Iron Will: Fruitcake Hater's Fruitcake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Follow young Will Stoneman on the ride of his life as he battles treacherous ice, scheming rivals, and complete exhaustion on this 522-mile dog sled race from Winnipeg to St. Paul.
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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.
While You Were Sleeping: Homemade Eggnog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sandra Bullock glows as the lovelorn CTA ticket taker hopelessly in love with a regular commuter, but the whole cast is tremendous as well. She is the shimmering star atop the Christmas tree, but the others are the lights and ornaments that make this film sparkle.
Read MoreJoyeux Noel: Alsatian Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Leave your comfortable digs to huddle in the mud-caked trenches of World War I. It is December 1914, just four months into this bloody fight, and the entrenched Scotch, French, and German soldiers share bullets, blood, and cold, but on this Christmas Eve, they will find something else to share as well.
Read MoreThree Days of the Condor: The Condor Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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 More1883: A Yellowstone Origin Film: Bacon Cheesy Fried Grits Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 ½
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Rattlesnakes, arrows dipped in manure, cattle rustlers, drunken rapists, tornadoes, and a group of hard-headed humans at each other’s throats. Sit back and enjoy the mayhem as you count your blessings.
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Endeavour: Fish and Chips to Die For Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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(Complete with New Update and commentary on the final season) Can a prequel ever better its original? Such might be the case in Masterpiece Mystery’s "Endeavour,” about the early career of the curmudgeonly Inspector Morse first featured in that spot.
Read MoreYoung Sherlock Holmes: Custard Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you’d like to time warp to wintry Victorian London this weekend, see this gem of film about the early adventures of Holmes and Watson. Long before Harry Potter and his assorted school chums treated us to mystery and mayhem, Young Sherlock Holmes was up to his eyeballs in adventure at his boarding school as well. Only it’s not magic that the precocious teenager has up his sleeve -- just the mandates of cold, hard logic.
Read MoreA Texas Thanksgiving: North and South Stuffing Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Austin is the kind of laid-back city where even Hollywood stars and music legends can abandon their dark glasses and be themselves. Its sophisticated skyline is reflected in the tranquil waters of Lady Bird Lake, but you can eat even the most haute cuisine in your boots and blue jeans here.
Read More1917: Apricot Charlotte and Other WWI Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A world of wet feet and maimed bodies, rotting corpses and rotting souls fueled only by the will to survive just one more day. It is set during the waning days of The Great War – maybe the most dangerous of times, when easy victory appeals to ambitious officers restless in their trenches.
Read MoreThe Last Kingdom: Ploughman’s Platter Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This great series has it all. Brutal battle sequences, excellent character development, nuanced themes reminiscent of both Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, and of course, some pretty great romance, albeit on the graphic side.
Read MoreBeirut: Lebanese Radish Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Beirut in 1982, once exotic and sophisticated, is now a chaotic rubble. But no more so than its prodigal son, fallen from diplomatic grace, who returns to rescue an old friend.
Read MoreThe Help: Classic Southern Fried Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Behind the well-manicured lawns, the polished silver, and the delicate china is an invisible wall. And it’s one the maids in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, know not to cross. While the more violent street confrontations of the civil rights movement are played out on the street, the small private battles inside everyday kitchens are just as intense.
Read MoreAn Affair to Remember: Pink Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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In what is arguably the most romantic film ever made, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr exchange witty and self-effacing banter on the long way to love, their airy chitchat hiding two vulnerable hearts.
Read MoreFather Brown: Strawberry Scone Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Father Brown is more concerned with saving souls than solving mysteries, but he’s pretty darn good at each. The BBC series, like his reassuring presence, is as comforting as a cup of tea and a warm fireside, even if an alarming number of corpses litter the idyllic English countryside.
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Breaking Away: Melt in Your Mouth Meatball Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Indiana’s version of Dazed and Confused. But it is also very Greek, too, since it asks the question, “Who Am I?” Except we are not talking about kings and queens, but four Bloomington, Indiana, townies trying to find their way in life the year after high school.
Read MoreNotting Hill: Hugh Grant’s Apricot Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Romantic comedies, or films in general, don’t get much better than this! Thoroughly delightful, this 1999 British film gets better with each viewing. Part of that is the charm of Hugh Grant at his zenith here, the loveliness of a radiant Julia Roberts, and a script that is witty and insightful.
A Million Miles Away: Marvelous Michoacán Souped Up Fruit Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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More please, Amazon. Movies that blast off fueled by the human spirit alone, discarding nihilism like booster rockets ejected into space. While shedding victimhood like the small planet it leaves behind.
Read MoreThe Highwaymen: Hoover Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They finally get the story straight and the lawmen – not the thuggish criminals – are the real heroes.
Read MoreThe 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.
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