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.
Not my favorite Bond film, but it is worth it for the first scene alone, a fabulous 4 minute long take of an super elaborate Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. The audience feels like we are right there as we follow a dark suited figure wearing the traditional skull mask through the crowd, vaguely recognizing the set of the shoulders and familiar swagger in the step.
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Sometimes ranked as the No. 2 best horror film of all time, just behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby is a Halloween must see for many. But there is an evil undercurrent to the highly lauded film as well.
Read MoreJimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly! You don’t get much more star power than that! Throw in a big menace with some vintage Raymond Burr before he became the knighted Perry Mason, as well as legendary Director Alfred Hitchcock, and it doesn’t get any better.
Read MoreGaslight: 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.
Read MoreProbably 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.
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A voluptuous femme fatale beckons us into a legal labyrinth of sharp turns and blind alleys. And Harrison’s Ford’s assistant DA is as much in the dark as the audience.
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This taut courtroom drama still packs a punch nearly 4 decades after its release, throwing the defendant and then the prosecution against the ropes. Caught in between is the beautiful defense attorney, in love with the law and all too soon with the accused himself, and trying to stave off any doubts that he really is an innocent man.
Read MoreWho could resist this premise? A young Edgar Allan Poe helps solve a grisly mystery while a young cadet at military school in the remote Hudson Valley of New York.
Read MoreIn the summer of 1983 our family was lucky enough to live in Tubingen, Germany, a medieval town nestled on the banks of the Neckar River while my husband taught at its university. Here are a few recipes from that area to help you celebrate your own Oktoberfest wherever you may be.
Read MoreFugitive Pieces is a must see for discriminating viewers. The kind of film that haunts you long after the screen darkens with its kaleidoscope of images – brutish death and loving kindness, cramped apartments and glorious sun drenched shores, brooding reveries and joyous passion.
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We’re in Provence, where delicious irony flows as freely as red wine, men’s hearts are as wizened and cracked as the dry earth, and dreams intoxicating as the scent of wild rosemary.
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Appetite for Murder: A Mystery Lover’s Cookbook
Also available here
by Kathy Borich
A tantalizing slant on cooking and crime. Relive your favorite classic detective stories and then whip up the food that caught the culprit.
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.
“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
Smiley Face Connection: February 2024 Update: Another Body Found
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.
