The Ice Road: Crispy Baked Potato Skins Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Liam Neeson delivers the goods in this thrilling testament to courage and expertise, the real kind rather than the faux variety we’ve experienced recently.
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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.
Lincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
Read MoreJuror # 2: Nachos Southern Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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A modern 12 Angry Men, but with a twist. Don’t expect the same wonderful acting or script as that 1957 classic, but director Clint Eastwood even at 94, puts our flawed human nature under the microscope once again.
Read MoreAbout a Boy: Old Fashioned Onion Rings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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No one is better at playing superficial, selfish ogres than Hugh Grant. You might say he has lived that life, at least a bit. But that only sets us up for his “redemption,” and this one is probably the steepest climb of them all.
Read MoreBlood Work: Burrito Zucchini Boat Recipe🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Ok, Dirty Harry can’t run anymore. He has a bad ticker and lives in forced retirement on a houseboat, the only excitement in his life exchanging pleasantries and an occasional beer with his houseboat neighbor, Buddy.
Read MoreHereafter: Made-from-Scratch Pesto Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Matt Damon sees dead people, and he’s none too happy about it. And neither is Marie, the French television personality who has been one for an instant, nor Marcus, the English lad who has seen the grim reaper’s hand at close quarters.
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J. Edgar: Elegant Oyster Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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If one is willing to accept a narrative that plays fast and loose with the facts, fleshing out rumored skeletons in the closet with careless abandon, then, in fact, one might call this film an artistic triumph. It certainly succeeds in portraying American icon J. Edgar Hoover as all too human; indeed, as an eccentric driven by a lust for power.
Read MoreChangeling: Hearty Bean Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Director Clint Eastwood resurrects a winning formula that seems to have been forgotten in recent Hollywood. Miraculously free of gratuitous plot twists, ear-splitting explosions, cartoon inspired characters, or incipient nihilism, his film is about real people, real events, and real human emotions.
Read MoreCry Macho: Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One of the few new films worth watching, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho manages to distill his 60 year career into its essence. It is a vintage aged is oak – in this case Texas live oaks – dusty plains, wild horses, and at least one wild woman. And did I mention one pretty frisky fighting cock. A rooster named Macho.
Read MoreSully: The Sully Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Director Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks, two American treasures, are at the top of their game in this film about Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger's miraculous Hudson River Landing in 2009. And the retelling of the story is as unconventional as the landing itself.
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Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation: Sound of the Ring Cocktail from Vienna Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Just when America’s pundits and politicians urge us to give it all up and manage the decline, a half century old franchise reminds us of the risk-taking boldness that founded this country. That title, borrowed from the 60s television series, says it all. Bring it on. The worse the odds, the better we like them.
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The Terminal: Best Ever Cannelloni Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is there any better everyman than Tom Hanks? He always makes us care about his characters. Even if they are “in charge” or “heroes” like Sully or Captain Phillips they are always human and vulnerable. But in this case Hanks is neither a pilot nor a ship captain; he just a stranded traveler waiting at an airport.
Read MoreRed Eye: Frito Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Get your Tex Mex on while you watch a great plane flick. No big names, no glitzy promos, but this 2005 summer surprise delivers everything the high profile thrillers promised without the pouty stars and their tabloid lives.
Read MoreFlight Plan: German Apple Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Modern air travel overflows with lurking dangers, but losing your daughter mid-flight usually doesn’t make the list. Impossibly, though, that is exactly what happens to Jodie Foster in the taut thriller.
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Flight: 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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Non-Stop: Roquefort-Baked Avocados Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t have the gut-churning rage or the disquieting sense of uncertainty of his earlier films, but this intense Liam Neeson thriller delivers just what the title says it will.
Read MoreVienna Blood: Freud’s Favorite Dessert Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Season 4 does not disappoint. It is even more complex and far reaching than the previous series. Instead of self-contained episodes, we have a continuous string of events that test the characters as never before.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreThe Princess Bride: Blood Orange Revenge Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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It’s time to revisit this classic. Remember when Hollywood valued humor, playfulness, and witty banter? Instead of action, action, action, with a few dollops of self-righteous preaching thrown in for good measure.
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On the Waterfront: Hoboken Happy Hour Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s dark and dirty on the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, a jungle of crime and corruption. Squeal and you’ll have a convenient “accident,” the longshoremen unloading your carcass with the same muscled efficiency they use to ply their trade.
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