Spotlight: Boston Cream Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s not the crime. It’s the cover-up. This well-paced docudrama follows an elite cadre of journalists as they uncover decades of sexual abuse hidden by the Catholic Church.
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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 Outfit: The Savile Row Martini Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A thriller with as many twists and turns as the Bobs, that famous wooden roller coaster from Riverview Park in my native Chicago. And that fits, too, since the dark deeds occur in a dank corner of that Windy City. Our most important character, though, hails from London.
Read MoreRob Roy: Bresslin Balls Recipe (Scotch Eggs) 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Over a quarter of a century old, this epic film reminds us of man’s innate corruption and villainy as well as that always rare quality, honor. And the sword fights are to die for.
Read MoreThe Mule: Super-Easy Pulled Pork Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Oh, no! It seems film icon Clint Eastwood has gone over to the dark side, playing a very likeable octogenarian drug courier.
Read MoreChappaquiddick: Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Kennedys – you either love them or hate them. There is no in between, right? Well maybe there is…
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The Hundred-Foot Journey: Boeuf Bourguignon a la Hassan Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/“It’s sharp and cool in the mouth, all at once. Do you know how long it takes chefs to learn that?” Helen Mirren’s Madame Mallory says that about an omelet, but the same can be said of this delightful film.
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Chef: The Cubano Pressed Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It teases, taunts, and tantalizes us with a fabulous array of food porn, but Chef is so much more. Like its signature Cubano sandwich each ingredient is fresh and piquant, and the same authenticity and passion permeate every aspect of this most delightful film.
Read MoreThe King's Speech: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 2011 Oscar winner is an examination of a British class system that clamps its iron jaws on kings as well as commoners, grinding both beneath its stiff upper lip. It’s not so much a wonder that the king stammers, but that everyone else does not.
Read MoreSchindler’s List : Polish Dumplings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Probably the most significant Holocaust film ever made, with Steven Spielberg using his directorial clout to raise awareness of one of the worst atrocities of the last century. Over a quarter of a century later, Schindler’s List is even more relevant today.
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Slumdog Millionaire: Indian Chai Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Mumbai’s squalid slums sing with color. They spawn brutality and betrayal, and sometimes, only sometimes, innocence and devotion. Don’t miss this inspiring story of a street urchin who rises phoenix-like from the ashes of his past for a chance to reclaim his lost love.
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Rocky: Philly Ribs Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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Rocky is the epitome of the American Dream. Nominated for 10 Oscars and winning 3. A modest $1 million budget that grossed over $200 million at the box office.
Read MoreMarvellous: Different Drummer’s Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Right now the world seems an insecure and frightening place to us, doesn’t it? What better time to watch this terrific film about someone who never let the world or his inborn limitations get him down. Meet Neil Baldwin, Britain’s own version of Forest Gump, but without the Hollywood sentimentality.
Read MoreSeabiscuit : Racetrack Bloody Mary Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who doesn’t love an underdog? And we have 4 here. “The horse is too small, the jockey too big, the trainer too old, and I’m too dumb to know the difference.” – Charles Howard, Seabiscuit’s owner
Read MoreFrequency: Big Mozz’s Mets Mozzarella Sticks Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s Back to the Future but it’s not a comedy; instead it involves a fiery death and a determined serial killer. Always compelling Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel mesmerize us as a father and son trying to avert multiple disasters as they find that correcting one past cataclysm causes a multitude of others
Read MoreLion: Indian Jelabi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/An accidental Huckleberry Finn, not drifting down the Mississippi, but streaming across India in a train that eats up the miles between him and his small Indian village.
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Mao’s Last Dancer: Chinese Pork Dumpling Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Another undiscovered gem to watch at home on your big screen. And it’s free on Amazon Prime streaming. Not only will you enjoy this true story about a poor Chinese boy who becomes an international ballet dancer, but you will find a new respect for the art itself.
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Diner: Fries and Gravy 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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American Graffiti Baltimore style. But this one is more authentic, and yes, quite a bit more vulgar, too. So yes, we have a taste, just a bit, of Animal House, too.
Read MoreIt Happened One Night : Carrot Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Granddaddy of all rom-coms is still a delight, even if it is 90 years old! And it was the first film to sweep the Oscars, bringing home Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, and Best Writing [Only others are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and Silence of the Lambs 1991)]
Read MoreThe Boys in the Boat: Potato Bacon Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who cares if you’ve never rowed in your life. It’s the middle of the Great Depression and you’re living in a rusted-out jalopy eating a can of beans. Making the Washington State rowing team may be the only way to get a roof over your head and a steady paycheck.
Read MoreThe Courier: Russian Caviar Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This Cold War spy thriller is based on a real life British courier, so it is grounded in authenticity, and it’s highlighted by a masterful performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, maybe his best performance yet.
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