Lovejoy: Chicken Parisian Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Think Antiques Roadshow, but supercharged with a good hearted rogue and a cast of characters that make Father Brown’s bunch pedestrian by comparison.
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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.
Blood Diamond: Tropical African Sangria Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the Hollywood we used to know and love. A sweeping landscape of unearthly beauty and savage bloodshed, a charming cad ready for redemption, and the committed beauty to guide him there. A father willing to risk everything to save his son. And one very large diamond that makes the difference to them all.
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The Long, Hot Summer: William Faulkner’s Mint Julep Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, he’s a con man at best, and a ruthless opportunist who doesn’t seem to care whom he hurts along the way, but his slick charm draws us in even if the prim Clara seems immune to it.
Read MoreClarkson’s Farm with Season 3 Update: Lamb Chops and New Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Diddly Squat Farm continues to battle the British bureaucracy, the whims of weather, the travails of falling in love with piglets and baby goats, and the brainstorms of Jeremy himself, not to mention a contest between him and his new “farm manager” Kaleb, who treats his boss as an equal now.
Read MoreThe Ipcress File with *Update on New Series: Champignon Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This classic British thriller has the nitty gritty stuff of Cold War spy stories – tedious stakeouts, dark hallways, rain-polished streets, and a bureaucracy almost as deadly as the enemy. Meet Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer, the anti-James Bond, who even with his cockney accent and horn-rimmed glasses is every bit as sexy as his better-known rival. And did I mention that he can cook, too?
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Longmire: Navajo Kneel Down Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Big sky country. Snow peaked mountains. Clear streams cutting through vast grasslands. And yes, a few pesky corpses cluttering up the landscape. It’s a good thing Sheriff Walt Longmire is there to clean things up.
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Victorian Steak and Mushroom Ale Pie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Venture into Victorian London’s foggy night air for a waiting carriage as the snap of the whip and echoing hoof beats pierce the darkness. No, you are not on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes, or even his newly invented younger sister Enola. You are going with Miss Scarlet, another private detective set to prove herself in a man’s world.
Read MoreEndeavour: Fish and Chips to Die For Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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(Complete with New Update and commentary on the final season) Can a prequel ever better its original? Such might be the case in Masterpiece Mystery’s "Endeavour,” about the early career of the curmudgeonly Inspector Morse first featured in that spot.
Read MoreLetters to Juliet: Tuscan Bruschetta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/In 2010 I found an undiscovered gem. The plot is a gentle drive down rambling country roads, not the roller coaster ride with stomach dropping thrills or tortuous twists we’ve come to expect too often. Its destination is not unexpected, but just as sweet nonetheless, and it recalls something from another era, a sense of grace.
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Three Coins in the Fountain: Roman Pasta (Cacio e Pepe) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget the dark adventures that dance across our current screens and return to a place of light, air, and happiness. Beautiful Italy, three tug-at-your-heart romances, and a classic Oscar winning song sung by none other than an uncredited Frank Sinatra. You could not hope for breezier way to usher in soon to be summer.
Read MoreThe Passion of the Christ Recut: My Mother's Easter Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 2005 film was a courageous departure from the cynical, anti-religious bent of current Hollywood. If you missed this epic the first time around, this may be just the right time to see it.
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Cabrini: Italian Jam Tart (Crostata) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A beautiful tale of an extraordinary woman, enhanced with astounding recreations of Italy and New York near the turn of the century. But why did they dismiss the most important focus of American’s first female saint?
Read MoreMr. Jones: Russian Sour Cream Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One was a real journalist, the other a depraved opportunist who covered up a famine. Guess which won the Pulitzer Prize?
Read MoreSound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Despite its 2023 July release, this wasn’t exactly a summer popcorn movie. But it is definitely a must see because it exposes a concealed crisis from which too many wish to avert their eyes: the human trafficking scourge that affects approximately 2 million children a year.
Read MoreSeven Kings Must Die: Gossip’s Cup Ale Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Wow!. This is a new Uhtred. Uthred the peacemaker with no woman by his side. His hair is graying, and he and his men now spend their time like old soldiers, recounting their battles and washing it down with plenty of ale.
Read MoreThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas: German Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Let us hope that this simple story will remind us of that vow we all took in the Holocaust’s aftermath: Never forget.
Read MoreFather Brown: Strawberry Scone Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Father Brown is more concerned with saving souls than solving mysteries, but he’s pretty darn good at each. The BBC series, like his reassuring presence, is as comforting as a cup of tea and a warm fireside, even if an alarming number of corpses litter the idyllic English countryside.
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Thirteen Lives: No Bake Thai Cheesecake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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You are there right with them. The two cave divers that are the focus, but also Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers attempting a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand.
Read MoreEvelyn: Dublin Coddle (Sausage, Bacon. Potatoes, and Onions) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Forget that grotesque Oscar nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, and watch another Irish film with another Irish star. This one is over 2 decades old, but it resonates from an era before the world had turned itself upside down.
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