Mr. Jones: Russian Sour Cream Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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One was a real journalist, the other a depraved opportunist who covered up a famine. Guess which won the Pulitzer Prize?
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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.
Hacksaw Ridge: Virginia Bread Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper with its hero turned inside out. Desmond Doss volunteers to serve, but will not even touch a gun. And almost goes to military prison for refusing to carry one.
Read MoreBridge of Spies: German Farmer’s Breakfast Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its length, this “spy thriller” is lean – light on melodrama, smoky dark room dealings, or cloak and dagger shenanigans. The real enemies are the cold, the damp, and the blind alleys of self-serving bureaucrats.
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United 93: Buttered Mushroom Omelet Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Paul Greengrass strikes just the right note in United 93 by refusing to pander to either emotions or politics. The audience feels anew the loss of innocence -- fresh, shocking, and only amplified by our ironic knowledge of its ultimate tragic end on that fateful day in September.
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The Lives of Others: Schnitzel with Lemon-Caper Cream Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This glimpse into the gray abyss of East Germany begins in November 1984, a mere five years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a country convulsed by some last paranoid outcroppings before imploding to freedom.
Read MoreDunkirk: French Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This epic war film is unconventional in every way. First of all, it is not a winning battle for the English and their Allies. In fact, it is not a battle at all, but a retreat and evacuation, which nevertheless, has the heroics of the greatest battles of all.
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Van Der Valk: Dutch Bacon Pancakes 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Endeavour meets Sam Spade in Amsterdam. Not to mention a little Columbo, Longmire, Vera, George Gently, Brokenwood’s Mike Shepherd, and the grown-up Inspector Morse lurking in the shadows.
Read MoreGloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 1/2
/Hungary in the 1930s, and Laszlo Szabo’s Budapest restaurant, as well as the man himself, stands as a last bastion of elegance, civility and grace in a world that is slowly spiraling into chaos. While his beautiful Ilona, like her Greek namesake Helen, is the center of her own small circle of adulation and destruction.
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Extraction: Bangladesh Waffle Balls Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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If you need to erase that horrible image of Fat Thor from your Avenger’s Endgame addled brain, this film is the perfect antidote. It also cures us of any ennui following all those recent stay-at-home orders.
Read MoreThe Equalizer 3: Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Yes, the Italian scenery is terrific, and we love an older Denzel as the still lethal Equalizer, but the violence is over the top.
Read MoreA Walk Among the Tombstones: Spicy Cheese and Pepper Omelet Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Liam Neeson brings us under his spell once again, this time playing an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator. His eyes say he has seen it all – every depraved and vile crime in New York’s mean streets – but this one is unlike anything Matt Scudder has seen before.
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The Foreigner: Irish Corned Beef Hash Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Vintage Jackie Chan. But this is not the light and bubbly champagne of his younger days. It is an aged drink – dark and still and deep.
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10 Cloverfield Lane: Super Simple Spaghetti Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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John Goodman, the master of his cozy underground bunker, keeps us on tenterhooks as we wonder if he is Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde.
Read MoreThe Edge: Kodiak Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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 MoreLongmire: Navajo Kneel Down Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Big sky country. Snow peaked mountains. Clear streams cutting through vast grasslands. And yes, a few pesky corpses cluttering up the landscape. It’s a good thing Sheriff Walt Longmire is there to clean things up.
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No Country for Old Men: Texas Venison Chili Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This overrated 2008 Best Picture winner does have its brilliance in a cold, soulless way. The plot itself – a drug deal gone bad, a hapless deer hunter who finds the leftover cash, and his relentless pursuit by some of the bad guys not left rotting in the desert – is not particularly innovative, but the earthy way it unfolds is riveting.
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The Proposition: Boomerang Chicken and Spuds Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Clearly not for the squeamish, this “Western” takes place in the Australian outback, where the harsh landscape is as unforgiving as the raw assortment of humans who claim it. But this stark saga transcends genre as it unmasks the complexity of evil, and in so doing, is right up there with Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville.
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There Will Be Blood: Bite Sized Walnut Cheesecake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
/Though I can’t quite echo the hyperbolic praise lavished on this film, it is, nevertheless, a superb character study that is powerful, well crafted, and subtle. The amoral misanthrope at its center is complex, yet as elemental as the harsh landscape that cradles his beloved black gold.
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Australia: Tim Tam Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This sweeping epic is what the big screen was made for – a country of austere beauty, its cruelty and benevolence as capricious as the rough souls that inhabit it. Unabashedly bold, brash, and romantic, the saga stampedes across the screen with nary a nod to nihilism or nuance, pausing only to tip its hat to a bit of self-aware irony.
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Mystery Road: Aussie Zucchini and Bacon “Quiche” Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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An abandoned vehicle with no gas and doors askew like some wounded white Ibis failing to take flight. One and then two young men missing. Secret loves and liaisons, crimes buried and unearthed. The Australian Outback comes alive in all its glory, violence, and pain.
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