Casablanca: Rick’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Behind the scenes, its temperamental stars didn’t always hit it off, its Oscar wins were a real surprise to the cast, and it wasn’t until 1957 that it really caught on.
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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.
Dirty Harry: Best Ever Hot Dog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s been 53 years since Dirty Harry and his 44 Magnum exploded across the screen, but it is as relevant today as it was then. In fact, rebel detective Harry Callahan and his infamous one-liners ushered in a series of imitators.
Read MoreZodiac: Aqua Velva Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This search for California’s infamous serial killer has just the right amount of storytelling art mixed with gritty police detection. A masterpiece of understatement, it focuses on the dogged pursuers as they follow incomplete clues and cryptic messages taunting their very souls long after the killings end.
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Foyle’s War: Apple Brown Betty Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tired of the mediocre fare on current streaming? I have the series for you. Attention, anyone who loves mysteries, history, World War II settings, English villages, and consummate acting.
Read MoreGladiator: Blood and Sand Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The only 21st century sword and sandal film that deserves a place next to those other classics, Spartacus and Ben Hur. Winner of five Oscars, most notably Best Picture and Best Actor (a magnificent Russell Crowe) as well as 7 other nominations, this is a classic for all time and well worth watching again.
Read MoreThe Ipcress File with *Update on New Series: Champignon Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This classic British thriller has the nitty gritty stuff of Cold War spy stories – tedious stakeouts, dark hallways, rain-polished streets, and a bureaucracy almost as deadly as the enemy. Meet Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer, the anti-James Bond, who even with his cockney accent and horn-rimmed glasses is every bit as sexy as his better-known rival. And did I mention that he can cook, too?
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Secondhand Lions: Cilantro and Lime Grilled Corn Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who could resist this trio? Michael Caine as a backwater Texan along with his big brother Robert Duvall, and “I See Dead People” Haley Joel Osment rounding out the crew. They aren’t exactly dead people when their great nephew arrives, but they are settling in for it without much resistance.
Read MoreBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: Chinese Walnut Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sent to the country as part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, two enterprising teenagers manage to relieve the daily drudgery of their lives with the help of a saucy little seamstress and a suitcase full of forbidden novels.
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: Diner Style Salisbury Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/He’s the workingman’s James Bond. A loner in a T-shirt and jeans instead of a tux. Jack Reacher wouldn’t know a Cabernet from a cognac, and I’d guess he probably drinks his beer straight from the bottle. And no, the ex army major is not licensed to kill, but he is every bit as lethal as 007.
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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 MoreThe Enemy Below: Nautical Cocktail Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This classic submarine film is right up there with Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October. Well, almost. But it doesn’t get better than this cat and mouse game between the captain of an American destroyer and his counterpart, “the enemy below” him in the German U Boat.
Read MoreStrangers on a Train: Caramel Corn Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/His proposition is as outrageous as his charm, so it’s easy to dismiss him with a light-hearted nod, this pushy stranger on a train. But when he reads your darkest thoughts and puts them into action, he expects payback.
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The 39 Steps: Fried Haddock Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Take another look at the cold heart of espionage and check out the Hitchcock film considered his first masterpiece. The 39 Steps takes you on a whistle-stop tour of the Scottish moors with only two slight annoyances – a ruthless band of spies as well as the entire British police force out to get you.
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The Taking of Pelham 123: Banana Milk Shake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/The perfect popcorn thriller – an amiable bureaucrat trying to talk down a maniacal villain, 19 hostages sweating it out in an underground subway, a runaway train, cop cars exploding everywhere, and if that’s not sufficient combustion for you, there are enough F-Bombs to detonate all of Manhattan.
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North by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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 MoreShadow of a Doubt: Easy and Elegant Canapé Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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See it again or for the first time to discover why Hitchcock bests them all, especially in what is purportedly his favorite film. Maybe because he embeds evil in such an innocent lair.
Read MoreThe Girl on the Train: Delicious Deviled Egg Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Emily Blunt in the title role keeps this mystery from going off the rails with a compelling and credible performance. Sadly, the same cannot be said for her supporting cast, though it’s the script rather than their acting that is at fault.
Read MoreTrue Grit: Yaller Bread with Pintos Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Like the ghost of a lost lover, John Wayne’s shadow looms tall and proud over the Coen brothers’ 2010 reboot of the 1969 classic that won the Duke his sole Oscar.
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The Lunchbox: Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
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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