Reacher: Delicous Georgia Peach Pie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Jack Reacher fans will love this original mini series based on Lee Child’s The Killing Floor. Reacher is a more sedate Rambo with the impeccable logic of Sherlock Holmes.
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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.
The Great Gatsby: West Egg Punch Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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The saxophone wails. A polished Rolls Royce sidles up to the sparkling pool to deliver a bevy of bobbed flappers. Shimmering dresses dazzle only to be outdone by the jeweled tiaras on these self-anointed queens of the Jazz Age.
Read MoreThe Last Kingdom: Ploughman’s Platter Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This great series has it all. Brutal battle sequences, excellent character development, nuanced themes reminiscent of both Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, and of course, some pretty great romance, albeit on the graphic side.
Read MoreAngel Has Fallen: Off the Grid Ham and Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s not so much the President, but his guardian angel, Mike Banning, who is in trouble with this latest edge of your seat thriller. The action is terrific and bold, thanks to its former stuntman director, Ric Roman Waugh, who by the way, lives in my adopted hometown, Austin, Texas.
Read MoreHinterland: Welsh Tea Cakes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A wave washes on a lonely shore. Wind cuts through desolate fields. An abandoned house perches on a solitary peak. Welcome to Wales, where the murderers, victims, and even the detectives are as bereft and melancholy as the land they inhabit.
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Magpie Murders: Greek Hummus Platter 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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Anthony Horowitz, who brought us the superb Foyle’s War, continues to shine in this double whodunnit. Magpie Murders will also enthrall fans of Agatha Christie as well as those who love Conan Doyle’s Holmes.
Read MoreMy Life Is Murder: Alexa’s Rustic Rosemary Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Xena like you’ve never seen her. Lucy Lawless brings that same fearless warrior spirit to fighting crime in modern day Melbourne as she did in sword and sandal Greece. And she still kicks ass, but this time using her mental prowess and wily spirit.
Read MoreKnives Out: The Whodunnit Highball Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Agatha would approve. So don’t be turned off by the cheesy trailer. The arch overacting is actually purposeful, a tongue in cheek tribute to the grand Dame of whodunnits.
Read MoreInspector Lewis: English Fish and Chips and English Breakfast Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The manicured lawns, lush gardens, and cobbled walkways of Oxford hide some pretty nasty murders, and the assorted dons and tutors, despite their plummy vowels and intellect, can be just about as evil as the rest of the world. It’s a good thing that Inspector Lewis and his trusty sergeant are there to put things right.
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Partners in Crime: English Teacake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Thin Man, Mr. and Mrs. North, Hart to Hart, and Castle! America’s Partners in Crime. Now meet Tommy and Tuppence, the equally adorable Brit couple created by Agatha Christie.
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries: Toronto Three Cheese Scalloped Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Murdoch is a buttoned down Toronto detective at the turn of the century. He is obsessed with science and new methods. But there is a playfulness and a passion locked inside the man and the program itself that will hook you sooner rather than later.
Read MoreTrue Crime: Travesty of Justice for Austin Serial Killer Continues
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2019 victim's family pleads against another plea bargain for this Austin serial killer. Maybe one reason for no progress on the Rainey Street killer(s) is a past “Travesty of Justice” right here in Austin. The system was manipulated and a serial killer plea bargained his way out of a system that should have given him a life sentence for the 1982 rape and murder of and 8-year-old here in Austin.
Read MoreWar Horse: French 75 Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Steven Spielberg reminds us once again what movie making is all about. His sweeping epic fills the screen with bigger than life action, drama, and heart-felt emotion that carry you away with it.
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Letters from Iwo Jima: Japanese Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers awaiting the inevitable American invasion of Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood gives us this epic World War II battle from the inside out. Hope for reinforcements slowly fades, and the troops tunnel into the mountainside for a valiant last stand, the bitter taste of defeat as pervasive as the dust and darkness of their cavernous trenches.
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1917: Apricot Charlotte and Other WWI Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A world of wet feet and maimed bodies, rotting corpses and rotting souls fueled only by the will to survive just one more day. It is set during the waning days of The Great War – maybe the most dangerous of times, when easy victory appeals to ambitious officers restless in their trenches.
Read MoreRules of Engagement : Sitting Buddha Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film hits so many of the right notes about the Middle East, Marine courage, bureaucratic bungling, and diplomatic spinelessness that it is hard to believe it was produced prior to 9-11, the 2001 version as well as the 2012 one.
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Empire of the Sun: Butter Biscuit Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Steven Spielberg reimagines war –its tragic irony, chaos and confusion –through the eyes of a young English boy in Shanghai who lives through the Japanese invasion (and occupation) of that British colony.
Read MoreFences: Kickin’ Collard Greens Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This one is for grownups only. No car chases, explosions, or superheroes. Just acting on a level rarely seen and a script both timely and timeless, simply elegant and elegantly simple, tightly crafted yet appearing effortless.
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Crazy Heart: Bad Blake Biscuit Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This film has everything you love about country music, except the clichés. It’s a picture of the soft slide from fame – weariness and cheap whiskey, regrets and ratty hotels, a glamorous past and grungy gigs.
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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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