True Grit: Yaller Bread with Pintos Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Like the ghost of a lost lover, John Wayne’s shadow looms tall and proud over the Coen brothers’ 2010 reboot of the 1969 classic that won the Duke his sole Oscar.
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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.
A Most Violent Year: Sausage Pepper Potato Bake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its title, this character-driven crime drama packs its menace in quiet conversations, camel’s hair coats, and the kind of self-control only known to an alpha male.
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The Aviator: Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you rent this movie because of your fascination with Howard Hughes, pioneer of aviation, you may walk away disappointed. But if you want to know more about the flawed genius as a man in all his tattered complexity, you will be richly rewarded.
Read MoreNebraska: Almost Classic Meatloaf Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/We don’t want to care about him, but we do. This old, taciturn curmudgeon who vows to get to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick up his million dollar promised “prize,” even if he has to walk there all the way from Billings, Montana.
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The Lunchbox: Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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If you can’t make it to India, take this virtual trip, a culinary adventure and subtle love story set in Mumbai. But don’t expect squalid slums that sing with color. Instead it’s the comfortable gray lives of three lonely souls that need spicing up.
Read MoreChicago: Italian Beef and Eggplant Parmesan Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Every city has at least one food that can’t be duplicated anywhere else. In Chicago, it’s the Italian beef sandwich. I’ve never run across it anywhere else. Of course, no trip back home is complete without one.
Read MoreThe Highwaymen: Hoover Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They finally get the story straight and the lawmen – not the thuggish criminals – are the real heroes.
Read MoreInterstellar: Creamed Corn with Onion, Chives, and Bacon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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If too much recent science fiction seems cold, remote, and austere, you should see this 2014 Matthew McConaughey film that remembers that even as we soar boundlessly to new worlds, our real ties to earth and those we love are never severed.
Read MoreThe Accountant: Indonesian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This thriller is like a kaleidoscope. Each turn reveals a completely new image as the same moving parts reconfigure into a different design. Leaving us transfixed, a little confused, perhaps, but utterly enthralled.
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Butterfield 8: Dirty Blue Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Never has sipping a morning scotch in a slip and pair of gold heels looked more alluring. Elevating what is essentially a soap opera melodrama, Elizabeth Taylor uses her on screen presence and glamour to seduce us as well as a considerable portion of Upper Manhattan in one of her two Oscar winning performances.
Read MoreMatch Point: Poacher’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Woody Allen’s 2005 film noir thriller is set in posh London, where he cooks up a stew bubbling over with almost all the seven deadly sins. But don’t expect any predictable moralizing. This is, of course, Woody Allen.
Read MoreBlack Swan: Pink Fairy Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This critically acclaimed film is such a churning stew of genres – supernatural slasher, rite of passage psychodrama, erotic thriller, ballet-Red Shoes wannabe – it’s enough to turn your stomach over, which is what happens Natalie Portman’s Nina on a regular bulimic basis as she struggles to her keep her rail-thin dancer’s body.
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Before Midnight: Greek Pasta Salad Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
/The third part of this Indie trilogy draws you in with its witty banter and “unscripted” conversation. But don’t fall for it. A pseudo intellectual veneer covers what is essentially a shallow and vulgar core masquerading as something of worth.
Read MoreThe Woman in Gold: Vienna Schnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t listen to the critics on this one, the ones who try to dismiss Woman in Gold as a somewhat boring lesson in art history. Perhaps the story of an elderly Jewish woman trying to retrieve a famous painting stolen by the Nazis isn’t edgy enough for them. Or maybe they just resent having to take time away from watching YouTube cat videos.
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The Promise: Tina’s Armenian Kiss Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Come for the romance. Stay for the history. This sweeping epic recounts the horror of the Armenian genocide of 1915 as it crushes love, ambition, and family ties in a deadly avalanche of ruthless violence.
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The Stoning of Soraya M: Salad-e Shirazi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The brutality of this Iranian tale is offset by the beauty and dignity of the women who are its greatest victims. As harsh as the town’s steep and rocky paths, as timely as it is timeless, the film is an indictment of the festering poison that is borne of corruption wedded to oppression.
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The Fighter: Cheddar and Bacon Potato Skin Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/In one sense The Fighter is the story of real life “Irish” Micky Ward’s hard scrabble climb to the 1997 welterweight championship, complete with busted lips, black eyes, and bruised ribs along the way. But the fights in the ring pale in comparison to the internecine knockouts that occur within his outrageously dysfunctional family, not to mention those pitting his feisty redhead against his mother and seven sisters.
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Papillon: Prison Fantasy Coconut Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steve McQueen is mesmerizing is this brutal saga capturing man’s eternal yearning to be free. At the jungle labor camp he battles betrayal, disease, starvation, as well as encounters with unfriendly lepers, a pragmatically sadistic prison director, nuns with unusual ideas of Christian charity, and more than one person setting him up for certain death. But it is his unlikely alliance with fellow prisoner Dustin Hoffman that anchors this epic tale.
Read More300: Greek Moussaka Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This definitely is not a chick flick. It is a testosterone charged comic book romp through one of the most celebrated battles in history, when 300 Spartans stood against a vast sea of the advancing Persian army at the famed Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
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12 Strong: Afghan Bolani (Potato Stuffed Flat Bread) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Remember that crazy scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones is chasing down a truck on horseback? Well, in this film, the horse soldiers aren’t after a mere truck. They are facing tanks, heavy weapons, and rocket launchers at a full gallop.
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