Genius: Blue Q – Blueberry BBQ Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Who knew two Brits could tell the story of an American genius so persuasively? Well, when they are acting greats Colin Firth and Jude Law, it begins to make sense.
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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.
Saint Ralph: Canadian Bacon Egg Cup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Start with an scoop of The Christmas Story, sprinkle in a few bits from Unbroken, and top with dollops of The Quiet Man and Iron Will. Add a little magic and you have the delightfully irreverent sleeper, Saint Ralph.
Read MoreWitness: Amish Breakfast Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Harrison Ford is at his best in this 1985 thriller about a no nonsense detective trying to save himself and an 8-year-old Amish witness to a murder. The performance earned the actor his sole Oscar nomination in a “surprisingly emotive and sympathetic performance.”
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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 MoreMidnight in Paris: Hemingway’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Woody Allen’s 2011 tale is a love story of sorts, but the real object of his affection is not a girl but an entire city. Cobbled streets compel a stroll, sidewalk cafes invite a conversation, and lighted fountains are the song of sirens, luring us into their watery depths. Is it any wonder there is even more magic after midnight?
Read MoreSlumdog Millionaire: Indian Chai Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Mumbai’s squalid slums sing with color. They spawn brutality and betrayal, and sometimes, only sometimes, innocence and devotion. Don’t miss this inspiring story of a street urchin who rises phoenix-like from the ashes of his past for a chance to reclaim his lost love.
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Tortilla Soup: Pastor Tom's Tortilla Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Tortilla Soup is a gourmet’s delight, with characters and plot every bit as intriguing and enigmatic as the secret piquancy of the title’s hearty broth. But be warned! Don’t watch it without some green chilies on hand, or at least your favorite Mexican restaurant standing by on call.
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Letters to Juliet: Tuscan Bruschetta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/In 2010 I found an undiscovered gem. The plot is a gentle drive down rambling country roads, not the roller coaster ride with stomach dropping thrills or tortuous twists we’ve come to expect too often. Its destination is not unexpected, but just as sweet nonetheless, and it recalls something from another era, a sense of grace.
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The Hundred-Foot Journey: Boeuf Bourguignon a la Hassan Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/“It’s sharp and cool in the mouth, all at once. Do you know how long it takes chefs to learn that?” Helen Mirren’s Madame Mallory says that about an omelet, but the same can be said of this delightful film.
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Creed: Authentic Philly Cheesesteak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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He’s no longer the writer, director, or the leading man, but Sylvester “Rocky” Stallone is very much the star of Creed. Perhaps this is so because of the grace and charm that Rocky, the character as well as his iconic star, yields the spotlight to a younger boxer.
Read MoreRocky Balboa: Italian Beef Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Once again Stallone surprises everyone by making this sixth epic more about the man than the boxer, focusing on relationships not just ringside, and ultimately coaxing even the most cynical to their feet to cheer on once again their beloved underdog.
Read MoreRambo: Thai Pork Satay Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s blood and guts, all right, ultra violent and certainly not for the squeamish, but Rambo is driven by the same existential anguish as many Oscar contenders. And it’s not as though they don’t bloody up the screen as well, just not with such robustly efficient abandon.
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The Expendables: Gallo Pinto: Costa Rican Beans and Rice 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Yes, it’s a guilty pleasure, but actually I feel no guilt whatsoever in my intense enjoyment of this testosterone – or perhaps human growth hormone –charged adventure that gives us another shot of those wonderful Hollywood-action-hero-has-beens who somehow never read their pink slips from politically correct tinseltown. And it is their self-aware irony that raises the exploding blood bath of a film to another level.
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Mad Max: Fury Road: Mad Max Bloody Margarita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/It’s a hotrod show from hell. A surreal Hieronymus Bosch canvas come to life in a post apocalypse world not even Dante could envision.
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The Bourne Ultimatum: Moroccan Herbed Fish Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/You couldn’t ask for a more thrill-packed adventure, one that propels you from the teeming streets of London to the tiled passages of Morocco. Nor a more compelling figure than Jason Bourne, who relies on his savage cunning against a ruthlessly efficient branch of the C.I.A.
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Behind Enemy Lines: Bosnian Banana Crepe Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s a great thriller, complete with Top Gun flying, Jason Bourne paranoia, narrow escapes, unexpected allies, and ironic humor as only Owen Wilson can provide. With Gene Hackman’s added gravitas as a counterpoint.
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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.
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