The Foreigner: Irish Corned Beef Hash Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Vintage Jackie Chan. But this is not the light and bubbly champagne of his younger days. It is an aged drink – dark and still and deep.
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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.
10 Cloverfield Lane: Super Simple Spaghetti Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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John Goodman, the master of his cozy underground bunker, keeps us on tenterhooks as we wonder if he is Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde.
Read MoreThe Edge: Kodiak Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A screenplay superbly crafted by David Mamet, Anthony Hopkins working his magic alongside a compelling Alec Baldwin, not to mention a 9-foot Kodiak bear bulldozing his way through the Alaskan wilderness. What’s not to like?
Read MoreNo Country for Old Men: Texas Venison Chili Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This overrated 2008 Best Picture winner does have its brilliance in a cold, soulless way. The plot itself – a drug deal gone bad, a hapless deer hunter who finds the leftover cash, and his relentless pursuit by some of the bad guys not left rotting in the desert – is not particularly innovative, but the earthy way it unfolds is riveting.
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The Proposition: Boomerang Chicken and Spuds Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Clearly not for the squeamish, this “Western” takes place in the Australian outback, where the harsh landscape is as unforgiving as the raw assortment of humans who claim it. But this stark saga transcends genre as it unmasks the complexity of evil, and in so doing, is right up there with Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville.
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There Will Be Blood: Bite Sized Walnut Cheesecake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Though I can’t quite echo the hyperbolic praise lavished on this film, it is, nevertheless, a superb character study that is powerful, well crafted, and subtle. The amoral misanthrope at its center is complex, yet as elemental as the harsh landscape that cradles his beloved black gold.
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Harry Brown: Bubble and Squeak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/What does it say about a society that depends on a wheezy 80-year-old to clean up its streets? Michael Caine takes us where we’d rather not go in his portrayal of a reluctant vigilante trying to catch the bad guys as well as his ragged breath.
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Dead Poets Society: Captain’s Mule Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁 🥁 🥁
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They don’t get any better than this! Dead Poets Society’s innocence and nobility shine even brighter now than when the film was released in 1989. Especially when compared with the dearth of those qualities in our current lives or cinema.
Read MoreA Million Miles Away: Marvelous Michoacán Souped Up Fruit Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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More please, Amazon. Movies that blast off fueled by the human spirit alone, discarding nihilism like booster rockets ejected into space. While shedding victimhood like the small planet it leaves behind.
Read MoreGenius: Blue Q – Blueberry BBQ Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Who knew two Brits could tell the story of an American genius so persuasively? Well, when they are acting greats Colin Firth and Jude Law, it begins to make sense.
Read MoreSaint Ralph: Canadian Bacon Egg Cup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Start with an scoop of The Christmas Story, sprinkle in a few bits from Unbroken, and top with dollops of The Quiet Man and Iron Will. Add a little magic and you have the delightfully irreverent sleeper, Saint Ralph.
Read MorePetition Demands Austin Police Investigate Rainey Street « Drownings » Smiley Faced Killer Update🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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New: A petition calls out the Austin Police and City officials for what it terms “a miscarriage of Justice,” hinting that there is something “darker at play” here and accuses officials of treating the victims’ families “callously and without empathy.”
Read MoreWitness: Amish Breakfast Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Harrison Ford is at his best in this 1985 thriller about a no nonsense detective trying to save himself and an 8-year-old Amish witness to a murder. The performance earned the actor his sole Oscar nomination in a “surprisingly emotive and sympathetic performance.”
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Crazy Rich Asians: Grilled Stingray on Banana Leaf Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Don’t be put off by the title. I was at first, expecting more silly, and superficial summer fare typical of the season. But this film has heart.
Read MoreTortilla Soup: Pastor Tom's Tortilla Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Tortilla Soup is a gourmet’s delight, with characters and plot every bit as intriguing and enigmatic as the secret piquancy of the title’s hearty broth. But be warned! Don’t watch it without some green chilies on hand, or at least your favorite Mexican restaurant standing by on call.
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*Mostly Martha: Pasta Carbonara Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Martha is a master chef so consumed with her art that even on the psychiatrist’s couch, she talks of nothing but food and the intricacies of its preparation. The intricacies of her psyche she leaves strictly alone until her eight-year-old niece Lina washes ashore onto her pristine world. And a life as sterile as the gleaming stainless countertops in her kitchen suddenly becomes cluttered with assorted humans demanding her attention.
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Creed: Authentic Philly Cheesesteak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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He’s no longer the writer, director, or the leading man, but Sylvester “Rocky” Stallone is very much the star of Creed. Perhaps this is so because of the grace and charm that Rocky, the character as well as his iconic star, yields the spotlight to a younger boxer.
Read MoreRocky Balboa: Italian Beef Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Once again Stallone surprises everyone by making this sixth epic more about the man than the boxer, focusing on relationships not just ringside, and ultimately coaxing even the most cynical to their feet to cheer on once again their beloved underdog.
Read MoreThe Expendables: Gallo Pinto: Costa Rican Beans and Rice 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Yes, it’s a guilty pleasure, but actually I feel no guilt whatsoever in my intense enjoyment of this testosterone – or perhaps human growth hormone –charged adventure that gives us another shot of those wonderful Hollywood-action-hero-has-beens who somehow never read their pink slips from politically correct tinseltown. And it is their self-aware irony that raises the exploding blood bath of a film to another level.
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Mission Impossible: Fallout: The French Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Make it a double feature, a followup to Top Gun: Maverick: Great Balls of Fire Cocktail, with“one-man supernova” Tom Cruise saving the the world once again.
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