The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Indian Grape Raita Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Do not miss this Brit import that is one of the best things to wash onto our shores since Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House.
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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.
Death on the Nile: Mushrooms in Sherry Cream Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Classic Agatha Christie! A star-studded cast surrounds a pampered heiress everyone is itching to kill. And this flamboyant cadre of would be assassins on the luxury river cruise all have ample means, motive, and opportunity, according to the shrewdly observant Hercule Poirot, whose “little grey cells” never take a vacation.
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Ladies in Lavender: Stargazy Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Ladies in Lavender is the little unappreciated gem Different Drummer has been promising you. If you think story telling is all about plot, you will be disappointed, like most of the assorted critics that damned it with faint praise. But if you want to see the human heart revealed in its infinite complexity, run don’t walk to watch this classic.
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The Lady in the Van: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/She’s just a bag lady who lives in a van. And you can smell her coming a mile away. But Dame Maggie Smith imbues her with the same aristocratic dignity as Downton Abbey’s Dowager Duchess.
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Unbroken: Path to Redemption: Guy’s Fabulous Italian Style Chicken Dinner Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Stream this wonderful film just to rebel against the group think in Hollywood, where anything that reeks of Christianity is beneath contempt. That vitriol would never be tolerated against any other major religion.
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The Brave One: Ultimate Greek Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This is the thinking man’s vigilante film, peppered with artsy NPR radio monologue as well as quotes by D. H. Lawrence and Emily Dickinson. But there’s plenty of badass, too, and Jodie Foster wears her compulsive vengeance like a second skin, blowing away bad guys with a lethal fury as cold as it is addictive.
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The Ghost Writer: Martha’s Vineyard Seafood Boil Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The fog and damp chill your soul, while the relentless waves wash over the beach like the persistent clues that whisper over and over – murder, murder.
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Fracture: Mushroom Omelettes in Port Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/The cut and dried case rolls across his desk as a hot shot DA is packing up for the big bucks of corporate law. Little does he realize that this last case will fracture his world as he matches wits with a wily killer who has planned the perfect crime.
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Fury: German Omelet Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s official. Hollywood has its Mojo back. (At least it did in this 2014 epic.) Thanks to Brad Pitt, it’s now okay to be a macho warrior, even outside the realm of the Marvel movie franchise.
Read MoreHouse of Cards: Devonshire Crab Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/If you are a fan of the American remake, you should defintely see the 1990 original British political thriller, a timeless ode to evil. The knife slides in ever so smoothly with Shakespearean diction greasing its way. Rarely has villainy been so eloquently evil, so fascinatingly diabolical, nor so brutal and swift.
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Tell No One: Sautéed Sole Meuniere Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This taut French thriller is fast paced and well crafted with a plot that evolves out of rather than around its eclectic cast of characters. Unlike too many recent films that depend upon torturous twists that end up in a tangle, this yarn yields a skein than runs smooth and true.
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House of Games: Classic Waldorf Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/This classic 1987 offbeat Mamet vehicle is more like a game of chess than a film, where you are guaranteed a series of astonishing moves and counter moves. Our queen is a beautiful psychotherapist, aloof and repressed as only an analyst could be, and our knight a charming con man, one who sees deeper into her soul than she suspects.
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The November Man: Fondue Brillat-Savarin with Sliced White Truffles Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This 2014 spy thriller marries the hard-hitting action of 007 with the world-weariness of John le Carré’s spies. It avoids the over the top camp of some Bond adventures and refuses to yield to the cynical despair of the more recent le Carré.
Read MoreSpectre: Day of the Dead Skull Crusher Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
Read MoreWait Until Dark: The Stealth Sandwich Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/A blind Audrey Hepburn must use all her inner resources as she matches wits with three determined villains in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Forgo the usual slasher flick and choose this first rate thriller whose pervasive sense of menace builds to a heart-pounding climax that will take your breath away.
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Transsiberian: Russian Pirog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/In 2008 it crept into art house theaters as silently as the snow that blankets the Russian steppes. This white-hot thriller is a claustrophobic brew of crowded compartments, narrow corridors, and the “kindness” of strangers, with a few near frozen corpses thrown in for good measure.
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Rosemary’s Baby: Chocolate Mousse Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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 MoreRear Window: Lobster Alfredo Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Jimmy 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: Luscious and Lethal English Dessert Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Gaslight: 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.
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