Mission Impossible: Fallout: The French Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Make it a double feature, a followup to Top Gun: Maverick: Great Balls of Fire Cocktail, with“one-man supernova” Tom Cruise saving the the world once again.
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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.
2012: Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/By scale alone, this 2009 disaster film outdoes itself. Never have buildings crumbled with such panache, icons tumbled into the sea with greater style, the earth scorched, torn asunder, and split with more symbolic dread. And yet, against all odds, some do survive.
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Patriots Day: Lobster Bisque Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Hollywood works its magic again in this meticulous recreation of the Boston Marathon bombing. Using quick cuts and short vignettes, Patriots Day is tense and suspenseful even for audiences already familiar with the tragic event.
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The Serpent’s Tooth Suppers: Aunt June’s Refrigerator Pickles Recipe
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It’s BBQ season now, and we can all smell the mouth-watering aromas floating in the air around us. This tremendous recipes is from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today’s recipe is from the wife of Chris Cavescroft, a character in The Serpent’s Tooth.
Read MoreLive Free or Die Hard: Hacker's Hash Recipe
/He’s back! Bald but bad as ever, the reluctant New York cop is again in the wrong place at the wrong time, but grossly underestimated by the suavely arrogant cyber villain who has accounted for all possibilities except this crusty relic.
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London Has Fallen: London’s Calling Cocktail Recipe
/Pack away your PC proclivities with your winter underwear and embrace this guilty pleasure thriller.
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Out Of Africa: Nyama Choma : Kenyan Barbecue Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Such a glorious film! The searing beauty and fierceness of the land, its peoples, and beasts are but a backdrop for this saga of two independent spirits whose love for the land and their own independence is only surpassed by their love for each other.
Read MoreDirty 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 MoreDeath in Paradise: English Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s not edgy or camp, but just about everyone is crazy about this British mystery series. A straight-laced Scotland Yard Detective finds his new job at a Caribbean island absolutely not his cup of tea. Biting wit, gentle satire, and artful detection make Death in Paradise a delight in every way.
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Deconstructing Sherlock Holmes: A Step Too Far? Apple Strudel, Custard Tarts, Cold Asparagus with Walnut Drizzle and More Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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In 1891 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the enigmatic detective, and he has been fascinating and frustrating readers ever since. This is especially true with many recent reincarnations on screen that emphasize his eccentricities and personal foibles.
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 Queen's Gambit: French Cherry Buttermilk Custard Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Two thousand twenty astounded us, even in minor ways. A nation once addicted to car chases, and superheroes relished a film that is very still and intellectual, spending endless screen time fixated – like its titular heroine – on chess, an entire world of “just 64 squares.”
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 MoreHunter Killer: The Blue Russian Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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How can you not love a submarine film? And Gerard Butler does some of his best work here as the taciturn newly recruited captain taxed with a nearly impossible mission. Besides, Hunter Killer has been banned in Russia. Do you need any other motivation to see it?
Read MoreNorth 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 MoreHell or High Water:Texas Chicken-Fried Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The cat and mouse game between the wily Texas Ranger and the small time bank robbers he’s after will intrigue you, but the real payoff is not in dollars, but in the characters themselves.
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Quigley Down Under: Aussie Meat Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Tom Selleck, all 6’4” of his manly magnificence, is at his prime in this often-overlooked iconic Western. Remember when masculinity was not considered “toxic?” A man was as good as his word, he defended the helpless with firearms and his fists, and he didn’t back down from a fight.
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Chicago: Italian Beef and Eggplant Parmesan Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Every city has at least one food that can’t be duplicated anywhere else. In Chicago, it’s the Italian beef sandwich. I’ve never run across it anywhere else. Of course, no trip back home is complete without one.
Read MoreThe Highwaymen: Hoover Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They finally get the story straight and the lawmen – not the thuggish criminals – are the real heroes.
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