Bernie: Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
/True crime TV: Slacker edition. Or East Texas’ Fargo, as director Richard Linklater dubbed it. Any way you put it, this dark comedy has a bumper crop of talent.
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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.
United 93: Buttered Mushroom Omelet Recipe
/Paul Greengrass strikes just the right note in United 93 by refusing to pander to either emotions or politics. The audience feels anew the loss of innocence -- fresh, shocking, and only amplified by our ironic knowledge of its ultimate tragic end on that fateful day in September.
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Hanna: Schnitzel Hunter Style Recipe
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This 2011 film, the precursor for the current Amazon series, is a perfect fit for our current culture – superb eye candy. All style and very little substance. A thriller shot like an MTV sequence, with a blaring sound track by the Chemical Brothers that varnishes it with a cool mystique that promises more than it delivers.
Read MoreGloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe
/Hungary in the 1930s, and Laszlo Szabo’s Budapest restaurant, as well as the man himself, stands as a last bastion of elegance, civility and grace in a world that is slowly spiraling into chaos. While his beautiful Ilona, like her Greek namesake Helen, is the center of her own small circle of adulation and destruction.
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Angel Has Fallen: Off the Grid Ham and Beans Recipe
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It’s not so much the President, but his guardian angel, Mike Banning, who is in trouble with this latest edge of your seat thriller. The action is terrific and bold, thanks to its former stuntman director, Ric Roman Waugh, who by the way, lives in my adopted hometown, Austin, Texas.
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