Roku is about to make your mouth water. The device-maker is creating two new unscripted culinary shows, “Morimoto’s Sushi Master” and “The Cupcake Guys,” for the Roku Channel. In addition, the streamer’s upcoming Spanish-language cooking show “¡Que Delicioso!” has set a premiere date for November 25.
“Morimoto’s Sushi Master” stars Masaharu Morimoto, a Japanese chef and restaurateur best known for his appearances on the original Japanese cooking competition show “Iron Chef” and its American adaptation on the Food Network. Morimoto will serve as the head judge for the new six-episode series, which sees eight chefs competing in various challenges to master the art of sushi making. Actress Lyrica Okano from Hulu’s “Runaways” hosts the series, which features Santa Fe’s Coyote Café head chef Dakota Weiss and New York Times food columnist Kenji Lopez-Alt as additional judges.
“The Cupcake Guys” stars Michael Griffin and Brian Orakpo, former...
“Morimoto’s Sushi Master” stars Masaharu Morimoto, a Japanese chef and restaurateur best known for his appearances on the original Japanese cooking competition show “Iron Chef” and its American adaptation on the Food Network. Morimoto will serve as the head judge for the new six-episode series, which sees eight chefs competing in various challenges to master the art of sushi making. Actress Lyrica Okano from Hulu’s “Runaways” hosts the series, which features Santa Fe’s Coyote Café head chef Dakota Weiss and New York Times food columnist Kenji Lopez-Alt as additional judges.
“The Cupcake Guys” stars Michael Griffin and Brian Orakpo, former...
- 11/10/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Two new lifestyle series are being added to Roku Originals’ slate of programming, and its upcoming Spanish-language original series “¡Que Delicioso!” has officially announced its premiere date and hosts.
Thursday, Roku announced “Morimoto’s Sushi Master” and “The Cupcake Guys” will be the newest original series joining the Roku Originals family.
On “Morimoto’s Sushi Master,” eight contestants will battle it out against one another to see who comes out on top as the master sushi chef. Hosted by “Marvel’s Runaways” star Lyrica Okano, the six-episode unscripted series will feature “Iron Chef” star and restauranteur Masaharu Morimoto, who will also act as the lead judge. Chef Dakota Weiss, executive chef of Coyote Café and former co-owner of Sweetfin Poke, and Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt, the New York Times food columnist and author of bestselling cookbook “The Food Lab,” will also serve as judges.
“Morimoto’s Sushi Master” will be produced by Ample Entertainement.
Thursday, Roku announced “Morimoto’s Sushi Master” and “The Cupcake Guys” will be the newest original series joining the Roku Originals family.
On “Morimoto’s Sushi Master,” eight contestants will battle it out against one another to see who comes out on top as the master sushi chef. Hosted by “Marvel’s Runaways” star Lyrica Okano, the six-episode unscripted series will feature “Iron Chef” star and restauranteur Masaharu Morimoto, who will also act as the lead judge. Chef Dakota Weiss, executive chef of Coyote Café and former co-owner of Sweetfin Poke, and Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt, the New York Times food columnist and author of bestselling cookbook “The Food Lab,” will also serve as judges.
“Morimoto’s Sushi Master” will be produced by Ample Entertainement.
- 11/10/2022
- by Raquel "Rocky" Harris
- The Wrap
Roku is cooking up a pair of new original non-scripted series.
The streamer has ordered sushi competition series Morimoto’s Sushi Master and The Cupcake Guys from Michael Strahan.
Morimoto’s Sushi Master, which is the first-ever cooking competition series focused on the art of sushi-making, is hosted by Lyrica Okano (Marvel’s Runaways). The six-part series will see eight competing sushi chefs work to impress Morimoto, along with judges Chef Dakota Weiss, Executive Chef of Santa Fe’s Coyote Café and former co-owner of Sweetfin Poke, and Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt.
It comes from The Invisible Pilot producer Ample Entertainment with Ari Mark, Phil Lott, Kathryn Vaughn, Liz Cook and Masuhira Morimoto as executive producers.
The Cupcake Guys follows former professional NFL players Michael Griffin and Brian Orakpo and their business partner Bryan Hynson at their cupcake shop. The six-part docu-series follows the entrepreneurs operating a Gigi’s Cupcake franchise in their hometown of Austin,...
The streamer has ordered sushi competition series Morimoto’s Sushi Master and The Cupcake Guys from Michael Strahan.
