Brief Encounter: Orange and Walnut Café Crumpets 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Go back in time three quarters of a century for what may be the most romantic movie ever – and the most heartbreaking.
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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 Train: French “Pot in the Fire” Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget all of Hollywood's hyped heist films and see one based on the real thing. John Frankenheimer’s 1964 film starring the legendary Burt Lancaster is about a real life World War II heist with real men and real machines. Two men of iron will fight for control of an iron horse -- a steam engine loaded with France’s art treasures headed for a quick getaway over the German border.
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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 MoreCadfael: Medieval Roasted Partridge Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Think Father Brown time warped back about 8 centuries. Cadfael’s not a priest but a 12th century monk who solves medieval mysteries.
Read MoreThe Night Manager: Majorcan Lobster Salad 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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John le Carré makes a cameo in this film based on his first post-Cold War 1993 novel. But unlike Hitchcock, he is neither quiet nor demur. In fact, he just about steals the scene and invents some lines impromptu.
Read MoreDead Again: Caviar and Crème Fraîche Tartlet Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Is it happening all over again? The impulsive romance, quickly souring, and then ending in a brutal murder? Then married couple Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson play two sets of star crossed lovers executing a tortuous pas de deux that mirrors what happened decades earlier.
Read MoreLost in Space: Oreo Icebox Cake 🥁 🥁 🥁 1/2
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Sure, it’s cheesy, a cinematic stew of Han Solo, Indiana Jones, look alike monsters from Jurassic World, bits of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, sprinkles of Doogie Howser, M.D., and even MacGyver. But it also affirms Faith, Family, Forgiveness and Redemption without ever explicitly mentioning religion per se. This is Netflix, after all.
Read MoreThe Man in the High Castle : Classic Pot Roast Recipe🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Like the best of science fiction this fine series causes us to reflect on our own reality. And The Man in the High Castle is even more relevant than when it first aired in 2015 through 2019.
Read MoreThe Princess Bride: Blood Orange Revenge Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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It’s time to revisit this classic. Remember when Hollywood valued humor, playfulness, and witty banter? Instead of action, action, action, with a few dollops of self-righteous preaching thrown in for good measure.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era: French Villa Dessert (Creme Fraiche aux Fruits) 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Maggie Smith still owns it, even if we are now into a kinder, gentler Downton Abbey. Her zingers are still there, but milder now that old feuds have been quelled, and alliances have replaced vicious rivalries.
Read MoreAir: Southern Banana Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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This seems a compelling and sweet film about risking everything for someone you believe in. It even has streaks of genius, most of which is due to Matt Damon’s brilliant performance.
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Three Coins in the Fountain: Roman Pasta (Cacio e Pepe) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Forget the dark adventures that dance across our current screens and return to a place of light, air, and happiness. Beautiful Italy, three tug-at-your-heart romances, and a classic Oscar winning song sung by none other than an uncredited Frank Sinatra. You could not hope for breezier way to usher in soon to be summer.
Read MoreCitadel: Parisian “Serendipiti” Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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It aspires to be a combo of James Bond and Mission Impossible, but the Russo Brothers seem more intent on creating a money making franchi$e with multiple spin-offs rather than paying homage to classic spy thrillers.
Read MoreSeven Kings Must Die: Gossip’s Cup Ale Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Wow!. This is a new Uhtred. Uthred the peacemaker with no woman by his side. His hair is graying, and he and his men now spend their time like old soldiers, recounting their battles and washing it down with plenty of ale.
Read MoreZulu: Cawl (Traditional Welsh Soup) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1964 epic is 31year-old Michael Caine’s breakout performance. He’s blond and semi-gorgeous, but also prissy, entitled, a “sleepy-eyed…arse,” who nevertheless ultimately shows both “guts and sensitivity.” (Roderick Heath)
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Evelyn: Dublin Coddle (Sausage, Bacon. Potatoes, and Onions) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Forget that grotesque Oscar nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, and watch another Irish film with another Irish star. This one is over 2 decades old, but it resonates from an era before the world had turned itself upside down.
Read MoreDog Gone: Zippy Chicken and Corn Chowder Recipe 🥁🥁🥁 1/2
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Ok, it’s a little sappy at the start, but slowly we discover this is much more than just a hunt for a missing dog. It’s really a coming of age tale about his owner.
Read MoreMs. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries: Cheddar Cheese Straws Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Ms. Fisher’s Modern Mysteries is almost as much fun as its prequel. Peregrine is every bit as prying, unrelenting, and audacious as her Aunt Phryne. And as dazzling in her fashionable 60s attire, aquamarine eye shadow, mini skirts, and bold geometric prints that take Different Drummer back to her own youth at Oak Park River Forest High.
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