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.
All Creatures Great and Small: Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese Tea Sandwich Recipe (with New Update on Season Four)🥁🥁🥁🥁
/You can’t help but fall in love with this 2020 British adaptation of James Herriot’s first unsteady steps as a young veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales (hills for us Yanks). It’s Midsomer without the murders, and an enchanting assortment of loveable and eccentric characters, humans and animals alike.
Read MoreThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.
Read MoreThe Year of Living Dangerously: Bir Pletok: Jakarta Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/An astonishingly young and vulnerable Mel Gibson careens between the influence of a mercurial photographer and his growing passion for a lovely British attaché in Jakarta, Indonesia. Festering poverty and violence envelop us, the heat palpitates like a hammering heartbeat, and ambition battles better angels.
Read MoreLincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
Read MoreI'm Not There: Bob Dylan's Perfect Mint Julep 🥁🥁🥁
/Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man: Monastery Soup 🥁🥁🥁
/Montreal-born Leonard Cohen, who died November 7, 20016, at age 82, is Canada’s Bob Dylan, but he never went electric, sold out, or even yearned for fame. As his sage comments interspersed throughout reveal, Cohen the man is definitely more interesting than the film that pays him tribute, showing us that some aging icons actually achieve both wisdom and humility.
Read MorePhoenix: German Jägerschnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Eight Below: Down Under Pub Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Green Book: Linguini with White Clam Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A tremendous script, spot on performances by the two leads, a wonderful sense of humor, and perhaps most important, humanity and hope replacing the edgy nihilism that so dominates current films.
Read MoreJoyeux Noel: Alsatian Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Hungarian Potato Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Olympus Has Fallen: Best Ever Grilled Veggie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/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 MoreMillions: Chocolate Rum Truffle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Damian talks to dead people. However, his conversations are not with bloody corpses, but with surprisingly engaging and human saints of yore. For a refreshing return to innocence seen through a child’s eyes stream this 2005 British film.
Read MoreAva Bakes Biscotti with Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/My pretty and perky granddaughter Ava helped me bake these for her 5th birthday way back in June of 2012.. We had a great time. This recipe is well suited for young ones because so much of it is like working with play dough. It’s nice and messy, too.
Read MoreQuartet: French Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Dustin Hoffman hits all the right notes in his directorial debut about an English home for retired musicians. It comes somewhere in between the English melancholy glimpse into the abyss of old age offered by The Last Bus and the randy vulgar denial of it too often presented by Hollywood.
Read MoreLarry Crowne: Fabulous French Toast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This 2011 film shows how one man navigates the very same rough economic waters that are affecting us all. He can’t change the wind, but he can adjust his sails.
Read MoreMao’s Last Dancer: Chinese Pork Dumpling Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The Hundred-Foot Journey: Boeuf Bourguignon a la Hassan Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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The Dig: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s about hidden ancient treasure, but don’t think Indiana Jones . Neither is this English period drama circa 1938 a Downton Abbey of landed gentry with glittering gowns, uniformed chauffeurs, and a kitchen staffed with a small army of cooks.
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