The Matrix: The Oracle’s Chocolate Chip Cookie 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.
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 MoreMidsomer Murders: English Trifle with Fresh Raspberries and Sherry Drizzle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The long enduring British Television mystery series, Midsomer Murders, is like the comfort of an old friend, the kind you welcome to your home without any compunctions about dust or dirty dishes. It is a soothing cup of tea on a cold December day, that comfy old sweater you can never discard even after it is no longer in fashion.
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Chinatown : Tom Collins with Lime 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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California’s corruption and water mismanagement go all the way to the 30s in this excellent film noir. So now this classic that was nominated for 11 Oscars is not just a great cinema; it’s a wakeup call as well.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreSchindler’s List : Polish Dumplings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Probably the most significant Holocaust film ever made, with Steven Spielberg using his directorial clout to raise awareness of one of the worst atrocities of the last century. Over a quarter of a century later, Schindler’s List is even more relevant today.
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It Happened One Night : Carrot Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Granddaddy of all rom-coms is still a delight, even if it is 90 years old! And it was the first film to sweep the Oscars, bringing home Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, and Best Writing [Only others are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and Silence of the Lambs 1991)]
Read MoreIt’s a wonderful Life : Bermuda Crescent Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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This Christmas classic was the all-time favorite of its director, Frank Capra, and he screened it for his family every Christmas. It was also one of Jimmy Stewart’s favorites, too.
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Joyeux Noel: Alsatian Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Leave your comfortable digs to huddle in the mud-caked trenches of World War I. It is December 1914, just four months into this bloody fight, and the entrenched Scotch, French, and German soldiers share bullets, blood, and cold, but on this Christmas Eve, they will find something else to share as well.
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Happyness: Million Dollar Macaroni and Cheese Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Forget all those clichéd Christmas movies that are dragged out this time of year like last year’s tinsel, and see one that captures the essence of the season without even trying. You won’t find another that better depicts the resilience of the human spirit or its strength and determination amid the buffeting winds of fate.
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Three Days of the Condor: The Condor Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This 1975 thriller has aged well. The classic paranoia and suspicion of government agencies seem particularly appropriate today. And while it still keeps you riveted to your seat, this thriller actually takes time for character development and great dialogue, unlike the frenetic features Hollywood currently puts out.
Read MoreWhile You Were Sleeping: Homemade Eggnog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sandra Bullock glows as the lovelorn CTA ticket taker hopelessly in love with a regular commuter, but the whole cast is tremendous as well. She is the shimmering star atop the Christmas tree, but the others are the lights and ornaments that make this film sparkle.
Read MoreEast 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 MoreThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.
Read MoreCapote: Perfect Roast Turkey Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman does not just portray the eccentric Capote in his 2005 Oscar winning role, but for 98 minutes on screen, he becomes him. Hoffman’s Capote is at once mercurial, maudlin, and manipulative, but also empathetic and at some points, well meaning.
Death 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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Gaslight: Luscious and Lethal English Dessert Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Gaslight: To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity, particularly by leading them to doubt their own experiences or perceptions of reality.
Here is the 1944 classic that spawned the term.
Read MoreFugitive Pieces: Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Fugitive Pieces is a must see for discriminating viewers. The kind of film that haunts you long after the screen darkens with its kaleidoscope of images – brutish death and loving kindness, cramped apartments and glorious sun drenched shores, brooding reveries and joyous passion.
Read MoreHinterland: Welsh Tea Cakes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A wave washes on a lonely shore. Wind cuts through desolate fields. An abandoned house perches on a solitary peak. Welcome to Wales, where the murderers, victims, and even the detectives are as bereft and melancholy as the land they inhabit.
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Partners 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.
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