Dog Gone: Zippy Chicken and Corn Chowder Recipe 🥁🥁🥁 1/2
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Ok, it’s a little sappy at the start, but slowly we discover this is much more than just a hunt for a missing dog. It’s really a coming of age tale about his owner.
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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.
Blood Work: Burrito Zucchini Boat Recipe🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Ok, Dirty Harry can’t run anymore. He has a bad ticker and lives in forced retirement on a houseboat, the only excitement in his life exchanging pleasantries and an occasional beer with his houseboat neighbor, Buddy.
Read MoreThe Terminal: Best Ever Cannelloni Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is there any better everyman than Tom Hanks? He always makes us care about his characters. Even if they are “in charge” or “heroes” like Sully or Captain Phillips they are always human and vulnerable. But in this case Hanks is neither a pilot nor a ship captain; he just a stranded traveler waiting at an airport.
Read MoreThe 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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Run Boy Run: Potato Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Maybe the most inspiring film ever. It’s a true story of Srulik, an 8-year-old Polish Jew who must survive on his own, outwitting the cold, hunger, and the relentless Nazis. And a few others as well.
Read MoreNemesis: Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get much better than this. Different Drummer’s Triple Crown: Favorite mystery writer (Agatha Christie), favorite character (Miss Marple) and favorite Miss Marple actress (Joan Hickson).
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The Outfit: The Savile Row Martini Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A thriller with as many twists and turns as the Bobs, that famous wooden roller coaster from Riverview Park in my native Chicago. And that fits, too, since the dark deeds occur in a dank corner of that Windy City. Our most important character, though, hails from London.
Read MoreChappaquiddick: Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Kennedys – you either love them or hate them. There is no in between, right? Well maybe there is…
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East Side Sushi: Green Diablo Roll Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A must see for foodies. Except that this modern day Cinderella is not trying to win the prince; she is trying to win the prize.
Read MorePrisoners: Pan Seared Venison with Wild Mushrooms Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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On the surface, this is a dark thriller about every parent’s worst nightmare – the abduction of their child, a murky mystery that rivals classics like Zodiac, The Sixth Sense, The Silence of the Lambs, and Se7en. But what will resonate beyond the well-crafted plot are the deeper meanings embedded underneath the mystery.
Read MoreDeath on the Nile: Mushrooms in Sherry Cream Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Classic Agatha Christie! A star-studded cast surrounds a pampered heiress everyone is itching to kill. And this flamboyant cadre of would be assassins on the luxury river cruise all have ample means, motive, and opportunity, according to the shrewdly observant Hercule Poirot, whose “little grey cells” never take a vacation.
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Presumed Innocent: Deception Chocolate Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A voluptuous femme fatale beckons us into a legal labyrinth of sharp turns and blind alleys. And Harrison’s Ford’s assistant DA is as much in the dark as the audience.
Read MoreBlack Book: Dutch Fish with Edam Cheese Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This visceral account of a Jewish beauty’s time in the Dutch Resistance is not for the faint-hearted. It exposes almost all seven deadly sins in riveting detail, assaulting our senses with a world where depravity and decency, heroics and humiliation, loyalty and betrayal mock each other.
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Angel Has Fallen: Off the Grid Ham and Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s not so much the President, but his guardian angel, Mike Banning, who is in trouble with this latest edge of your seat thriller. The action is terrific and bold, thanks to its former stuntman director, Ric Roman Waugh, who by the way, lives in my adopted hometown, Austin, Texas.
Read MorePartners in Crime: English Teacake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Thin Man, Mr. and Mrs. North, Hart to Hart, and Castle! America’s Partners in Crime. Now meet Tommy and Tuppence, the equally adorable Brit couple created by Agatha Christie.
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries: Toronto Three Cheese Scalloped Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Murdoch is a buttoned down Toronto detective at the turn of the century. He is obsessed with science and new methods. But there is a playfulness and a passion locked inside the man and the program itself that will hook you sooner rather than later.
Read MoreTrue 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 MoreReagan: Cold War Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Reagan, the man. He certainly failed as much or more than he succeeded. And he didn’t hit his stride until he was in his seventies. Love him or hate him, he left an indelible mark on America.
Read MoreThe Equalizer 3: Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, the Italian scenery is terrific, and we love an older Denzel as the still lethal Equalizer, but the violence is over the top.
Read MoreDead Poets Society: Captain’s Mule Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁 🥁 🥁
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They don’t get any better than this! Dead Poets Society’s innocence and nobility shine even brighter now than when the film was released in 1989. Especially when compared with the dearth of those qualities in our current lives or cinema.
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