Sin City: Carnivorian Steaks

How sick does it get? Did you ever hide one of your Easter eggs so well that you didn't find it for about six months, when the rancid odor of what you believed to be dead vermin gave away its hiding place? That's the kind of "hard-boiled" you will find in Sin City.

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Red: Stir-Fried Beef with Peppers and Bamboo Shoots

Not a bad way to while away an hour or two, but this is mostly froth with very little ale, and it’s very pale ale at best. This cast deserves a better script, yet they seem to be having fun with their two dimensional characters, laughing all the way to bank, I’d bet.

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Tropic Thunder: Vietnamese Beef Pho

This very guilty pleasure is a minefield choked with enough vulgarity and gore to incinerate most of Southeast Asia, which it almost does. But when you set out to parody films specializing in lewd humor and graphic violence, outrage is not just an outcome, it is an inevitability. And yes, I confess, I laughed in spite of myself.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: Mahi-Mahi with Pineapple-Mandarin Sauce

This must see summer film sizzles across the screen and reminds us of what the big screen was made for – over the edge action, fantastic special effects, creepy beasties, and of course, romance with a capital R.

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As It is in Heaven: Swedish Pancakes

When a heart attack cuts shorts the international career of a renowned Swedish conductor, he returns to the small village of his childhood, and in a sense, begins his life anew. What he has failed to learn from the grand symphonies of Europe he begins to learn from the ordinary voices of the church choir he reluctantly agrees to direct.

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