Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Casa Vega Classic Margarita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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.
The Kite Runner: Afghan Lamb Kabobs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/For all the soaring beauty of the kites above, their game is as ruthless as the human psychodrama being played out below Afghanistan’s clear and cold blue skies. And despite the exotic and war ravaged locale, this tale resonates with a wider truth as timeless as man's fall from grace and his endless search for redemption.
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The Big Country: Best Beef Brisket Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With all this talk about what it means to be a man or a woman, The Big Country offers a unique spin from over 6 decades ago. It also defies the stereotypes of the 1950s, when it was made.
Read MoreMoneyball: Brownie Hot Fudge Sundae Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/You don’t need to be a baseball fan to love this film. It’s bigger than that. It’s really what America is all about, or at least used to be – the little man bucking a system that is rigged against him.
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That Touch of Mink: Bermuda Highball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Oh, how times have changed. Working girl Doris Day won’t say “I will,” until playboy Gary Grant says, “I do.” But 38-year-old Doris Day plays “the world’s oldest professional virgin” with just a touch of telltale ambivalence to hint at the sexual revolution just around the corner.
Read MoreWhy Didn’t They Ask Evans? Pub Grub: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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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.
Read MoreDate Night: Seafood Risotto Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Sure, it’s laugh out loud funny at times, but what really anchors this film are the two leads. Only Tina Fey and Steven Carell could make it cool to be so square. They are real even if the plot isn’t, exploring the comic realities of marriage and middle age with a minimum of cynicism and snark.
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Hunter 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 MoreThe Train: French “Pot in the Fire” Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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.
Read MoreSource Code: Baked Apple-Cinnamon French Toast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Yes, it’s a sci fi thriller, complete with ticking time bombs, fiery explosions, and a taste of time travel. In the end, though, all that science and mayhem is nothing next to our humanity, frail and imperfect as it is.
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Murder on the Orient Express: Sole Marguery in Wine Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s always better when it happens on a train. Whispered words of passion muffled by clacking wheels, narrow lovemaking in the upper berth, a grisly murder behind polished mahogany.
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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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A Most Violent Year: Sausage Pepper Potato Bake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its title, this character-driven crime drama packs its menace in quiet conversations, camel’s hair coats, and the kind of self-control only known to an alpha male.
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Nebraska: Almost Classic Meatloaf Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/We don’t want to care about him, but we do. This old, taciturn curmudgeon who vows to get to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick up his million dollar promised “prize,” even if he has to walk there all the way from Billings, Montana.
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Black Swan: Pink Fairy Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This critically acclaimed film is such a churning stew of genres – supernatural slasher, rite of passage psychodrama, erotic thriller, ballet-Red Shoes wannabe – it’s enough to turn your stomach over, which is what happens Natalie Portman’s Nina on a regular bulimic basis as she struggles to her keep her rail-thin dancer’s body.
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Before Midnight: Greek Pasta Salad Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
/The third part of this Indie trilogy draws you in with its witty banter and “unscripted” conversation. But don’t fall for it. A pseudo intellectual veneer covers what is essentially a shallow and vulgar core masquerading as something of worth.
Read More12 Strong: Afghan Bolani (Potato Stuffed Flat Bread) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Remember that crazy scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones is chasing down a truck on horseback? Well, in this film, the horse soldiers aren’t after a mere truck. They are facing tanks, heavy weapons, and rocket launchers at a full gallop.
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To Live: Szechuan Hot Chili Noodles Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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No wonder it was banned in China, and its director and star were placed under gag orders. To Live depicts all too well the brutal upheavals of the communist revolution in this poignant saga of one family trying to survive its embrace.
Read MorePride and Prejudice: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Pride and Prejudice, easily the best film of 2005, is the way love ought to be, the way it was destined and designed in our hearts. Built on the solid underpinnings of character, goodness, and honor, its fruition is evermore so sweet because it is so long denied.
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Far from the Madding Crowd: English Lemon Curd Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Finally, a love story for grownups. It’s Downton Abbey without all the pomp and circumstance and a heroine who is not afraid to get her hands dirty.
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