Morimoto’s Sushi Master, which is the first-ever cooking competition series focused on the art of sushi-making, is hosted by Lyrica Okano (Marvel’s Runaways). The six-part series will see eight competing sushi chefs work to impress Morimoto, along with judges Chef Dakota Weiss, Executive Chef of Santa Fe’s Coyote Café and former co-owner of Sweetfin Poke, and Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt.
It comes from The Invisible Pilot producer Ample Entertainment with Ari Mark, Phil Lott, Kathryn Vaughn, Liz Cook and Masuhira Morimoto as executive producers.
The Cupcake Guys follows former professional NFL players Michael Griffin and Brian Orakpo and their business partner Bryan Hynson at their cupcake shop. The six-part docu-series follows the entrepreneurs operating a Gigi’s Cupcake franchise in their hometown of Austin,...
- 11/10/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a new addition to the Survivor family!
Earl Cole, who won Survivor: Fiji in 2007, has become a father for the first time. His wife, Shelley Lee, gave birth to daughter Kaia JoAnn Cole on Friday, Nov. 10, at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California.
Kaia weighed in at 8 lbs., 14 oz., and was 20.5 inches long.
Cole tells People that the name has a special significance.
“Kaia means ‘ocean’ in Hawaiian,” Cole says. “My wife, Shelley, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and we got married on the island of Kauai seven years ago. Her middle name, JoAnn, is the first...
Earl Cole, who won Survivor: Fiji in 2007, has become a father for the first time. His wife, Shelley Lee, gave birth to daughter Kaia JoAnn Cole on Friday, Nov. 10, at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California.
Kaia weighed in at 8 lbs., 14 oz., and was 20.5 inches long.
Cole tells People that the name has a special significance.
“Kaia means ‘ocean’ in Hawaiian,” Cole says. “My wife, Shelley, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and we got married on the island of Kauai seven years ago. Her middle name, JoAnn, is the first...
- 11/13/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
In the ten years since he won Survivor: Fiji, Earl Cole has had his share of ups and downs. Soon after taking the million-dollar prize, he was named one of People’s Sexiest Bachelors. That bachelorhood ended in 2010, when he married his longtime love Shelley Lee in Kauai.
But the winner has also had his share of struggles. His mother, JoAnn Kendall, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease; she died on March 2 at the age of 73.
But now, things are on the upswing for Cole. “My beautiful wife is pregnant with our first child,” says Cole, 46. “She’s due in November.
But the winner has also had his share of struggles. His mother, JoAnn Kendall, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease; she died on March 2 at the age of 73.
But now, things are on the upswing for Cole. “My beautiful wife is pregnant with our first child,” says Cole, 46. “She’s due in November.
- 5/14/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
Shout Factory unveils a neglected cult item with its recuperation of Sonny Boy, a tawdry late 1980s obscurity with some awesome Wtf grotesqueries. Although its creators, both then and now, insist on the narrative’s notable subtexts as an allegory on child abuse and toxic familial allegiance, the film is never quite elevated beyond its grindhouse elements. Notably, David Carradine stars as a redneck transvestite (whose gender identity remains undefined) as the caring part of a vicious hillbilly couple who raise a kidnapped orphan to kill and rob members of the local rural community. Its lurid set-up should definitely interest cineastes who can appreciate a bit of tastelessness in their exploitation films, but Robert Martin Carroll’s provocative directorial debut devolves into a surreal fairy tale with an undernourished finale.
In 1970 New Mexico, small time criminal Weasel (Brad Dourif) murders two tourists staying in an isolated motel, not realizing there...
In 1970 New Mexico, small time criminal Weasel (Brad Dourif) murders two tourists staying in an isolated motel, not realizing there...
- 1/19/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With his torso buffed and tanned and his hair clipped and dyed Nazi blond, John Savage is a convincing icon of brutality in "Little Boy Blue", a garish and sordid melodrama of abuse, incest and revenge set in dusty rural Texas.
The Savage character, Ray West, doesn't just have a short fuse, he seems to have no fuse at all. The second anything ticks him off, Ray's fury accelerates from zero straight to 60. Ray's behavior is too blunt and predictable to be deeply scary.
A central miscalculation is the way the character of Ray's oldest son Jimmy Ryan Phillippe) has been conceived. There's nothing in his personality as we see it to indicate that he's a product of grotesque abuse. For a kid who's been forced to make love to the maddeningly passive woman he believes to be his mother (Nastassja Kinski, as sinuous as ever) while his dad watches and gratifies himself, he's a remarkably alert and sweet-souled lad; sad and angry, perhaps, but otherwise unscarred.
