The Matrix: The Oracle’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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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 Aviator: Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you rent this movie because of your fascination with Howard Hughes, pioneer of aviation, you may walk away disappointed. But if you want to know more about the flawed genius as a man in all his tattered complexity, you will be richly rewarded.
Read MoreBlack Swan: Pink Fairy Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This critically acclaimed film is such a churning stew of genres – supernatural slasher, rite of passage psychodrama, erotic thriller, ballet-Red Shoes wannabe – it’s enough to turn your stomach over, which is what happens Natalie Portman’s Nina on a regular bulimic basis as she struggles to her keep her rail-thin dancer’s body.
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Mr. Jones: Russian Sour Cream Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One was a real journalist, the other a depraved opportunist who covered up a famine. Guess which won the Pulitzer Prize?
Read MoreThe Woman in Gold: Vienna Schnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t listen to the critics on this one, the ones who try to dismiss Woman in Gold as a somewhat boring lesson in art history. Perhaps the story of an elderly Jewish woman trying to retrieve a famous painting stolen by the Nazis isn’t edgy enough for them. Or maybe they just resent having to take time away from watching YouTube cat videos.
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Texas Antique “Weekend”: Bud's Buttermilk Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The little town of Round Top, Texas, halfway between Houston and Austin, hosts a Country Antiques Show. Its roadside grasslands are piled high in French enamel, stained glass, old time buggies, grandfather clocks, wooden grain buckets and benches, or Chinese wedding baskets painted a festive red, to name but a few of the treasures for sale.
Read MoreThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Scotch Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This isn’t just a slap in the face to the glamorized intrigue of the spy world; it’s a punch in the gut, a leveling one that bends you over and leaves you groaning. An unflinching portrait of moral compromise that slowly eats away at a man’s soul, whether he is on the right side or not.
Read MorePatriot Games: English Trifle with Fresh Raspberries and Sherry Drizzle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tom Clancy. Harrison Ford in his heyday. What’s not to like? Take a trip back a few decades to a world a little more sane. A narrative not preachy, not edgy, and completely devoid of the nihilism that seems to have taken up permanent residence in today’s Hollywood.
Read MoreThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Apple Strudel Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
/What if the whole arch rival thing with his Nemesis Professor Moriarty is merely a figment of the “coked” up imagination of Holmes, the addict, who routinely injected himself with a seven percent solution of cocaine? Open up your mind here purists, and have a little fun.
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Pride and Prejudice: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Pride and Prejudice, easily the best film of 2005, is the way love ought to be, the way it was destined and designed in our hearts. Built on the solid underpinnings of character, goodness, and honor, its fruition is evermore so sweet because it is so long denied.
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Far from the Madding Crowd: English Lemon Curd Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Finally, a love story for grownups. It’s Downton Abbey without all the pomp and circumstance and a heroine who is not afraid to get her hands dirty.
Read MoreCasanova: Lover's Knots Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Light as a soufflé, peppered with dry wit and broad farce, and taking itself not the least bit seriously, Casanova is just the ticket to cure the doldrums. And along the way, you just may learn something about the art of love as well as the real thing.
Read MoreThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.
Read MoreCaptain Phillips: Sweet Somali Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/On rare occasions in film as in life, everything comes together to create near perfection. Because it does not try too hard to please us with Hollywood's standard visual and verbal excess, that's exactly what happens in this retelling of the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. container ship off the Somali coast.
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Vienna Blood: Freud’s Favorite Dessert Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Who knew that Sigmund Freud, or at least one of his fictional pupils, was the first FBI profiler? Well not exactly. It’s not the FBI, but the Vienna Police, and we are way back a century or so as well. But the atmosphere and witty banter are to die for.
Read MoreThe Theory of Everything: Grand English Plum Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite film is as brilliant as the mind of Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and heir to Einstein. And it does something that far too few films currently do. It inspires us.
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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 MoreNemesis: Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get much better than this. Different Drummer’s Triple Crown: Favorite mystery writer (Agatha Christie), favorite character (Miss Marple) and favorite Miss Marple actress (Joan Hickson).
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Jennifer Eight: Persimmon Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Feast on a filet mignon mystery that will pique your intellect and send a shiver up your spine. While the underpinnings of the film are ghastly in themselves – a serial killer has just finished off his eighth victim – the horror does not slap you in the face. Instead it nibbles around the edges of the screen like a malevolent shadow with a hunger that will not die.
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Millions: Chocolate Rum Truffle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Damian talks to dead people. However, his conversations are not with bloody corpses, but with surprisingly engaging and human saints of yore. For a refreshing return to innocence seen through a child’s eyes stream this 2005 British film.
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