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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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.
Charade: French Alpine Tartiflette Casserole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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“The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made.” And no wonder. We have Hitchcock favorite Cary Grant with echoes of North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief. As well as ever elegant Audrey Hepburn exquisitely beautiful and rivaling the tailored loveliness of Grace Kelly in Rear Window.
Read MoreDead Again: Caviar and Crème Fraîche Tartlet Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is it happening all over again? The impulsive romance, quickly souring, and then ending in a brutal murder? Then married couple Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson play two sets of star crossed lovers executing a tortuous pas de deux that mirrors what happened decades earlier.
Read MorePhoenix: German Jägerschnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It is low key and in German with subtitles. No thrilling car chases, sex, or profanity. But the way this film deals with the issues of identity, betrayal, and obsession grabs you in a way that haunts and holds on like no other.
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Deepwater Horizon: Louisiana Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sure, you know what happened on April 20, 2010. The oilrig Deepwater Horizon blew, and it blew big. But that knowledge doesn’t make it any less awesome when you have a front row seat within the ticking time bomb that fateful day.
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The Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Warm Red-Skinned German Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Get yourself out of the summer doldrums with Different Drummer’s own mystery novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today feature is a wonderful version of potato salad that will wake up your senses.
Read MoreThe Revenant: Brandied Foie de Gras Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Jack London lives again in this brutal tale of survival and revenge. The key here is authenticity, and the cast and crew suffer for it almost as much as the legendary real life fur trapper who inspired the film.
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Endeavour: Fish and Chips to Die For Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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(Complete with New Update and commentary on the final season) Can a prequel ever better its original? Such might be the case in Masterpiece Mystery’s "Endeavour,” about the early career of the curmudgeonly Inspector Morse first featured in that spot.
Read MoreThe Client: Antoine’s Creole Seafood Gumbo Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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The big names may get top billing (except here), but the kid is the core. Just as in Mark Twain and Steven Spielberg, he knows the truth even if he wraps it up in a package of lies to survive.
Read MoreZero Dark Thirty: Tandoori Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Perhaps the most striking element of this fine film is its surprising restraint. It is essentially free of Hollywood's usual addictions – political posturing, gratuitous violence, obligatory sex, and character exploitation. Instead we get the real deal – almost.
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Austin Mysteries: Rainey Street Drownings 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Updated Information
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You don’t need to be an APD or an FBI to figure this out,” says Elsie John, mother of 30-year old Jason John, whose body was recovered from the lake on February 13th after being missing for 8 days.
Read MoreCrooked House: The Pink Squirrel Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Classic Agatha Christie: A magnificent mansion sheltering a dysfunctional family as neurotic as they are rich. And the estate is filled with priceless antiques, dark passageways, dusty attics, secret letters, seething passion, and of course, a corpse or two.
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Zulu: Cawl (Traditional Welsh Soup) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1964 epic is 31year-old Michael Caine’s breakout performance. He’s blond and semi-gorgeous, but also prissy, entitled, a “sleepy-eyed…arse,” who nevertheless ultimately shows both “guts and sensitivity.” (Roderick Heath)
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Infidel: Persian Wedding Kabob Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Don’t miss Jim Caviezel’s compelling thriller, which displays the courage and conviction of the actor as well as the Christian blogger he portrays on film. Written, directed, and produced by Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh, it is based on real life Robert Levinson and a composite of several other innocents who died in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Spicy Bacon Baked Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s barbecue season and what better side dish than the Spicy Bacon Baked Bean recipe from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
Read MoreGoodbye, Mr. Chips: Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One of the finest films ever made. The fact that it is in black and white and over six decades old only cements its classic status. Filled with the power of love, its heartaches and lessons, a magnificent Robert Donat ages from 25 to 88 without skipping a beat. Not a tearjerker, but keep the hankies (that includes you fellows as well) handy.
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