Phillippe's performance is impressive, but the portrayal doesn't make a lick of sense in the overall context of the movie. Jimmy's sensitivity and his stubborn sense of duty are really just givens in "Little Boy Blue". Without them, his heroic decision to turn down a sports scholarship to stick around and protect his younger brothers (Devon Michael and Adam Burke) would be all but inexplicable. Jimmy's been arbitrarily dropped into a hellish situation that in real life could never give rise to anyone remotely like him.
"Little Boy Blue" is supposed to be a thriller, a dirt-road noir; Jim Thompson with a snootful of crystal meth. But director Antonio Tibaldi isn't a clear or a crafty enough storyteller to pull it off. Some crucial nuggets of information are withheld strategically to set up the big surprises. (Ray's past does finally catch up with him, and then Shirley Knight wades in as a gunslinging matronly avenger.) When even basic facts are so confusingly presented that its hard to tell which obscurities are intended and which are inadvertent, we're too busy scratching our heads to register much suspense.
LITTLE BOY BLUE
Castle Hill
Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Producer: Amedeo Ursini
Screenplay: Michael Boston
Executive producer: Virginia Giritlian
Director of photography: Ron Hagen
Editors: Antonio Tibaldi, Tobin Taylor
Music: Stuart Copeland
Production designer: John Frick
Costume designer: April Ferry
Color
Cast:
Ray West: John Savage
Jimmy West: Ryan Phillippe
Kate West: Nastassja Kinski
Doris Knight: Shirley Knight
Nate Carr: Tyrin Turner
Traci Conner: Jenny Lewis
Running time -- 107 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The Savage character, Ray West, doesn't just have a short fuse, he seems to have no fuse at all. The second anything ticks him off, Ray's fury accelerates from zero straight to 60. Ray's behavior is too blunt and predictable to be deeply scary.
A central miscalculation is the way the character of Ray's oldest son Jimmy Ryan Phillippe) has been conceived. There's nothing in his personality as we see it to indicate that he's a product of grotesque abuse. For a kid who's been forced to make love to the maddeningly passive woman he believes to be his mother (Nastassja Kinski, as sinuous as ever) while his dad watches and gratifies himself, he's a remarkably alert and sweet-souled lad; sad and angry, perhaps, but otherwise unscarred.
Phillippe's performance is impressive, but the portrayal doesn't make a lick of sense in the overall context of the movie. Jimmy's sensitivity and his stubborn sense of duty are really just givens in "Little Boy Blue". Without them, his heroic decision to turn down a sports scholarship to stick around and protect his younger brothers (Devon Michael and Adam Burke) would be all but inexplicable. Jimmy's been arbitrarily dropped into a hellish situation that in real life could never give rise to anyone remotely like him.
"Little Boy Blue" is supposed to be a thriller, a dirt-road noir; Jim Thompson with a snootful of crystal meth. But director Antonio Tibaldi isn't a clear or a crafty enough storyteller to pull it off. Some crucial nuggets of information are withheld strategically to set up the big surprises. (Ray's past does finally catch up with him, and then Shirley Knight wades in as a gunslinging matronly avenger.) When even basic facts are so confusingly presented that its hard to tell which obscurities are intended and which are inadvertent, we're too busy scratching our heads to register much suspense.
LITTLE BOY BLUE
Castle Hill
Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Producer: Amedeo Ursini
Screenplay: Michael Boston
Executive producer: Virginia Giritlian
Director of photography: Ron Hagen
Editors: Antonio Tibaldi, Tobin Taylor
Music: Stuart Copeland
Production designer: John Frick
Costume designer: April Ferry
Color
Cast:
Ray West: John Savage
Jimmy West: Ryan Phillippe
Kate West: Nastassja Kinski
Doris Knight: Shirley Knight
Nate Carr: Tyrin Turner
Traci Conner: Jenny Lewis
Running time -- 107 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 5/28/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. -- At the beginning of Antonio Tibaldi's feature, a 19-year-old man is having passionate foreplay with his half-naked, beautiful young girlfriend.
Just as things are starting to happen, he begs off, apologizing, and says, "I guess I'm just not ready yet". We immediately know that this film will be not be usual fare -- and also that it has lost more than a little credibility.
"Little Boy Lost", which had its U.S. premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, is a solemn and lugubrious treatment of wildly overbaked and melodramatic material. Containing or hinting at such plot elements as incest, kidnapping, murder, a very large catfish, burial alive and someone getting killed by cracking their head after slipping on their own urine, the lurid story is something that James M. Cain might perhaps have been able to pull off, but no one else. It makes "Tobacco Road" look like "Masterpiece Theatre".
