San Antonio and the Perfect Margarita Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Christmas holidays are never complete without a trip to San Antonio and the historic Riverwalk, Texas’ own version of Venice, Italy.
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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 French Connection: French Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s still as lean and mean as those dark and dirty streets of New York City 50 some years ago. This landmark 1971 “cop and caper classic” was a commercial and critical success, earning a slew of Oscars -- Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor to name a few.
Read MoreThree Days of the Condor: The Condor Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This 1975 thriller has aged well. The classic paranoia and suspicion of government agencies seem particularly appropriate today. And while it still keeps you riveted to your seat, this thriller actually takes time for character development and great dialogue, unlike the frenetic features Hollywood currently puts out.
Read MoreMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Easy Mint Julep Recipe and More 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Immerse yourself in this lush film, where murderers and scoundrels are as charming as the entire city of Savannah, Georgia. Where even homicide has its comic touches, and “justice” emerges from a mystic cemetery and voodoo rituals as well as the court of law.
Read MoreWhile You Were Sleeping: Homemade Eggnog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sandra Bullock glows as the lovelorn CTA ticket taker hopelessly in love with a regular commuter, but the whole cast is tremendous as well. She is the shimmering star atop the Christmas tree, but the others are the lights and ornaments that make this film sparkle.
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 MoreNotting Hill: Hugh Grant’s Apricot Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Romantic comedies, or films in general, don’t get much better than this! Thoroughly delightful, this 22-year-old British film gets better with each viewing. Part of that is the charm of Hugh Grant at ihis zenith here, the loveliness of a radiant Julia Roberts, and a script that is witty and insightful.
The 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.
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House of Cards: Devonshire Crab Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you are a fan of the American remake, you should defintely see the 1990 original British political thriller, a timeless ode to evil. The knife slides in ever so smoothly with Shakespearean diction greasing its way. Rarely has villainy been so eloquently evil, so fascinatingly diabolical, nor so brutal and swift.
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Spectre: Day of the Dead Skull Crusher Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Not my favorite Bond film, but it is worth it for the first scene alone, a fabulous 4 minute long take of an super elaborate Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. The audience feels like we are right there as we follow a dark suited figure wearing the traditional skull mask through the crowd, vaguely recognizing the set of the shoulders and familiar swagger in the step.
Read MoreThe Sixth Sense: I See Dead People Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Probably the only movie that is as good or better the second time around. The first time is creepy and surreal. The second time an intellectual exercise as well as a lesson in humility.
Read MoreInsomnia: High Octane Moose Milk Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This taut thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat even while it breaks the rules of its genre. Interweaving complex characters and plot, the nearly flawless film never drops a stitch.
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Jagged Edge: Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic and Nicoise Olives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This taut courtroom drama still packs a punch nearly 4 decades after its release, throwing the defendant and then the prosecution against the ropes. Caught in between is the beautiful defense attorney, in love with the law and all too soon with the accused himself, and trying to stave off any doubts that he really is an innocent man.
Read MoreFugitive Pieces: Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Fugitive Pieces is a must see for discriminating viewers. The kind of film that haunts you long after the screen darkens with its kaleidoscope of images – brutish death and loving kindness, cramped apartments and glorious sun drenched shores, brooding reveries and joyous passion.
Read MoreThe Great Gatsby: West Egg Punch Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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The saxophone wails. A polished Rolls Royce sidles up to the sparkling pool to deliver a bevy of bobbed flappers. Shimmering dresses dazzle only to be outdone by the jeweled tiaras on these self-anointed queens of the Jazz Age.
Read MoreThe Name of the Rose: Monastery Wine and Garlic Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Brother Cadfael, with a taste of Angels and Demons thrown in. Not to mention a bit of Voltaire with at passing nod to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and a wink, –just a wink – at Scooby Doo.
Read MoreKnives Out: The Whodunnit Highball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Agatha would approve. So don’t be turned off by the cheesy trailer. The arch overacting is actually purposeful, a tongue in cheek tribute to the grand Dame of whodunnits.
Read MoreWar Horse: French 75 Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Steven Spielberg reminds us once again what movie making is all about. His sweeping epic fills the screen with bigger than life action, drama, and heart-felt emotion that carry you away with it.
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Rules of Engagement : Sitting Buddha Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film hits so many of the right notes about the Middle East, Marine courage, bureaucratic bungling, and diplomatic spinelessness that it is hard to believe it was produced prior to 9-11, the 2001 version as well as the 2012 one.
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