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.
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 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 MoreThe Judge: Boozy Persimmon Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t go to this film expecting a taut courtroom drama complete with murder, mayhem, and melodrama. We have no jagged-edged knives, coyly seductive victims, or evil corporate giants in sight.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Apple Strudel Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
/What if the whole arch rival thing with his Nemesis Professor Moriarty is merely a figment of the “coked” up imagination of Holmes, the addict, who routinely injected himself with a seven percent solution of cocaine? Open up your mind here purists, and have a little fun.
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Balzac 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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The 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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Close to the Enemy : German Braised Cabbage 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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This seven-part mini-series will get you through the winter storm, all right, but you may end up with cabin fever. Every intriguing moment has another that makes you want to pull your hair out.
Read MoreSicario: 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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Foyle’s War: Apple Brown Betty Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tired of the mediocre fare on current streaming? I have the series for you. Attention, anyone who loves mysteries, history, World War II settings, English villages, and consummate acting.
Read MoreJuror # 2: Nachos Southern Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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A modern 12 Angry Men, but with a twist. Don’t expect the same wonderful acting or script as that 1957 classic, but director Clint Eastwood even at 94, puts our flawed human nature under the microscope once again.
Read MoreKnives Out: The Whodunnit Highball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Agatha would approve. So don’t be turned off by the cheesy trailer. The arch overacting is actually purposeful, a tongue in cheek tribute to the grand Dame of whodunnits.
Read MoreSpectre: Day of the Dead Skull Crusher Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Not my favorite Bond film, but it is worth it for the first scene alone, a fabulous 4 minute long take of an super elaborate Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. The audience feels like we are right there as we follow a dark suited figure wearing the traditional skull mask through the crowd, vaguely recognizing the set of the shoulders and familiar swagger in the step.
Read MoreSkyfall: Stir-Fried Shanghai Bok Choy with Ginger Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/James Bond darkened, diminished, and deconstructed. Out: the suave spy who saves the world without putting a wrinkle in his elegant tux, all the while not spilling a drop of his vodka martini, the one who puts a bullet in the arch villain and then finishes him off with a killer quip. In: A dour 007 who sloshes down Heinekens suited up in his shiny best like a punk rocker out on the town. And he can’t save the world, let alone the single person he’s guarding.
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Casino 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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It’s a Wonderful Life : Bermuda Crescent Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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This Christmas classic was the all-time favorite of its director, Frank Capra, and he screened it for his family every Christmas. It was also one of Jimmy Stewart’s favorites, too.
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Trash: Brazilian Black Bean Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Three slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro find a wallet in the mountain of trash they dig through daily. It is a Pandora’s box, belching up a rancid mess of evil and corruption, but they cling to one remaining ingredient – hope.
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Young Sherlock Holmes: Custard Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you’d like to time warp to wintry Victorian London this weekend, see this gem of film about the early adventures of Holmes and Watson. Long before Harry Potter and his assorted school chums treated us to mystery and mayhem, Young Sherlock Holmes was up to his eyeballs in adventure at his boarding school as well. Only it’s not magic that the precocious teenager has up his sleeve -- just the mandates of cold, hard logic.
Read MorePride and Prejudice: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Pride and Prejudice, easily the best film of 2005, is the way love ought to be, the way it was destined and designed in our hearts. Built on the solid underpinnings of character, goodness, and honor, its fruition is evermore so sweet because it is so long denied.
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Sound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Despite its 2023 July release, this wasn’t exactly a summer popcorn movie. But it is definitely a must see because it exposes a concealed crisis from which too many wish to avert their eyes: the human trafficking scourge that affects approximately 2 million children a year.
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