The Magic of Belle Isle: Peachy Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
The Verdict: Grilled Lobster Tail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sidney Lumet directing Paul Newman in his prime, James Mason superb playing the eloquent villain, with a taut and unpredictable script as only David Mamet can pen. About as perfect as it gets.
Read MoreBridge of Spies: German Farmer’s Breakfast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its length, this “spy thriller” is lean – light on melodrama, smoky dark room dealings, or cloak and dagger shenanigans. The real enemies are the cold, the damp, and the blind alleys of self-serving bureaucrats.
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Sound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Despite its 2023 July release, this wasn’t exactly a summer popcorn movie. But it is definitely a must see because it exposes a concealed crisis from which too many wish to avert their eyes: the human trafficking scourge that affects approximately 2 million children a year.
Read MoreMy Sister Ann: Eggplant Parmesan 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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I would like to write a tribute to my only sister, Ann, on her birthday. She is such a good and caring person and we have only grown closer as we get older, in spite of living over a 1000 miles away from each other.
Read MoreJesse Stone: Lobster Chowder Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tom Selleck’s Jesse Stone is the police chief, just as his Blue Bloods counterpart Frank Reagan is. He has Reagan’s sense of justice, integrity, and doggedness, but he has never slain his real demons, which are on the inside.
Read MoreCat on a Hot Tin Roof: Big Daddy’s Pork Chop Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you have never seen this steely and sensual classic starring Paul Newman and Liz Taylor, now is the time. Taylor is at her voluptuous best and Newman never better as her self-loathing husband who ignores all her entreaties for love.
Read MoreThe Patriot: Stovetop Low Country Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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No dry history here. The Revolutionary War in all its blood, brutality, and bravery flies off the pages and into our hearts in one of Mel Gibson’s most heartfelt performances as a reluctant Revolutionary militia leader drawn into the conflict almost against his will.
Read MoreRocky: Philly Ribs Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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Rocky is the epitome of the American Dream. Nominated for 10 Oscars and winning 3. A modest $1 million budget that grossed over $200 million at the box office.
Read MoreTURИ: Washington's Spies: Cheshire Pork Pie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Truth and Illusion. You won’t always know the difference as the American Revolution comes roaring to life on screen in blood red, patriot blue, and cowardly white. Lust and loyalty, betrayal and bravery, deception and death – they are all there in a kaleidoscope of images that bleed into each other.
Read MoreMrs. Harris Goes to Paris: Toad in the Hole Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁
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Our modern day Cinderella is a middle aged war widow, but she’s a bit of a fairy godmother as well. Potential Prince Charmings sometimes disappoint, but others are hidden in plain sight.
Read MoreSaving Private Ryan: Truffade: Rustic French Potato and Cheese Pancake 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Possibly the greatest and most realistic war film ever made. Certainly not the typical Hollywood film that tends to glorify war.
In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.
Read MoreThe Outpost: Luscious Layered Afghan Eggplant Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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The Outpost has been compared to 2001’s Black Hawk Down, which right away tells you it is down and dirty, showcasing individual heroism in a horrendous battle brought about by top down military and political malfeasance.
Read MoreHaunted Austin: The Tavern: Loaded Potato Skins 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Her Name was Emily. And she is the “ghost” that some say still haunts The Tavern, right here in the heart of Austin, Texas.
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Schindler’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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Lovejoy: 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 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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The 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 MoreLocke: Filo-Wrapped Spiced Sausage Roll Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Only Tom Hardy could carry off “this one-man tour de force.” The whole film is him alone in his car, driving toward his destruction or deliverance – take your pick – while managing his three ring circus life on his car phone.
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