6 Page 6 – Thursday, August 7, 2014 SENTINEL-TRIBUNE AR T S & ENTERTAINMENT ‘Journey’s’ nice ingredients lack spice By JOCELYN NOVECK learned, into a rosy sunset. AP National Writer That’s not to say there isn’t a lot going for Take one Oscar-winning “Journey” (as there was for British actress. Add an the enjoyable “Chef”), an appealing supporting cast. adaptation of the novel by Lather on the picturesque Richard Morais about an French countryside. Indian family that opens a Sprinkle liberally with gor- restaurant in a French vil- geous food shots, from lage. bubbling, spicy Indian del- Besides the above-men- icacies to perfectly com- tioned virtues, notably the posed French plates of always delightful Helen pigeon and truffles. Mirren and the entertain- And then heap on a ing Indian actor Om Puri, heavy serving of corn. it has the absurdly good- What is it about recent looking couple of Manish food movies — Jon Dayal, as a gifted young Favreau’s “Chef,” and now Indian chef, and Charlotte Lasse Hallstrom’s “The Le Bon, as the gorgeous AP Photo/FranÁois Duhamel, DreamWorks II Hundred-Foot Journey” — sous-chef who teaches him Om Puri and Helen Mirren in a scene from “The Hundred-Foot Journey.” that, despite their virtues, the joys of haute cuisine they have to be so darned (and not much more — this loving Kadam family. intruders play loud music, chef Marguerite (Le Bon). becomes the chef of a corny, so dewy-eyed, with is a PG-rated movie). everything tied up in a During a night of political and second, because, well, It is Marguerite who, when flashy restaurant that prac- It also has a script by unrest, their restaurant is she’s a snooty the family’s brakes failed, tices molecular gastrono- feel-good bow at the end? the talented Steven Knight, It’s as if all that great food torched by a mob. Frenchwoman. stopped on the road to help, my. Suddenly, Hassan and a score by Oscar- Having lost everything, So pointedly snooty, in stunned them with her becomes edgy and hip. on set had this tranquiliz- winner A.R. Rahman ing effect, sending every- they end up in France, fact, that we instantly know supermodel beauty, gave He’s profiled in top maga- (“Slumdog Millionaire”). where, driving along, their the movie’s main plot them rope to tow their car, zines. one off, sated and smiling, Oh, and it’s produced by with great life lessons brakes fail and they tumble development will be the and whipped up a fabulous But is he truly happy? Oprah Winfrey and Steven into the quaint village of gradual un-snootening meal in minutes. (This Can he forget the quaint Spielberg. Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val. (that may not be a word) of ALWAYS happens with pleasures of the village 1 Given all these lovely Family patriarch Papa Mme. Mallory. Just as road accidents in France.) where he started, or the ✰✰ 2 ingredients, then, why is (Puri) decides this is where clear: The battle between Their budding relation- gorgeous Marguerite, or ⁄ out of four stars the final product so bland they’ll open their new res- her and Papa, which ship, though, plays second the soulful pleasures of “The Hundred-Foot Journey” opens — and, not to lay on too taurant, Maison Mumbai. involves filling official fiddle to their professional simple food? Friday at Rave many cooking metaphors, Only one problem: complaints to the town’s goals. For the answers, you’ll Motion Pictures at reductive? A couple of Across the street — 100 mayor, will soften into Mme. Mallory, recog- have to see the film, and to Levis Commons, scenes feel borrowed from feet, actually — is the something much sweeter. nizing Hassan’s talent, asks be sure, it will be a plea- Perrysburg. Rated what remains the most Michelin-starred Le Saule Meanwhile, Papa’s him to join her kitchen. surable two hours — PG. Some material original food movie of all, Pleureur, run by Madame handsome son Hassan Suddenly, they’re competi- though lacking, cinemati- may not be suitable the animated Mallory, for whom the (Dayal) is becoming enam- tors. But Hassan is the cally, in a key ingredient for children. Running “Ratatouille.” word “prickly” seems too ored of French cooking, clear star. that Hassan, in fact, knows time is 122 minutes. We begin in India, mellow. Madame is not helped along by Mme. His talent takes him as a lot about: where we meet the food- happy, first because the Mallory’s fetching sous- far as Paris, where he A little spice. BRIEFS Soderbergh and Owen team ‘Audience’ comes to Broadway NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway, prepare for the for a 1900-era medical drama arrival of a queen — Helen Mirren is bringing “The Audience” to New York