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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The 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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Blood 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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The 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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The 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 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.
Read MoreThe Big Country: Best Beef Brisket Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With all this talk about what it means to be a man or a woman, The Big Country offers a unique spin from over 6 decades ago. It also defies the stereotypes of the 1950s, when it was made.
Read MoreDirty Harry: Best Ever Hot Dog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s been 53 years since Dirty Harry and his 44 Magnum exploded across the screen, but it is as relevant today as it was then. In fact, rebel detective Harry Callahan and his infamous one-liners ushered in a series of imitators.
Read MoreDeath in Paradise: English Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s not edgy or camp, but just about everyone is crazy about this British mystery series. A straight-laced Scotland Yard Detective finds his new job at a Caribbean island absolutely not his cup of tea. Biting wit, gentle satire, and artful detection make Death in Paradise a delight in every way.
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Deconstructing Sherlock Holmes: A Step Too Far? Apple Strudel, Custard Tarts, Cold Asparagus with Walnut Drizzle and More Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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In 1891 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the enigmatic detective, and he has been fascinating and frustrating readers ever since. This is especially true with many recent reincarnations on screen that emphasize his eccentricities and personal foibles.
Read MoreZodiac: Aqua Velva Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This search for California’s infamous serial killer has just the right amount of storytelling art mixed with gritty police detection. A masterpiece of understatement, it focuses on the dogged pursuers as they follow incomplete clues and cryptic messages taunting their very souls long after the killings end.
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McDonalds and Dodds: Blood Bath Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Light and bubbly like dry vintage champagne, Amazon’s McDonalds and Dodds is one of the best mysteries to hit the screen. The opening says it all: A score as crisp and delightful as the vintage wine with the medieval city of Bath represented like a modern D.C. Escher graphic print. This mystery lover, classically trained violinist, and one time medieval scholar finds it irresistible.
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