Premium Rush: Beef and Bean Burrito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This bold and fresh chase film is fueled the old fashioned way, with pure adrenaline and muscle. Not to mention a lot of gray matter as well.
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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.
Rush: Lobster Stuffed Mushroom Reipe
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Most racing films are as dull and predictable as the round and round again laps that seem to last forever. Not true with Ron Howard's 2013 film about two real life Formula 1 drivers in the 1970s. His film sparkles with wit, wisdom, and wry humor, and it explodes off the screen with the same supercharged power as the cars and the men behind the wheels.
Read MoreThe Aeronauts: Black Velvet Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This is the kind of movie that used to pack the movie theaters not too long ago. It’s charged with adventure, the kind that literally puts us on the edge of our seats, gasping for breath, or maybe even letting out a few tepid screams – which need not be tepid in this case, since we are watching this original Amazon film in the comfort of our own living room.
Read MoreThe Grey: Pepper-Honey Cedar Plank Salmon Recipe 🥁🥁
/Existentialism for dummies. Oil roughnecks channeling Jean Paul Sartre in the snowy Alaska wilderness, with Liam Neeson leading us all astray. What a disappointment.
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Manhunt: Deadly Games: Peach–Chipotle Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Although the events chronicled begin in 1996, Manhunt: Deadly Games is more timely than ever. It exposes the media malfeasance and FBI arrogance that ruined the life of Richard Jewell when they wrongly portrayed the “hero” security guard who found a deadly backpack at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, as the culprit.
Read MoreBernie: Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/True crime TV: Slacker edition. Or East Texas’ Fargo, as director Richard Linklater dubbed it. Any way you put it, this dark comedy has a bumper crop of talent.
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears: Devils on Horseback Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you’ve missed those Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries since they stopped filming 5 years ago, welcome back with her delicious new feature length film. We’ve always known she has a little James Bond in her, but to our delight in this film she goes Indiana Jones on us, absent his hat and bullwhip.
Read MoreBalthazar: The Parisian Flipped Martini Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s been compared to Castle, Bones, and The Mentalist, but this French series puts them to shame. Balthazar – great chef, athlete, extreme sports aficionado, and oh, formidable forensic pathologist – has enough presence, savior faire, panache and other fancy French-named attributes to be in a class by himself.
Read MoreShetland: Burns Night Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Shetland has it all. The stark beauty of the grand cliffs looming over the plunging North Sea, a lilting Scottish brogue that washes over you in soft waves, and a compelling lead who is a great detective and overall lovely man, too. No ponies yet, but we can hope.
Read MoreThe Serpent's Tooth Suppers: Corn on the Cob and Grilled Sausage Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Celebrate barbecue season with these delicious grilling choices: Corn on the Cob and Sausage. The recipes are from Different Drummer’s own The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
Read MoreThe Guardian: New England Clam Chowder Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Above you the chopper blades whip through an icy wind. Below looms an angry sea that tosses a flailing fishing boat and its desperate crew in the churning currents. Would you have the courage to jump into these dark and frigid waters to save them?
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Summer 2014 - Unexpected and Delicious Vacation Dinners: Creamy Cajun Pasta Alfredo Recipe
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Oh, what wonders and delights the summer of 2014 has offered. In what I could have titled “Eating My way through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and then Back to the Texas Hill Country,” I was in for great expectations fulfilled as well as piquant culinary surprises.
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The Client: Antoine’s Creole Seafood Gumbo Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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The big names may get top billing (except here), but the kid is the core. Just as in Mark Twain and Steven Spielberg, he knows the truth even if he wraps it up in a package of lies to survive.
Read MoreThe Adjustment Bureau: New York’s Garbage Plate Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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There was a new wind blowing through Hollywood when this film was made – light and sweet, and it was neither befouled with the stagnant decay of nihilism nor bogged down with political polemics.
Read MoreEx Machina: Brown Rice and Black Bean Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Less is more here. With a minimal cast and a singular plot, writer/director Alex Garland nails the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Read MoreSerenity: Shepherd's Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Five hundred years into our future the world is anything but serene for the ragtag crew of spaceship Serenity. It’s job enough to keep the bucket of bolts running, let alone having to evade a lethal soft spoken assassin and roving bands of space cannibals hungry for new meat.
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Air: Southern Banana Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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This seems a compelling and sweet film about risking everything for someone you believe in. It even has streaks of genius, most of which is due to Matt Damon’s brilliant performance.
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Concrete Cowboy: Slow Cooked Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget John Travolta in Urban Cowboy (1980), the countrified version of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and join Idris Elba in the real thing. These are no honkytonk Gilley’s Club mechanical bull riders. They ride real flesh and blood horses, and Idris Elba’s character Harp even houses his in the living room.
Read MoreMusic 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.
Read MoreInside 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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