The Sandlot: Sandlot S’Mores Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Laugh out loud with this minor classic that stirs up a cocktail of Goonies, Stand by Me, Breaking Away, and The Christmas Story, with a little Cujo as our cherry on the top.
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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.
Super 8: Sunday’s Apple Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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There’s something rotten in this small Ohio town in 1979. It’s scaring off the local dogs and sucking up car engines, power lines, and a small assortment of human beings. Sure, the military personnel that swoop down to clean up after a spectacular train crash are tight-lipped, but everything about them screams X Files.
Read MoreMud: Arkansas Sin Appetizer Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A tale as timeless as the Mississippi where love and loneliness live side by side on its muddy shores. Matthew McConaughey is a mysterious stranger who touches the lives of two young boys who find dark undercurrents in their familiar river.
Read More Seven Days in Utopia: Lost Maples Eggs, Home Fries and Sausage Patty Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Luke Chisolm thought his career was over until his life took a detour.
Read MoreGloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 1/2
/Hungary in the 1930s, and Laszlo Szabo’s Budapest restaurant, as well as the man himself, stands as a last bastion of elegance, civility and grace in a world that is slowly spiraling into chaos. While his beautiful Ilona, like her Greek namesake Helen, is the center of her own small circle of adulation and destruction.
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All the Light We Cannot See: Peach Dump Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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In the bleak shadows of streaming, this 2023 film was a lamp onto our feet. One of the few new offerings that is uniformly excellent.
Read MoreThe Man in the High Castle : Classic Pot Roast Recipe🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Like the best of science fiction this fine series causes us to reflect on our own reality. And The Man in the High Castle is even more relevant than when it first aired in 2015 through 2019.
Read MoreBefore the Fall: Baked Sauerkraut with Apples Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Although its is set in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s, Before the Fall is less about the evils of fascism than the struggle between idealism and ambition, the clash between fathers’ expectations and sons’ dreams, and the repercussions of a flawed ideology upon the individuals who espouse it.
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I'm Not There: Bob Dylan's Perfect Mint Julep 🥁🥁🥁
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To capture the enigmatic Bob Dylan it takes not one but six actors, each depicting, more or less, one stage of his development. When the film succeeds, it is bold and daring; when it fails it is too clever by half and risks competing with rather than chronicling the legendary icon.
Read MoreThe Woman in Gold: Vienna Schnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t listen to the critics on this one, the ones who try to dismiss Woman in Gold as a somewhat boring lesson in art history. Perhaps the story of an elderly Jewish woman trying to retrieve a famous painting stolen by the Nazis isn’t edgy enough for them. Or maybe they just resent having to take time away from watching YouTube cat videos.
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: Kielbasa and Cabbage Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Life of Pi meets Schindler’s List. When war devastates their Warsaw Zoo, one courageous woman and her husband come up with another plan. They will shelter other creatures, the Jews detained in the infamous Warsaw Ghetto.
Read MoreMidway: Good Neighbor Classic Daiquiri Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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That’s why we called them the greatest generation, pals. This war and the Depression before that shaped them. They didn’t complain. They just did their duty, and more than you can even imagine died, and died valiantly.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreMoonstruck: 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.
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