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.
About a Boy: Old Fashioned Onion Rings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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No one is better at playing superficial, selfish ogres than Hugh Grant. You might say he has lived that life, at least a bit. But that only sets us up for his “redemption,” and this one is probably the steepest climb of them all.
Read MoreChangeling: Hearty Bean Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Director Clint Eastwood resurrects a winning formula that seems to have been forgotten in recent Hollywood. Miraculously free of gratuitous plot twists, ear-splitting explosions, cartoon inspired characters, or incipient nihilism, his film is about real people, real events, and real human emotions.
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 MoreRed Eye: Frito Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Get your Tex Mex on while you watch a great plane flick. No big names, no glitzy promos, but this 2005 summer surprise delivers everything the high profile thrillers promised without the pouty stars and their tabloid lives.
Read MoreThe Third Man: Café Vienna Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Savor what may be the most perfect film ever made. This Orson Welles/Joseph Cotton collaboration tops their earlier one, Citizen Kane, even though that one still gets the lion’s share of attention. Love, intrigue, treachery, and betrayal - it literally drips in atmosphere, never sacrificing the great story it has to tell to its dramatic brilliance and avant-garde film techniques.
Read MoreUnknown: Berlin Scalloped Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s a dizzy cocktail of confusion, panic, and paranoia reminiscent of the grand master, Alfred Hitchcock. In Berlin to attend a conference, Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car crash to find his wife does not recognize him, and another man has claimed his identity.
Read MoreRob Roy: Bresslin Balls Recipe (Scotch Eggs) 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Over a quarter of a century old, this epic film reminds us of man’s innate corruption and villainy as well as that always rare quality, honor. And the sword fights are to die for.
Read MoreThe Courier: Russian Caviar Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This Cold War spy thriller is based on a real life British courier, so it is grounded in authenticity, and it’s highlighted by a masterful performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, maybe his best performance yet.
Read MoreThe Naked Jungle: South American Hot Chocolate 🥁🥁 🥁 1/2
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Which is worse? Charlton Heston as the arrogant and moody South American plantation owner, or the marabunda, the plague of army ants moving relentlessly toward him, devouring everything in their path.
Read MoreEastern Promises: Classic Russian Borscht Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This taut thriller works very hard to earn its R rating, but luckily not at the expense of character or plot. Enter the Russian mafia, London branch, where your life’s history is written in full body tattoos, a dead girl’s diary reveals dangerous secrets, and a newborn baby holds the key to a sordid inner circle.
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Cinderella 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 MoreFrom Russia with Love: Gypsy Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Best of the Best. Sean Connery is the best Bond and From Russian with Love is his best outing. No wonder is was named the 9th best British Film of All Time by Total Film Magazine in 2004, the only Bond film to make the list.
Read MoreDefiance: 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 MoreQuartet: French Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Dustin Hoffman hits all the right notes in his directorial debut about an English home for retired musicians. It comes somewhere in between the English melancholy glimpse into the abyss of old age offered by The Last Bus and the randy vulgar denial of it too often presented by Hollywood.
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 MoreDeath on the Nile: Mushrooms in Sherry Cream Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Classic Agatha Christie! A star-studded cast surrounds a pampered heiress everyone is itching to kill. And this flamboyant cadre of would be assassins on the luxury river cruise all have ample means, motive, and opportunity, according to the shrewdly observant Hercule Poirot, whose “little grey cells” never take a vacation.
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The Brave One: Ultimate Greek Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the thinking man’s vigilante film, peppered with artsy NPR radio monologue as well as quotes by D. H. Lawrence and Emily Dickinson. But there’s plenty of badass, too, and Jodie Foster wears her compulsive vengeance like a second skin, blowing away bad guys with a lethal fury as cold as it is addictive.
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House of Games: Classic Waldorf Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This classic 1987 offbeat Mamet vehicle is more like a game of chess than a film, where you are guaranteed a series of astonishing moves and counter moves. Our queen is a beautiful psychotherapist, aloof and repressed as only an analyst could be, and our knight a charming con man, one who sees deeper into her soul than she suspects.
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