Enola Holmes 2: Drunken Strawberries 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.
Locke: Filo-Wrapped Spiced Sausage Roll Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Only Tom Hardy could carry off “this one-man tour de force.” The whole film is him alone in his car, driving toward his destruction or deliverance – take your pick – while managing his three ring circus life on his car phone.
Read MoreDeepwater Horizon: Louisiana Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sure, you know what happened on April 20, 2010. The oilrig Deepwater Horizon blew, and it blew big. But that knowledge doesn’t make it any less awesome when you have a front row seat within the ticking time bomb that fateful day.
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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 MoreApocalypto: Mayan Grouper in Banana Leaves Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The Maya were a great people. They built pyramids to rival those in Egypt. They created the notion of zero. And they were efficient and ruthless practitioners of human sacrifice. Mel Gibson explores this darker side of zero in his visually stunning epic.
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Jurassic World: Fossil Fuel Cocktail Recipe
/Hollywood, the ultimate arcade. Video games, comic books, and now a theme park brought to the big screen in all their slick and superficial glory. Corporate moneymakers that slyly impugn corporate greed while they revel in it.
Read MoreBlood 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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Seven Years in Tibet: Tibetan Butter Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A delightful journey where snow capped peaks, avalanches, hostile armies, and cutthroat bandits are just the background. The real war is internal, with Brad Pitt as the Austrian mountain climber who is as walled off from others as “Tibet, the roof of the world.”
Read MoreRambo: Thai Pork Satay Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s blood and guts, all right, ultra violent and certainly not for the squeamish, but Rambo is driven by the same existential anguish as many Oscar contenders. And it’s not as though they don’t bloody up the screen as well, just not with such robustly efficient abandon.
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Child 44: Blini - Russian Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Follow the critics’ advice on this one and stay home – that is, unless you value fine acting, measured suspense, and emotional texture. Another bonus – they banned it in Russia.
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Secondhand 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 MoreThe Judge: Boozy Persimmon Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t go to this film expecting a taut courtroom drama complete with murder, mayhem, and melodrama. We have no jagged-edged knives, coyly seductive victims, or evil corporate giants in sight.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Apple Strudel Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
/What if the whole arch rival thing with his Nemesis Professor Moriarty is merely a figment of the “coked” up imagination of Holmes, the addict, who routinely injected himself with a seven percent solution of cocaine? Open up your mind here purists, and have a little fun.
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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 MoreLeap Year: Coq au Vin 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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A light diversion from a problematic world, even though this February is not an official leap year. Who can resist Amy Adams or Matthew Goode, even when he plays a surly innkeeper?
Read MoreLa Dolce Villa : Straw and Hay Pasta Recipe 🥁 🥁🥁 1/2
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We’re not talking about Marcello Mastroianni, the “philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.” That was La Dolce Vita, the 1960 Fellini film about the about “existential angst and carnal excess” only sugar coated as the sweet life.
Read MoreMade in Italy: Risotto and Ragu Recipes 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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It starts out crass and cliched, but it ends subtle and sweet. Nothing like financial ruin to mend fences between an estranged father and son – not to mention a crumbling estate in sunny Italy that just might save them both.
Read MoreThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.
Read MoreBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: Chinese Walnut Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sent to the country as part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, two enterprising teenagers manage to relieve the daily drudgery of their lives with the help of a saucy little seamstress and a suitcase full of forbidden novels.
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Crazy Rich Asians: Grilled Stingray on Banana Leaf Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Don’t be put off by the title. I was at first, expecting more silly, and superficial summer fare typical of the season. But this film has heart.
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