The aforementioned young man is Jimmy Ryan Phillippe), who lives, along with his two much-younger brothers, with his probably-psychotic Father Ray (John Savage) and Ray's beautiful wife Kate (Nastassja Kinski) in a desolate trailer home in Texas. Ray, whose war wounds have rendered him impotent, forces Jimmy and Kate to have sex for his own gratification; it is only Jimmy's concern for his siblings that prevents him from fleeing.
Another major plot development revolves around the appearance of an outlandishly dressed middle-aged woman (Shirley Knight) who shows up in the desolate town with a wild story to tell. It seems that years ago a young hitchhiker, a Vietnam vet, killed her husband and kidnapped her infant child. She has spent the better part of 20 years tracking him down, and the revenge she intends to extract involves a very large shotgun.
It is to be hoped that Italian director Tibaldi's experiences in America have been less extreme than all this. In any case, he treats the material with the utmost seriousness, removing any possibility that anything here might have been tongue-in-cheek. The result is that the film comes off as utterly ludicrous, despite a technical and visual proficiency and the emotionally committed performances by the largely excellent cast.
John Savage, certainly, delivers the kind of intense work that would make Robert DeNiro proud, while Kinski and Phillippe are utterly sympathetic and credible as his long-suffering victims. Best of all is Shirley Knight, who approaches her juicy role with the kind of lip-smacking gusto that suggests that she alone realized the inherent silliness of what was going on around her.
LITTLE BOY LOST
Jazz Pictures Inc.
Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Screenplay: Michael Boston
Producer: Amedeo Ursini
Executive producer: Virginia Giritlian
Cinematography: Ron Hagen
Editors: Antonio Tibaldi, Tobin Taylor
Music: Stewart Copeland
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jimmy West: Ryan Phillippe
Kate: Nastassja Kinski
Ray West: John Savage
Traci: Jenny Lewis
Running time -- 107 minutes...
Just as things are starting to happen, he begs off, apologizing, and says, "I guess I'm just not ready yet". We immediately know that this film will be not be usual fare -- and also that it has lost more than a little credibility.
"Little Boy Lost", which had its U.S. premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival, is a solemn and lugubrious treatment of wildly overbaked and melodramatic material. Containing or hinting at such plot elements as incest, kidnapping, murder, a very large catfish, burial alive and someone getting killed by cracking their head after slipping on their own urine, the lurid story is something that James M. Cain might perhaps have been able to pull off, but no one else. It makes "Tobacco Road" look like "Masterpiece Theatre".
The aforementioned young man is Jimmy Ryan Phillippe), who lives, along with his two much-younger brothers, with his probably-psychotic Father Ray (John Savage) and Ray's beautiful wife Kate (Nastassja Kinski) in a desolate trailer home in Texas. Ray, whose war wounds have rendered him impotent, forces Jimmy and Kate to have sex for his own gratification; it is only Jimmy's concern for his siblings that prevents him from fleeing.
Another major plot development revolves around the appearance of an outlandishly dressed middle-aged woman (Shirley Knight) who shows up in the desolate town with a wild story to tell. It seems that years ago a young hitchhiker, a Vietnam vet, killed her husband and kidnapped her infant child. She has spent the better part of 20 years tracking him down, and the revenge she intends to extract involves a very large shotgun.
It is to be hoped that Italian director Tibaldi's experiences in America have been less extreme than all this. In any case, he treats the material with the utmost seriousness, removing any possibility that anything here might have been tongue-in-cheek. The result is that the film comes off as utterly ludicrous, despite a technical and visual proficiency and the emotionally committed performances by the largely excellent cast.
John Savage, certainly, delivers the kind of intense work that would make Robert DeNiro proud, while Kinski and Phillippe are utterly sympathetic and credible as his long-suffering victims. Best of all is Shirley Knight, who approaches her juicy role with the kind of lip-smacking gusto that suggests that she alone realized the inherent silliness of what was going on around her.
LITTLE BOY LOST
Jazz Pictures Inc.
Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Screenplay: Michael Boston
Producer: Amedeo Ursini
Executive producer: Virginia Giritlian
Cinematography: Ron Hagen
Editors: Antonio Tibaldi, Tobin Taylor
Music: Stewart Copeland
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jimmy West: Ryan Phillippe
Kate: Nastassja Kinski
Ray West: John Savage
Traci: Jenny Lewis
Running time -- 107 minutes...
- 11/3/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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