Water: Sweet Indulgences Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite tale focuses on the cloistered lives of widows in 1938 India, its delicate brush strokes defying the garish oils of present day Bollywood.
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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.
Traitor: Sudanese Cinnamon Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This taut thriller has plenty of intrigue and action, but something a bit foreign to the genre – an almost philosophical exploration of the two sides on the War on Terror. And yes, it is co-written by Steve Martin, that “wild and crazy guy” who proves that his comic genius is founded upon a true cerebral nature.
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Septembers of Shiraz: Persian Yogurt Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/You will be transfixed by this gripping tale of a “wealthy Jewish businessman summarily jailed and tortured” in Iran shortly after the Islamist Revolution. The vague accusations, the dark and solitary cell, the irrational swiftness between feigned friendship and brutality all exude a timeless quality that supersedes any specific setting.
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Singapore: Indian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Singapore is a splendid city, sort of a perfect Big Apple, with grand marble sidewalks, Moehn faucets gleaming in meticulous subway restrooms, and a tropical rain forest within walking distance from the designer shops along Orchard Row.
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Cache: Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/If you are tired of Hollywood and its nonstop glitz and glamour, you may enjoy this French thriller. But don’t expect a fast paced whodunit with a tidy ending or you’ll be disappointed. The tension of Cache is far from white hot, but its slow burn is just as withering.
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The Blind Side: Mississippi Mud Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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When’s the last time you came out of a movie feeling warm and reassured rather than frozen in fear about the next imminent apocalypse? And I don’t mean cheap feel good emotions manipulated by some slick marketing, but the real thing. That’s exactly what this film is. The Real Thing.
Read MoreParasite: Korean Cream Cake Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
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Think Downton Abbey transported to present Day South Korea, but everything is downsized. The Lord of the manner here is a high tech CEO, and Downton’s loyal servants are just street-smart con artists.
Read MoreThe Forbidden Kingdom: Simply Spectacular Fried Rice Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Jackie Chan teams up with fellow martial arts icon, Jet Li, to create a dish of perfect balance, peppered with witty rivalry, lighthearted charm, and epic ingredients guaranteed to teach and delight.
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Mongol: Spicy Mongolian Beef Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Prepare to meet the legendary Genghis Khan. Then abandon yourself to clattering hooves across the arid Steppes, clashing swords and silent arrows, and the mesmerizing throat singing that seems to spring from the very earth itself.
Read MoreHotel Mumbai: The Taj Harbour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Pull up a front seat to India’s 9/11, where over 171 people were killed in a three day siege of Mumbai in 2008. We get an overview of the carnage, but the close focus on several victims and perpetrators at a luxury hotel makes us feel like we are right there with them.
Read MorePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Caribbean Breeze Cocktail
/Forget the calendar. Summer is upon us. After all, with Johnny Depp doing his tipsy promenade on deck above the blue Caribbean, can toasted marshmallows, backyard campouts and sunbathing on the beach be far behind?
Read MoreTwo Lovers: Jewish Chicken Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sweet but not sappy, this films rings with authenticity. In fact, you probably have met the near twin of at least one character sometime in your life. And just as in real life, it also teeters between exhilaration and despair, comfort and claustrophobia, obsession and love.
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Water for Elephants: Polish Skillet Breakfast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This film about a Depression era traveling circus has it all – glamorous illusion and gritty reality, glittering gowns and desperate men, stateroom Champagne and boxcar hooch. We glimpse at the exotic creatures under the big tent, animals and humans alike, yet we also see the squalid and brutish life they lead in between shows.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles: Honey Pot Oatmeal Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A crumbling Victorian mansion, a family in nearly the same state, and an assortment of ogres, trolls, goblins and various other nether creatures whirl you away for a thrilling, fast paced adventure that pulls no punches. The invisible fairy world is full of menace and mayhem, and even the friendly ones take a bit of getting used to.
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Hugo: Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffle cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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“It’s Neverland and Oz and Treasure Island all wrapped into one.” Hugo’s young Isabelle is describing a bookshop in Paris, but she might as well be talking about this splendid film, one of the best releases of 2011.
Read MoreSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Swiss Tart with Pine Nuts Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/"Enough of this lounging about in a purple dressing gown. Forget about filling the pipe with tobacco gleaned from the Persian slipper above the fireplace. And no more tedious interviews with pasty-faced housemaids or sniveling petty thieves. In Guy Ritchie’s 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows we have an action-filled battle with a worthy adversary, and Holmes is the prey rather than the unruffled predator."
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Brideshead Revisited: Beef Wellington Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film just reeks of class, from the superb acting to its homes of the rich and famous settings, with a script that is subtle and insightful. Once again we are reminded that no one can bring the full majesty of classic literature to the screen like the British.
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Grand Hotel: Sole with White Chocolate and Smoked Salmon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It seems we are in the winter of our discontent in the film world as well. Why not liven things up with this timeless classic featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest names from the 1930’s? Not one, but two Barrymores, and each of them in fine form.
Read MoreDreamgirls: Smothered Pork Chop Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It will dazzle you – the sequins swaying on stage, the darker rhythms behind the curtain, and the sheer spectacle that reaches its white-gloved hand to you like a siren beckoning. It is a ride through the turbulent sixties, a breathless trip from giddy innocence and heady ambition to the high price paid for packaged success.
Read MorePirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: Marauder’s Mojito
/Like your favorite haunt, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, is comfortably familiar, yet exotic and thrilling all the same. It’s the only third-time-around flick of the summer that doesn’t somehow disappoint, partly because its stellar cast is headed by beloved rogue Captain Jack Sparrow, who insists the audience have as much fun as he does.
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