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.
Clarkson’s Farm with Season 3 Update: Lamb Chops and New Potatoes Recipe 🥁🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Diddly Squat Farm continues to battle the British bureaucracy, the whims of weather, the travails of falling in love with piglets and baby goats, and the brainstorms of Jeremy himself, not to mention a contest between him and his new “farm manager” Kaleb, who treats his boss as an equal now.
Read MoreCry Macho: Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/One of the few new films worth watching, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho manages to distill his 60 year career into its essence. It is a vintage aged is oak – in this case Texas live oaks – dusty plains, wild horses, and at least one wild woman. And did I mention one pretty frisky fighting cock. A rooster named Macho.
Read MoreThe Mule: Super-Easy Pulled Pork Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Oh, no! It seems film icon Clint Eastwood has gone over to the dark side, playing a very likeable octogenarian drug courier.
Read MoreThe Way Back: Polish Pierogi Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you can survive the freezing wind, the Russian criminal gangs running the barracks are ready to stab you for your threadbare sweater, and then there’re the mines, great sulfurous pits where every breath is a taste of fire. Those Cyrillic letters on the archway above the Siberian prison camp might as well say, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
Read MoreThe Enemy Below: Nautical Cocktail Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This classic submarine film is right up there with Das Boot and The Hunt for Red October. Well, almost. But it doesn’t get better than this cat and mouse game between the captain of an American destroyer and his counterpart, “the enemy below” him in the German U Boat.
Read MoreHunter Killer: The Blue Russian Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/How can you not love a submarine film? And Gerard Butler does some of his best work here as the taciturn newly recruited captain taxed with a nearly impossible mission. Besides, Hunter Killer has been banned in Russia. Do you need any other motivation to see it?
Read MoreThe Last Bus: Ukrainian Pierogi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This is a road trip, but don’t expect Easy Rider, Smokey and the Bandit, The Blues Brothers, Little Miss Sunshine, or Thelma and Louise.
Read MoreBrief Encounter: Orange and Walnut Café Crumpets 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Go back in time three quarters of a century for what may be the most romantic movie ever – and the most heartbreaking.
Read MoreStrangers on a Train: Caramel Corn Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The 39 Steps: Fried Haddock Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Taking of Pelham 123: Banana Milk Shake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/The Train: French “Pot in the Fire” Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/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.
Read MoreSource Code: Baked Apple-Cinnamon French Toast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The Serpent's Tooth Sunday Suppers: Homemade Tamale Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s Cinco de Mayo and what better side dish than Homemade Tamales from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth: A Texas Mystery , which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
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Murder on the Orient Express: Sole Marguery in Wine Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/North by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Arguably Hitchcock’s popular and critical masterpiece, this film has it all. Cary Grant is magnificent as the wrongly accused man on the run, handling his dire straights with dry humor and nonchalance. The action set pieces are riveting and so superior to the CGI we typically get today. While the romantic banter has a verbal wit we seem to have forgotten on screen.
Read MoreThe Railway Man: Singapore Fried Noodles Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Captain America for the senior set – British version. Not the clichéd variety, where aging action heroes or even Masterpiece Theater legends kick butt right up there with the rest of them. This film is about forgiving your enemy not conquering him.
Read MoreShadow of a Doubt: Easy and Elegant Canapé Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/See it again or for the first time to discover why Hitchcock bests them all, especially in what is purportedly his favorite film. Maybe because he embeds evil in such an innocent lair.
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