The old man has told this fable many times before, but it’s been a while. Delighted to have an audience, he can’t help but take tangents and add embellishments that make the fable as drawn out as a four-day drive from Philadelphia to Detroit. Still, there’s the same cast of characters portraying the survivor’s tale of allegiance versus betrayal, honor versus law, the family business versus the business of family. But with one more deep directorial breath, Martin Scorsese twists the ending. In “The Irishman” (2019), we’re left to wonder whether it would have been better to have lost bravely.
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“Chef” (2014) is a good movie for people like me, who enjoy cooking, awkwardly embrace social media and savor hard-to-categorize, witty little movies. Jon Favreau is the chef, a well-meaning sort-of dickhead going through a midlife crisis (exactly how I imagine Favreau is in real life). It has a lot of people in it: Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Platt, that dude from the Woody Allen movie, John Leguizamo, Robert Downey Jr., etc. I loved the cooking scenes, especially the grilled cheese sandwich. Sofia Vergara haters will totally understand how two of the main characters are her ex-husbands. She’s an acquired taste.
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