The Magic of Belle Isle: Peachy Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
Brooklyn: Irish Pasta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This sweet little gem of a film is a tropical island in a cinematic sea of violence and nihilism. It’s a lovely reminder of old fashioned film making that probes our better selves instead of laying bare our baser instincts.
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Run All Night: Champ - Irish Mashed Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s not predictable. It’s inevitable. And that’s a big difference. It’s what you get when pros like Liam Neeson and Ed Harris endow their characters with a tragic vision.
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Thirteen Lives: No Bake Thai Cheesecake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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You are there right with them. The two cave divers that are the focus, but also Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers attempting a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand.
Read MoreThe Beguiled: Sautéed Mushrooms with Red Wine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Inside the white-walled southern Seminary for Girls it is all Christian charity and moral righteousness. But just outside a forest centuries old speaks of primitive passions. And all the white gowns, crystal, and delicate china inside are merely a fragile facade against age-old desires.
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Love Is All You Need: Italian Lemon Butter Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This is a romance for grownups. It is not fueled by hormones, fast cars, or booze. Time does not stand still. Instead our own mortality waits quietly in the wings, its presence alone urging us on.
Read MoreEvelyn: Dublin Coddle (Sausage, Bacon. Potatoes, and Onions) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Forget that grotesque Oscar nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, and watch another Irish film with another Irish star. This one is over 2 decades old, but it resonates from an era before the world had turned itself upside down.
Read MoreThe Quiet Man: Lamb Shanks Braised in Guinness Stout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s St. Paddy’s Day! Why not come with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara to Ireland? This vintage film is also a trip back to the high-flying fifties, when we were feeling our oats, flexing our muscles, and flaunting our bold Yank ways.
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Seven Years in Tibet: Tibetan Butter Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A delightful journey where snow capped peaks, avalanches, hostile armies, and cutthroat bandits are just the background. The real war is internal, with Brad Pitt as the Austrian mountain climber who is as walled off from others as “Tibet, the roof of the world.”
Read MoreThe Man Who Would Be King: Alexander the Great’s Skewered Lamb Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Knowing that it would probably never get by the PC police today, we enjoy this film even more today; it has the delightful lure of forbidden fruit.
Read MoreLife of Pi: Bengali Fish Curry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A boy and beast who share a single lifeboat form an uneasy alliance to survive 227 days lost at sea. In this visual feast the sea itself becomes our world, filled with beauty and terror as it t dances with life and courts death in seamless waves that wash across the screen.
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The Way Back: Polish Pierogi Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you can survive the freezing wind, the Russian criminal gangs running the barracks are ready to stab you for your threadbare sweater, and then there’re the mines, great sulfurous pits where every breath is a taste of fire. Those Cyrillic letters on the archway above the Siberian prison camp might as well say, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
Read MoreHostiles: 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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Everest: Katmandu Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Everest! The adventure of a lifetime. Journey through exotic Katmandu, dazzling in saffron and cinnamon hues. Enter a mountaintop Buddhist monastery for a ritual blessing and ceremonial scarf. Endure numbing cold, sudden avalanches, and almost vertical icy ascents to plant your flag at its 29,029 foot peak.
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The Namesake: Lamb Curry Calcutta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The camera sweeps from Calcutta to Cambridge, resonating with Indian warmth and shy humor, but jolts of fate, and the determined quest for identity, independence and love are universal.
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The French Connection: French Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s still as lean and mean as those dark and dirty streets of New York City 50 some years ago. This landmark 1971 “cop and caper classic” was a commercial and critical success, earning a slew of Oscars -- Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor to name a few.
Read MoreBehind Enemy Lines: Bosnian Banana Crepe Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s a great thriller, complete with Top Gun flying, Jason Bourne paranoia, narrow escapes, unexpected allies, and ironic humor as only Owen Wilson can provide. With Gene Hackman’s added gravitas as a counterpoint.
Read MoreEvil Under the Sun: Chicken Curry: Cari Poule Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 1981 Hercule Poirot classic takes us back to the fabulous forties where we escape to a king’s mansion nestled in rocky crags overlooking a sapphire bay. Sip your favorite cocktail and bask in the warmth, but don’t forget that there is Evil Under the Sun.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era: French Villa Dessert (Creme Fraiche aux Fruits) 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Maggie Smith still owns it, even if we are now into a kinder, gentler Downton Abbey. Her zingers are still there, but milder now that old feuds have been quelled, and alliances have replaced vicious rivalries.
Read MoreThe Skeleton Key: Okra Gumbo Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
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Enjoy this classic "B" horror flick, but brace yourself for Hollywood skewering all things Southern as you lap up the chicken blood and bottled body parts. What’s not to like?
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