Beirut: Lebanese Radish Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Beirut in 1982, once exotic and sophisticated, is now a chaotic rubble. But no more so than its prodigal son, fallen from diplomatic grace, who returns to rescue an old friend.
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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.
To Live: Szechuan Hot Chili Noodles Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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No wonder it was banned in China, and its director and star were placed under gag orders. To Live depicts all too well the brutal upheavals of the communist revolution in this poignant saga of one family trying to survive its embrace.
Read MoreBabette's Feast: Iridescent Turtle Soup with Sherry on the Side Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Like Babette’s actual epicurean dinner, the film about it is prepared with a deft hand. It is as subtle as the French caviar, as rich as the turtle soup, and as ephemeral as the bubbles in the exquisite Veuve Clicquot Champagne.
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3:10 to Yuma: Cattle Drive Cornbread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Though its cache of dead bodies easily earns it an R rating, this gritty classic Western is really a lean character study featuring two of our finest modern day actors, Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. It is a tale of violence, greed, and the strange bond that grows between two men on opposite sides of the law.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Scotch Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This isn’t just a slap in the face to the glamorized intrigue of the spy world; it’s a punch in the gut, a leveling one that bends you over and leaves you groaning. An unflinching portrait of moral compromise that slowly eats away at a man’s soul, whether he is on the right side or not.
Read MoreThe Untouchables: The Southside Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1987 film is even better than I remembered. Action, adventure, and a superb cast of characters who gain courage from each other as they fight against entrenched corruption both inside and outside the law.
Read MoreSpellbound: 21 Club Southside Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1945 classic delves into the unconscious to uncover a crime. All the clues are locked in the memory of a profoundly disturbed amnesiac who may or may not be a murderer.
Read MoreCool Hand Luke: Easy Deviled Egg Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Paul Newman, so young and gorgeous in this 1967 epic, fills the screen by trying not to in this tale of a likeable yet self-destructive rebel.
Read MoreTURИ: Washington's Spies: Cheshire Pork Pie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Truth and Illusion. You won’t always know the difference as the American Revolution comes roaring to life on screen in blood red, patriot blue, and cowardly white. Lust and loyalty, betrayal and bravery, deception and death – they are all there in a kaleidoscope of images that bleed into each other.
Read MoreThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Apple Strudel Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
/What if the whole arch rival thing with his Nemesis Professor Moriarty is merely a figment of the “coked” up imagination of Holmes, the addict, who routinely injected himself with a seven percent solution of cocaine? Open up your mind here purists, and have a little fun.
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Taken 2: Turkish Salad Recipe –🥁🥁🥁
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Sometimes you’re in the mood for red meat. A lean slab of the stuff with no bone, fat or gristle. A high action thriller unfettered by such literary balderdash as nuance, character development, or purposeful ambiguity.
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Taken: Chicken Parisian Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Even if his sweetly indulged daughter does not, her retired CIA dad knows it is a dangerous world out there, and he will use all his cunning, expertise, and unplumbed brutality to ferret out the vermin who have abducted her. Exorcize your PC demons once and for all in this guilty pleasure / take no prisoners action film.
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Pride and Prejudice: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Pride and Prejudice, easily the best film of 2005, is the way love ought to be, the way it was destined and designed in our hearts. Built on the solid underpinnings of character, goodness, and honor, its fruition is evermore so sweet because it is so long denied.
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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.
Read MoreCasanova: Lover's Knots Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Light as a soufflé, peppered with dry wit and broad farce, and taking itself not the least bit seriously, Casanova is just the ticket to cure the doldrums. And along the way, you just may learn something about the art of love as well as the real thing.
Read MoreThe Vow: Blue Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/I’m beginning to identify with the great unwashed, those nameless moviegoers who ignore the critics and just follow their fancy. They may be on to something. They certainly saw a spark in The Vow that the sneering critics missed.
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Deja Vu: New Orleans Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/It’s probably worth watching for the car chase alone, not to mention the dreamy love story, and some solid detective work spiced up with a little Sci Fi. In fact, there’s almost enough there to keep you from thinking too much about a plot that ultimately blows away like dust in the wind.
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All Creatures Great and Small: Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese Tea Sandwich Recipe (with New Update on Season Four)🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You can’t help but fall in love with this 2020 British adaptation of James Herriot’s first unsteady steps as a young veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales (hills for us Yanks). It’s Midsomer without the murders, and an enchanting assortment of loveable and eccentric characters, humans and animals alike.
Read MoreThe Night Manager: Majorcan Lobster Salad 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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John le Carré makes a cameo in this film based on his first post-Cold War 1993 novel. But unlike Hitchcock, he is neither quiet nor demur. In fact, he just about steals the scene and invents some lines impromptu.
Read MoreAtomic Blonde: The Coldest City Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Charlize Theron owns this film. Like the best of Bonds she is a stylish knockout – even when sporting a black eye – and reliably lethal. And she’s on duty 24/7, even in the bedroom or the occasional darkened hallway, where amorous adventures are, of course, all for queen and country.
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