Far from the Madding Crowd: English Lemon Curd Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Finally, a love story for grownups. It’s Downton Abbey without all the pomp and circumstance and a heroine who is not afraid to get her hands dirty.
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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.
Casanova: Lover's Knots Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Light as a soufflé, peppered with dry wit and broad farce, and taking itself not the least bit seriously, Casanova is just the ticket to cure the doldrums. And along the way, you just may learn something about the art of love as well as the real thing.
Read MoreThe Vow: Blue Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/I’m beginning to identify with the great unwashed, those nameless moviegoers who ignore the critics and just follow their fancy. They may be on to something. They certainly saw a spark in The Vow that the sneering critics missed.
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Deja Vu: New Orleans Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/It’s probably worth watching for the car chase alone, not to mention the dreamy love story, and some solid detective work spiced up with a little Sci Fi. In fact, there’s almost enough there to keep you from thinking too much about a plot that ultimately blows away like dust in the wind.
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Atomic Blonde: The Coldest City Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Charlize Theron owns this film. Like the best of Bonds she is a stylish knockout – even when sporting a black eye – and reliably lethal. And she’s on duty 24/7, even in the bedroom or the occasional darkened hallway, where amorous adventures are, of course, all for queen and country.
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The Good Shepherd: Cuban Roast Pig Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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The gray everyday grind of the CIA’s early years are as far away from the sexy glamour of James Bond as fact from fiction. Not everyone is going to enjoy this glimpse at a shadowy world of suspicion that slowly erodes the soul.
Read MoreKing Kong: Beef and Barley Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Hollywood doing what it does best: great spectacle, a simple love story, and state of the art special effects all wrapped up in a glittering package of heart in your mouth thrills. And the remake actually improves upon the original.
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Captain Phillips: Sweet Somali Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/On rare occasions in film as in life, everything comes together to create near perfection. Because it does not try too hard to please us with Hollywood's standard visual and verbal excess, that's exactly what happens in this retelling of the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. container ship off the Somali coast.
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Army of Shadows: French Onion Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A world of bright cold and sweaty fear, bare rooms, and shadowy souls fueled only by gritty determination and lonely desperation. It is 1943 in occupied France and you are in the bowels of the Underground.
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The Year of Living Dangerously: Bir Pletok: Jakarta Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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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 MoreThe Imitation Game: Bangers and Mash Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Meet Alan Turing, the eccentric genius who cracked the infamous Nazi Enigma code and probably shortened World War II by 2 to 4 years. Benedict Cumberbatch embodies all the arrogant awkwardness of the socially backward mathematician with his own acting genius as well.
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Dead Again: Caviar and Crème Fraîche Tartlet Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is it happening all over again? The impulsive romance, quickly souring, and then ending in a brutal murder? Then married couple Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson play two sets of star crossed lovers executing a tortuous pas de deux that mirrors what happened decades earlier.
Read MoreDeepwater Horizon: Louisiana Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sure, you know what happened on April 20, 2010. The oilrig Deepwater Horizon blew, and it blew big. But that knowledge doesn’t make it any less awesome when you have a front row seat within the ticking time bomb that fateful day.
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The Impossible: Siam Sunray Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This riveting look at the 2004 South Asian tsunami from the bird’s eye view of one family will have you glued to your seat. But this is not a cheap by-the-numbers disaster flick. The film’s strength comes from its focus on the human element rather than the details of the disaster.
Read MoreOn Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Hungarian Potato Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This Bond classic stands apart from the pack just as Daniel Craig’s does. Serial seducer Bond breaks form and falls hard and fast for a countess in this most faithful adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel. The gadgets are few and far between, the action is more hard-hitting and authentic than ever, and the ending certainly not the light fluff we have come to expect.
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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 MoreMillions: Chocolate Rum Truffle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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 MoreLarry Crowne: Fabulous French Toast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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 More16 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 MoreMillions: Chocolate Rum Truffle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
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