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.
Mud: Arkansas Sin Appetizer Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A tale as timeless as the Mississippi where love and loneliness live side by side on its muddy shores. Matthew McConaughey is a mysterious stranger who touches the lives of two young boys who find dark undercurrents in their familiar river.
Read More 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 MoreAll the Light We Cannot See: Peach Dump Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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In the bleak shadows of streaming, this 2023 film was a lamp onto our feet. One of the few new offerings that is uniformly excellent.
Read MoreMidway: Good Neighbor Classic Daiquiri Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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That’s why we called them the greatest generation, pals. This war and the Depression before that shaped them. They didn’t complain. They just did their duty, and more than you can even imagine died, and died valiantly.
Read MoreThe Life List: “Ghosted” Corned Beef Hash 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Can you remember your 13-year-old self? Your first teenage years when everything was exciting, crazy, scary, and amazing all at once?
Read MoreMoonstruck: Italian Sausage and Egg Breakfast Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Flawless, even as it shows all our human flaws right up there on the big screen. It’s enough to make you believe in true love and second chances all over again. And the Italian humor and philosophy are the icing on the cake.
Read MoreCharade: French Alpine Tartiflette Casserole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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“The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made.” And no wonder. We have Hitchcock favorite Cary Grant with echoes of North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief. As well as ever elegant Audrey Hepburn exquisitely beautiful and rivaling the tailored loveliness of Grace Kelly in Rear Window.
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 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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The Long, Hot Summer: William Faulkner’s Mint Julep Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, he’s a con man at best, and a ruthless opportunist who doesn’t seem to care whom he hurts along the way, but his slick charm draws us in even if the prim Clara seems immune to it.
Read MoreClarkson’s Farm with Season 3 Update: Lamb Chops and New Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Diddly Squat Farm continues to battle the British bureaucracy, the whims of weather, the travails of falling in love with piglets and baby goats, and the brainstorms of Jeremy himself, not to mention a contest between him and his new “farm manager” Kaleb, who treats his boss as an equal now.
Read MoreThe Ipcress File with *Update on New Series: 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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Longmire: Navajo Kneel Down Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Big sky country. Snow peaked mountains. Clear streams cutting through vast grasslands. And yes, a few pesky corpses cluttering up the landscape. It’s a good thing Sheriff Walt Longmire is there to clean things up.
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Victorian Steak and Mushroom Ale Pie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Venture into Victorian London’s foggy night air for a waiting carriage as the snap of the whip and echoing hoof beats pierce the darkness. No, you are not on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes, or even his newly invented younger sister Enola. You are going with Miss Scarlet, another private detective set to prove herself in a man’s world.
Read MoreEndeavour: 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 MoreLetters to Juliet: Tuscan Bruschetta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/In 2010 I found an undiscovered gem. The plot is a gentle drive down rambling country roads, not the roller coaster ride with stomach dropping thrills or tortuous twists we’ve come to expect too often. Its destination is not unexpected, but just as sweet nonetheless, and it recalls something from another era, a sense of grace.
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Three Coins in the Fountain: Roman Pasta (Cacio e Pepe) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget the dark adventures that dance across our current screens and return to a place of light, air, and happiness. Beautiful Italy, three tug-at-your-heart romances, and a classic Oscar winning song sung by none other than an uncredited Frank Sinatra. You could not hope for breezier way to usher in soon to be summer.
Read MoreThe Passion of the Christ Recut: My Mother's Easter Pizza Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 2005 film was a courageous departure from the cynical, anti-religious bent of current Hollywood. If you missed this epic the first time around, this may be just the right time to see it.
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Cabrini: 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?
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