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.
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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.
The 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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Chef: The Cubano Pressed Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It teases, taunts, and tantalizes us with a fabulous array of food porn, but Chef is so much more. Like its signature Cubano sandwich each ingredient is fresh and piquant, and the same authenticity and passion permeate every aspect of this most delightful film.
Read MoreSlumdog Millionaire: Indian Chai Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Mumbai’s squalid slums sing with color. They spawn brutality and betrayal, and sometimes, only sometimes, innocence and devotion. Don’t miss this inspiring story of a street urchin who rises phoenix-like from the ashes of his past for a chance to reclaim his lost love.
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Marvellous: 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 MoreLes 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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Darkest Hour: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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“Four weeks that changed the course of history.” It doesn’t get much bigger than that. If you missed this tremendous film when it was in the theaters, watch it now!
Read MoreTinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Tex/Czech Kolache Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget Jason Bourne’s death defying chases, or James Bond’s wit and savior faire. As in real life, the significant events in this classic espionage film are in muted greys, shadows gliding past us without revealing their true significance.
Read MoreCinderella Man: Classic Mashed Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Put aside the popcorn and feast on some fillet mignon in a film where quiet dignity and grim determination define a real hero. Cinderella Man has no invading aliens or comic book shenanigans -- only the quiet desperation of the Great Depression.
Read MoreThe Proposal: Cedar Plank Salmon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It begins clever and clichéd, almost as faux as the marriage a controlling boss foists on her subservient assistant to save herself from deportation. But her Manhattan machinations are no match for the light of truth up in his native Alaska, especially when the summer sun is out there 24 hours a day.
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Unstoppable: Pennsylvania Dutch Shoo-Fly Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This train may be unstoppable, but it is grounded in an earthy reality that invokes an earlier era. Where the clang of heavy metal replaces the ping of our flimsy electronic toys. Rather than images sprinting through space from one virtual reality to another, we have iron cars lumbering along tracks anchored to the soil.
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Defiance: Potato Babka Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They are defenseless. Many are old or ailing, but the cadre of Jews who join the Bielski brothers in their forest hideout vow to survive and resist the Nazi invasion of their homeland. They may die, but they will die on their feet with guns in hand, not cowering in their ghettos.
Read MoreLeonard Cohen: I’m Your Man: Monastery White Wine Soup 🥁🥁🥁
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Montreal-born Leonard Cohen, who died November 7, 20016, at age 82, is Canada’s Bob Dylan, but he never went electric, sold out, or even yearned for fame. As his sage comments interspersed throughout reveal, Cohen the man is definitely more interesting than the film that pays him tribute, showing us that some aging icons actually achieve both wisdom and humility.
Read MoreThe Mustang: Wild Mustang Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A film as spare and Spartan as the Nevada desert that hosts both the wild mustangs and the prison that houses its convict trainers. A brilliant character study that will haunt you long after you leave the theater.
Read MoreThe Dig: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s about hidden ancient treasure, but don’t think Indiana Jones . Neither is this English period drama circa 1938 a Downton Abbey of landed gentry with glittering gowns, uniformed chauffeurs, and a kitchen staffed with a small army of cooks.
Read MoreDownton Abbey: Different Drummer’s Roast Wild Duck with Orange Gravy Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Let’s face it. Downton Abbey is and always has been a high-class soap opera. We love the gowns, the sprawling Abbey itself, and the melodrama that occurs within its walls, upstairs and downstairs. Especially the backstabbing, romantic trysts, and the insults elevated to an art form.
Read MoreThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Indian Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Do not miss this Brit import that is one of the best things to wash onto our shores since Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House.
Read MoreLadies in Lavender: Stargazy Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Ladies in Lavender is the little unappreciated gem Different Drummer has been promising you. If you think story telling is all about plot, you will be disappointed, like most of the assorted critics that damned it with faint praise. But if you want to see the human heart revealed in its infinite complexity, run don’t walk to watch this classic.
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The Lady in the Van: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/She’s just a bag lady who lives in a van. And you can smell her coming a mile away. But Dame Maggie Smith imbues her with the same aristocratic dignity as Downton Abbey’s Dowager Duchess.
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