Weston’s World: Unbroken: Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
Fury: German Omelet Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s official. Hollywood has its Mojo back. (At least it did in this 2014 epic.) Thanks to Brad Pitt, it’s now okay to be a macho warrior, even outside the realm of the Marvel movie franchise.
Read MoreOz the Great and Powerful: Glinda's Crown Jewel Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This prequel ushers in some razzle-dazzle just when we need it. What it lacks in the elegant song and dance lightness of the 1939 classic, it makes up for in moral complexity. And yes, I will say it and risk the eternal hatred of her legion of fans – James Franco’s Wizard is a more interesting lead than Judy Garland’s sweet and simple Dorothy.
Read MorePan’s Labyrinth: Shepherd's Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite tapestry weaves the final brutalities of the Spanish Civil War with a fantasy world equally dark, brooding, and filled with menace. A morality tale that refuses to moralize, it is presented in that half-light before the dawn, when vivid dreams overlap daylight’s pending reality, and the beasts of ancient lore still hold sway over minds innocent and true.
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The Pale Blue Eye: Hudson Valley Shirred Eggs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁 1/2
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Who could resist this premise? A young Edgar Allan Poe helps solve a grisly mystery while a young cadet at military school in the remote Hudson Valley of New York.
Read MoreFugitive Pieces: Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Fugitive Pieces is a must see for discriminating viewers. The kind of film that haunts you long after the screen darkens with its kaleidoscope of images – brutish death and loving kindness, cramped apartments and glorious sun drenched shores, brooding reveries and joyous passion.
Read MoreBlade Runner: Smoked Salmon Sushi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Take yourself back to the 80s for this science fiction classic starring a very young and handsome Harrison Ford. With the advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, it is amazing that so many ideas suggested in the film are no longer science fiction.
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Bella: Spanish Paella Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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And that’s exactly what Bella is. Beautiful! With Hollywood hopelessly lost exploring our dark underbelly, this fresh film makes its way to our hearts. No wonder it won the People’s Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.
Read MoreBlack Book: Dutch Fish with Edam Cheese Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This visceral account of a Jewish beauty’s time in the Dutch Resistance is not for the faint-hearted. It exposes almost all seven deadly sins in riveting detail, assaulting our senses with a world where depravity and decency, heroics and humiliation, loyalty and betrayal mock each other.
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Jean de Florette: French Rabbit Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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We’re in Provence, where delicious irony flows as freely as red wine, men’s hearts are as wizened and cracked as the dry earth, and dreams intoxicating as the scent of wild rosemary.
Read MoreReacher: Delicous Georgia Peach Pie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Jack Reacher fans will love this original mini series based on Lee Child’s The Killing Floor. Reacher is a more sedate Rambo with the impeccable logic of Sherlock Holmes.
Read MorePartners in Crime: English Teacake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Thin Man, Mr. and Mrs. North, Hart to Hart, and Castle! America’s Partners in Crime. Now meet Tommy and Tuppence, the equally adorable Brit couple created by Agatha Christie.
Read MoreWar Horse: French 75 Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Steven Spielberg reminds us once again what movie making is all about. His sweeping epic fills the screen with bigger than life action, drama, and heart-felt emotion that carry you away with it.
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Operation Mincemeat: Sicilian Blood Orange Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Did you know Ian Fleming, the famed author who created 007, was a real spy who cut his teeth on one of the biggest deceptions of WWII? Operation Mincemeat, as it was dubbed with typical English gallows humor, involved “the most unlikely of secret agents,” a corpse.
Read MoreLetters from Iwo Jima: Japanese Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers awaiting the inevitable American invasion of Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood gives us this epic World War II battle from the inside out. Hope for reinforcements slowly fades, and the troops tunnel into the mountainside for a valiant last stand, the bitter taste of defeat as pervasive as the dust and darkness of their cavernous trenches.
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About a Boy: Old Fashioned Onion Rings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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No one is better at playing superficial, selfish ogres than Hugh Grant. You might say he has lived that life, at least a bit. But that only sets us up for his “redemption,” and this one is probably the steepest climb of them all.
Read MoreCrazy Heart: Bad Blake Biscuit Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This film has everything you love about country music, except the clichés. It’s a picture of the soft slide from fame – weariness and cheap whiskey, regrets and ratty hotels, a glamorous past and grungy gigs.
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Hacksaw Ridge: Virginia Bread Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper with its hero turned inside out. Desmond Doss volunteers to serve, but will not even touch a gun. And almost goes to military prison for refusing to carry one.
Read MoreUnited 93: Buttered Mushroom Omelet Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Paul Greengrass strikes just the right note in United 93 by refusing to pander to either emotions or politics. The audience feels anew the loss of innocence -- fresh, shocking, and only amplified by our ironic knowledge of its ultimate tragic end on that fateful day in September.
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The Equalizer 3: Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, the Italian scenery is terrific, and we love an older Denzel as the still lethal Equalizer, but the violence is over the top.
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