City. By FRAZIER MOORE Producers of Peter Morgan’s play said that AP Television Writer Mirren will return to Broadway this spring as Elizabeth II in the work that wowed London audi- BEVERLY HILLS, ences and earned the actress an Olivier Award. Calif. — No rubber gloves. “The Audience” imagines the private weekly No high-tech instruments. meetings between the monarch and Britain’s prime No medical-malpractice ministers — 12 in all — over her six-decade reign. lawyers. In the play, the queen grows from a tentative Welcome to the 20-something to wise octogenarian. Knickerbocker Hospital, Previews in New York start Feb. 17 and it will aka the Knick, a bloody run through June at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, citadel of healing in circa- directed by two-time Tony Award winner Stephen 1900 Manhattan where Daldry will direct. great strides are made (soon, an X-ray machine!) ‘Chainsaw’ actress Burns dies even as its routine proce- HOUSTON (AP) — Actress Marilyn Burns, dures seem borrowed from perhaps best known as the heroine in the 1974 cult the butcher shop and its hit “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” has died. She mortality rate isn’t better. was 65. This is the setting for Her manager, Chris Roe, confirmed Wednesday “The Knick,” premiering that Burns was found unresponsive by a family Friday at 10 p.m. on Cinemax. member at her Houston-area home Tuesday morn- AP Photo/Cinemax, Mary Cybulski ing. The 10-episode season Clive Owen (right) appears in a scene from “The Knick,” a 10-epi- A cause of death has not been determined. is directed throughout by Burns’ career included roles in several horror Oscar- and Emmy-winning sode hospital drama premiering Friday at 10 p.m. on Cinemax. Steven Soderbergh, and films spanning 40 years, including last year’s Welcome to 1900! This is the-round with the camera his performances often “Texas Chainsaw 3D.” stars Clive Owen as the hospital’s world-class, startlingly different from covering the action. drawing on his dreamy In the 1974 film, her character was the only one other medical shows in its heartthrob charms. Not to escape the rampage of the chainsaw-wielding hard-driving (and, by the “If the camera’s gonna way, drug-abusing) chief casual brutality.” move,” says Soderbergh, here. While Dr. Thackery Leatherface. is a charismatic figure, his Roe described Burns as an “incredibly gracious surgeon. If “The Knick” evokes a “it’s moving because the more primitive “St. actors are moving, not obsessions, demons and and giving person” who was quick with a smile. Beautifully filmed in addictions leave him often New York City, “The Elsewhere” or less frantic ‘cause I want it to move.” “ER,” Owen’s Dr. John This is not to suggest looking ill, haunted or Knick” captures a distant deranged. era with remarkable fideli- Thackery might suggest he’s indifferent to where “I kept a wall graph: ALTERNATE ROUTE TO ty, as if the filmmakers had the titular hero of the camera lands. transported themselves “House.” “To me, the difference ‘How am I now? When did back in time and then let Thackery is “brilliant, between placing a camera I do some cocaine last? Do Bates Recycling, Inc. the cameras roll. And he’s abrasive, he’s extreme- HERE and a camera I feel like I need another 12729 Jerry City Rd., Cygnet, OH 43413 despite the distance ly difficult,” says Owen. THERE” — his hands are hit?’ That issue was always 419-655-2220 spanned, much about “The Soderbergh maintained extended just inches apart going on, underlying Knick” feels comfortably a light touch with the — “is the difference everything while I was familiar — though only up actors, including Andre between a shot and some- playing him.” Owen was not looking Jerry City Rd. to a point, as the premiere Holland, Jeremy Bobb, thing that’s NOT a shot.” CLOSED quickly demonstrates. Juliet Rylance, Eve Hewson Another Soderbergh for a series and the com- mitment of a five-month “Medical dramas tend and Michael Angarano. creed, this one specific to Bates “I don’t want to get in “The Knick”: “I said, ‘I shoot. But the script by Recycling to be about people coming Jack Amiel and Michael State Route 25 the actor’s head,” says don’t want to see a single in very sick and doctors Begler won him over, he working hard to heal Soderbergh. “If he’s surface that isn’t glossed in THINKING instead of some way. Tabletops, says: “As an actor, it them,” says Owen. “But reminds you why you do Solether Rd. Interstate 75 with our pilot script, we’re BEING, that isn’t good. I wainscoting — I don’t like to keep whatever want to see a matte finish this.” just four pages in” — he Soderbergh was even Cygnet Rd.