Restless: Tacos: New Mexican Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Secrets. We all Have them. Some we hide them from our parents. But a parent might hide secrets, too. And this one’s a doozy.
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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.
Indiana Beach: Shafer Lake Cobb Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Oh, how times have changed. Especially weddings. It has been 57 years since that simmering August of 1968, when I married the love of my life. We honeymooned at his family cottage in rural Indiana for the grand sum of $50 – and that was spent on groceries!
Read MoreMonsieur Spade : Croque Monsieur (French Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich) 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Sam Sade living out his golden years in the South of France. Who would have thunk it? And it’s surprisingly, good, too.
Read MoreCasino Royale: Vodka Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Brash and blond, the new Bond is more cutthroat than connoisseur, substance rather than style, a man concerned with getting the job done even if he has to bloody up his tailored threads to do so. Gone is the high tech gimmickry, the eccentric evil geniuses intent on world power. Instead this gritty no nonsense film sees the real world as dangerous enough without having to fluff it up with science fiction fantasy.
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Hillbilly Elegy: Hillbilly Chicken Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who am I? That question reverberates throughout great literature, including Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. And it just what JD Vance is asking in Hillbilly Elegy.
Read MoreThe Good Liar: Polish Hunter’s Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s witty and sophisticated, with light touches that lure us in. But’s its more like tragedy’s comic relief, which these Shakespearean trained leads wield with terrible ferocity when we least expect it.
Read MorePhoenix: German Jägerschnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It is low key and in German with subtitles. No thrilling car chases, sex, or profanity. But the way this film deals with the issues of identity, betrayal, and obsession grabs you in a way that haunts and holds on like no other.
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Unknown: 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 MoreThe Revenant: Brandied Foie de Gras Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Jack London lives again in this brutal tale of survival and revenge. The key here is authenticity, and the cast and crew suffer for it almost as much as the legendary real life fur trapper who inspired the film.
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The Way Back: Polish Pierogi Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you can survive the freezing wind, the Russian criminal gangs running the barracks are ready to stab you for your threadbare sweater, and then there’re the mines, great sulfurous pits where every breath is a taste of fire. Those Cyrillic letters on the archway above the Siberian prison camp might as well say, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
Read MoreAliens: Alien Egg Shot Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Maybe the best sequel ever, this 1986 acclaimed sci-fi action thriller is the ride of a lifetime. And it’s just as good today as it was the first time Different Drummer saw it on the big screen some almost 4 decades ago. Rarely do sequels exceed originals, and rarer still do they pass the test of time as does this masterful, “visceral punch” James Cameron delivered decades ago.
Read MoreTranssiberian: Russian Pirog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/In 2008 it crept into art house theaters as silently as the snow that blankets the Russian steppes. This white-hot thriller is a claustrophobic brew of crowded compartments, narrow corridors, and the “kindness” of strangers, with a few near frozen corpses thrown in for good measure.
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The 12th Man: Bløtkake (Norwegian Cream Cake) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Add this epic war adventure to your list of World War II classics. Norway’s version of Saving Private Ryan is top rate and one you will not soon forget.
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 MoreMarch of the Penguins: Penguin Party Log and Iceberg Parfait Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you missed it at theaters, sit back in awe while you witness the single-minded determination of the March of the Penguins, as they trek the frozen white landscape of Antarctica and the sapphire waters that lap at its icebound banks.
Read MoreThe Good Karma Hospital : Mango Milkshake 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, it is a kind of soap opera, and even if you might think it’s General Hospital transported to Southern India early on, be patient. It has a depth that evolves from these quirky characters who continue to surprise and evolve as the series continues.
Read MoreAustralia: Tim Tam Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This sweeping epic is what the big screen was made for – a country of austere beauty, its cruelty and benevolence as capricious as the rough souls that inhabit it. Unabashedly bold, brash, and romantic, the saga stampedes across the screen with nary a nod to nihilism or nuance, pausing only to tip its hat to a bit of self-aware irony.
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Casablanca: Rick’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Behind the scenes, its temperamental stars didn’t always hit it off, its Oscar wins were a real surprise to the cast, and it wasn’t until 1957 that it really caught on.
Read MoreThe Big Country: Best Beef Brisket Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With all this talk about what it means to be a man or a woman, The Big Country offers a unique spin from over 6 decades ago. It also defies the stereotypes of the 1950s, when it was made.
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.
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