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.
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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.
Lincoln: 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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The King's Speech: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 2011 Oscar winner is an examination of a British class system that clamps its iron jaws on kings as well as commoners, grinding both beneath its stiff upper lip. It’s not so much a wonder that the king stammers, but that everyone else does not.
Read MoreRocky: Philly Ribs Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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Rocky is the epitome of the American Dream. Nominated for 10 Oscars and winning 3. A modest $1 million budget that grossed over $200 million at the box office.
Read MoreMarvellous: Different Drummer’s Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Right now the world seems an insecure and frightening place to us, doesn’t it? What better time to watch this terrific film about someone who never let the world or his inborn limitations get him down. Meet Neil Baldwin, Britain’s own version of Forest Gump, but without the Hollywood sentimentality.
Read MoreSeabiscuit : Racetrack Bloody Mary Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who doesn’t love an underdog? And we have 4 here. “The horse is too small, the jockey too big, the trainer too old, and I’m too dumb to know the difference.” – Charles Howard, Seabiscuit’s owner
Read MoreFrequency: Big Mozz’s Mets Mozzarella Sticks Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s Back to the Future but it’s not a comedy; instead it involves a fiery death and a determined serial killer. Always compelling Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel mesmerize us as a father and son trying to avert multiple disasters as they find that correcting one past cataclysm causes a multitude of others
Read MoreLion: Indian Jelabi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/An accidental Huckleberry Finn, not drifting down the Mississippi, but streaming across India in a train that eats up the miles between him and his small Indian village.
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Mao’s Last Dancer: Chinese Pork Dumpling Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Another undiscovered gem to watch at home on your big screen. And it’s free on Amazon Prime streaming. Not only will you enjoy this true story about a poor Chinese boy who becomes an international ballet dancer, but you will find a new respect for the art itself.
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Les Miserables: French Pot au Feu Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film has the lyrical beauty of an opera, but with a cleaner, more compelling narrative and characters of unusual complexity. And not a strutting baritone or corseted prima donna in sight!
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Joyeux Noel: Alsatian Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Leave your comfortable digs to huddle in the mud-caked trenches of World War I. It is December 1914, just four months into this bloody fight, and the entrenched Scotch, French, and German soldiers share bullets, blood, and cold, but on this Christmas Eve, they will find something else to share as well.
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