City of Ember: Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁

This science fiction/fantasy strikes just the right note between light humor and action as two brave teens try to save their underground city before it reaches its expiration date. Unfortunately, the adults on hand wrap themselves in cocoons of corruption and blankets of denial as the generator that has sustained them for two centuries winds itself and them with it down to oblivion.

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Just Like Heaven: Broccoli with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce Recipe

Just Like Heaven: Broccoli with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce Recipe
Just Like Heaven is a pastry puff of a film complete with a plucky heroine, lovingly flawed sidekicks, and that wonderful almost too late awakening when the sweetly obtuse hero finally realizes he is in the full throws of love. It’s enough to make you believe in fate, true love, and happy endings all over again.
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Cars: Route 66 Chili Recipe

Cars: Route 66 Chili Recipe
This razzle-dazzle racing epic is fine family fun, though it seems more geared to NASCAR dads than the tots they may take with them to the theatre. The little ones will love the racing scenes, and while the nostalgic tribute to the old Route 66 sandwiched in between them is a bit too long, it’s sure to please any grandparents in the audience.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2: Mrs. Weasley’s Rock Cake Recipe

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2: Mrs. Weasley’s Rock Cake Recipe
This final showdown between Harry and Lord Voldemort – we can actually say his name now – will keep you on the edge of your seat with its nonstop action and unraveled secrets. But there is very little of the early magic that penetrates the gray darkness casting its pall on this ultimate battle between good and evil.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1: Deathly Hallows Hot Chocolate Recipe

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1: Deathly Hallows Hot Chocolate Recipe
The magic is over, for me at least. This is a film for the legion of Rowling fans who camp overnight for the privilege of buying her latest screed, who probably know more about her odd set of characters and curses than is actually good for them. Those anonymous ranks of pasty-faced devotes who devour her pages like innocuous Death Eaters rendered mute and immobile.
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The Avengers: Let’s Do Shawarma Recipe

The mega-opening of Marvel’s The Avengers blasts down on us like an early heat wave, ushering in summer hyper thrills even if the calendar disagrees. And what a package of men in tights, spangles, “their mother’s drapes” and retro Black Sabbath t-shirts they are, even if more than half of their energies and egos are directed at their own dysfunctional family of superheroes instead of the emerald robed Loki intent on taking over the world.

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