Riddick: Peanut Butter Fudge
/Hollywood, the slick seducer. And Riddick, with his whiskey voice and hypnotic eyes, draws us into his world of swift brutality before we realize its core of degeneracy. What a guilty pleasure!
Read MoreOften 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.
Volver: Spanish Pork Tenderloin in Orange Sauce
/Perhaps Pedro Almodovar is the Spanish version of Alfred Hitchcock, who always ended his weekly televised presentation of murder and mayhem with an acidly ironic maxim. With an equally insouciant style, Almodovar sugarcoats dark deeds with a vibrant palette, a practical veneer, and a comic brush.
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District B13: French Beer-Braised Sausages
/Forget your stereotype of the cigarette smoking Frenchman who wiles away his day sipping coffee and spewing anti-American vitriol at the local café. These Parisians, as well as the actors who perform all their own stunts, are clearly cut from French Foreign Legion cloth.
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Jurassic World: Fossil Fuel Cocktail Recipe
/Hollywood, the ultimate arcade. Video games, comic books, and now a theme park brought to the big screen in all their slick and superficial glory. Corporate moneymakers that slyly impugn corporate greed while they revel in it.
Read MoreThe Connection: Marseilles Style Spicy Clams and Mussels Recipe
/He’s no Popeye Doyle, this elegant French police magistrate who’s after a nasty Marseilles gang of heroine traffickers. But he is every bit as determined and relentless.
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Battle: Los Angeles: Marine SOS Breakfast Recipe
/Like a perfect roast beef, this film is not subtle, nuanced, or dripping in French chef political sauce. It is delicious, completely satisfying, and a bit bloody. Just the way I like it.
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The Monuments Men: Baked Brie Recipe
/Ocean’s Eleven do World War II. But what happened in Vegas should have stayed in Vegas, since the flippant tone doesn’t work here. Someone should have told George Clooney that taking it to the man in Sin City doesn’t equate with defying the Nazi in war-ravaged Europe.
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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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