The Sandlot: Sandlot S’Mores Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Laugh out loud with this minor classic that stirs up a cocktail of Goonies, Stand by Me, Breaking Away, and The Christmas Story, with a little Cujo as our cherry on the top.
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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.
Thirteen Lives: No Bake Thai Cheesecake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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You are there right with them. The two cave divers that are the focus, but also Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers attempting a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand.
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 over 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 MoreLovejoy: Chicken Parisian Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Think Antiques Roadshow, but supercharged with a good hearted rogue and a cast of characters that make Father Brown’s bunch pedestrian by comparison.
Read MoreVan Der Valk: Dutch Bacon Pancakes 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Endeavour meets Sam Spade in Amsterdam. Not to mention a little Columbo, Longmire, Vera, George Gently, Brokenwood’s Mike Shepherd, and the grown-up Inspector Morse lurking in the shadows.
Read MoreThe Chosen: Loaves and Fishes Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Just change the point of view and “the greatest story ever told” becomes new and fresh again. This time it is the disciples, uneducated and often lost and confused, who frame this exquisite narrative about Jesus.
Read MoreCabrini: Italian Jam Tart (Crostata) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A beautiful tale of an extraordinary woman, enhanced with astounding recreations of Italy and New York near the turn of the century. But why did they dismiss the most important focus of American’s first female saint?
Read MoreSeven 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 MoreClose to the Enemy : German Braised Cabbage 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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This seven-part mini-series will get you through the winter storm, all right, but you may end up with cabin fever. Every intriguing moment has another that makes you want to pull your hair out.
Read MoreFrom Russia with Love: Gypsy Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Best of the Best. Sean Connery is the best Bond and From Russian with Love is his best outing. No wonder it was named the 9th best British Film of All Time by Total Film Magazine in 2004, the only Bond film to make the list.
Read MoreJuror # 2: Nachos Southern Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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A modern 12 Angry Men, but with a twist. Don’t expect the same wonderful acting or script as that 1957 classic, but director Clint Eastwood even at 94, puts our flawed human nature under the microscope once again.
Read MoreThe Night Manager: Majorcan Lobster Salad 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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John le Carré makes a cameo in this film based on his first post-Cold War 1993 novel. But unlike Hitchcock, he is neither quiet nor demur. In fact, he just about steals the scene and invents some lines impromptu.
Read MoreSoul on Fire: Potatoes Au Gratin 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Do you need to be inspired? Are the winter doldrums getting you down? No more eggnog , favorite Christmas films, or feasting on delicious treats?
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It’s a Wonderful Life : Bermuda Crescent Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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This Christmas classic was the all-time favorite of its director, Frank Capra, and he screened it for his family every Christmas. It was also one of Jimmy Stewart’s favorites, too.
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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 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.
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