The Finest Hours: Massachusetts Chili Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A sweet romance, a reluctant hero, and the storm of a century. With none of the hype and over the top mayhem of most disaster flicks, this film draws us in by tuning it down.
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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.
Zodiac: Aqua Velva Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This search for California’s infamous serial killer has just the right amount of storytelling art mixed with gritty police detection. A masterpiece of understatement, it focuses on the dogged pursuers as they follow incomplete clues and cryptic messages taunting their very souls long after the killings end.
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The Untouchables: The Southside Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1987 film is even better than I remembered. Action, adventure, and a superb cast of characters who gain courage from each other as they fight against entrenched corruption both inside and outside the law.
Read MoreBernie: Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/True crime TV: Slacker edition. Or East Texas’ Fargo, as director Richard Linklater dubbed it. Any way you put it, this dark comedy has a bumper crop of talent.
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Fracture: Mushroom Omelettes in Port Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The cut and dried case rolls across his desk as a hot shot DA is packing up for the big bucks of corporate law. Little does he realize that this last case will fracture his world as he matches wits with a wily killer who has planned the perfect crime.
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Vienna Blood: Freud’s Favorite Dessert Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Season 4 does not disappoint. It is even more complex and far reaching than the previous series. Instead of self-contained episodes, we have a continuous string of events that test the characters as never before.
Read MoreThe Departed: Drunken Strawberry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 2007 Oscar winner is awash with blood and gore and a kind of poetic profanity, but somehow this cops and robbers showdown manages to touch upon the vagaries of identity, the complexity of goodness, and the poisonous nectar of evil without missing a beat. Match that with a truly stellar cast that delivers the goods and you’re in for a 2 1/2 hour roller coaster that soars through the screen.
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The Taking of Pelham 123: Banana Milk Shake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/The perfect popcorn thriller – an amiable bureaucrat trying to talk down a maniacal villain, 19 hostages sweating it out in an underground subway, a runaway train, cop cars exploding everywhere, and if that’s not sufficient combustion for you, there are enough F-Bombs to detonate all of Manhattan.
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Aliens: 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 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 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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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 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 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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Anatomy of a Murder: Baked Lemon and Herb Trout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Take a break from the new, mostly mediocre streaming offerings to see this classic once dubbed the finest courtroom drama ever made. Despite the fact that the black and white feature was made more than 60 years ago, it appears as fresh and contemporary as the many imitators it has spawned. And like real life, neither the cast nor the verdict is entirely predictable.
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 MoreCasablanca: 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 MoreTell No One: Sautéed Sole Meuniere Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This taut French thriller is fast paced and well crafted with a plot that evolves out of rather than around its eclectic cast of characters. Unlike too many recent films that depend upon torturous twists that end up in a tangle, this yarn yields a skein than runs smooth and true.
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Van Der Valk: Dutch Bacon Pancakes 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Endeavour meets Sam Spade in Amsterdam. Not to mention a little Columbo, Longmire, Vera, George Gently, Brokenwood’s Mike Shepherd, and the grown-up Inspector Morse lurking in the shadows.
Read MoreMagpie Murders: Greek Hummus Platter 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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Anthony Horowitz, who brought us the superb Foyle’s War, continues to shine in this double whodunnit. Magpie Murders will also enthrall fans of Agatha Christie as well as those who love Conan Doyle’s Holmes.
Read MoreBefore the Rains: Indian Lime Rice Recipe
/Charged with that oppressive atmosphere that is only released with a torrential downpour, this period piece is awash in seething tensions and passions. Set in Colonial India of the1930s, the ostensible focus is the torrid and doubly adulterous love affair between a British spice master and his Indian servant girl, but its real beauty is how it affects his second in command, Indian born but British educated.
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