Mr. Holmes: Honey Flan Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The title says it all. Finally, some overdue respect for the iconic sleuth. And it's about time. He is 93 years old in this latest Holmes saga.
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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.
Papillon: Prison Fantasy Coconut Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steve McQueen is mesmerizing is this brutal saga capturing man’s eternal yearning to be free. At the jungle labor camp he battles betrayal, disease, starvation, as well as encounters with unfriendly lepers, a pragmatically sadistic prison director, nuns with unusual ideas of Christian charity, and more than one person setting him up for certain death. But it is his unlikely alliance with fellow prisoner Dustin Hoffman that anchors this epic tale.
Read MoreThe Amateur: Gazpacho 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Neo (Keanu Reeves) from The Matrix meets Charles Bronson from Death Wish. Only the first parts describes Charlie Heller (Oscar winner Rami Malek) a CIA cryptographer (a fancy name for a good guy trying to defend against hackers) until his wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahani) is killed in a London terrorist attack.
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 MoreBridge of Spies: German Farmer’s Breakfast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its length, this “spy thriller” is lean – light on melodrama, smoky dark room dealings, or cloak and dagger shenanigans. The real enemies are the cold, the damp, and the blind alleys of self-serving bureaucrats.
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Winter's Bone: Ozark Potato Bake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A glimpse into another world, as ancient and untouched as the Ozark Mountains that stand in the distance like grizzled elders. Corrupt and decayed as the broken blood bonds and rusting cars that litter the landscape like modern ruins. True and straight as the young girl who must defy its unyielding code.
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Giant: Barbacoa de Cabeza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This Texas classic is worth seeing if for no other reason than to watch those legendary screen icons Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, all at their peak. And it’s rather amazing to see that the clash between East and West, man and woman, have and have-nots, still resonates.
Read MoreNorth by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Arguably Hitchcock’s popular and critical masterpiece, this film has it all. Cary Grant is magnificent as the wrongly accused man on the run, handling his dire straights with dry humor and nonchalance. The action set pieces are riveting and so superior to the CGI we typically get today. While the romantic banter has a verbal wit we seem to have forgotten on screen.
Read MoreCatch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Remember when going to the movies was a welcome escape from times of turbulence and trouble instead of a nosedive into them? Well, Steven Spielberg did when he made this sunny film that is laugh out loud at times. It’s the perfect medicine, and Leonardo DiCaprio administers it with professional expertise.
Read MoreThe Name of the Rose: Monastery Wine and Garlic Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Brother Cadfael, with a taste of Angels and Demons thrown in. Not to mention a bit of Voltaire with at passing nod to The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and a wink, –just a wink – at Scooby Doo.
Read MoreThe Lunchbox: Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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If you can’t make it to India, take this virtual trip, a culinary adventure and subtle love story set in Mumbai. But don’t expect squalid slums that sing with color. Instead it’s the comfortable gray lives of three lonely souls that need spicing up.
Read MoreThe Godfather Trilogy: Italian Gravy and Cannoli Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With Hollywood still sputtering, now is the time to review some old favorites and see them in a new light. Such is the case with the Godfather Trilogy, one of the best films series ever made.
Read MoreGladiator: Blood and Sand Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The only 21st century sword and sandal film that deserves a place next to those other classics, Spartacus and Ben Hur. Winner of five Oscars, most notably Best Picture and Best Actor (a magnificent Russell Crowe) as well as 7 other nominations, this is a classic for all time and well worth watching again.
Read MoreSecondhand Lions: Cilantro and Lime Grilled Corn Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who could resist this trio? Michael Caine as a backwater Texan along with his big brother Robert Duvall, and “I See Dead People” Haley Joel Osment rounding out the crew. They aren’t exactly dead people when their great nephew arrives, but they are settling in for it without much resistance.
Read MoreRear Window: Lobster Alfredo Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly! You don’t get much more star power than that! Throw in a big menace with some vintage Raymond Burr before he became the knighted Perry Mason, as well as legendary Director Alfred Hitchcock, and it doesn’t get any better.
Read MoreMud: Arkansas Sin Appetizer Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A tale as timeless as the Mississippi where love and loneliness live side by side on its muddy shores. Matthew McConaughey is a mysterious stranger who touches the lives of two young boys who find dark undercurrents in their familiar river.
Read More Gloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 1/2
/Hungary in the 1930s, and Laszlo Szabo’s Budapest restaurant, as well as the man himself, stands as a last bastion of elegance, civility and grace in a world that is slowly spiraling into chaos. While his beautiful Ilona, like her Greek namesake Helen, is the center of her own small circle of adulation and destruction.
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Before the Fall: Baked Sauerkraut with Apples Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Although its is set in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s, Before the Fall is less about the evils of fascism than the struggle between idealism and ambition, the clash between fathers’ expectations and sons’ dreams, and the repercussions of a flawed ideology upon the individuals who espouse it.
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The Verdict: Grilled Lobster Tail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sidney Lumet directing Paul Newman in his prime, James Mason superb playing the eloquent villain, with a taut and unpredictable script as only David Mamet can pen. About as perfect as it gets.
Read MoreThe Lady Vanishes: Absolutely Ultimate Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Treat yourself to one of Hitchcock’s early classics, complete with international intrigue, slightly wacky cricket fans, and a Miss Marple like lady who suddenly vanishes without a trace from her train compartment as it meanders through the Swiss Alps. With the sole exception of a young Englishwoman, however, no one else will even admit to having seen her in the first place.
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