Weston’s World: Unbroken: Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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 Brave One: Ultimate Greek Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the thinking man’s vigilante film, peppered with artsy NPR radio monologue as well as quotes by D. H. Lawrence and Emily Dickinson. But there’s plenty of badass, too, and Jodie Foster wears her compulsive vengeance like a second skin, blowing away bad guys with a lethal fury as cold as it is addictive.
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The Ghost Writer: Martha’s Vineyard Seafood Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The fog and damp chill your soul, while the relentless waves wash over the beach like the persistent clues that whisper over and over – murder, murder.
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Fury: German Omelet Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s official. Hollywood has its Mojo back. (At least it did in this 2014 epic.) Thanks to Brad Pitt, it’s now okay to be a macho warrior, even outside the realm of the Marvel movie franchise.
Read MoreHouse of Cards: Devonshire Crab Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you are a fan of the American remake, you should defintely see the 1990 original British political thriller, a timeless ode to evil. The knife slides in ever so smoothly with Shakespearean diction greasing its way. Rarely has villainy been so eloquently evil, so fascinatingly diabolical, nor so brutal and swift.
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House of Games: Classic Waldorf Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This classic 1987 offbeat Mamet vehicle is more like a game of chess than a film, where you are guaranteed a series of astonishing moves and counter moves. Our queen is a beautiful psychotherapist, aloof and repressed as only an analyst could be, and our knight a charming con man, one who sees deeper into her soul than she suspects.
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Wait Until Dark: The Stealth Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A blind Audrey Hepburn must use all her inner resources as she matches wits with three determined villains in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Forgo the usual slasher flick and choose this first rate thriller whose pervasive sense of menace builds to a heart-pounding climax that will take your breath away.
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Presumed Innocent: Deception Chocolate Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A voluptuous femme fatale beckons us into a legal labyrinth of sharp turns and blind alleys. And Harrison’s Ford’s assistant DA is as much in the dark as the audience.
Read MoreOz the Great and Powerful: Glinda's Crown Jewel Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This prequel ushers in some razzle-dazzle just when we need it. What it lacks in the elegant song and dance lightness of the 1939 classic, it makes up for in moral complexity. And yes, I will say it and risk the eternal hatred of her legion of fans – James Franco’s Wizard is a more interesting lead than Judy Garland’s sweet and simple Dorothy.
Read MorePan’s Labyrinth: Shepherd's Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite tapestry weaves the final brutalities of the Spanish Civil War with a fantasy world equally dark, brooding, and filled with menace. A morality tale that refuses to moralize, it is presented in that half-light before the dawn, when vivid dreams overlap daylight’s pending reality, and the beasts of ancient lore still hold sway over minds innocent and true.
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Jagged Edge: Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic and Nicoise Olives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This taut courtroom drama still packs a punch nearly 4 decades 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 Pale Blue Eye: Hudson Valley Shirred Eggs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁 1/2
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Who could resist this premise? A young Edgar Allan Poe helps solve a grisly mystery while a young cadet at military school in the remote Hudson Valley of New York.
Read MoreFugitive Pieces: Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Fugitive Pieces is a must see for discriminating viewers. The kind of film that haunts you long after the screen darkens with its kaleidoscope of images – brutish death and loving kindness, cramped apartments and glorious sun drenched shores, brooding reveries and joyous passion.
Read MoreBlade Runner: Smoked Salmon Sushi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Take yourself back to the 80s for this science fiction classic starring a very young and handsome Harrison Ford. With the advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, it is amazing that so many ideas suggested in the film are no longer science fiction.
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Bella: Spanish Paella Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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And that’s exactly what Bella is. Beautiful! With Hollywood hopelessly lost exploring our dark underbelly, this fresh film makes its way to our hearts. No wonder it won the People’s Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.
Read MoreBlack Book: Dutch Fish with Edam Cheese Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This visceral account of a Jewish beauty’s time in the Dutch Resistance is not for the faint-hearted. It exposes almost all seven deadly sins in riveting detail, assaulting our senses with a world where depravity and decency, heroics and humiliation, loyalty and betrayal mock each other.
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August: Osage County: Blackened Catfish Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you don’t like the heat, stay out of the kitchen, or any of the stifling, airless rooms in this Oklahoma farmhouse. And don’t sit down for the patriarch’s funeral dinner, either, unless you like the sound of crashing casserole dishes – mere cannon volley in the background of the real war going on at the table. But then you’d miss possibly the finest film of 2013.
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Jean de Florette: French Rabbit Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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We’re in Provence, where delicious irony flows as freely as red wine, men’s hearts are as wizened and cracked as the dry earth, and dreams intoxicating as the scent of wild rosemary.
Read MoreReacher: 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.
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.
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