{"id":5586,"date":"2010-12-18T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2010-12-19T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T19:55:17","slug":"todays-special-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/12\/18\/todays-special-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Special&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1153053\/\"><em>Today&#8217;s Special<\/em><\/a> is a warm upbeat comedy about (among other things) Indian food. This is not the place to look for suspense or dramatic tension, but if you are looking for cheerful feel-good entertainment this movie delivers.<\/p>\n<p>Samir (Aasif Mandvi) is the sous-chef at a trendy Manhattan restaurant but his career seems to have reached a dead end. He decides to go to Paris to study French cuisine, but before he can leave a family emergency forces him to take charge of his father&#8217;s little run-down Indian restaurant. Unfortunately he knows next to nothing about Indian cooking. In desperation he seeks the help of a garrulous taxi driver named Akbar (Naseeruddin Shah) who claims to have been a successful chef in India.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar is the best thing in the move, a terrific character who lights up the screen with his cockeyed optimism and fortune-cookie wisdom. Naturally he sees to it that there is a happy ending for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is rated R for language&#8211;apparently it ran afoul of the rule that says that you can use a naughty word once, but not more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Special is a warm upbeat comedy about (among other things) Indian food. This is not the place to look for suspense or dramatic tension, but if you are looking&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/12\/18\/todays-special-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-5586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-todays-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5586"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5592,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5586\/revisions\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}