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Weirdly, cinema is especially great at cannibalizing its greatest failures and turning them into films about how hard it is to make films. Such meta-cinematic exercises figure among our favorite movies ever, as you’ll no doubt agree while flipping through The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 27 Movies About the Difficulty of Making Movies. While [...]

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 [...]