Hold the Dark: Kodiak Casserole, Smoked Salmon Quiche Recipes and More 🥁🥁
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If you loved Wind River, you might like this other frigid thriller from Netflix. Or maybe not.
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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.
Rescue Dawn: Fresh Blueberry Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its title, this film is less about being saved than saving yourself. It is a testament to the tenacity of hope and will set against a devouring jungle and numbing human deprivation.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Turkish Delight Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/For Alice it was the rabbit hole, and Dorothy, the tornado. Now it’s time to follow young Lucy Pevensie through another portal, from the dark recesses of an ancient wardrobe into a pristine winter wonderland filled with talking beasts and the mythological creatures of antiquity. But beyond the peaceful panoply of snow is the crystal palace of the dreaded white witch, whose matter-of-fact malevolence knows no bounds.
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Enola Holmes: Purple Plum Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A thoroughly delightful new spin on the Sherlock Holmes saga introduces Enola, the heretofore-unknown younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. She is a feisty, fiery feminist in the making, but she also has the great deductive powers of her brother.
Read MoreThe Descent: Trust Me Trail Mix Recipe
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Sure, we can understand the lure of these underground caverns, cool and dark, softened by cool mist and electrified by the spirit of adventure! But the buff sextet of British babes on screen get more than they bargain for in their descent not only into Mother Earth but madness as well?
Read MoreJohn Wick: Chapter 2: Bones of the Dead Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Stylishly seductive, this slickly choreographed killing spree is one supersized guilty pleasure. Exotic and glamorous foreign locales a la a James Bond backdrop and armed combat performed with martial arts finesse.
Read MoreThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. – Lipton Onion Soup Dip Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Take a trip back to the 60s in this stylish reboot of the popular television series. It’s a soufflé of witty banter, sly humor, and high-end action that recalls the fun-loving panache of Bond films.
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No Time to Die: Cuba Libre Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Daniel Craig takes his final bow as the inimitable James Bond, pulled back into the spy game just as Michael Corleone was pulled back into the mafia in The Godfather Trilogy.
Read MoreThe Gift: Hollywood Hills Fruit Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Nothing is quite what it seems in this thriller. Of course, the old high school friend, with his goatee and Beatles style hair, puts us on alert at once. But the handsome couple that end up hosting this unwelcome guest have their secrets as well.
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Grantchester: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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We’ve all adored Vicar Sidney Chambers, a scotch drinking smoker who loved jazz and was not unappreciative of the ladies. But now there’s a new vicar in town, and the young motorcycle riding vicar is just as rebellious as Sidney.
Read MoreGeorge Gently: Northumberland Pan Haggerty Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The green fields, rocky outcroppings, and gentle rivers of Northumberland are now the haunts of former Scotland Yard detective Inspector George Gently, who finds crime in the gentle outbacks just as compelling as it ever was in London. Now, thanks to the wonders of streaming, I can transport myself to the North of England. So can you.
Read MoreThe Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Delicious Dutch Apple Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Today’s Mother’s Day Pie recipe is from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
The Boys from Brazil: Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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What if the Nazis' deluded dreams did not die at the end of World War II? But instead merely staged a tactical retreat to South America? Discover the ominous implications in this classic 1978 thriller.
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Tunnel 21: Zesty Berlin Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1981 thriller has a simmering tension that keeps you on tenterhooks for over 2 hours. And all that without squealing car chases or flying bullets and bodies. Instead it’s dread of a midnight knock at the door, panic over a lurking shadow under the lamppost, and cold sweats while an East German officer reviews your papers.
Read MoreRatatouille: Classic Ratatouille Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s your worst nightmare! The pricey, posh Paris restaurant not only has a rat in its kitchen; he’s in charge of the cuisine. Oh, the wonders of anthropomorphism and Pixar animation, that we abandon (almost) our centuries’ old revulsion for this loathsome creature and actually rally behind the loveably ambitious rat Remy.
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Secretariat: The White Carnation, A Triple Crown Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/We already know the ending. The characters and the plot are not even approaching edgy. And yes, Disney does take a few liberties with the script. But nothing can take away that heart pounding finish when we watch what is arguably the greatest race horse who ever lived eat up the track at Belmont and leave the rest of the field in his dust.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird: Korean Barbecued Beef Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You’ll love this madcap race across the Manchurian badlands on horseback, motorcycle, and military convoy with everyone from the local bandits to the occupying Japanese army in for the kill.
Read MoreWater: Sweet Indulgences Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite tale focuses on the cloistered lives of widows in 1938 India, its delicate brush strokes defying the garish oils of present day Bollywood.
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Parasite: Korean Cream Cake Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
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Think Downton Abbey transported to present Day South Korea, but everything is downsized. The Lord of the manner here is a high tech CEO, and Downton’s loyal servants are just street-smart con artists.
Read MoreMongol: Spicy Mongolian Beef Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Prepare to meet the legendary Genghis Khan. Then abandon yourself to clattering hooves across the arid Steppes, clashing swords and silent arrows, and the mesmerizing throat singing that seems to spring from the very earth itself.
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