Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man: Monastery White Wine Soup 🥁🥁🥁

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man: Monastery White Wine Soup 🥁🥁🥁

Montreal-born Leonard Cohen, who died November 7, 20016, at age 82, is Canada’s Bob Dylan, but he never went electric, sold out, or even yearned for fame. As his sage comments interspersed throughout reveal, Cohen the man is definitely more interesting than the film that pays him tribute, showing us that some aging icons actually achieve both wisdom and humility.

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Downton Abbey: Different Drummer’s Roast Wild Duck with Orange Gravy Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2

Downton Abbey: Different Drummer’s Roast Wild Duck with Orange Gravy Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2

Let’s face it. Downton Abbey is and always has been a high-class soap opera. We love the gowns, the sprawling Abbey itself, and the melodrama that occurs within its walls, upstairs and downstairs. Especially the backstabbing, romantic trysts, and the insults elevated to an art form.

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Death on the Nile: Mushrooms in Sherry Cream Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Classic Agatha Christie! A star-studded cast surrounds a pampered heiress everyone is itching to kill. And this flamboyant cadre of would be assassins on the luxury river cruise all have ample means, motive, and opportunity, according to the shrewdly observant Hercule Poirot, whose “little grey cells” never take a vacation.

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Ladies in Lavender: Stargazy Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2

Ladies in Lavender is the little unappreciated gem Different Drummer has been promising you. If you think story telling is all about plot, you will be disappointed, like most of the assorted critics that damned it with faint praise. But if you want to see the human heart revealed in its infinite complexity, run don’t walk to watch this classic.

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The Brave One: Ultimate Greek Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2

This is the thinking man’s vigilante film, peppered with artsy NPR radio monologue as well as quotes by D. H. Lawrence and Emily Dickinson. But there’s plenty of badass, too, and Jodie Foster wears her compulsive vengeance like a second skin, blowing away bad guys with a lethal fury as cold as it is addictive.

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House of Cards: Devonshire Crab Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

If you are a fan of the American remake, you should defintely see the 1990 original British political thriller, a timeless ode to evil. The knife slides in ever so smoothly with Shakespearean diction greasing its way. Rarely has villainy been so eloquently evil, so fascinatingly diabolical, nor so brutal and swift.

 

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House of Games: Classic Waldorf Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁

This classic 1987 offbeat Mamet vehicle is more like a game of chess than a film, where you are guaranteed a series of astonishing moves and counter moves. Our queen is a beautiful psychotherapist, aloof and repressed as only an analyst could be, and our knight a charming con man, one who sees deeper into her soul than she suspects.

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