The Last Bus: Ukrainian Pierogi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This is a road trip, but don’t expect Easy Rider, Smokey and the Bandit, The Blues Brothers, Little Miss Sunshine, or Thelma and Louise.
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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.
Lincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
Read MorePapillon: Prison Fantasy Coconut Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steve McQueen is mesmerizing is this brutal saga capturing man’s eternal yearning to be free. At the jungle labor camp he battles betrayal, disease, starvation, as well as encounters with unfriendly lepers, a pragmatically sadistic prison director, nuns with unusual ideas of Christian charity, and more than one person setting him up for certain death. But it is his unlikely alliance with fellow prisoner Dustin Hoffman that anchors this epic tale.
Read MoreHungry in the Heartland: Cindy's Smothered Pheasant Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Today’s post honors my brother-in law, Dr. George Ihrke, who turns 84 years young today. Veterinarian extraordinaire, dog and horse whisperer, and nominee for the National Field Trial Hall of Fame, he is a true Renaissance man. Today’s feature shows his nerves of steel as we arrive at the Prairie Chicken Grounds with their four horses and six dogs just as a Midwest storm darkens the sky…
Read MoreA Remarkable Woman: Betsy Pirie (July 1911-March 2010)
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I met her walking in Austin’s Stacy Park, this thin octogenarian who always had a walking stick with her. We soon became good friends and began to time our walks so we could amble along together.
The Boys in the Boat: Potato Bacon Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who cares if you’ve never rowed in your life. It’s the middle of the Great Depression and you’re living in a rusted-out jalopy eating a can of beans. Making the Washington State rowing team may be the only way to get a roof over your head and a steady paycheck.
Read MoreFord v Ferrari: English Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You don’t have to be a racing fan to love this film. In fact, with the assorted male egos jockeying for position off the track, it’s those moments that really capture us.
Read MoreMarvellous: Different Drummer’s Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Right now the world seems an insecure and frightening place to us, doesn’t it? What better time to watch this terrific film about someone who never let the world or his inborn limitations get him down. Meet Neil Baldwin, Britain’s own version of Forest Gump, but without the Hollywood sentimentality.
Read MoreThe Amateur: Gazpacho 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Neo (Keanu Reeves) from The Matrix meets Charles Bronson from Death Wish. Only the first parts describes Charlie Heller (Oscar winner Rami Malek) a CIA cryptographer (a fancy name for a good guy trying to defend against hackers) until his wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahani) is killed in a London terrorist attack.
Read MoreThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Scotch Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This isn’t just a slap in the face to the glamorized intrigue of the spy world; it’s a punch in the gut, a leveling one that bends you over and leaves you groaning. An unflinching portrait of moral compromise that slowly eats away at a man’s soul, whether he is on the right side or not.
Read MoreTinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Tex/Czech Kolache Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget Jason Bourne’s death defying chases, or James Bond’s wit and savior faire. As in real life, the significant events in this classic espionage film are in muted greys, shadows gliding past us without revealing their true significance.
Read MoreBridge of Spies: German Farmer’s Breakfast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its length, this “spy thriller” is lean – light on melodrama, smoky dark room dealings, or cloak and dagger shenanigans. The real enemies are the cold, the damp, and the blind alleys of self-serving bureaucrats.
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The Night Manager: Majorcan Lobster Salad 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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John le Carré makes a cameo in this film based on his first post-Cold War 1993 novel. But unlike Hitchcock, he is neither quiet nor demur. In fact, he just about steals the scene and invents some lines impromptu.
Read MoreOperation Mincemeat: Sicilian Blood Orange Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Did you know Ian Fleming, the famed author who created 007, was a real spy who cut his teeth on one of the biggest deceptions of WWII? Operation Mincemeat, as it was dubbed with typical English gallows humor, involved “the most unlikely of secret agents,” a corpse.
Read MoreThe Courier: Russian Caviar Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This Cold War spy thriller is based on a real life British courier, so it is grounded in authenticity, and it’s highlighted by a masterful performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, maybe his best performance yet.
Read MoreOut Of Africa: Nyama Choma : Kenyan Barbecue Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Such a glorious film! The searing beauty and fierceness of the land, its peoples, and beasts are but a backdrop for this saga of two independent spirits whose love for the land and their own independence is only surpassed by their love for each other.
Read MoreThe Theory of Everything: Grand English Plum Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite film is as brilliant as the mind of Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and heir to Einstein. And it does something that far too few films currently do. It inspires us.
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Only the Brave: Arizona Mule Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Fitting for the Fourth of July week … “Land of the free and home of the brave!” These firefighters –not our actors, singers, or overpaid professional athletes – are the true American heroes.
Read MoreThe Patriot: Stovetop Low Country Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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No dry history here. The Revolutionary War in all its blood, brutality, and bravery flies off the pages and into our hearts in one of Mel Gibson’s most heartfelt performances as a reluctant Revolutionary militia leader drawn into the conflict almost against his will.
Read MoreGran Torino: Hmong Stir-Fry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Dirty Harry in retirement. Or coming out of it to finish off a few gangbanger thugs. At least, that’s what the trailers would have you believe. But this 2008 Clint Eastwood venture has a lot more depth and philosophical heft than you might expect.
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