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...TASTE OF BLUE HEAVEN With their striking blue feet and mildly gamy taste, French Bresse chickens have inspired passion among connoisseurs since gastronome Brillat-Savarin wrote about the velvety-textured birds in his 19th century The Physiology of Taste. True Bresse aren't available in the U.S., but now America has its own Blue Foot chickens. Bred in California, they're being served up in restaurants like Spago Palo Alto and New York City's Alain Ducasse. They're also available at dartagnan.com...
...there's a circle of Hell - or Heaven - for comic misanthropes, Durang would reign (or serve) there. The author of many zippy sitcoms about domestic and social outrages now turns his thoughts to the afterlife, in an endearingly meditative farce about Veronica, a depressive woman who commits suicide in the year 2000 ("At least I got to miss 9/11") and lands in a sort of limbo, where she is reincarnated as, among other things, an abused child and a dog. Veronica is played by the dimpled Kristine Nielsen, whose performance is less depressive than manic; she orates her grudges with...
...sack of stolen money falls on 7-year-old Damian, and he thinks it's a gift from heaven. Magical realism comes to the English Midlands, where saints speak to little boys and dead mums offer tips on hair conditioners. Kids and adults will enjoy this sweet-but-not-sticky fairy tale from director Danny Boyle. Blessed by the charisma of its young star, Alex Etel, Millions is found gold, and a little bit of heaven...
...directed four films in 32 years: Badlands in 1973, Days of Heaven in 1978, The Thin Red Line in 1998 and now this retelling of the romance of John Smith and Pocahontas - the crosscultural Adam and Eve, or Romeo and Juliet, of colonial Virginia. Like his superb earlier films, this one has a poetic, faux-naive narration and little dialogue to lead viewers through a story of small people in a gorgeous landscape. On landing in America, Capt. Smith (Colin Farrell) is intoxicated, beatified, by the new land?s abundance. ?Here the blessings of the earth are bestowed upon...
...Aardman colleagues have created a horror-romance that owes as much to Jane Austen's social comedies as to the Hammer monster movies of yore. In Millions, a sack of stolen money falls on 7-year-old Damian (adorable Alex Etel), and he thinks it?s a gift from heaven. Magical realism comes to the English Midlands, where saints speak to little boys and dead mums offer tips on hair conditioners. Individually, these are films to give meaning and fun to an ailing child?s rainy afternoons. Together, they could brighten Christmas, Hanukkah and the new year too. Happy merry...