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.
North by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Arguably Hitchcock’s popular and critical masterpiece, this film has it all. Cary Grant is magnificent as the wrongly accused man on the run, handling his dire straights with dry humor and nonchalance. The action set pieces are riveting and so superior to the CGI we typically get today. While the romantic banter has a verbal wit we seem to have forgotten on screen.
Read MoreShadow of a Doubt: Easy and Elegant Canapé Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/See it again or for the first time to discover why Hitchcock bests them all, especially in what is purportedly his favorite film. Maybe because he embeds evil in such an innocent lair.
Read MoreThe Girl on the Train: Delicious Deviled Egg Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/True Grit: Yaller Bread with Pintos Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The Lunchbox: Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/If you can’t make it to India, take this virtual trip, a culinary adventure and subtle love story set in Mumbai. But don’t expect squalid slums that sing with color. Instead it’s the comfortable gray lives of three lonely souls that need spicing up.
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/The Accountant: Indonesian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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The Third Man: Café Vienna Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Savor what may be the most perfect film ever made. This Orson Welles/Joseph Cotton collaboration tops their earlier one, Citizen Kane, even though that one still gets the lion’s share of attention. Love, intrigue, treachery, and betrayal - it literally drips in atmosphere, never sacrificing the great story it has to tell to its dramatic brilliance and avant-garde film techniques.
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/Match Point: Poacher’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Woody Allen’s 2005 film noir thriller is set in posh London, where he cooks up a stew bubbling over with almost all the seven deadly sins. But don’t expect any predictable moralizing. This is, of course, Woody Allen.
Read MoreRisen: Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The Stoning of Soraya M: Salad-e Shirazi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Papillon: Prison Fantasy Coconut Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Steve McQueen is mesmerizing is this brutal saga capturing man’s eternal yearning to be free. At the jungle labor camp he battles betrayal, disease, starvation, as well as encounters with unfriendly lepers, a pragmatically sadistic prison director, nuns with unusual ideas of Christian charity, and more than one person setting him up for certain death. But it is his unlikely alliance with fellow prisoner Dustin Hoffman that anchors this epic tale.
Read MoreThe Quiet Man: Lamb Shanks Braised in Guinness Stout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/3:10 to Yuma: Cattle Drive Cornbread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Scotch Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This isn’t just a slap in the face to the glamorized intrigue of the spy world; it’s a punch in the gut, a leveling one that bends you over and leaves you groaning. An unflinching portrait of moral compromise that slowly eats away at a man’s soul, whether he is on the right side or not.
Read MoreThe Untouchables: The Southside Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 1987 film is even better than I remembered. Action, adventure, and a superb cast of characters who gain courage from each other as they fight against entrenched corruption both inside and outside the law.
Read MoreCool Hand Luke: Easy Deviled Egg Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Paul Newman, so young and gorgeous in this 1967 epic, fills the screen by trying not to in this tale of a likeable yet self-destructive rebel.
Read MoreThe Man Who Would Be King: Alexander the Great’s Skewered Lamb Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/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.
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