Mad Max: Fury Road: Mad Max Bloody Margarita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/It’s a hotrod show from hell. A surreal Hieronymus Bosch canvas come to life in a post apocalypse world not even Dante could envision.
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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.
2012: Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/By scale alone, this 2009 disaster film outdoes itself. Never have buildings crumbled with such panache, icons tumbled into the sea with greater style, the earth scorched, torn asunder, and split with more symbolic dread. And yet, against all odds, some do survive.
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The Bourne Ultimatum: Moroccan Herbed Fish Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/You couldn’t ask for a more thrill-packed adventure, one that propels you from the teeming streets of London to the tiled passages of Morocco. Nor a more compelling figure than Jason Bourne, who relies on his savage cunning against a ruthlessly efficient branch of the C.I.A.
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Behind Enemy Lines: Bosnian Banana Crepe Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s a great thriller, complete with Top Gun flying, Jason Bourne paranoia, narrow escapes, unexpected allies, and ironic humor as only Owen Wilson can provide. With Gene Hackman’s added gravitas as a counterpoint.
Read MoreThe Patriot: Stovetop Low Country Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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No dry history here. The Revolutionary War in all its blood, brutality, and bravery flies off the pages and into our hearts in one of Mel Gibson’s most heartfelt performances as a reluctant Revolutionary militia leader drawn into the conflict almost against his will.
Read MorePatriots Day: Lobster Bisque Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Hollywood works its magic again in this meticulous recreation of the Boston Marathon bombing. Using quick cuts and short vignettes, Patriots Day is tense and suspenseful even for audiences already familiar with the tragic event.
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The Serpent’s Tooth Suppers: Aunt June’s Refrigerator Pickles Recipe
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It’s BBQ season now, and we can all smell the mouth-watering aromas floating in the air around us. This tremendous recipes is from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today’s recipe is from the wife of Chris Cavescroft, a character in The Serpent’s Tooth.
Read MoreLive Free or Die Hard: Hacker's Hash Recipe
/He’s back! Bald but bad as ever, the reluctant New York cop is again in the wrong place at the wrong time, but grossly underestimated by the suavely arrogant cyber villain who has accounted for all possibilities except this crusty relic.
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London Has Fallen: London’s Calling Cocktail Recipe
/Pack away your PC proclivities with your winter underwear and embrace this guilty pleasure thriller.
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Delicious: French Potato Truffle Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This must see 2022 film will restore your faith in modern cinema. Everything in it is a work of art, from the delicious food, the scenery that resembles fine paintings, the piquant satire, brilliant script, and the outstanding acting.
Read MoreBlood Diamond: Tropical African Sangria Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the Hollywood we used to know and love. A sweeping landscape of unearthly beauty and savage bloodshed, a charming cad ready for redemption, and the committed beauty to guide him there. A father willing to risk everything to save his son. And one very large diamond that makes the difference to them all.
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Jesse Stone: Lobster Chowder Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tom Selleck’s Jesse Stone is the police chief, just as his Blue Bloods counterpart Frank Reagan is. He has Reagan’s sense of justice, integrity, and doggedness, but he has never slain his real demons, which are on the inside.
Read MoreSound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Despite its 2023 July release, this wasn’t exactly a summer popcorn movie. But it is definitely a must see because it exposes a concealed crisis from which too many wish to avert their eyes: the human trafficking scourge that affects approximately 2 million children a year.
Read MoreThe Kite Runner: Afghan Lamb Kabobs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/For all the soaring beauty of the kites above, their game is as ruthless as the human psychodrama being played out below Afghanistan’s clear and cold blue skies. And despite the exotic and war ravaged locale, this tale resonates with a wider truth as timeless as man's fall from grace and his endless search for redemption.
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It Happened One Night : Carrot Cake 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Granddaddy of all rom-coms is still a delight, even if it is 90 years old! And it was the first film to sweep the Oscars, bringing home Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, and Best Writing [Only others are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and Silence of the Lambs 1991)]
Read MoreThe Long, Hot Summer: William Faulkner’s Mint Julep Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, he’s a con man at best, and a ruthless opportunist who doesn’t seem to care whom he hurts along the way, but his slick charm draws us in even if the prim Clara seems immune to it.
Read MoreThree Days of the Condor: The Condor Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This 1975 thriller has aged well. The classic paranoia and suspicion of government agencies seem particularly appropriate today. And while it still keeps you riveted to your seat, this thriller actually takes time for character development and great dialogue, unlike the frenetic features Hollywood currently puts out.
Read MoreOut Of Africa: Nyama Choma : Kenyan Barbecue Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Such a glorious film! The searing beauty and fierceness of the land, its peoples, and beasts are but a backdrop for this saga of two independent spirits whose love for the land and their own independence is only surpassed by their love for each other.
Read MoreCasablanca: Rick’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Behind the scenes, its temperamental stars didn’t always hit it off, its Oscar wins were a real surprise to the cast, and it wasn’t until 1957 that it really caught on.
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