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.
Dead Again: Caviar and Crème Fraîche Tartlet Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/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 MorePhoenix: German Jägerschnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Longmire: Navajo Kneel Down Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Deepwater Horizon: Louisiana Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Edge: Kodiak Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A screenplay superbly crafted by David Mamet, Anthony Hopkins working his magic alongside a compelling Alec Baldwin, not to mention a 9-foot Kodiak bear bulldozing his way through the Alaskan wilderness. What’s not to like?
Read MoreJoyeux Noel: Alsatian Stuffed Chicken Breast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/While You Were Sleeping: Homemade Eggnog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sandra Bullock glows as the lovelorn CTA ticket taker hopelessly in love with a regular commuter, but the whole cast is tremendous as well. She is the shimmering star atop the Christmas tree, but the others are the lights and ornaments that make this film sparkle.
Read MoreAbout a Boy: Old Fashioned Onion Rings Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
/No one is better at playing superficial, selfish ogres than Hugh Grant. You might say he has lived that life, at least a bit. But that only sets us up for his “redemption,” and this one is probably the steepest climb of them all.
Read MoreThe Princess Bride: Blood Orange Revenge Cocktail Recipe Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/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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On the Waterfront: Hoboken Happy Hour Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Iron Will: Fruitcake Hater's Fruitcake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Run Boy Run: Potato Pancake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Maybe the most inspiring film ever. It’s a true story of Srulik, an 8-year-old Polish Jew who must survive on his own, outwitting the cold, hunger, and the relentless Nazis. And a few others as well.
Read MoreThe Pursuit of Happyness: Million Dollar Macaroni and Cheese Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Mission Impossible: Fallout: The French Martini Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Make it a double feature, a followup to Top Gun: Maverick: Great Balls of Fire Cocktail, with“one-man supernova” Tom Cruise saving the the world once again.
Read MoreSound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Despite its July release, this wasn’t exactly a summer popcorn movie. But it is definitely a must see because it exposes a concealed crisis from which too many wish to avert their eyes: the human trafficking scourge that affects approximately 2 million children a year.
Read MoreAll the Light We Cannot See: Peach Dump Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/In the bleak shadows of 2023 streaming, a new film is a lamp onto our feet. One of the few new offerings that is uniformly excellent.
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Empire of the Sun: Butter Biscuit Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Steven Spielberg reimagines war –its tragic irony, chaos and confusion –through the eyes of a young English boy in Shanghai who lives through the Japanese invasion (and occupation) of that British colony.
Read MoreThe Sixth Sense: I See Dead People Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Probably the only movie that is as good or better the second time around. The first time is creepy and surreal. The second time an intellectual exercise as well as a lesson in humility.
Read MoreGaslight: Luscious and Lethal English Dessert Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Gaslight: To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity, particularly by leading them to doubt their own experiences or perceptions of reality.
Here is the 1944 classic that spawned the term.
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