The Grey: Pepper-Honey Cedar Plank Salmon Recipe 🥁🥁
/Existentialism for dummies. Oil roughnecks channeling Jean Paul Sartre in the snowy Alaska wilderness, with Liam Neeson leading us all astray. What a disappointment.
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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.
Manhunt: Deadly Games: Peach–Chipotle Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Although the events chronicled begin in 1996, Manhunt: Deadly Games is more timely than ever. It exposes the media malfeasance and FBI arrogance that ruined the life of Richard Jewell when they wrongly portrayed the “hero” security guard who found a deadly backpack at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, as the culprit.
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 MoreSummer 2014 - Unexpected and Delicious Vacation Dinners: Creamy Cajun Pasta Alfredo Recipe
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Oh, what wonders and delights the summer of 2014 has offered. In what I could have titled “Eating My way through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and then Back to the Texas Hill Country,” I was in for great expectations fulfilled as well as piquant culinary surprises.
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The Adjustment Bureau: New York’s Garbage Plate Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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There was a new wind blowing through Hollywood when this film was made – light and sweet, and it was neither befouled with the stagnant decay of nihilism nor bogged down with political polemics.
Read MoreConcrete Cowboy: Slow Cooked Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget John Travolta in Urban Cowboy (1980), the countrified version of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and join Idris Elba in the real thing. These are no honkytonk Gilley’s Club mechanical bull riders. They ride real flesh and blood horses, and Idris Elba’s character Harp even houses his in the living room.
Read MoreMusic and Lyrics: Perfect Mashed Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Did unimpressed critics turn you away from this delightful romantic comedy, one that celebrates the curative power of love and laughter? Well, it’s time to remedy that.
Read MoreThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Swedish Meatball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This original Swedish film is the best of the bunch and head an shoulders above any sequels or the American versions that followed. A disgraced journalist and a troubled computer hacker find more than they bargain for as they explore a forty-year-old disappearance. Each clue leads them into a darker realm in this finely plotted, stark vision of power, violence, and depravity.
Read MoreChild 44: Blini - Russian Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Follow the critics’ advice on this one and stay home – that is, unless you value fine acting, measured suspense, and emotional texture. Another bonus – they banned it in Russia.
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Infidel: Persian Wedding Kabob Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Don’t miss Jim Caviezel’s compelling thriller, which displays the courage and conviction of the actor as well as the Christian blogger he portrays on film. Written, directed, and produced by Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh, it is based on real life Robert Levinson and a composite of several other innocents who died in the Middle East.
Read MoreAngels and Demons: Bones of the Dead Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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If you let the cranky critics scare you away from this fairly pleasant diversion, stream it now. Expect to be awed by the beauty of Rome – the gilded inner courts of the Vatican, the magnificent fountains, the centuries old marble statues still guarding this ancient city -- all of which stand up considerably better than the over-stretched plot.
Read MoreBeowulf: Anglo-Saxon Quail and Bacon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It's all sweet eye candy – a hideous monster consumed with bloodlust, a golden dragon sparkling in the sun, a heroic warrior with rippling flesh and courageous heart. And did I mention Angelina Jolie clothed only in dripping gold at the crux of it all?
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The Serpent’s Tooth: Warm Red-Skinned Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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My new novel, The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery is now out in paperback. Get your new year off to a great start with this terrific Warm Red-Skinned Potato Salad Recipe, one of 10 delicious ones in the book.
Read MoreHold the Dark: Kodiak Casserole, Smoked Salmon Quiche Recipes and More 🥁🥁
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If you loved Wind River, you might like this other frigid thriller from Netflix. Or maybe not.
Read MoreEnola Holmes: Purple Plum Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A thoroughly delightful new spin on the Sherlock Holmes saga introduces Enola, the heretofore-unknown younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. She is a feisty, fiery feminist in the making, but she also has the great deductive powers of her brother.
Read MoreThe Descent: Trust Me Trail Mix Recipe
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Sure, we can understand the lure of these underground caverns, cool and dark, softened by cool mist and electrified by the spirit of adventure! But the buff sextet of British babes on screen get more than they bargain for in their descent not only into Mother Earth but madness as well?
Read MoreJohn Wick: Chapter 2: Bones of the Dead Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Stylishly seductive, this slickly choreographed killing spree is one supersized guilty pleasure. Exotic and glamorous foreign locales a la a James Bond backdrop and armed combat performed with martial arts finesse.
Read MoreThe Gift: Hollywood Hills Fruit Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Nothing is quite what it seems in this thriller. Of course, the old high school friend, with his goatee and Beatles style hair, puts us on alert at once. But the handsome couple that end up hosting this unwelcome guest have their secrets as well.
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Grantchester: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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We’ve all adored Vicar Sidney Chambers, a scotch drinking smoker who loved jazz and was not unappreciative of the ladies. But now there’s a new vicar in town, and the young motorcycle riding vicar is just as rebellious as Sidney.
Read MoreGeorge Gently: Northumberland Pan Haggerty Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The green fields, rocky outcroppings, and gentle rivers of Northumberland are now the haunts of former Scotland Yard detective Inspector George Gently, who finds crime in the gentle outbacks just as compelling as it ever was in London. Now, thanks to the wonders of streaming, I can transport myself to the North of England. So can you.
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