The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Roasted Corn with Cilantro Butter Recipe 🥁🥁🥁

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Roasted Corn with Cilantro Butter Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
This tale of poetic justice is as stark and beautiful as its West Texas landscape and as unpredictable as the creatures that inhabit it. Although it careens between cynicism and sentimentality, the grotesque and absurd, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is intriguing, at times poignant, and guaranteed to generate a great discussion afterward.
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The Water Horse: Scotch Eggs Recipe (3 1/2 Drums)

Its mythical creature may be computer generated but the flesh and blood characters are the real deal in more ways than one, and between the two they will charm the whole family. Wrap it all up in a venerable Scottish castle parked at water’s edge, throw in just enough World War II realism and romance to entrance the adults without frightening the kiddies, and you have the perfect package.

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Furious 7: Arabic Fattoush Salad Recipe (3 1/2 Drums)

Furious 7: Arabic Fattoush Salad Recipe   (3 1/2 Drums)
It never fails. Just when I am about to dismiss Hollywood entirely, it surprises me. I hopped on the Fast and Furious franchise at stop number 7, taking it for a drive because it seemed the only vehicle on a deserted street. And it was truly one fantastic ride filled with shock and awe – and one very large helping of cinema magic.

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City of Ember: Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁

This science fiction/fantasy strikes just the right note between light humor and action as two brave teens try to save their underground city before it reaches its expiration date. Unfortunately, the adults on hand wrap themselves in cocoons of corruption and blankets of denial as the generator that has sustained them for two centuries winds itself and them with it down to oblivion.

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Just Like Heaven: Broccoli with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce Recipe

Just Like Heaven: Broccoli with Cheesy Mushroom Sauce Recipe
Just Like Heaven is a pastry puff of a film complete with a plucky heroine, lovingly flawed sidekicks, and that wonderful almost too late awakening when the sweetly obtuse hero finally realizes he is in the full throws of love. It’s enough to make you believe in fate, true love, and happy endings all over again.
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The White Countess: White Russian Cocktail Recipe

Think of everything that guarantees box office gold – squealing car chases, steamy passion, rampant explosions, tortuous plot twists, hormone addled teens or octogenarians, and a peppering of coarse humor thrown in for good measure. Well, you’ll get none of it with this final Merchant Ivory collaboration set in 1936 Shanghai, but the simple story will stay with you long after the latest blockbuster fades from memory.

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