City of Ember: Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁

This science fiction/fantasy strikes just the right note between light humor and action as two brave teens try to save their underground city before it reaches its expiration date. Unfortunately, the adults on hand wrap themselves in cocoons of corruption and blankets of denial as the generator that has sustained them for two centuries winds itself and them with it down to oblivion.

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Just Like Heaven: Broccoli with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce Recipe

Just Like Heaven: Broccoli with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce Recipe
Just Like Heaven is a pastry puff of a film complete with a plucky heroine, lovingly flawed sidekicks, and that wonderful almost too late awakening when the sweetly obtuse hero finally realizes he is in the full throws of love. It’s enough to make you believe in fate, true love, and happy endings all over again.
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The White Countess: White Russian Cocktail Recipe

Think of everything that guarantees box office gold – squealing car chases, steamy passion, rampant explosions, tortuous plot twists, hormone addled teens or octogenarians, and a peppering of coarse humor thrown in for good measure. Well, you’ll get none of it with this final Merchant Ivory collaboration set in 1936 Shanghai, but the simple story will stay with you long after the latest blockbuster fades from memory.

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Corpse Reviver Cocktail Recipe

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Corpse Reviver Cocktail Recipe

Different Drummer is surprisingly with the critics on this one.  Better than the horrible Last Jedi fiasco, but not compelling in its own right.  Too much time taken to try to clean up that sour taste of Luke renouncing the Jedi, Yoda helping him burn the sacred texts, and the fractured mess of Hans, Leia, and their devil spawn.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Luke Skywalker Blue Milk Cocktail Recipe

“The Force. It’s calling to you.” So get aboard your nearest time warp to “a time long ago in a galaxy far, far away” for the film that saves Christmas. Now you can forget about all those dour Oscar bait flicks about to lay siege to us December 25, and allow yourself to tear the gift wrap off this early Christmas package.

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Cars: Route 66 Chili Recipe

Cars: Route 66 Chili Recipe
This razzle-dazzle racing epic is fine family fun, though it seems more geared to NASCAR dads than the tots they may take with them to the theatre. The little ones will love the racing scenes, and while the nostalgic tribute to the old Route 66 sandwiched in between them is a bit too long, it’s sure to please any grandparents in the audience.
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Jack Ryan Season 2: Venezuelan Style Sangria Recipe

Jack Ryan Season 2: Venezuelan Style Sangria Recipe

Amazon’s Jack Ryan Season 2 has him fighting corruption in Venezuela instead of tracking down the wily terrorist Suleiman as he did in Season 1. The cerebral analyst becomes a man of action – and there’s plenty of it, but too bad they use the weak tea of semi functioning Venezuela instead of the hellhole that failed state has now become.

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