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.
Divergent: Chicago Beer-Braised Burger Recipe
/It plays around with ideas like the dangers of conformity, but what really brings in the box office is the chemistry between its two stars and the kick ass action. The first is a slow sizzle and the second red hot – a nice combination of opposites.
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Kathy’s Oscar Picks: February 2015
/Different Drummer has never been one to follow the herd, so my Oscar picks, as I noted last year, are not predictions. My picks are based on the excellence of the films and actors in themselves.
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Exodus: Gods and Kings: Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe
/I liked the book better than the movie. The Bible’s story of Moses leading his people to freedom is much more compelling than Ridley Scott’s cinematic version. But what can you expect when a self-acknowledged atheist with little sympathy for the religious storyline is the director?
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The Blue Room: Crème Brulee Recipe
/Billed in our local paper as a “Hitchockian story of l’amour fou or "crazy love,” The Blue Room lured me to it like a weary traveler finding a magnificent guesthouse in the middle of nowhere. This weary traveler and film critic warns you to stay away.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Devils on Horseback Appetizer Recipe
/Is it an artistic triumph, an opium dream, or simply a “beautiful mess”? Or perhaps this film is like a poem that comes out of nowhere and carries us away with it – on one mad ride through modern London, ancient monasteries, and the dreamscape of the human mind.
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Planes: Fire and Rescue: Campfire S’mores Recipe
/Pack your bags as we head to the Fusselodge, where Dusty Crophopper, famous for winning the Wings Around the Globe rally, becomes the world’s first crop-duster/firefighter.
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Firewall: Greek Pizza
/Nonstop action propels this high tech thriller grounded in good old-fashioned greed, cunning, and one man’s determination to protect his family. No hat or bullwhips here, but a mature Harrison Ford wields his cyber sword with as much lethal force as Indiana Jones’ legendary snap of the braided leather.
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Weston’s World – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: Tacodiles and Other Food-imal Recipes
/Maybe you also thought that the first Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs didn't really need a sequel because it sort of finishes the whole story in one film. But that was before they discovered that the machine had survived the explosion and was now creating living food!
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Crash: Crispy Potato and Wild Mushroom Tower Recipe
/Crash, the 2006 Oscar winner for Best Picture, is one of the most frank and insightful presentations of race ever committed to film. Prepare to have you own preconceptions shattered, shorn, and ripped apart like so much highway carnage, your own shiny Porsche of prejudice completely totaled and relegated to the junkyard.
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Weston Reviews Maleficent: Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Recipe
/I thought that the movie called Maleficent would be a great film and I don't think I was mistaken either. It portrays the side of the "evil witch" left unrevealed in the original movie Sleeping Beauty.
Read MoreMaleficent: Skinny Blueberry Daiquiri Recipe
/It’s come to this. Disney deconstructs Disney. Old Walt must be turning over in his grave. This newest adaptation of the 1959 animated version fits in perfectly with the upended politically correct values of our age. The wicked witch is a victim, a beautiful kind fairy only made bitter by humanity’s plunder, greed, and treachery.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past: Water Gate Salad Recipe
/The critics demonstrate once again that they are astonishingly easy to impress with hi tech pabulum as long as it hits the right politically correct notes.
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Beauty in Trouble: Czech Chicken Paprikash Recipe
/The choice is a classic one – between sex and security. And yes, most of the characters in this Czech film are flawed, their relationships dysfunctional. They wound each other with lacerating truths even as they awkwardly reach out for love or something like it.
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A Tale of Two Sisters: Korean Style Grilled Chicken Recipe
/A Tales of Two Sisters is an Edgar Allan Poe ghost story as Ingmar Bergman might have told it. Or less charitably, it seems the work of a precocious teenager who manages to fill it chock full of frightening images –ghostly apparitions and life-like nightmares that spew you awake in a heart pounding sweat—but isn’t particularly mindful about sewing it all together with a cord of logic.
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Godzilla: Godzilla Cookie Recipe
/Enough with the nuance. Godzilla is back, rampaging into theaters and chewing up the scenery as well as considerable portions of Japan, Honolulu, and the streets of San Francisco.
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Noah: Triple Berry Crisp Recipe
/Noah goes New Age. Or is the Biblical hero lost in one of the more cheesy “Star Trek” reruns with giant rock creatures emerging like stone versions of the Transformers to help build the Ark? This abominable mish mash of a film offends not just Judeo Christian sensibilities, but our cinematic senses as well.
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Ponyo: Asian Beef and Ramen Noodles
/Gone are wisecracking animals, and bigger than life villains; in place are creations both whimsical and surrealThis Japanese animation is very much like its imagery, which more resembles soft impressionist watercolors than what we’ve come to expect from our American feature length cartoons.
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Kathy's Oscar Picks, February 2014
/Different Drummer has never been one to follow the herd, so my Oscar picks, as I noted last year, are not predictions. I will not, like the malleable Academy members, be influenced by the likeability of the actors, the politically correct social causes their films espouse, nor the predictable pack of gushing or scornful critics who seem to care more about what others think of them than making sound and independent judgments. My picks are based on the excellence of the films and actors in themselves.
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