The Life List: “Ghosted” Corned Beef Hash 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Can you remember your 13-year-old self? Your first teenage years when everything was exciting, crazy, scary, and amazing all at once?
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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.
Moonstruck: Italian Sausage and Egg Breakfast Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Flawless, even as it shows all our human flaws right up there on the big screen. It’s enough to make you believe in true love and second chances all over again. And the Italian humor and philosophy are the icing on the cake.
Read MoreWalk the Line: Ring of Fire Biscuit Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon light up the screen in this epic tale of one of America’s most authentic music legends. Experience the onstage joy and electricity of Cash’s music, and then lift the curtain for a dark glimpse into the pain and anger that fueled it.
Read MoreThe Verdict: Grilled Lobster Tail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sidney Lumet directing Paul Newman in his prime, James Mason superb playing the eloquent villain, with a taut and unpredictable script as only David Mamet can pen. About as perfect as it gets.
Read MoreRescued by Ruby: Rhode Island Hot Wiener Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If we ever needed a tonic for sore souls, now is the time. And riding to our rescue is Ruby, the last chance shelter dog that will steal your heart, and maybe your dinner, your child’s toy, and the stuffing out of your couch.
Read MoreThe Lady Vanishes: Absolutely Ultimate Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Treat yourself to one of Hitchcock’s early classics, complete with international intrigue, slightly wacky cricket fans, and a Miss Marple like lady who suddenly vanishes without a trace from her train compartment as it meanders through the Swiss Alps. With the sole exception of a young Englishwoman, however, no one else will even admit to having seen her in the first place.
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The Young Victoria: Cherries Jubilee Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The swish of taffeta, light shimmering through cut crystal, courtly beaus, and stately horse drawn carriages – a cage, no matter how gilded, is still a cage. Young Victoria struggles for her breath of freedom and love with the will and passion that later make her a legendary queen.
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Charade: French Alpine Tartiflette Casserole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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“The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made.” And no wonder. We have Hitchcock favorite Cary Grant with echoes of North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief. As well as ever elegant Audrey Hepburn exquisitely beautiful and rivaling the tailored loveliness of Grace Kelly in Rear Window.
Read MoreThe Man from Snowy River: Aussie Marinated Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Escape from our weary world for the adventure of a lifetime. This epic Australian film from over 4 decades ago has it all. Romance, music and scenery to die for, and arguably the best and most thrilling horse chase in film history. I will never forget it, and neither did others who have seen it.
Read MoreSpellbound: 21 Club Southside Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1945 classic delves into the unconscious to uncover a crime. All the clues are locked in the memory of a profoundly disturbed amnesiac who may or may not be a murderer.
Read MoreWater for Elephants: Polish Skillet Breakfast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This film about a Depression era traveling circus has it all – glamorous illusion and gritty reality, glittering gowns and desperate men, stateroom Champagne and boxcar hooch. We glimpse at the exotic creatures under the big tent, animals and humans alike, yet we also see the squalid and brutish life they lead in between shows.
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Florence Foster Jenkins: Potato Salad with Chives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Take a break from the daily headlines that bleed doom and gloom and treat yourself to this delightful comedy. Where the chief worry seems keeping a lid on the audiences for an exquisitely untalented Manhattan socialite who fancies herself an opera diva.
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The White Countess: White Russian Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Think of everything that guarantees box office gold – squealing car chases, steamy passion, rampant explosions, tortuous plot twists, hormone addled teens or octogenarians, and a peppering of coarse humor thrown in for good measure. Well, you’ll get none of it with this final Merchant Ivory collaboration set in 1936 Shanghai, but the simple story will stay with you long after the latest blockbuster fades from memory.
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Lovejoy: Chicken Parisian Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Think Antiques Roadshow, but supercharged with a good hearted rogue and a cast of characters that make Father Brown’s bunch pedestrian by comparison.
Read MoreThe Accountant: Indonesian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This thriller is like a kaleidoscope. Each turn reveals a completely new image as the same moving parts reconfigure into a different design. Leaving us transfixed, a little confused, perhaps, but utterly enthralled.
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Blood Diamond: Tropical African Sangria Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the Hollywood we used to know and love. A sweeping landscape of unearthly beauty and savage bloodshed, a charming cad ready for redemption, and the committed beauty to guide him there. A father willing to risk everything to save his son. And one very large diamond that makes the difference to them all.
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The Long, Hot Summer: William Faulkner’s Mint Julep Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, he’s a con man at best, and a ruthless opportunist who doesn’t seem to care whom he hurts along the way, but his slick charm draws us in even if the prim Clara seems immune to it.
Read MoreTrue Grit: Yaller Bread with Pintos Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Like the ghost of a lost lover, John Wayne’s shadow looms tall and proud over the Coen brothers’ 2010 reboot of the 1969 classic that won the Duke his sole Oscar.
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Clarkson’s Farm with Season 3 Update: Lamb Chops and New Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Diddly Squat Farm continues to battle the British bureaucracy, the whims of weather, the travails of falling in love with piglets and baby goats, and the brainstorms of Jeremy himself, not to mention a contest between him and his new “farm manager” Kaleb, who treats his boss as an equal now.
Read MoreThe Ipcress File with *Update on New Series: Champignon Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This classic British thriller has the nitty gritty stuff of Cold War spy stories – tedious stakeouts, dark hallways, rain-polished streets, and a bureaucracy almost as deadly as the enemy. Meet Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer, the anti-James Bond, who even with his cockney accent and horn-rimmed glasses is every bit as sexy as his better-known rival. And did I mention that he can cook, too?
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