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.
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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.
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 MoreEvil Under the Sun: Chicken Curry: Cari Poule Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 1981 Hercule Poirot classic takes us back to the fabulous forties where we escape to a king’s mansion nestled in rocky crags overlooking a sapphire bay. Sip your favorite cocktail and bask in the warmth, but don’t forget that there is Evil Under the Sun.
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The Skeleton Key: Okra Gumbo Recipe 🥁🥁1/2
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Enjoy this classic "B" horror flick, but brace yourself for Hollywood skewering all things Southern as you lap up the chicken blood and bottled body parts. What’s not to like?
Read MoreThe Drop: Polish Potato Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This is a low-key crime drama, so don’t expect shootouts, car chases, or steamy scenes of passion. Certainly not a blazing fire, not even a slow burn, just grey, barely warm ashes we are compelled to sift through. Ashes that remain long after the flame has died away.
Read MoreJesse 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 MoreEight Below: Down Under Pub Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Set against the pristine wilderness of Antarctica, this tale of love, loyalty, and survival is a must for dog lovers. Watch it and weep for the preciousness of life, canine and human. With no political baggage to weigh it down, it is about life stripped to its core and the risks we are compelled to take for those we love. You are missed, Paul Walker.
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Iron Will: Fruitcake Hater's Fruitcake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Follow young Will Stoneman on the ride of his life as he battles treacherous ice, scheming rivals, and complete exhaustion on this 522-mile dog sled race from Winnipeg to St. Paul.
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No Escape: Lemongrass, Lime & Thai Basil Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Don’t let the PC police keep you away from this fast-paced thriller. If you ever thought your first day on the job was bad, how about taking your whole family half way around the world to a country that has just erupted in a bloody coup?
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The Ice Road: Crispy Baked Potato Skins Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Liam Neeson delivers the goods in this thrilling testament to courage and expertise, the real kind rather than the faux variety we’ve experienced recently.
Read MoreLincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
Read MoreCry Macho: Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One of the few new films worth watching, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho manages to distill his 60 year career into its essence. It is a vintage aged is oak – in this case Texas live oaks – dusty plains, wild horses, and at least one wild woman. And did I mention one pretty frisky fighting cock. A rooster named Macho.
Read MoreSully: The Sully Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Director Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks, two American treasures, are at the top of their game in this film about Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger's miraculous Hudson River Landing in 2009. And the retelling of the story is as unconventional as the landing itself.
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The Terminal: Best Ever Cannelloni Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is there any better everyman than Tom Hanks? He always makes us care about his characters. Even if they are “in charge” or “heroes” like Sully or Captain Phillips they are always human and vulnerable. But in this case Hanks is neither a pilot nor a ship captain; he just a stranded traveler waiting at an airport.
Read MoreGiant: Barbacoa de Cabeza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This Texas classic is worth seeing if for no other reason than to watch those legendary screen icons Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, all at their peak. And it’s rather amazing to see that the clash between East and West, man and woman, have and have-nots, still resonates.
Read MoreVertigo: Bittersweet Chocolate Madeleine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Kim Novak turns down the heat to become Hitchcock’s icy blonde, but she’s hot enough to melt Mr. Nice Guy, Jimmy Stewart, the ex-cop charged with watching over her. Rediscover why Hitchcock is the one everyone imitates as you are sucked into this vortex of lust, obsession, and longing in what some consider his finest film ever.
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Super 8: Sunday’s Apple Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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There’s something rotten in this small Ohio town in 1979. It’s scaring off the local dogs and sucking up car engines, power lines, and a small assortment of human beings. Sure, the military personnel that swoop down to clean up after a spectacular train crash are tight-lipped, but everything about them screams X Files.
Read MoreSpotlight: Boston Cream Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s not the crime. It’s the cover-up. This well-paced docudrama follows an elite cadre of journalists as they uncover decades of sexual abuse hidden by the Catholic Church.
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The Mule: Super-Easy Pulled Pork Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Oh, no! It seems film icon Clint Eastwood has gone over to the dark side, playing a very likeable octogenarian drug courier.
Read MoreThe Hundred-Foot Journey: Boeuf Bourguignon a la Hassan Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/“It’s sharp and cool in the mouth, all at once. Do you know how long it takes chefs to learn that?” Helen Mirren’s Madame Mallory says that about an omelet, but the same can be said of this delightful film.
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