Weston’s World: Unbroken: Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
Hacksaw Ridge: Virginia Bread Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper with its hero turned inside out. Desmond Doss volunteers to serve, but will not even touch a gun. And almost goes to military prison for refusing to carry one.
Read More1917: Apricot Charlotte and Other WWI Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A world of wet feet and maimed bodies, rotting corpses and rotting souls fueled only by the will to survive just one more day. It is set during the waning days of The Great War – maybe the most dangerous of times, when easy victory appeals to ambitious officers restless in their trenches.
Read MoreSaving Private Ryan: Truffade: Rustic French Potato and Cheese Pancake 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Possibly the greatest and most realistic war film ever made. Certainly not the typical Hollywood film that tends to glorify war.
In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.
Read MoreThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. – Lipton Onion Soup Dip Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Take a trip back to the 60s in this stylish reboot of the popular television series. It’s a soufflé of witty banter, sly humor, and high-end action that recalls the fun-loving panache of Bond films.
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The Train: French “Pot in the Fire” Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget all of Hollywood's hyped heist films and see one based on the real thing. John Frankenheimer’s 1964 film starring the legendary Burt Lancaster is about a real life World War II heist with real men and real machines. Two men of iron will fight for control of an iron horse -- a steam engine loaded with France’s art treasures headed for a quick getaway over the German border.
Read MoreThe 39 Steps: Fried Haddock Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Take another look at the cold heart of espionage and check out the Hitchcock film considered his first masterpiece. The 39 Steps takes you on a whistle-stop tour of the Scottish moors with only two slight annoyances – a ruthless band of spies as well as the entire British police force out to get you.
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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 MoreRosemary’s Baby: Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sometimes ranked as the No. 2 best horror film of all time, just behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby is a Halloween must see for many. But there is an evil undercurrent to the highly lauded film as well.
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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Midnight 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 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 MoreBlack Butterfly: Irish Beef and Guinness Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The ingredients are familiar – clichéd even. A has been writer lost in an alcoholic haze, a house in the middle of nowhere, a shifty hitchhiker who worms his way inside, and a serial killer on the loose. It’s a slow boil, but the final stew is anything but expected. Or maybe not…
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Gaslight: Luscious and Lethal English Dessert Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Gaslight: To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity, particularly by leading them to doubt their own experiences or perceptions of reality.
Here is the 1944 classic that spawned the term.
Read MoreCrooked House: The Pink Squirrel Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Classic Agatha Christie: A magnificent mansion sheltering a dysfunctional family as neurotic as they are rich. And the estate is filled with priceless antiques, dark passageways, dusty attics, secret letters, seething passion, and of course, a corpse or two.
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Shadow of a Doubt: Easy and Elegant Canapé Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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See it again or for the first time to discover why Hitchcock bests them all, especially in what is purportedly his favorite film. Maybe because he embeds evil in such an innocent lair.
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 MoreHinterland: Welsh Tea Cakes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A wave washes on a lonely shore. Wind cuts through desolate fields. An abandoned house perches on a solitary peak. Welcome to Wales, where the murderers, victims, and even the detectives are as bereft and melancholy as the land they inhabit.
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Oktoberfest: Spaetzle and Zwiebelkuchen Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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In the summer of 1983 our family was lucky enough to live in Tubingen, Germany, a medieval town nestled on the banks of the Neckar River while my husband taught at its university. Here are a few recipes from that area to help you celebrate your own Oktoberfest wherever you may be.
Read MoreChinatown : Tom Collins with Lime 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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California’s corruption and water mismanagement go all the way to the 30s in this excellent film noir. So now this classic that was nominated for 11 Oscars is not just a great cinema; it’s a wakeup call as well.
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