Mr. Jones: Russian Sour Cream Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One was a real journalist, the other a depraved opportunist who covered up a famine. Guess which won the Pulitzer Prize?
Read MoreOften 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.
The Guns of Navarone: Greek Moussaka Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This critical and box office success has as much action as the Bond or the Furious franchises, and it was all done 6 decades ago. Along the way, in between evading trigger-happy Nazis, a hull-crushing storm at sea, and a dizzying climb up a sheer black wall made extra dangerous by the storm, the characters have time for some pretty insightful ruminations on the ethics of war.
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 MoreRed River: Cowboy Coffee and Chuck Wagon Recipes: 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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In his first Western Director Howard Hawks captures the Wild West in a profound way. It’s not shootouts at the OK corral, but a desperate Texas cattle baron who will do whatever it takes to survive. If that means branding over a neighbor’s cows, shooting gunslingers who dispute his right to the land, or even horsewhipping his own cowboys and threatening to hang deserters, then so be it.
Read MoreThe Immigrant: Reuben Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Suddenly every other film of the last few decades seems hollow, contrived, and trivial. Seeing this exquisite film is like kissing a prince and suddenly realizing one has been lip-locking frogs up until that moment.
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The Lives of Others: Schnitzel with Lemon-Caper Cream Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This glimpse into the gray abyss of East Germany begins in November 1984, a mere five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a country convulsed by some last paranoid outcroppings before imploding to freedom.
Read MoreTop Gun: Maverick: Great Balls of Fire Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Well worth the wait! The 36 years since the first ground-breaking film as well as the almost 3-year wait for it to hit the screens. Very lean and clean, filled with fabulous flying and just the right touches of nostalgia and humor.
Read MoreTombstone: Cowyboy Killer Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Slap on your chaps and pack your pistols. This dark coated, black hatted, mustachioed crew will take your breath away, and Val Kilmer kills it playing Doc Holiday as a hard drinking Southern gentleman who steals the show.
Read MoreThe Railway Man: Singapore Fried Noodles Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Captain America for the senior set – British version. Not the clichéd variety, where aging action heroes or even Masterpiece Theater legends kick butt right up there with the rest of them. This film is about forgiving your enemy not conquering him.
Read MoreFoyle’s War: Apple Brown Betty Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tired of the mediocre fare on current streaming? I have the series for you. Attention, anyone who loves mysteries, history, World War II settings, English villages, and consummate acting.
Read MoreSeven Kings Must Die: Gossip’s Cup Ale Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Wow!. This is a new Uhtred. Uthred the peacemaker with no woman by his side. His hair is graying, and he and his men now spend their time like old soldiers, recounting their battles and washing it down with plenty of ale.
Read MoreThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Potato Peel Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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She’s smart, beautiful, successful, and a very handsome, wealthy American is head over heels in love with her. So why is Juliet (Downton Abbey’s Lily James) in a funk?
Read MoreThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas: German Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Let us hope that this simple story will remind us of that vow we all took in the Holocaust’s aftermath: Never forget.
Read MoreCharlotte Gray: Soupe au Pistou Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/I think it is time to give this 2001 World War II film a second look even though the critics and general public were not so impressed with it when it came out. Cate Blanchett is marvelous in the title role as a Scottish girl working with the French Resistance in Vichy France, giving us a woman’s perspective on that hellish time and place.
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Texas Antique “Weekend”: Bud's Buttermilk Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It's that time again. Head for Texas or just take a vicarious trip to the little town of Round Top, for a Country Antiques Show that will knock your socks off.
Read MoreThe Shawshank Redemption: Sangria and Seviche Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Those of you who liked the quiet dignity that Morgan Freeman brought to Million Dollar Baby, should catch his earlier work in The Shawshank Redemption, where his mournful voice fits the raw prison setting and provides a touch of class even in this bleak world.
Read MoreCadfael: Medieval Roasted Partridge Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Think Father Brown time warped back about 8 centuries. Cadfael’s not a priest but a 12th century monk who solves medieval mysteries.
Read MoreFather Brown: Strawberry Scone Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Father Brown is more concerned with saving souls than solving mysteries, but he’s pretty darn good at each. The BBC series, like his reassuring presence, is as comforting as a cup of tea and a warm fireside, even if an alarming number of corpses litter the idyllic English countryside.
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An Affair to Remember: Pink Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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In what is arguably the most romantic film ever made, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr exchange witty and self-effacing banter on the long way to love, their airy chitchat hiding two vulnerable hearts.
Read MoreDelicious: 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.
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