The Finest Hours: Massachusetts Chili Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A sweet romance, a reluctant hero, and the storm of a century. With none of the hype and over the top mayhem of most disaster flicks, this film draws us in by tuning it down.
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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, too.
Jennifer Eight: Persimmon Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Feast on a filet mignon mystery that will pique your intellect and send a shiver up your spine. While the underpinnings of the film are ghastly in themselves – a serial killer has just finished off his eighth victim – the horror does not slap you in the face. Instead it nibbles around the edges of the screen like a malevolent shadow with a hunger that will not die.
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Olympus Has Fallen: Best Ever Grilled Veggie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Pass the popcorn and strap yourself in for the ride. It’s time to revisit this terrific 2013 thriller, and it’s no surprise that it was the sneering critics rather than the plot that was so predictable.
Read MoreTo Catch a Thief: French Riviera Goat’s Cheese Ciabatta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Off to the French Riviera, the celebrated Côte d'Azur, where you can live the good life with handsome and urbane Cary Grant and luminescent Grace Kelly at the zenith of her career.
Read MoreOn the Waterfront: Hoboken Happy Hour Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s dark and dirty on the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, a jungle of crime and corruption. Squeal and you’ll have a convenient “accident,” the longshoremen unloading your carcass with the same muscled efficiency they use to ply their trade.
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16 Blocks: Scrumptious Strawberry Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Masquerading as an action picture, 16 Blocks is really the story of two outcasts struggling for self-respect, dignity, and perhaps a shot at redemption in their dead end lives.
Read MoreCatch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Remember when going to the movies was a welcome escape from times of turbulence and trouble instead of a nosedive into them? Well, Steven Spielberg did when he made this sunny film that is laugh out loud at times. It’s the perfect medicine, and Leonardo DiCaprio administers it with professional expertise.
Read MoreThe Godfather Trilogy: Italian Gravy and Cannoli Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With Hollywood still sputtering, now is the time to review some old favorites and see them in a new light. Such is the case with the Godfather Trilogy, one of the best films series ever made.
Read MoreState of Play: Steamed Blue Crabs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This fast-paced thriller provides enough superior action, acting and atmosphere to keep you on the edge of your seat during its not quite two hour run. It’s not the adrenaline-pumping, nausea-inducing shaky camera world kill tour that The Bourne Identity franchise has morphed into – there’s no way the now pudgy Russell Crowe could keep up the pace, but he more than makes up for it with his rumpled reporter’s instincts to find out the truth no matter where it takes him.
Read MoreThe Equalizer 2: True Turkish Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Can we ever get enough of Denzel? Not hardly. Even if this film doesn’t draw on his deeper acting talents, we love him just the same. An enjoyable thriller well paced and poignant. And in some cases, better than the original.
Read MoreSound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Despite its 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 MoreGloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 1/2
/Hungary in the 1930s, and Laszlo Szabo’s Budapest restaurant, as well as the man himself, stands as a last bastion of elegance, civility and grace in a world that is slowly spiraling into chaos. While his beautiful Ilona, like her Greek namesake Helen, is the center of her own small circle of adulation and destruction.
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Vertigo: Bittersweet Chocolate Madeleine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Kim Novak turns down the heat to become Hitchcock’s icy blonde, but she’s hot enough to melt Mr. Nice Guy, Jimmy Stewart, the ex-cop charged with watching over her. Rediscover why Hitchcock is the one everyone imitates as you are sucked into this vortex of lust, obsession, and longing in what some consider his finest film ever.
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Red Eye: Frito Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Get your Tex Mex on while you watch a great plane flick. No big names, no glitzy promos, but this 2005 summer surprise delivers everything the high profile thrillers promised without the pouty stars and their tabloid lives.
Read MoreCasablanca: Rick’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Behind the scenes, its temperamental stars didn’t always hit it off, its Oscar wins were a real surprise to the cast, and it wasn’t until 1957 that it really caught on.
Read MoreBefore the Fall: Baked Sauerkraut with Apples Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Although its is set in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s, Before the Fall is less about the evils of fascism than the struggle between idealism and ambition, the clash between fathers’ expectations and sons’ dreams, and the repercussions of a flawed ideology upon the individuals who espouse it.
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Anatomy of a Murder: Baked Lemon and Herb Trout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Take a break from the new, mostly mediocre streaming offerings to see this classic once dubbed the finest courtroom drama ever made. Despite the fact that the black and white feature was made more than 60 years ago, it appears as fresh and contemporary as the many imitators it has spawned. And like real life, neither the cast nor the verdict is entirely predictable.
Read MoreJagged Edge: Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic and Nicoise Olives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This taut courtroom drama still packs a punch 38 years after its release, throwing the defendant and then the prosecution against the ropes. Caught in between is the beautiful defense attorney, in love with the law and all too soon with the accused himself, and trying to stave off any doubts that he really is an innocent man.
Read MoreThe Lincoln Lawyer: The LA Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Take one part Rooster Cogburn grit, add a dash of the Han Solo buccaneer, and shake with a smidgeon of James Bond savoir-faire. It adds up to a wonderful Matthew McConaughey martini. Most of it’s the hard liquor of bad boy charm with just a sly hint of Vermouth’s idealism.
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The Verdict: Grilled Lobster Tail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sidney Lumet directing Paul Newman in his prime, James Mason superb playing the eloquent villain, with a taut and unpredictable script as only David Mamet can pen. About as perfect as it gets.
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