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Money is just money, after all, just silly pieces of metal and paper we’ve assigned arbitrary value to, so what’s the point in having it if you can’t have fun with it? One way to do just that is to treat the stuff as a medium rather than a means to an end, as the [...]

The New York Times’s A.O. Scott makes the good point, during the following video commentary on Babette’s Feast, that although the pickins for Best Thanksgiving Movie are pretty meager (and inescapably American, obvs), most movies revolving around a big meal or feast could be adapted by even the least flexible families as their Turkey Day [...]