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.
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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.
Marvellous: 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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Les Miserables: French Pot au Feu Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film has the lyrical beauty of an opera, but with a cleaner, more compelling narrative and characters of unusual complexity. And not a strutting baritone or corseted prima donna in sight!
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Joyeux Noel: Alsatian Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Leave your comfortable digs to huddle in the mud-caked trenches of World War I. It is December 1914, just four months into this bloody fight, and the entrenched Scotch, French, and German soldiers share bullets, blood, and cold, but on this Christmas Eve, they will find something else to share as well.
Read MoreGreen Book: Linguini with White Clam Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A tremendous script, spot on performances by the two leads, a wonderful sense of humor, and perhaps most important, humanity and hope replacing the edgy nihilism that so dominates current films.
Read MoreAva Bakes Biscotti with Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁
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My pretty and perky granddaughter Ava helped me bake these for her 5th birthday way back in June of 2012.. We had a great time. This recipe is well suited for young ones because so much of it is like working with play dough. It’s nice and messy, too.
Read MoreMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Easy Mint Julep Recipe and More 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Immerse yourself in this lush film, where murderers and scoundrels are as charming as the entire city of Savannah, Georgia. Where even homicide has its comic touches, and “justice” emerges from a mystic cemetery and voodoo rituals as well as the court of law.
Read MoreMoonstruck: Italian Sausage and Egg Breakfast Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Flawless, even as it shows all our human flaws right up there on the big screen. It’s enough to make you believe in true love and second chances all over again. And the Italian humor and philosophy are the icing on the cake.
Read MoreDarkest Hour: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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“Four weeks that changed the course of history.” It doesn’t get much bigger than that. If you missed this tremendous film when it was in the theaters, watch it now!
Read MoreThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.
Read MoreMarnie: Sour Cream Pecan Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sean Connery decides the best way “to catch a thief” is to marry her in the relatively unknown and often unappreciated Hitchcock thriller. Watch it for no other reason than to see the ultimate playboy become a determined monogamist relentlessly searching for the root of his wife’s obsession.
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American Gangster: Sweet Potato Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This epic film is a study in contrasts – sartorial splendor versus junkie dishabille, pandemic corruption at war with lonely integrity, and high-minded words interspersed with gut-wrenching deeds. Denzel Washington charms us as the suave villain and Russell Crowe effortlessly dons the skin of the dogged cop out to get him.
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The 12th Man: Bløtkake (Norwegian Cream Cake) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Add this epic war adventure to your list of World War II classics. Norway’s version of Saving Private Ryan is top rate and one you will not soon forget.
Read MoreLeonard Cohen: I’m Your Man: Monastery White Wine Soup 🥁🥁🥁
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Montreal-born Leonard Cohen, who died November 7, 20016, at age 82, is Canada’s Bob Dylan, but he never went electric, sold out, or even yearned for fame. As his sage comments interspersed throughout reveal, Cohen the man is definitely more interesting than the film that pays him tribute, showing us that some aging icons actually achieve both wisdom and humility.
Read MoreThe Mustang: Wild Mustang Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A film as spare and Spartan as the Nevada desert that hosts both the wild mustangs and the prison that houses its convict trainers. A brilliant character study that will haunt you long after you leave the theater.
Read MoreThe Dig: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s about hidden ancient treasure, but don’t think Indiana Jones . Neither is this English period drama circa 1938 a Downton Abbey of landed gentry with glittering gowns, uniformed chauffeurs, and a kitchen staffed with a small army of cooks.
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