Hi Sars,
I want this book to exist, but I’m not certain that it does.   It’s such a great concept that it HAS to exist, I figure.
I want a cookbook containing recipes entirely composed from …

Good morning, friends. Today’s Vine will work a bit differently; I have a huge backlog of find-that-book requests, so I’ll post one every hour or so throughout the day and put y’all to work on …

The best part of the Oscars Death Race project is the nice surprises: the films I expected to have to endure that gripped me instead.
I faced Ajami as one does a hated vegetable, and got …

It’s hard to tell if the movie intends to portray Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel as morally compromised and often bratty, as part of a larger conversation about the forging of genius. If so, the script could …

Shear Genius has had problems from the beginning. The use of the Project Runway cookie-cutter for competitive reality shows about other lifestyle genres is understandable, but not always successful; with Top Design, the glitch seemed …

The first hour is diverting, with beautiful costumes and some interesting shot-making, but in the end, the movie tries to do too much and doesn’t pull it off. The last five minutes throw their hands …

It’s about what you’d expect from a Wes Anderson movie, in animated form: if you find his work twee, you’ll hate it, and if you like its offbeat charm, you’ll enjoy it.
It tries a little …

Dear Sars,
I would be ever so appreciative if you/the readers could possibly help me identify a book/story I have stuck in my head — it’s driving me insane.
This all came about because I was washing …

It seems like more than a few seventies movies have lines of dialogue in which girls swoon over Al Pacino. A quick search only revealed the one, the girl in Saturday Night Fever who sighs …

The acting is good across the board, in spite of writing that lurches between motivations and tempos like a car dropping out of gear. By that measure, it’s not Jeff Bridges, the presumptive Best Actor …