Ex Machina: Brown Rice and Black Bean Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Less is more here. With a minimal cast and a singular plot, writer/director Alex Garland nails the dangers of artificial intelligence.
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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.
Ford v Ferrari: English Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You don’t have to be a racing fan to love this film. In fact, with the assorted male egos jockeying for position off the track, it’s those moments that really capture us.
Read MoreInfidel: Persian Wedding Kabob Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Don’t miss Jim Caviezel’s compelling thriller, which displays the courage and conviction of the actor as well as the Christian blogger he portrays on film. Written, directed, and produced by Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh, it is based on real life Robert Levinson and a composite of several other innocents who died in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe Eagle: Scotch Broth Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This is a modest little film in the grand tradition of those glorious sword and sandal B epics from double feature matinees. Yet it more than makes up for any deficiencies in grandeur with its refreshing exploration of those almost forgotten virtues such as honor, courage, and loyalty.
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The Greatest Show on Earth: Kettle Corn Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The title says it all. Don’t miss this fabulous Cecil B. DeMille spectacle brought to you by 1400 actual circus performers along with a little behind the scenes Hollywood love, intrigue, and action brought to you by the inimitable Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart, Betty Hutton, and Cornel Wilde.
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 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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For Your Eyes Only: Negroni Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Each actor has put his own stamp on Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Roger Moore, my runner up best Bond, was 46 when he first played Bond in Live and Let Die. He knew that youthful vigor would not be his selling point and opted for charm, a cool head, and a raised eyebrow that was almost as lethal as a bullet.
The Ides of March: Buckeye Bloody Mary Recipe The Ides of March: Buckeye Bloody Mary Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
/George Clooney is no William Shakespeare. Yet he is quite savvy to title his film after those famous words from the English playwright’s Julius Caesar, one of the best dramatic examinations of political intrigue, ambition, and betrayal ever written.
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The Hoax: Croissant and Prune Bread Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/There’s such an appeal in his bad boy charm, you’re likely to root for Richard Gere’s Clifford Irving, the literary liar who almost bilked his publisher out of a million dollars for a faux “autobiography” of the famously reclusive Howard Hughes. We’re in on the con from the get-go, every sweat-soaked second of near discovery, as well as Irving’s bold-faced lies, brilliant rebounds and brazen betrayals.
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The 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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The Prestige: London Fish and Chips Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/A chilling brew of whispering ambition, seething revenge, and unbridled obsession, The Prestige is filled with as much deceit, cunning, and trickery as the onstage magic of Victorian London. But does it perhaps attempt to pull one too many rabbits out of the hat?
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Iron Man: The Ultimate Cheeseburger Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Fourteen years ago the public spoke. It was ready to abandon the politically correct balderdash and finally go after the bad guys, guns blazing – or that is rockets, flamethrowers, and small nuclear devices to be more precise. Iron Man soared into the box office not only saving the residents of planet earth but the movie going public as well.
Read MoreThe Karate Kid: Mandarin Hot and Sour Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t call it a remake; it’s a classic. Jackie Chan still has the moves, but acting chops as well, and Jaden Smith’s man-child is terrific, at once sullen and sweet, courageous and cowardly.
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The Jungle Book: Mango Lassi Drink Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A celebration of life for the whole family, a near perfect cast, and astonishingly, real looking computer generated animals that teach and delight. What more could you ask for?
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Moroccan Cinnamon Oranges 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Get out your bullwhip, don the dusty fedora you have hidden in the closet, and put on that sheepish grin Harrison could wear so well. It’s time to have an Indiana Jones adventure as young Indy travels the globe in search of adventure and artifacts.
Read MoreAtonement: Rosemary Roasted Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It lurks there beyond the manicured lawns and the starkly magnificent stone walls, within the polished drawing rooms and mahogany staircases -- a passion so intense as to defy all tradition of English stoicism. And like a rare and exotic flower it struggles against the harsh winds of war, the searing storm of jealousy, and hot breath of wrongful accusation.
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Michael Clayton: Perfect French Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/With only two explosions – actually one that is recycled – and not even the hint of a car chase, we might call this a thriller for the pacemaker crowd. Or more correctly, a permutation of the genre where character matters more than action. And that’s a good thing.
Read MoreTunnel 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 MorePirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: Mahi-Mahi with Pineapple-Mandarin Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Time to revisit this must see summer film that sizzled across the screen in 2006 and reminded us of what the big screen was made for – over the edge action, fantastic special effects, creepy beasties, and of course, romance with a capital R.
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