Lincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
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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.
The Boys in the Boat: Potato Bacon Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who cares if you’ve never rowed in your life. It’s the middle of the Great Depression and you’re living in a rusted-out jalopy eating a can of beans. Making the Washington State rowing team may be the only way to get a roof over your head and a steady paycheck.
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 Night Manager: Majorcan Lobster Salad 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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John le Carré makes a cameo in this film based on his first post-Cold War 1993 novel. But unlike Hitchcock, he is neither quiet nor demur. In fact, he just about steals the scene and invents some lines impromptu.
Read MoreThe Courier: Russian Caviar Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This Cold War spy thriller is based on a real life British courier, so it is grounded in authenticity, and it’s highlighted by a masterful performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, maybe his best performance yet.
Read MoreThe Patriot: Stovetop Low Country Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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No dry history here. The Revolutionary War in all its blood, brutality, and bravery flies off the pages and into our hearts in one of Mel Gibson’s most heartfelt performances as a reluctant Revolutionary militia leader drawn into the conflict almost against his will.
Read MoreGran Torino: Hmong Stir-Fry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Dirty Harry in retirement. Or coming out of it to finish off a few gangbanger thugs. At least, that’s what the trailers would have you believe. But this 2008 Clint Eastwood venture has a lot more depth and philosophical heft than you might expect.
Read MoreMrs. Harris Goes to Paris: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁
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Our modern day Cinderella is a middle aged war widow, but she’s a bit of a fairy godmother as well. Potential Prince Charmings sometimes disappoint, but others are hidden in plain sight.
Read MoreAll Creatures Great and Small (Updates on Seasons 4 and 5) 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You can’t help but fall in love with this 2020 British adaptation of James Herriot’s first unsteady steps as a young veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales (hills for us Yanks). It’s Midsomer without the murders, and an enchanting assortment of loveable and eccentric characters, humans and animals alike.
Read MoreBabette's Feast: Iridescent Turtle Soup with Sherry on the Side Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Like Babette’s actual epicurean dinner, the film about it is prepared with a deft hand. It is as subtle as the French caviar, as rich as the turtle soup, and as ephemeral as the bubbles in the exquisite Veuve Clicquot Champagne.
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Mystery Road: Aussie Zucchini and Bacon “Quiche” Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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An abandoned vehicle with no gas and doors askew like some wounded white Ibis failing to take flight. One and then two young men missing. Secret loves and liaisons, crimes buried and unearthed. The Australian Outback comes alive in all its glory, violence, and pain.
Read MoreWaitress: Chocolate Strawberry Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Time to revisit this delightfully outrageous tale of a small town waitress who copes with her soap opera life by creating pies that mirror her daily traumas. And the cast of assorted eccentrics is as unpredictable and whimsically delicious as the ingredients that overflow from the pastry.
Read MoreAvengers: Endgame: Black Widow Cocktail Recipeb🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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They do this one right, paring down the characters to an essential few and exploring their emotional depth. Avengers: Endgame takes risks and surprises us, mostly with its return to high quality acting and writing.
Read MoreThe Sandlot: Sandlot S’Mores Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Laugh out loud with this minor classic that stirs up a cocktail of Goonies, Stand by Me, Breaking Away, and The Christmas Story, with a little Cujo as our cherry on the top.
Read MoreThe Man in the High Castle : Classic Pot Roast Recipe🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Like the best of science fiction this fine series causes us to reflect on our own reality. And The Man in the High Castle is even more relevant than when it first aired in 2015 through 2019.
Read MoreThe Life List: “Ghosted” Corned Beef Hash 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Can you remember your 13-year-old self? Your first teenage years when everything was exciting, crazy, scary, and amazing all at once?
Read MoreMoonstruck: Italian Sausage and Egg Breakfast Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Flawless, even as it shows all our human flaws right up there on the big screen. It’s enough to make you believe in true love and second chances all over again. And the Italian humor and philosophy are the icing on the cake.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreRescued by Ruby: Rhode Island Hot Wiener Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If we ever needed a tonic for sore souls, now is the time. And riding to our rescue is Ruby, the last chance shelter dog that will steal your heart, and maybe your dinner, your child’s toy, and the stuffing out of your couch.
Read MoreBlood Diamond: Tropical African Sangria Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the Hollywood we used to know and love. A sweeping landscape of unearthly beauty and savage bloodshed, a charming cad ready for redemption, and the committed beauty to guide him there. A father willing to risk everything to save his son. And one very large diamond that makes the difference to them all.
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