The Ghost Writer: Martha’s Vineyard Seafood Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The fog and damp chill your soul, while the relentless waves wash over the beach like the persistent clues that whisper over and over – murder, murder.
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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.
House of Cards: Devonshire Crab Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you are a fan of the American remake, you should defintely see the 1990 original British political thriller, a timeless ode to evil. The knife slides in ever so smoothly with Shakespearean diction greasing its way. Rarely has villainy been so eloquently evil, so fascinatingly diabolical, nor so brutal and swift.
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House of Games: Classic Waldorf Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This classic 1987 offbeat Mamet vehicle is more like a game of chess than a film, where you are guaranteed a series of astonishing moves and counter moves. Our queen is a beautiful psychotherapist, aloof and repressed as only an analyst could be, and our knight a charming con man, one who sees deeper into her soul than she suspects.
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Jagged Edge: Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic and Nicoise Olives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This taut courtroom drama still packs a punch nearly 4 decades after its release, throwing the defendant and then the prosecution against the ropes. Caught in between is the beautiful defense attorney, in love with the law and all too soon with the accused himself, and trying to stave off any doubts that he really is an innocent man.
Read MoreInspector Lewis: English Fish and Chips and English Breakfast Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The manicured lawns, lush gardens, and cobbled walkways of Oxford hide some pretty nasty murders, and the assorted dons and tutors, despite their plummy vowels and intellect, can be just about as evil as the rest of the world. It’s a good thing that Inspector Lewis and his trusty sergeant are there to put things right.
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True Crime: Travesty of Justice for Austin Serial Killer Continues
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2019 victim's family pleads against another plea bargain for this Austin serial killer. Maybe one reason for no progress on the Rainey Street killer(s) is a past “Travesty of Justice” right here in Austin. The system was manipulated and a serial killer plea bargained his way out of a system that should have given him a life sentence for the 1982 rape and murder of and 8-year-old here in Austin.
Read MoreDunkirk: French Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This epic war film is unconventional in every way. First of all, it is not a winning battle for the English and their Allies. In fact, it is not a battle at all, but a retreat and evacuation, which nevertheless, has the heroics of the greatest battles of all.
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10 Cloverfield Lane: Super Simple Spaghetti Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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John Goodman, the master of his cozy underground bunker, keeps us on tenterhooks as we wonder if he is Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde.
Read MoreThe Edge: Kodiak Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A screenplay superbly crafted by David Mamet, Anthony Hopkins working his magic alongside a compelling Alec Baldwin, not to mention a 9-foot Kodiak bear bulldozing his way through the Alaskan wilderness. What’s not to like?
Read MoreNo Country for Old Men: Texas Venison Chili Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This overrated 2008 Best Picture winner does have its brilliance in a cold, soulless way. The plot itself – a drug deal gone bad, a hapless deer hunter who finds the leftover cash, and his relentless pursuit by some of the bad guys not left rotting in the desert – is not particularly innovative, but the earthy way it unfolds is riveting.
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Dirty Harry: Best Ever Hot Dog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s been over a half centuryu since Dirty Harry and his 44 Magnum exploded across the screen, but it is as relevant today as it was then. In fact, rebel detective Harry Callahan and his infamous one-liners ushered in a series of imitators.
Read MoreBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: Chinese Walnut Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sent to the country as part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, two enterprising teenagers manage to relieve the daily drudgery of their lives with the help of a saucy little seamstress and a suitcase full of forbidden novels.
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: Diner Style Salisbury Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/He’s the workingman’s James Bond. A loner in a T-shirt and jeans instead of a tux. Jack Reacher wouldn’t know a Cabernet from a cognac, and I’d guess he probably drinks his beer straight from the bottle. And no, the ex army major is not licensed to kill, but he is every bit as lethal as 007.
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The Enemy Below: Nautical Cocktail Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This classic submarine film is right up there with Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October. Well, almost. But it doesn’t get better than this cat and mouse game between the captain of an American destroyer and his counterpart, “the enemy below” him in the German U Boat.
Read MoreStrangers on a Train: Caramel Corn Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/His proposition is as outrageous as his charm, so it’s easy to dismiss him with a light-hearted nod, this pushy stranger on a train. But when he reads your darkest thoughts and puts them into action, he expects payback.
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The 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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The Girl on the Train: Delicious Deviled Egg Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Emily Blunt in the title role keeps this mystery from going off the rails with a compelling and credible performance. Sadly, the same cannot be said for her supporting cast, though it’s the script rather than their acting that is at fault.
Read MoreButterfield 8: Dirty Blue Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Never has sipping a morning scotch in a slip and pair of gold heels looked more alluring. Elevating what is essentially a soap opera melodrama, Elizabeth Taylor uses her on screen presence and glamour to seduce us as well as a considerable portion of Upper Manhattan in one of her two Oscar winning performances.
Read MoreMatch Point: Poacher’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Woody Allen’s 2005 film noir thriller is set in posh London, where he cooks up a stew bubbling over with almost all the seven deadly sins. But don’t expect any predictable moralizing. This is, of course, Woody Allen.
Read MoreThe Stoning of Soraya M: Salad-e Shirazi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The brutality of this Iranian tale is offset by the beauty and dignity of the women who are its greatest victims. As harsh as the town’s steep and rocky paths, as timely as it is timeless, the film is an indictment of the festering poison that is borne of corruption wedded to oppression.
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