yes it's trite, but sometimes we do forget that. I recommend this movie highly.