KATHY’S WHIMSY WEEK
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.
Truth and Illusion. You won’t always know the difference as the American Revolution comes roaring to life on screen in blood red, patriot blue, and cowardly white. Lust and loyalty, betrayal and bravery, deception and death – they are all there in a kaleidoscope of images that bleed into each other.
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“The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made.” And no wonder. We have Hitchcock favorite Cary Grant with echoes of North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief. As well as ever elegant Audrey Hepburn exquisitely beautiful and rivaling the tailored loveliness of Grace Kelly in Rear Window.
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If you have never seen this steely and sensual classic starring Paul Newman and Liz Taylor, now is the time. Taylor is at her voluptuous best and Newman never better as her self-loathing husband who ignores all her entreaties for love.
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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.
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Only Tom Hardy could carry off “this one-man tour de force.” The whole film is him alone in his car, driving toward his destruction or deliverance – take your pick – while managing his three ring circus life on his car phone.
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Although the events chronicled begin in 1996, Manhunt: Deadly Games is more timely than ever. It exposes the media malfeasance and FBI arrogance that ruined the life of Richard Jewell when they wrongly portrayed the “hero” security guard who found a deadly backpack at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, as the culprit.
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You don’t have to be a racing fan to love this film. In fact, with the assorted male egos jockeying for position off the track, it’s those moments that really capture us.
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Forget John Travolta in Urban Cowboy (1980), the countrified version of Saturday Night Fever (1977) and join Idris Elba in the real thing. These are no honkytonk Gilley’s Club mechanical bull riders. They ride real flesh and blood horses, and Idris Elba’s character Harp even houses his in the living room.
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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.
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You don’t need to be an APD or an FBI to figure this out,” says Elsie John, mother of 30-year old Jason John, whose body was recovered from the lake on February 13th after being missing for 8 days.
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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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Don’t miss Jim Caviezel’s compelling thriller, which displays the courage and conviction of the actor as well as the Christian blogger he portrays on film. Written, directed, and produced by Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh, it is based on real life Robert Levinson and a composite of several other innocents who died in the Middle East.
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Meet Britain’s Vera. Bedraggled, frumpy, both brusque and vulnerable, she has an eye for detail that can almost compete with Sherlock Holmes, as well as a cache of little grey cells to rival Hercule Piroit. And yes, a frumpy trench coat that reminds us of Columbo.
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If you loved Wind River, you might like this other frigid thriller from Netflix. Or maybe not.
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The “Scottish play” goes Irish. Well at least a little of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with a twist of Dennis Lehane’s/Clint Eastwood’s Oscar winning Mystic River (2003) stirred in for good measure. Or maybe we’re more reminded of Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects (1995). Shakespeare’s protagonist succumbed; Lehane’s and Singer’s got a way with it. Which way will it go here?
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The Outpost has been compared to 2001’s Black Hawk Down, which right away tells you it is down and dirty, showcasing individual heroism in a horrendous battle brought about by top down military and political malfeasance.
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No, I am not talking Blanche DuBois from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche is a chicken, and a very pretty one at that. And she has better romantic instincts than the New Orleans wench. But she would, then wouldn’t she? She is from West Texas.
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"Very scary, especially given that I live in this neighborhood," said Neda, who lives near the lake.
The woman's body was found Sunday, Dec. 1, in the water near Brazos and East Cesar Chavez Streets.
"A 911 call was received from a kayaker who was paddling upstream and observed some type of object in the water," said Officer Leah Ratliff with the Austin Police Department.
Police say it appears the woman was homeless, in her 60s, and may have been trying to keep warm, when she somehow ended up in the water. Detectives do not suspect foul play.
"There's nothing that appears to be suspicious. There's no type of connection that they believe," said Ratliff.
o Another body was found in Lady Bird Lake on Dec. 2
o The death was one of at least six near the lake so far this year
o Another death in the lake sparks renewed concerns
AUSTIN, Texas - There are renewed concerns after the body of a woman was found in Lady Bird Lake over the weekend. This is one of at least six deaths in or near the lake so far this year.
"Very scary, especially given that I live in this neighborhood," said Neda, who lives near the lake.
The woman's body was found Sunday, Dec. 1, in the water near Brazos and East Cesar Chavez Streets.
"A 911 call was received from a kayaker who was paddling upstream and observed some type of object in the water," said Officer Leah Ratliff with the Austin Police Department.
Police say it appears the woman was homeless, in her 60s, and may have been trying to keep warm, when she somehow ended up in the water. Detectives do not suspect foul play.
"There's nothing that appears to be suspicious. There's no type of connection that they believe," said Ratliff.
A petition calls out the Austin Police and City officials for what it terms “a miscarriage of Justice,” hinting that there is something “darker at play” here, and accuses officials of treating the victims’ families “callously and without empathy.”
Victim’s family pleads against plea bargain for this Austin Serial Killer.
https://www.differentdrummer.cc/main/i-survived-the-rainey-street-ripper
“I survived the Rainey Street ripper': Drugged man who plummeted 25ft off bridge believes 'serial killer' stalking Austin tried to drown him.” Daily Mail
Twelve bodies have been found in Lady Bird Lake and Colorado River since 2022
Police insist there is no serial killer but the mounting bodies sees rumor persist
Jeff Jones survived falling off bridge near river, thinks he may have been pushed
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The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery
Austin is now the trendy number one city, but back in the eighties it was more laid back – not so many skyscrapers and urban hipsters. Just outside of town, you'd be likely to run into old cowboys, ranch hands, and a diamondback or two. And just maybe – an accidental death not as accidental as it seems…
Complete with Texas Recipes for the Oktoberfest Dinner where all is revealed.
An Illustrated Introduction to Classical Horsemanship: Concepts and Skills from A to Z
by Gary Borich
A comprehensive resource in a succinct alphabetical format that brings the beginning rider through every aspect of learning to train and ride for show and trail.
o Another body was found in Lady Bird Lake on Dec. 2
o The death was one of at least six near the lake so far this year
o Another death in the lake sparks renewed concerns
AUSTIN, Texas - There are renewed concerns after the body of a woman was found in Lady Bird Lake over the weekend. This is one of at least six deaths in or near the lake so far this year.
"Very scary, especially given that I live in this neighborhood," said Neda, who lives near the lake.
The woman's body was found Sunday, Dec. 1, in the water near Brazos and East Cesar Chavez Streets.
"A 911 call was received from a kayaker who was paddling upstream and observed some type of object in the water," said Officer Leah Ratliff with the Austin Police Department.
Police say it appears the woman was homeless, in her 60s, and may have been trying to keep warm, when she somehow ended up in the water. Detectives do not suspect foul play.
"There's nothing that appears to be suspicious. There's no type of connection that they believe," said Ratliff.
o Another body was found in Lady Bird Lake on Dec. 2
o The death was one of at least six near the lake so far this year
o Another death in the lake sparks renewed concerns
AUSTIN, Texas - There are renewed concerns after the body of a woman was found in Lady Bird Lake over the weekend. This is one of at least six deaths in or near the lake so far this year.
"Very scary, especially given that I live in this neighborhood," said Neda, who lives near the lake.
The woman's body was found Sunday, Dec. 1, in the water near Brazos and East Cesar Chavez Streets.
"A 911 call was received from a kayaker who was paddling upstream and observed some type of object in the water," said Officer Leah Ratliff with the Austin Police Department.
Police say it appears the woman was homeless, in her 60s, and may have been trying to keep warm, when she somehow ended up in the water. Detectives do not suspect foul play.
"There's nothing that appears to be suspicious. There's no type of connection that they believe," said Ratliff.
