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.
Only the Brave: Arizona Mule Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Fitting for the Fourth of July week … “Land of the free and home of the brave!” These firefighters –not our actors, singers, or overpaid professional athletes – are the true American heroes.
Read MoreThe Patriot: Stovetop Low Country Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/No dry history here. The Revolutionary War in all its blood, brutality, and bravery flies off the pages and into our hearts in one of Mel Gibson’s most heartfelt performances as a reluctant Revolutionary militia leader drawn into the conflict almost against his will.
Read MoreGran Torino: Hmong Stir-Fry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Dirty Harry in retirement. Or coming out of it to finish off a few gangbanger thugs. At least, that’s what the trailers would have you believe. But this 2008 Clint Eastwood venture has a lot more depth and philosophical heft than you might expect.
Read MoreMrs. Harris Goes to Paris: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁
/Our modern day Cinderella is a middle aged war widow, but she’s a bit of a fairy godmother as well. Potential Prince Charmings sometimes disappoint, but others are hidden in plain sight.
Read MoreWinter's Bone: Ozark Potato Bake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Giant: Barbacoa de Cabeza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Equalizer: Blueberry Smoothie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/North by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Arguably Hitchcock’s popular and critical masterpiece, this film has it all. Cary Grant is magnificent as the wrongly accused man on the run, handling his dire straights with dry humor and nonchalance. The action set pieces are riveting and so superior to the CGI we typically get today. While the romantic banter has a verbal wit we seem to have forgotten on screen.
Read MoreCatch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Remember when going to the movies was a welcome escape from times of turbulence and trouble instead of a nosedive into them? Well, Steven Spielberg did when he made this sunny film that is laugh out loud at times. It’s the perfect medicine, and Leonardo DiCaprio administers it with professional expertise.
Read MoreRambo: Thai Pork Satay Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Oblivion: Campfire Trout with Herbs and Bacon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film gets the sci fi recipe just right. Hollywood rediscovers the art of storytelling once again – equal parts adventure, intrigue, and romance simmer slowly under a surface gloss of glass and steel.
Read MoreJulie and Julia: Boeuf Bourguignon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/All Creatures Great and Small (Updates on Seasons 4 and 5) 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/You can’t help but fall in love with this 2020 British adaptation of James Herriot’s first unsteady steps as a young veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales (hills for us Yanks). It’s Midsomer without the murders, and an enchanting assortment of loveable and eccentric characters, humans and animals alike.
Read MoreBabette's Feast: Iridescent Turtle Soup with Sherry on the Side Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Mystery Road: Aussie Zucchini and Bacon “Quiche” Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/An abandoned vehicle with no gas and doors askew like some wounded white Ibis failing to take flight. One and then two young men missing. Secret loves and liaisons, crimes buried and unearthed. The Australian Outback comes alive in all its glory, violence, and pain.
Read MoreThe Name of the Rose: Monastery Wine and Garlic Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Brother Cadfael, with a taste of Angels and Demons thrown in. Not to mention a bit of Voltaire with at passing nod to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and a wink, –just a wink – at Scooby Doo.
Read MoreWaitress: Chocolate Strawberry Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Time to revisit this delightfully outrageous tale of a small town waitress who copes with her soap opera life by creating pies that mirror her daily traumas. And the cast of assorted eccentrics is as unpredictable and whimsically delicious as the ingredients that overflow from the pastry.
Read MoreThe Lunchbox: Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/If you can’t make it to India, take this virtual trip, a culinary adventure and subtle love story set in Mumbai. But don’t expect squalid slums that sing with color. Instead it’s the comfortable gray lives of three lonely souls that need spicing up.
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