Inspector Lewis: English Fish and Chips and English Breakfast Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁

The manicured lawns, lush gardens, and cobbled walkways of Oxford hide some pretty nasty murders, and the assorted dons and tutors, despite their plummy vowels and intellect, can be just about as evil as the rest of the world. It’s a good thing that Inspector Lewis and his trusty sergeant are there to put things right.

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True Crime: Travesty of Justice for Austin Serial Killer Continues

True Crime: Travesty of Justice for Austin Serial Killer Continues

2019 victim's family pleads against another plea bargain for this Austin serial killer. Maybe one reason for no progress on the Rainey Street killer(s) is a past “Travesty of Justice” right here in Austin. The system was manipulated and a serial killer plea bargained his way out of a system that should have given him a life sentence for the 1982 rape and murder of and 8-year-old here in Austin.

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Gloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 1/2

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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No Country for Old Men: Texas Venison Chili Recipe 🥁🥁🥁

This overrated 2008 Best Picture winner does have its brilliance in a cold, soulless way. The plot itself – a drug deal gone bad, a hapless deer hunter who finds the leftover cash, and his relentless pursuit by some of the bad guys not left rotting in the desert – is not particularly innovative, but the earthy way it unfolds is riveting.

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The Proposition: Boomerang Chicken and Spuds Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Clearly not for the squeamish, this “Western” takes place in the Australian outback, where the harsh landscape is as unforgiving as the raw assortment of humans who claim it. But this stark saga transcends genre as it unmasks the complexity of evil, and in so doing, is right up there with Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville.

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Catch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Catch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Remember when going to the movies was a welcome escape from times of turbulence and trouble instead of a nosedive into them? Well, Steven Spielberg did when he made this sunny film that is laugh out loud at times. It’s the perfect medicine, and Leonardo DiCaprio administers it with professional expertise.

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