Movies about food: Do you have reservations?

Not to be all I heart New York, but that city has launched the first annual NYC FoodFilmFestival.

Food films can be annoying. For every "Big Night" or "Eat Drink Man Woman," there's a "Woman On Top" (A chef who becomes nauseous during sex can only control her motion sickness when... . This threatens her husband, who promptly cheats on her. She moves to San Francisco, launches a food TV show and falls for the producer) or a "Simply Irresistible" (Magical crab gives woman instant ability to cook, enchant, fill her kitchen with dry-ice fog).

God willing, this summer will reverse the trend with "Ratatouille" (animated rat yearns to become a French chef) and "No Reservations" (Catherine Zeta Jones as Gordon Ramsey until Aaron Eckhart and Abigail Breslin teach her to become more like Rachael Ray).

As for the FoodFilmFestival, it's dodged the braindead and the twee but may have fallen victim to the cutes. Titles screening include "Asparagus (A Stalk-umentary)," "American Beer (A Bockumentary)" and "Living on the Wedge (Wisconsin's Artisan Cheesemakers)."

There's more. If you're a glutton for punishment.

Comments

[Big Bomb]

Crabs are definitely not magical.