Hostiles: Cheyenne Batter Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/With rare insight into the darker regions of the human soul, this film sets itself apart. And even more rare still, it does not take sides.
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Often been surprised by a movie after what a film critic said about it? Ever felt cheated out of big bucks on the recommendations of a punk 24-year-old? Or really loved the ones they panned? Well, you no longer need to feel out of step with the current movie review band. Different Drummer is for you. Read more about our take on the film world. And get ready to relive your favorite movies with the recipes that follow each review. You can find many other great recipes in Different Drummer’s own Appetite for Murder: a Mystery Lover’s Cookbook, too.
The Highwaymen: Hoover Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They finally get the story straight and the lawmen – not the thuggish criminals – are the real heroes.
Read MoreInterstellar: Creamed Corn with Onion, Chives, and Bacon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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If too much recent science fiction seems cold, remote, and austere, you should see this 2014 Matthew McConaughey film that remembers that even as we soar boundlessly to new worlds, our real ties to earth and those we love are never severed.
Read MoreFlight: Overnight Cinnamon Rolls 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Even when he’s sauced up, pilot Denzel Washington can fly his jumbo jet with the same macho brilliance as those dare devils that buzz the crowds at state fairs. And the actor is just as brilliant, keeping us enthralled even as his grounded character plods and stumbles in a bitter fight with alcoholism, his deft touch now ham fisted and flailing.
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The Accountant: Indonesian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This thriller is like a kaleidoscope. Each turn reveals a completely new image as the same moving parts reconfigure into a different design. Leaving us transfixed, a little confused, perhaps, but utterly enthralled.
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I Can Only Imagine: Bacon and Potato Frittata Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s labeled a Christian movie, but just like the titled song, I Can Only Imagine, the film breaks through genre barriers to reach out to all audiences. And in that way this wonderful film, in its own subtle way, is subversive.
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The Third Man: Café Vienna Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Savor what may be the most perfect film ever made. This Orson Welles/Joseph Cotton collaboration tops their earlier one, Citizen Kane, even though that one still gets the lion’s share of attention. Love, intrigue, treachery, and betrayal - it literally drips in atmosphere, never sacrificing the great story it has to tell to its dramatic brilliance and avant-garde film techniques.
Read MoreButterfield 8: Dirty Blue Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Never has sipping a morning scotch in a slip and pair of gold heels looked more alluring. Elevating what is essentially a soap opera melodrama, Elizabeth Taylor uses her on screen presence and glamour to seduce us as well as a considerable portion of Upper Manhattan in one of her two Oscar winning performances.
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Match Point: Poacher’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Woody Allen’s 2005 film noir thriller is set in posh London, where he cooks up a stew bubbling over with almost all the seven deadly sins. But don’t expect any predictable moralizing. This is, of course, Woody Allen.
Read MoreThe Naked Jungle: South American Hot Chocolate 🥁🥁 🥁 1/2
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Which is worse? Charlton Heston as the arrogant and moody South American plantation owner, or the marabunda, the plague of army ants moving relentlessly toward him, devouring everything in their path.
Read MoreBlack Swan: Pink Fairy Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This critically acclaimed film is such a churning stew of genres – supernatural slasher, rite of passage psychodrama, erotic thriller, ballet-Red Shoes wannabe – it’s enough to turn your stomach over, which is what happens Natalie Portman’s Nina on a regular bulimic basis as she struggles to her keep her rail-thin dancer’s body.
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Before Midnight: Greek Pasta Salad Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
/The third part of this Indie trilogy draws you in with its witty banter and “unscripted” conversation. But don’t fall for it. A pseudo intellectual veneer covers what is essentially a shallow and vulgar core masquerading as something of worth.
Read MoreRisen: Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Suddenly an old story is brand new again. Just by changing its perspective. Now instead of the insider’s view of the death and resurrection of Christ in the New Testament, we get the story from a Roman Tribune tasked with finding the body that has disappeared from its tomb.
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The Passion of the Christ Recut: My Mother's Easter Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 2005 film was a courageous departure from the cynical, anti-religious bent of current Hollywood. If you missed this epic the first time around, this may be just the right time to see it.
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Mr. Jones: Russian Sour Cream Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One was a real journalist, the other a depraved opportunist who covered up a famine. Guess which won the Pulitzer Prize?
Read MoreThe Woman in Gold: Vienna Schnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t listen to the critics on this one, the ones who try to dismiss Woman in Gold as a somewhat boring lesson in art history. Perhaps the story of an elderly Jewish woman trying to retrieve a famous painting stolen by the Nazis isn’t edgy enough for them. Or maybe they just resent having to take time away from watching YouTube cat videos.
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The Promise: Tina’s Armenian Kiss Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Come for the romance. Stay for the history. This sweeping epic recounts the horror of the Armenian genocide of 1915 as it crushes love, ambition, and family ties in a deadly avalanche of ruthless violence.
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The Stoning of Soraya M: Salad-e Shirazi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The brutality of this Iranian tale is offset by the beauty and dignity of the women who are its greatest victims. As harsh as the town’s steep and rocky paths, as timely as it is timeless, the film is an indictment of the festering poison that is borne of corruption wedded to oppression.
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Texas Antique “Weekend”: Bud's Buttermilk Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The little town of Round Top, Texas, halfway between Houston and Austin, hosts a Country Antiques Show. Its roadside grasslands are piled high in French enamel, stained glass, old time buggies, grandfather clocks, wooden grain buckets and benches, or Chinese wedding baskets painted a festive red, to name but a few of the treasures for sale.
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