True Grit: Yaller Bread with Pintos Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Like the ghost of a lost lover, John Wayne’s shadow looms tall and proud over the Coen brothers’ 2010 reboot of the 1969 classic that won the Duke his sole Oscar.
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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, too.
The Ipcress File: Champignon Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This classic British thriller has the nitty gritty stuff of Cold War spy stories – tedious stakeouts, dark hallways, rain-polished streets, and a bureaucracy almost as deadly as the enemy. Meet Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer, the anti-James Bond, who even with his cockney accent and horn-rimmed glasses is every bit as sexy as his better-known rival. And did I mention that he can cook, too?
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The Lunchbox: Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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If you can’t make it to India, take this virtual trip, a culinary adventure and subtle love story set in Mumbai. But don’t expect squalid slums that sing with color. Instead it’s the comfortable gray lives of three lonely souls that need spicing up.
Read MoreHostiles: Cheyenne Batter Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/With rare insight into the darker regions of the human soul, this film sets itself apart. And even more rare still, it does not take sides.
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The Accountant: Indonesian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This thriller is like a kaleidoscope. Each turn reveals a completely new image as the same moving parts reconfigure into a different design. Leaving us transfixed, a little confused, perhaps, but utterly enthralled.
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The Third Man: Café Vienna Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Savor what may be the most perfect film ever made. This Orson Welles/Joseph Cotton collaboration tops their earlier one, Citizen Kane, even though that one still gets the lion’s share of attention. Love, intrigue, treachery, and betrayal - it literally drips in atmosphere, never sacrificing the great story it has to tell to its dramatic brilliance and avant-garde film techniques.
Read MoreButterfield 8: Dirty Blue Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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Never has sipping a morning scotch in a slip and pair of gold heels looked more alluring. Elevating what is essentially a soap opera melodrama, Elizabeth Taylor uses her on screen presence and glamour to seduce us as well as a considerable portion of Upper Manhattan in one of her two Oscar winning performances.
Read MoreMatch Point: Poacher’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Woody Allen’s 2005 film noir thriller is set in posh London, where he cooks up a stew bubbling over with almost all the seven deadly sins. But don’t expect any predictable moralizing. This is, of course, Woody Allen.
Read MoreRisen: Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Suddenly an old story is brand new again. Just by changing its perspective. Now instead of the insider’s view of the death and resurrection of Christ in the New Testament, we get the story from a Roman Tribune tasked with finding the body that has disappeared from its tomb.
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The Stoning of Soraya M: Salad-e Shirazi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The brutality of this Iranian tale is offset by the beauty and dignity of the women who are its greatest victims. As harsh as the town’s steep and rocky paths, as timely as it is timeless, the film is an indictment of the festering poison that is borne of corruption wedded to oppression.
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Papillon: 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 MoreThe Quiet Man: Lamb Shanks Braised in Guinness Stout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s St. Paddy’s Day! Why not come with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara to Ireland? This vintage film is also a trip back to the high-flying fifties, when we were feeling our oats, flexing our muscles, and flaunting our bold Yank ways.
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3:10 to Yuma: Cattle Drive Cornbread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Though its cache of dead bodies easily earns it an R rating, this gritty classic Western is really a lean character study featuring two of our finest modern day actors, Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. It is a tale of violence, greed, and the strange bond that grows between two men on opposite sides of the law.
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The 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 MoreThe Untouchables: The Southside Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1987 film is even better than I remembered. Action, adventure, and a superb cast of characters who gain courage from each other as they fight against entrenched corruption both inside and outside the law.
Read MoreCool Hand Luke: Easy Deviled Egg Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Paul Newman, so young and gorgeous in this 1967 epic, fills the screen by trying not to in this tale of a likeable yet self-destructive rebel.
Read MoreThe Man Who Would Be King: Alexander the Great’s Skewered Lamb Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Knowing that it would probably never get by the PC police today, we enjoy this film even more today; it has the delightful lure of forbidden fruit.
Read MorePatriot Games: English Trifle with Fresh Raspberries and Sherry Drizzle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tom Clancy. Harrison Ford in his heyday. What’s not to like? Take a trip back a few decades to a world a little more sane. A narrative not preachy, not edgy, and completely devoid of the nihilism that seems to have taken up permanent residence in today’s Hollywood.
Read MoreThe 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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Unknown: Berlin Scalloped Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s a dizzy cocktail of confusion, panic, and paranoia reminiscent of the grand master, Alfred Hitchcock. In Berlin to attend a conference, Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car crash to find his wife does not recognize him, and another man has claimed his identity.
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