The Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

The Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

It doesn’t get any better than this! Two “bandits” on the run battling officious bureaucrats, murderous thugs, an armed blind man, and a past that haunts each of them. An excellent ensemble cast keeps it heartfelt without being hackneyed, as they remind us how much we have to fight to keep dreams alive.

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Unstoppable: Pennsylvania Dutch Shoo-Fly Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2

This train may be unstoppable, but it is grounded in an earthy reality that invokes an earlier era. Where the clang of heavy metal replaces the ping of our flimsy electronic toys. Rather than images sprinting through space from one virtual reality to another, we have iron cars lumbering along tracks anchored to the soil.

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American Gangster: Sweet Potato Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

This epic film is a study in contrasts – sartorial splendor versus junkie dishabille, pandemic corruption at war with lonely integrity, and high-minded words interspersed with gut-wrenching deeds. Denzel Washington charms us as the suave villain and Russell Crowe effortlessly dons the skin of the dogged cop out to get him.

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Shutter Island: Prison Peanut Butter Sundae Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2

This film is Gothic with a capital G. A remote island prison for the criminally insane, its loony residents just slightly more alarming than the icily polite psychiatrist who runs the place. And then there’s the raging storm that shuts off the electricity and strands the two marshals there searching for a missing patient.

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Oz the Great and Powerful: Glinda's Crown Jewel Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

This prequel ushers in some razzle-dazzle just when we need it. What it lacks in the elegant song and dance lightness of the 1939 classic, it makes up for in moral complexity. And yes, I will say it and risk the eternal hatred of her legion of fans – James Franco’s Wizard is a more interesting lead than Judy Garland’s sweet and simple Dorothy.

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Letters from Iwo Jima: Japanese Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2

Told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers awaiting the inevitable American invasion of Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood gives us this epic World War II battle from the inside out. Hope for reinforcements slowly fades, and the troops tunnel into the mountainside for a valiant last stand, the bitter taste of defeat as pervasive as the dust and darkness of their cavernous trenches.

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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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