Director Lasse Hallström is in the “nice” movie business. With a knack for drama (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Cider House Rules) and romance (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Chocolat, and two Nicholas ...

Lasse Hallstrom's The Hundred Foot Journey, one of his more diverting and enjoyable films since The Shipping News sent his career spiraling down a strange Nicholas Sparks-y hole. In the film, Helen ...

Here's a look at new movies opening in Utah the weekend of Aug. 8.Scott Renshaw likes the culture-clash moments between Helen Mirren and Om Puri in The Hundred-Foot Journey (pictured), but finds the ...

Gastronomes will be salivating as Lasse Hallstrom revisits "Chocolat" (2000) territory. Impressively introduced by executive producers Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, the story revolves around a ...

Helen Mirren is expected to take on the lead role in The Hundred-Foot Journey. Chocolat director Lasse Hallström has signed on for the adaptation of Richard C Morais's novel, reports Deadline.

“The Hundred-Foot Journey” isn’t an art film nor an indie, simply one with a more rarified subject than most of summer movie fare and, as such, worth giving advance notice to potential viewers that it ...

Caraway seeds make time travel possible. On the rare occasion that I savor fresh rye bread infused with them, I am taken back to my teen years, getting pulled over by the police for driving with a ...

Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg have described how they came together for the film The Hundred Foot Journey. With a cast that includes Dame Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Juhi Chawla and Manish Dayal, the ...

A bit of background, however, first: The Hundred-Foot Journey is from Disney, and produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. So its tone is expectedly soft, lovely and not so smart that it ...