Music and Lyrics: Perfect Mashed Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Did unimpressed critics turn you away from this delightful romantic comedy, one that celebrates the curative power of love and laughter? Well, it’s time to remedy that.
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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.
Inside Man: New York Style Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Like a talented chef creating a dish from someone’s leftovers, Spike Lee takes the stale ingredients of a bank heist and cooks up something surprisingly fresh. It’s not cops and robbers so much as psychological warfare, and with the likes of Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Clive Owen playing the mind games, who wouldn’t want a front row seat?
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Safe House: African Delight Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Some of them may be traitors, but they are no cowards – those CIA-trained-spooks bloodying up the screen in this internecine battle to the death. Too bad I can’t say the same for Hollywood.
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Sicario: Trudy’s Mexican Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Just like its starring new FBI recruit, the audience is in the dark about the gritty reality behind this Mexican drug cartel mission. It’s a reckless ride from Phoenix to Juarez, whether the grotesque bodies hide behind suburban walls or the hanging ones offer a macabre welcome.
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Zero Dark Thirty: Tandoori Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Perhaps the most striking element of this fine film is its surprising restraint. It is essentially free of Hollywood's usual addictions – political posturing, gratuitous violence, obligatory sex, and character exploitation. Instead we get the real deal – almost.
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Citadel: Parisian “Serendipiti” Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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It aspires to be a combo of James Bond and Mission Impossible, but the Russo Brothers seem more intent on creating a money making franchi$e with multiple spin-offs rather than paying homage to classic spy thrillers.
Read MoreThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Swedish Meatball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This original Swedish film is the best of the bunch and head an shoulders above any sequels or the American versions that followed. A disgraced journalist and a troubled computer hacker find more than they bargain for as they explore a forty-year-old disappearance. Each clue leads them into a darker realm in this finely plotted, stark vision of power, violence, and depravity.
Read MoreAustin Mysteries: Rainey Street Drownings 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Updated Information
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You don’t need to be an APD or an FBI to figure this out,” says Elsie John, mother of 30-year old Jason John, whose body was recovered from the lake on February 13th after being missing for 8 days.
Read MoreChild 44: Blini - Russian Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Follow the critics’ advice on this one and stay home – that is, unless you value fine acting, measured suspense, and emotional texture. Another bonus – they banned it in Russia.
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Zulu: Cawl (Traditional Welsh Soup) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1964 epic is 31year-old Michael Caine’s breakout performance. He’s blond and semi-gorgeous, but also prissy, entitled, a “sleepy-eyed…arse,” who nevertheless ultimately shows both “guts and sensitivity.” (Roderick Heath)
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Infidel: Persian Wedding Kabob Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Don’t miss Jim Caviezel’s compelling thriller, which displays the courage and conviction of the actor as well as the Christian blogger he portrays on film. Written, directed, and produced by Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh, it is based on real life Robert Levinson and a composite of several other innocents who died in the Middle East.
Read MoreAngels and Demons: Bones of the Dead Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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If you let the cranky critics scare you away from this fairly pleasant diversion, stream it now. Expect to be awed by the beauty of Rome – the gilded inner courts of the Vatican, the magnificent fountains, the centuries old marble statues still guarding this ancient city -- all of which stand up considerably better than the over-stretched plot.
Read MoreBeowulf: Anglo-Saxon Quail and Bacon Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It's all sweet eye candy – a hideous monster consumed with bloodlust, a golden dragon sparkling in the sun, a heroic warrior with rippling flesh and courageous heart. And did I mention Angelina Jolie clothed only in dripping gold at the crux of it all?
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The Serpent’s Tooth: Deep Fried Biscuits with Honey Butter Recipe
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You can never go wrong with these delightful Deep Fried Biscuits, no matter what day of the week or time of the year. This recipe is from Different Drummer’s Own The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today’s recipe is from another character in The Serpent’s Tooth.
Read MoreThe Serpent’s Tooth: Warm Red-Skinned Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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My new novel, The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery is now out in paperback. Get your new year off to a great start with this terrific Warm Red-Skinned Potato Salad Recipe, one of 10 delicious ones in the book.
Read MoreBreakdown: Diner Home Fries Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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A breakdown on a desert road. A menacing pickup with an even more menacing driver. A local diner simmering with hostility. And, oh yes, a beautiful wife who has vanished without a trace. And did I mention Kurt Russell?
Read MoreUp: Tisana: Venezuelan Party Drink Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Up soured into the sky and box office heaven in 2009, showing once again that animated features are proving more relevant to today’s audiences than fleshed out mega-productions. And like the best of poetry, they “teach and delight.”
Read MoreHold the Dark: Kodiak Casserole, Smoked Salmon Quiche Recipes and More 🥁🥁
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If you loved Wind River, you might like this other frigid thriller from Netflix. Or maybe not.
Read MoreBatman Begins: Flowery Canapés with Cream Cheese and Watercress Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Its fourth time around, subject material patently familiar with yet another actor behind the bat mask, we’d hardly think that this would be the one. But it is.
Read MoreMs. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries: Cheddar Cheese Straws Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries is almost as much fun as its prequel. Peregrine is every bit as prying, unrelenting, and audacious as her Aunt Phryne. And as dazzling in her fashionable 60s attire, aquamarine eye shadow, mini skirts, and bold geometric prints that take Different Drummer back to her own youth at Oak Park River Forest High.
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