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Culinate film reviewer Kim Carlson weighs in on King Corn, calling the film, “part road-trip film, part documentary, part horror flick — and all wake-up call.”

Read the full review here; then visit Culinate’s impressively exhaustive digest — pun most certainly intended — of food and farm commentary and news. (A hint: the Opinion section is a veritable treasure trove of Farm Bill pontification!)

And starting today, check out King Corn co-producer Curt Ellis’s weekly Dinner Guest blog for Culinate; he’ll be posting through the end of the year.

King Corn co-producer Ian Cheney spoke with Tom Ashbrook today on Boston Public Radio’s On Point, joined by guests George Naylor, president of the National Family Farm Coalition, King Corn expert Ricardo Salvador, and Daryll Ray, director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center at the University of Tennessee.

Listen to the On Point interview here, and then mosey over to Ian and Curt’s deeper forays into the public radio airwaves by listening to this cheeky interview on PRI’s Fair Game with Faith Salie.

The Village Voice reviews King Corn today in its Film section, and critic Robert Wilonsky offers a warning we might do well to echo ourselves: “King Corn will put you off corn for a long, long time.”

But he continues: “…This is as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines.”

Read the full article here.

King Corn is delighted to report that The New York Times features King Corn in its Dining & Wine section today, calling co-producers Curt and Ian “genial searchers” and praising the film for its respectful portrayal of Iowa’s corn farmers — and for shooting Iowa’s beautiful and troubling cornfields “to evoke their majesty.” Our favorite line, though, might be this one: “Naturally, corn emerged as their topic.”

Should’ve been the tag line.

Read the full article here.