Run All Night: Champ - Irish Mashed Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s not predictable. It’s inevitable. And that’s a big difference. It’s what you get when pros like Liam Neeson and Ed Harris endow their characters with a tragic vision.
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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.
An Affair to Remember: Pink Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Forget that insipid rom com imitation, Sleepless in Seattle, and get the real thing. In what is arguably the most romantic film ever made, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr exchange witty and self-effacing banter on the long way to love, their airy chitchat hiding two vulnerable hearts.
Read MorePride and Prejudice: Seed Cake Drenched in Cognac Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Pride and Prejudice, easily the best film of 2005, is the way love ought to be, the way it was destined and designed in our hearts. Built on the solid underpinnings of character, goodness, and honor, its fruition is evermore so sweet because it is so long denied.
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Far from the Madding Crowd: English Lemon Curd Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Finally, a love story for grownups. It’s Downton Abbey without all the pomp and circumstance and a heroine who is not afraid to get her hands dirty.
Read MoreThe Vow: Blue Mojito Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/I’m beginning to identify with the great unwashed, those nameless moviegoers who ignore the critics and just follow their fancy. They may be on to something. They certainly saw a spark in The Vow that the sneering critics missed.
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Casanova: Lover's Knots Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Light as a soufflé, peppered with dry wit and broad farce, and taking itself not the least bit seriously, Casanova is just the ticket to cure the doldrums. And along the way, you just may learn something about the art of love as well as the real thing.
Read MoreDeja Vu: New Orleans Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/It’s probably worth watching for the car chase alone, not to mention the dreamy love story, and some solid detective work spiced up with a little Sci Fi. In fact, there’s almost enough there to keep you from thinking too much about a plot that ultimately blows away like dust in the wind.
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All Creatures Great and Small: Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese Tea Sandwich Recipe (with New Update on Season Four)🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You can’t help but fall in love with this 2020 British adaptation of James Herriot’s first unsteady steps as a young veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales (hills for us Yanks). It’s Midsomer without the murders, and an enchanting assortment of loveable and eccentric characters, humans and animals alike.
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 MoreAtomic Blonde: The Coldest City Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Charlize Theron owns this film. Like the best of Bonds she is a stylish knockout – even when sporting a black eye – and reliably lethal. And she’s on duty 24/7, even in the bedroom or the occasional darkened hallway, where amorous adventures are, of course, all for queen and country.
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The Good Shepherd: Cuban Roast Pig Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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The gray everyday grind of the CIA’s early years are as far away from the sexy glamour of James Bond as fact from fiction. Not everyone is going to enjoy this glimpse at a shadowy world of suspicion that slowly erodes the soul.
Read MoreThe Lady Vanishes: Absolutely Ultimate Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Treat yourself to one of Hitchcock’s early classics, complete with international intrigue, slightly wacky cricket fans, and a Miss Marple like lady who suddenly vanishes without a trace from her train compartment as it meanders through the Swiss Alps. With the sole exception of a young Englishwoman, however, no one else will even admit to having seen her in the first place.
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King Kong: Beef and Barley Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Hollywood doing what it does best: great spectacle, a simple love story, and state of the art special effects all wrapped up in a glittering package of heart in your mouth thrills. And the remake actually improves upon the original.
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Captain Phillips: Sweet Somali Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/On rare occasions in film as in life, everything comes together to create near perfection. Because it does not try too hard to please us with Hollywood's standard visual and verbal excess, that's exactly what happens in this retelling of the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. container ship off the Somali coast.
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The Brokenwood Mysteries: Mrs. Marlowe’s Secret Cheese Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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New Zealand’s version of Midsomer Murders , but a lot more fun. Replace the rather stuffy and happily married chief inspectors of that English series with Detective Mike Shepherd, who has an indeterminate number of ex wives and a passion for muscle cars and country music, New Zealand style.
Read MoreArmy of Shadows: French Onion Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/A world of bright cold and sweaty fear, bare rooms, and shadowy souls fueled only by gritty determination and lonely desperation. It is 1943 in occupied France and you are in the bowels of the Underground.
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The Year of Living Dangerously: Bir Pletok: Jakarta Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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An astonishingly young and vulnerable Mel Gibson careens between the influence of a mercurial photographer and his growing passion for a lovely British attaché in Jakarta, Indonesia. Festering poverty and violence envelop us, the heat palpitates like a hammering heartbeat, and ambition battles better angels.
Read MoreThe Theory of Everything: Grand English Plum Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite film is as brilliant as the mind of Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and heir to Einstein. And it does something that far too few films currently do. It inspires us.
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The Imitation Game: Bangers and Mash Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Meet Alan Turing, the eccentric genius who cracked the infamous Nazi Enigma code and probably shortened World War II by 2 to 4 years. Benedict Cumberbatch embodies all the arrogant awkwardness of the socially backward mathematician with his own acting genius as well.
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Walk the Line: Ring of Fire Biscuit Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon light up the screen in this epic tale of one of America’s most authentic music legends. Experience the onstage joy and electricity of Cash’s music, and then lift the curtain for a dark glimpse into the pain and anger that fueled it.
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