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, too.
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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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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe Beguiled: Sautéed Mushrooms with Red Wine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Inside the white-walled southern Seminary for Girls it is all Christian charity and moral righteousness. But just outside a forest centuries old speaks of primitive passions. And all the white gowns, crystal, and delicate china inside are merely a fragile facade against age-old desires.
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Moneyball: 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 MoreFlorence Foster Jenkins: Potato Salad with Chives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Take a break from the daily headlines that bleed doom and gloom and treat yourself to this delightful comedy. Where the chief worry seems keeping a lid on the audiences for an exquisitely untalented Manhattan socialite who fancies herself an opera diva.
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Why 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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Cry Macho: Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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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.
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 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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The Man from Snowy River: Aussie Marinated Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
Read MoreRed River: Cowboy Coffee and Chuck Wagon Recipes: 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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.
Read MoreA 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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