The Matrix: The Oracle’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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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 Aviator: Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you rent this movie because of your fascination with Howard Hughes, pioneer of aviation, you may walk away disappointed. But if you want to know more about the flawed genius as a man in all his tattered complexity, you will be richly rewarded.
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.
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The 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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Mr. Jones: Russian Sour Cream Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One was a real journalist, the other a depraved opportunist who covered up a famine. Guess which won the Pulitzer Prize?
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 MoreOperation Mincemeat: Sicilian Blood Orange Salad Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Did you know Ian Fleming, the famed author who created 007, was a real spy who cut his teeth on one of the biggest deceptions of WWII? Operation Mincemeat, as it was dubbed with typical English gallows humor, involved “the most unlikely of secret agents,” a corpse.
Read MoreSchindler’s List : Polish Dumplings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Probably the most significant Holocaust film ever made, with Steven Spielberg using his directorial clout to raise awareness of one of the worst atrocities of the last century. Over a quarter of a century later, Schindler’s List is even more relevant today.
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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.
Read MoreFar from the Madding Crowd: English Lemon Curd Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Finally, a love story for grownups. It’s Downton Abbey without all the pomp and circumstance and a heroine who is not afraid to get her hands dirty.
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 MoreEast Side Sushi: Green Diablo Roll Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A must see for foodies. Except that this modern day Cinderella is not trying to win the prince; she is trying to win the prize.
Read MoreThe Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.
Read MoreThe Outfit: The Savile Row Martini Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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A thriller with as many twists and turns as the Bobs, that famous wooden roller coaster from Riverview Park in my native Chicago. And that fits, too, since the dark deeds occur in a dank corner of that Windy City. Our most important character, though, hails from London.
Read MoreMud: 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 Lincoln: Mary Todd Lincoln Sugar Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Steven Spielberg again reminds us that one purpose of great drama is to inspire as well as delight. His film does both.
Read MoreCapote: Perfect Roast Turkey Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman does not just portray the eccentric Capote in his 2005 Oscar winning role, but for 98 minutes on screen, he becomes him. Hoffman’s Capote is at once mercurial, maudlin, and manipulative, but also empathetic and at some points, well meaning.
Charade: 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.
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