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.
Moneyball: Brownie Hot Fudge Sundae Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/That Touch of Mink: Bermuda Highball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Florence Foster Jenkins: Potato Salad with Chives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Pub Grub: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Suddenly remakes of Agatha Christie are all the rage. Most of them are tres ordinaire, as my father would say, but a few are quite good. This film fits that category.
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/Chef: The Cubano Pressed Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Cry Macho: Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/One of the few new films worth watching, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho manages to distill his 60 year career into its essence. It is a vintage aged is oak – in this case Texas live oaks – dusty plains, wild horses, and at least one wild woman. And did I mention one pretty frisky fighting cock. A rooster named Macho.
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/Oh, no! It seems film icon Clint Eastwood has gone over to the dark side, playing a very likeable octogenarian drug courier.
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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?
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/Forget all of Hollywood's hyped heist films and see one based on the real thing. John Frankenheimer’s 1964 film starring the legendary Burt Lancaster is about a real life World War II heist with real men and real machines. Two men of iron will fight for control of an iron horse -- a steam engine loaded with France’s art treasures headed for a quick getaway over the German border.
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/Murder on the Orient Express: Sole Marguery in Wine Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Quigley Down Under: Aussie Meat Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Man from Snowy River: Aussie Marinated Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Escape from our weary world for the adventure of a lifetime. This epic Australian film from over 4 decades ago has it all. Romance, music and scenery to die for, and arguably the best and most thrilling horse chase in film history. I will never forget it, and neither did others who have seen it.
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/In his first Western Director Howard Hawks captures the Wild West in a profound way. It’s not shootouts at the OK corral, but a desperate Texas cattle baron who will do whatever it takes to survive. If that means branding over a neighbor’s cows, shooting gunslingers who dispute his right to the land, or even horsewhipping his own cowboys and threatening to hang deserters, then so be it.
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