Beauty and the Beast: French Pot in the Fire Dinner Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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.
Furious 7: Arabic Fattoush Salad Recipe (3 1/2 Drums)
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It never fails. Just when I am about to dismiss Hollywood entirely, it surprises me. I hopped on the Fast and Furious franchise at stop number 7, taking it for a drive because it seemed the only vehicle on a deserted street. And it was truly one fantastic ride filled with shock and awe – and one very large helping of cinema magic.
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The Dark Knight: Lobster Fra Diavolo Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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This film certainly lives up to its name, and the fans are lapping up its brooding nihilism in record numbers. Not only is it breaking box office records, but quite a few movie rules as well, taking us on an unpredictable roller coaster of a ride ever threatening to burst over the rails into a dark abyss.
Read MoreThe Serpent's Tooth Sunday Suppers: Mustang Grape Dry Red Wine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s BBQ season now, and we can all smell the mouth-watering aromas floating in the air. But we need something cool and refreshing to wash everything down. Our recipe for Mustang Grape Wine should do the trick. It’s from my novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast. Today’s recipe is from a prominent character in The Serpent’s Tooth.
Read MoreSecondhand Lions: Cilantro and Lime Grilled Corn Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who could resist this trio? Michael Caine as a backwater Texan along with his big brother Robert Duvall, and “I See Dead People” Haley Joel Osment rounding out the crew. They aren’t exactly dead people when their great nephew arrives, but they are settling in for it without much resistance.
Read MoreRear Window: Lobster Alfredo Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly! You don’t get much more star power than that! Throw in a big menace with some vintage Raymond Burr before he became the knighted Perry Mason, as well as legendary Director Alfred Hitchcock, and it doesn’t get any better.
Read MoreAustin, Texas: Body of Paddleboarder found in Ladybird Lake, June 3, 2025.
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APD says the body was found in the water around Riverside Drive and South Lamar Boulevard.
This one appears to be an accident, but what about the “Over 3 Dozen Bodies Found in or around Lady Bird Lake since 2022.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreSuper 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?
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