16 Blocks: Scrumptious Strawberry Cake Recipe
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Masquerading as an action picture, 16 Blocks is really the story of two outcasts struggling for self-respect, dignity, and perhaps a shot at redemption in their dead end lives.
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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.
Captain Phillips: Sweet Somali Cake Recipe
/On rare occasions in film as in life, everything comes together to create near perfection. Because it does not try too hard to please us with Hollywood's standard visual and verbal excess, that's exactly what happens in this retelling of the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. container ship off the Somali coast.
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300: Greek Moussaka Recipe
/This definitely is not a chick flick. It is a testosterone charged comic book romp through one of the most celebrated battles in history, when 300 Spartans stood against a vast sea of the advancing Persian army at the famed Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
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Three Days of the Condor: The Condor Cocktail Recipe
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This 1975 thriller has aged well. The classic paranoia and suspicion of government agencies seem particularly appropriate today. And while it still keeps you riveted to your seat, this thriller actually takes time for character development and great dialogue, unlike the frenetic features Hollywood currently puts out.
Read MoreEndeavour: Fish and Chips to Die For Recipe
/Can a prequel ever better its original? Such is the case in Masterpiece Mystery’s "Endeavour,” about the early career of the curmudgeonly Inspector Morse first featured in that spot. Tender and sometimes tentative, the young constable is also unrelenting, awkwardly outspoken, and quite often downright brilliant. It’s something akin to seeing the colt Secretariat kicking up his young heels in the pasture.
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