Bernie: Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/True crime TV: Slacker edition. Or East Texas’ Fargo, as director Richard Linklater dubbed it. Any way you put it, this dark comedy has a bumper crop of talent.
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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.
Munich: Zucchini Pritti Recipe
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For all its critical acclaim, Munich is a manipulative and essentially soulless film that confuses victim for victimizer and mistakes preening self-righteousness for moral outrage.
Read MoreThe Thursday Club Murders : Joyce’s Coffee and Walnut Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Move over Agatha Christie and Miss Marple. Your Tuesday Club Murders has moved 2 days and about 93 years to become The Thursday Club Murders. And instead of just one elderly spinster, Miss Marple, solving the crimes that perplexed all the professionals around her, we have 4 and then 5 collaborating on past cold cases.
Read MoreHarry Brown: Bubble and Squeak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/What does it say about a society that depends on a wheezy 80-year-old to clean up its streets? Michael Caine takes us where we’d rather not go in his portrayal of a reluctant vigilante trying to catch the bad guys as well as his ragged breath.
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Fracture: Mushroom Omelettes in Port Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The cut and dried case rolls across his desk as a hot shot DA is packing up for the big bucks of corporate law. Little does he realize that this last case will fracture his world as he matches wits with a wily killer who has planned the perfect crime.
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The November Man: Fondue Brillat-Savarin with Sliced White Truffles Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This 2014 spy thriller marries the hard-hitting action of 007 with the world-weariness of John le Carré’s spies. It avoids the over the top camp of some Bond adventures and refuses to yield to the cynical despair of the more recent le Carré.
Read MoreShutter Island: Prison Peanut Butter Sundae Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This film is Gothic with a capital G. A remote island prison for the criminally insane, its loony residents just slightly more alarming than the icily polite psychiatrist who runs the place. And then there’s the raging storm that shuts off the electricity and strands the two marshals there searching for a missing patient.
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Eye in the Sky: Kenyan Dawa Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This thriller rivets you to your seat, even without screeching car chases, sexy spies, breathless action, or maudlin backstories. It goes deep and not wide, exploring all the implications of a single penetrating act.
Read MoreLondon Has Fallen: London’s Calling Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Pack away your PC proclivities with your winter underwear and embrace this guilty pleasure thriller.
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The Brokenwood Mysteries: Mrs. Marlowe’s Secret Cheese Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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New Zealand’s version of Midsomer Murders , but a lot more fun. Replace the rather stuffy and happily married chief inspectors of that English series with Detective Mike Shepherd, who has an indeterminate number of ex wives and a passion for muscle cars and country music, New Zealand style.
Read MoreVienna Blood: Freud’s Favorite Dessert Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Season 4 does not disappoint. It is even more complex and far reaching than the previous series. Instead of self-contained episodes, we have a continuous string of events that test the characters as never before.
Read MoreIt Happened One Night : Carrot Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Granddaddy of all rom-coms is still a delight, even if it is 90 years old! And it was the first film to sweep the Oscars, bringing home Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, and Best Writing [Only others are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and Silence of the Lambs 1991)]
Read MoreThe Departed: Drunken Strawberry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 2007 Oscar winner is awash with blood and gore and a kind of poetic profanity, but somehow this cops and robbers showdown manages to touch upon the vagaries of identity, the complexity of goodness, and the poisonous nectar of evil without missing a beat. Match that with a truly stellar cast that delivers the goods and you’re in for a 2 1/2 hour roller coaster that soars through the screen.
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The Taking of Pelham 123: Banana Milk Shake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/The perfect popcorn thriller – an amiable bureaucrat trying to talk down a maniacal villain, 19 hostages sweating it out in an underground subway, a runaway train, cop cars exploding everywhere, and if that’s not sufficient combustion for you, there are enough F-Bombs to detonate all of Manhattan.
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Aliens: Alien Egg Shot Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Maybe the best sequel ever, this 1986 acclaimed sci-fi action thriller is the ride of a lifetime. And it’s just as good today as it was the first time Different Drummer saw it on the big screen some 4 decades ago. Rarely do sequels exceed originals, and rarer still do they pass the test of time as does this masterful, “visceral punch” James Cameron delivered decades ago.
Read MoreRestless: Tacos: New Mexican Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Secrets. We all Have them. Some we hide them from our parents. But a parent might hide secrets, too. And this one’s a doozy.
Read MoreIndiana Beach: Shafer Lake Cobb Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Oh, how times have changed. Especially weddings. It has been 57 years since that simmering August of 1968, when I married the love of my life. We honeymooned at his family cottage in rural Indiana for the grand sum of $50 – and that was spent on groceries!
Read MoreMonsieur Spade : Croque Monsieur (French Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich) 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Sam Sade living out his golden years in the South of France. Who would have thunk it? And it’s surprisingly, good, too.
Read MoreCasino Royale: Vodka Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Brash and blond, the new Bond is more cutthroat than connoisseur, substance rather than style, a man concerned with getting the job done even if he has to bloody up his tailored threads to do so. Gone is the high tech gimmickry, the eccentric evil geniuses intent on world power. Instead this gritty no nonsense film sees the real world as dangerous enough without having to fluff it up with science fiction fantasy.
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