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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The 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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East 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 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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Fugitive 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 MorePartners 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.
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries: Toronto Three Cheese Scalloped Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Murdoch is a buttoned down Toronto detective at the turn of the century. He is obsessed with science and new methods. But there is a playfulness and a passion locked inside the man and the program itself that will hook you sooner rather than later.
Read MoreFences: Kickin’ Collard Greens Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This one is for grownups only. No car chases, explosions, or superheroes. Just acting on a level rarely seen and a script both timely and timeless, simply elegant and elegantly simple, tightly crafted yet appearing effortless.
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Reagan: Cold War Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Reagan, the man. He certainly failed as much or more than he succeeded. And he didn’t hit his stride until he was in his seventies. Love him or hate him, he left an indelible mark on America.
Read MoreThe Edge: Kodiak Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A screenplay superbly crafted by David Mamet, Anthony Hopkins working his magic alongside a compelling Alec Baldwin, not to mention a 9-foot Kodiak bear bulldozing his way through the Alaskan wilderness. What’s not to like?
Read MoreGenius: Blue Q – Blueberry BBQ Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Who knew two Brits could tell the story of an American genius so persuasively? Well, when they are acting greats Colin Firth and Jude Law, it begins to make sense.
Read MoreMission Impossible: Fallout: The French Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Make it a double feature, a followup to Top Gun: Maverick: Great Balls of Fire Cocktail, with“one-man supernova” Tom Cruise saving the the world once again.
Read MoreDeconstructing Sherlock Holmes: A Step Too Far? Apple Strudel, Custard Tarts, Cold Asparagus with Walnut Drizzle and More Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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In 1891 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the enigmatic detective, and he has been fascinating and frustrating readers ever since. This is especially true with many recent reincarnations on screen that emphasize his eccentricities and personal foibles.
Read MoreMcDonalds and Dodds: Blood Bath Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Light and bubbly like dry vintage champagne, Amazon’s McDonalds and Dodds is one of the best mysteries to hit the screen. The opening says it all: A score as crisp and delightful as the vintage wine with the medieval city of Bath represented like a modern D.C. Escher graphic print. This mystery lover, classically trained violinist, and one time medieval scholar finds it irresistible.
Read MoreWhy Didn’t They Ask Evans? Pub Grub: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Suddenly remakes of Agatha Christie are all the rage. Most of them are tres ordinaire, as my father would say, but a few are quite good. This film fits that category.
Read MoreThe Aviator: Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you rent this movie because of your fascination with Howard Hughes, pioneer of aviation, you may walk away disappointed. But if you want to know more about the flawed genius as a man in all his tattered complexity, you will be richly rewarded.
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