Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Casa Vega Classic Margarita 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.
Indiana Beach: Shafer Lake Cobb Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Oh, how times have changed. Especially weddings. It has been 57 years since that simmering August of 1968, when I married the love of my life. We honeymooned at his family cottage in rural Indiana for the grand sum of $50 – and that was spent on groceries!
Read MoreHillbilly Elegy: Hillbilly Chicken Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who am I? That question reverberates throughout great literature, including Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. And it just what JD Vance is asking in Hillbilly Elegy.
Read MoreThe Good Liar: Polish Hunter’s Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s witty and sophisticated, with light touches that lure us in. But’s its more like tragedy’s comic relief, which these Shakespearean trained leads wield with terrible ferocity when we least expect it.
Read MoreThe Revenant: Brandied Foie de Gras Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Jack London lives again in this brutal tale of survival and revenge. The key here is authenticity, and the cast and crew suffer for it almost as much as the legendary real life fur trapper who inspired the film.
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The 12th Man: Bløtkake (Norwegian Cream Cake) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Add this epic war adventure to your list of World War II classics. Norway’s version of Saving Private Ryan is top rate and one you will not soon forget.
Read MoreAustralia: Tim Tam Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This sweeping epic is what the big screen was made for – a country of austere beauty, its cruelty and benevolence as capricious as the rough souls that inhabit it. Unabashedly bold, brash, and romantic, the saga stampedes across the screen with nary a nod to nihilism or nuance, pausing only to tip its hat to a bit of self-aware irony.
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Crazy Heart: Bad Blake Biscuit Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This film has everything you love about country music, except the clichés. It’s a picture of the soft slide from fame – weariness and cheap whiskey, regrets and ratty hotels, a glamorous past and grungy gigs.
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Insomnia: High Octane Moose Milk Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This taut thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat even while it breaks the rules of its genre. Interweaving complex characters and plot, the nearly flawless film never drops a stitch.
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Quigley Down Under: Aussie Meat Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Tom Selleck, all 6’4” of his manly magnificence, is at his prime in this often-overlooked iconic Western. Remember when masculinity was not considered “toxic?” A man was as good as his word, he defended the helpless with firearms and his fists, and he didn’t back down from a fight.
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Quartet: French Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Dustin Hoffman hits all the right notes in his directorial debut about an English home for retired musicians. It comes somewhere in between the English melancholy glimpse into the abyss of old age offered by The Last Bus and the randy vulgar denial of it too often presented by Hollywood.
Read MoreMr. Holmes: Honey Flan Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The title says it all. Finally, some overdue respect for the iconic sleuth. And it's about time. He is 93 years old in this latest Holmes saga.
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A Remarkable Woman: Betsy Pirie (July 1911-March 2010)
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I met her walking in Austin’s Stacy Park, this thin octogenarian who always had a walking stick with her. We soon became good friends and began to time our walks so we could amble along together.
Marvellous: Different Drummer’s Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Right now the world seems an insecure and frightening place to us, doesn’t it? What better time to watch this terrific film about someone who never let the world or his inborn limitations get him down. Meet Neil Baldwin, Britain’s own version of Forest Gump, but without the Hollywood sentimentality.
Read MoreThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Scotch Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This isn’t just a slap in the face to the glamorized intrigue of the spy world; it’s a punch in the gut, a leveling one that bends you over and leaves you groaning. An unflinching portrait of moral compromise that slowly eats away at a man’s soul, whether he is on the right side or not.
Read MoreNorth by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Arguably Hitchcock’s popular and critical masterpiece, this film has it all. Cary Grant is magnificent as the wrongly accused man on the run, handling his dire straights with dry humor and nonchalance. The action set pieces are riveting and so superior to the CGI we typically get today. While the romantic banter has a verbal wit we seem to have forgotten on screen.
Read MoreCatch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Remember when going to the movies was a welcome escape from times of turbulence and trouble instead of a nosedive into them? Well, Steven Spielberg did when he made this sunny film that is laugh out loud at times. It’s the perfect medicine, and Leonardo DiCaprio administers it with professional expertise.
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 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 MoreThe Godfather Trilogy: Italian Gravy and Cannoli Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With Hollywood still sputtering, now is the time to review some old favorites and see them in a new light. Such is the case with the Godfather Trilogy, one of the best films series ever made.
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