Genius: Blue Q – Blueberry BBQ Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Who knew two Brits could tell the story of an American genius so persuasively? Well, when they are acting greats Colin Firth and Jude Law, it begins to make sense.
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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.
Petition Demands Austin Police Investigate Rainey Street « Drownings » Smiley Faced Killer Update🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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New: A petition calls out the Austin Police and City officials for what it terms “a miscarriage of Justice,” hinting that there is something “darker at play” here and accuses officials of treating the victims’ families “callously and without empathy.”
Read MoreMission Impossible: Fallout: The French Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Make it a double feature, a followup to Top Gun: Maverick: Great Balls of Fire Cocktail, with“one-man supernova” Tom Cruise saving the the world once again.
Read MoreDeconstructing Sherlock Holmes: A Step Too Far? Apple Strudel, Custard Tarts, Cold Asparagus with Walnut Drizzle and More Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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In 1891 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the enigmatic detective, and he has been fascinating and frustrating readers ever since. This is especially true with many recent reincarnations on screen that emphasize his eccentricities and personal foibles.
Read MoreMcDonalds and Dodds: Blood Bath Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Light and bubbly like dry vintage champagne, Amazon’s McDonalds and Dodds is one of the best mysteries to hit the screen. The opening says it all: A score as crisp and delightful as the vintage wine with the medieval city of Bath represented like a modern D.C. Escher graphic print. This mystery lover, classically trained violinist, and one time medieval scholar finds it irresistible.
Read MoreWhy Didn’t They Ask Evans? Pub Grub: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Suddenly remakes of Agatha Christie are all the rage. Most of them are tres ordinaire, as my father would say, but a few are quite good. This film fits that category.
Read MoreBrief Encounter: Orange and Walnut Café Crumpets 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Go back in time three quarters of a century for what may be the most romantic movie ever – and the most heartbreaking.
Read MoreWind River: Old-Fashioned Frybread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Silent. Lonely. And cold. The territory and some of the people, too. Wolves are on the prowl. Lions, as well. But it’s the human predators that are the most dangerous.
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Chicago: Italian Beef and Eggplant Parmesan Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Every city has at least one food that can’t be duplicated anywhere else. In Chicago, it’s the Italian beef sandwich. I’ve never run across it anywhere else. Of course, no trip back home is complete without one.
Read MoreDead Again: Caviar and Crème Fraîche Tartlet Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is it happening all over again? The impulsive romance, quickly souring, and then ending in a brutal murder? Then married couple Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson play two sets of star crossed lovers executing a tortuous pas de deux that mirrors what happened decades earlier.
Read MoreThor: Norwegian Eggnog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Unleash your inner Viking and embrace Thor, the Norse god overflowing with macho charm and bulging pectorals. It’s enough to make you wonder why you even bothered to look at all those skinny metrosexuals taking over the airwaves as well as considerable portions of New York City.
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The Princess Bride: Blood Orange Revenge Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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It’s time to revisit this classic. Remember when Hollywood valued humor, playfulness, and witty banter? Instead of action, action, action, with a few dollops of self-righteous preaching thrown in for good measure.
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The Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Warm Red-Skinned German Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Get yourself out of the summer doldrums with Different Drummer’s own mystery novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today feature is a wonderful version of potato salad that will wake up your senses.
Read MoreMiss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears: Devils on Horseback Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you’ve missed those Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries since they stopped filming 5 years ago, welcome back with her delicious new feature length film. We’ve always known she has a little James Bond in her, but to our delight in this film she goes Indiana Jones on us, absent his hat and bullwhip.
Read MoreBalthazar: The Parisian Flipped Martini Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s been compared to Castle, Bones, and The Mentalist, but this French series puts them to shame. Balthazar – great chef, athlete, extreme sports aficionado, and oh, formidable forensic pathologist – has enough presence, savior faire, panache and other fancy French-named attributes to be in a class by himself.
Read MoreAir: Southern Banana Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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This seems a compelling and sweet film about risking everything for someone you believe in. It even has streaks of genius, most of which is due to Matt Damon’s brilliant performance.
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Zero Dark Thirty: Tandoori Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Perhaps the most striking element of this fine film is its surprising restraint. It is essentially free of Hollywood's usual addictions – political posturing, gratuitous violence, obligatory sex, and character exploitation. Instead we get the real deal – almost.
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Citadel: Parisian “Serendipiti” Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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It aspires to be a combo of James Bond and Mission Impossible, but the Russo Brothers seem more intent on creating a money making franchi$e with multiple spin-offs rather than paying homage to classic spy thrillers.
Read MoreZulu: Cawl (Traditional Welsh Soup) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1964 epic is 31year-old Michael Caine’s breakout performance. He’s blond and semi-gorgeous, but also prissy, entitled, a “sleepy-eyed…arse,” who nevertheless ultimately shows both “guts and sensitivity.” (Roderick Heath)
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The Serpent’s Tooth: Deep Fried Biscuits with Honey Butter Recipe
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You can never go wrong with these delightful Deep Fried Biscuits, no matter what day of the week or time of the year. This recipe is from Different Drummer’s Own The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today’s recipe is from another character in The Serpent’s Tooth.
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