Enola Holmes 2: Drunken Strawberries 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.
Shetland: Burns Night Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Shetland has it all. The stark beauty of the grand cliffs looming over the plunging North Sea, a lilting Scottish brogue that washes over you in soft waves, and a compelling lead who is a great detective and overall lovely man, too. No ponies yet, but we can hope.
Read MoreSerenity: Shepherd's Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Five hundred years into our future the world is anything but serene for the ragtag crew of spaceship Serenity. It’s job enough to keep the bucket of bolts running, let alone having to evade a lethal soft spoken assassin and roving bands of space cannibals hungry for new meat.
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Inside Man: New York Style Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Like a talented chef creating a dish from someone’s leftovers, Spike Lee takes the stale ingredients of a bank heist and cooks up something surprisingly fresh. It’s not cops and robbers so much as psychological warfare, and with the likes of Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen playing the mind games, who wouldn’t want a front row seat?
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Safe House: African Delight Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Some of them may be traitors, but they are no cowards – those CIA-trained-spooks bloodying up the screen in this internecine battle to the death. Too bad I can’t say the same for Hollywood.
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Sicario: Trudy’s Mexican Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Just like its starring new FBI recruit, the audience is in the dark about the gritty reality behind this Mexican drug cartel mission. It’s a reckless ride from Phoenix to Juarez, whether the grotesque bodies hide behind suburban walls or the hanging ones offer a macabre welcome.
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Austin Mysteries: Rainey Street Drownings 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Updated Information
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You don’t need to be an APD or an FBI to figure this out,” says Elsie John, mother of 30-year old Jason John, whose body was recovered from the lake on February 13th after being missing for 8 days.
Read MoreBreakdown: Diner Home Fries Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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A breakdown on a desert road. A menacing pickup with an even more menacing driver. A local diner simmering with hostility. And, oh yes, a beautiful wife who has vanished without a trace. And did I mention Kurt Russell?
Read MoreBatman Begins: Flowery Canapés with Cream Cheese and Watercress Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Its fourth time around, subject material patently familiar with yet another actor behind the bat mask, we’d hardly think that this would be the one. But it is.
Read MoreThe Doctor Blake Mysteries: Australian Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A classic British mystery – Down Under style. And like the best of them, the detective – or in this case, the police surgeon – is as intriguing and enigmatic as the cases he solves.
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Quantum of Solace: Caprese Mushroom Melt Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/You will probably enjoy this latest Bond venture if you can accept 007 being deconstructed into a Brit version of the Jason Bourne franchise, sans the excessive character development and nuance of the latter. In fact, you’ll probably eat up the nonstop thrills, though I suspect the experience will be rather like gorging oneself on an entire box of chocolates and ending up sated instead of satisfied.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel: Mendl’s Courtesan au Chocolat Pastry Recipe
/As sweet, light, and indulgent as its signature pastry, this quirky film dances into our spring just when we need some relief from the unrelenting dank weather, cinematic and otherwise.
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The Reader: German Bierock Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This is a tale of love and obsession, brutality and tenderness, guilt and, to a measure, recompense. But most of all, it is an unfettered examination of mankind’s paradoxical complexity.
Read MoreThe Departed and Other Oscar Heavyweights: Drunken Strawberries
/It 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 across the screen.
Read MoreSurrogates: Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Maybe your mother was right when she said to be careful what you wish for. You might just end up as a slovenly couch potato holed up in a dank bedroom while the perfect robot version of yourself gets all the fun.
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Water: Sweet Indulgences Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite tale focuses on the cloistered lives of widows in 1938 India, its delicate brush strokes defying the garish oils of present day Bollywood.
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Two Lovers: Jewish Chicken Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sweet but not sappy, this films rings with authenticity. In fact, you probably have met the near twin of at least one character sometime in your life. And just as in real life, it also teeters between exhilaration and despair, comfort and claustrophobia, obsession and love.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Swiss Tart with Pine Nuts Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/"Enough of this lounging about in a purple dressing gown. Forget about filling the pipe with tobacco gleaned from the Persian slipper above the fireplace. And no more tedious interviews with pasty-faced housemaids or sniveling petty thieves. In Guy Ritchie’s 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows we have an action-filled battle with a worthy adversary, and Holmes is the prey rather than the unruffled predator."
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Brideshead Revisited: Beef Wellington Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film just reeks of class, from the superb acting to its homes of the rich and famous settings, with a script that is subtle and insightful. Once again we are reminded that no one can bring the full majesty of classic literature to the screen like the British.
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Grand Hotel: Sole with White Chocolate and Smoked Salmon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It seems we are in the winter of our discontent in the film world as well. Why not liven things up with this timeless classic featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest names from the 1930’s? Not one, but two Barrymores, and each of them in fine form.
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