Chappaquiddick: Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Kennedys – you either love them or hate them. There is no in between, right? Well maybe there is…
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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.
Slumdog Millionaire: Indian Chai Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Mumbai’s squalid slums sing with color. They spawn brutality and betrayal, and sometimes, only sometimes, innocence and devotion. Don’t miss this inspiring story of a street urchin who rises phoenix-like from the ashes of his past for a chance to reclaim his lost love.
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Seabiscuit : Racetrack Bloody Mary Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who doesn’t love an underdog? And we have 4 here. “The horse is too small, the jockey too big, the trainer too old, and I’m too dumb to know the difference.” – Charles Howard, Seabiscuit’s owner
Read MoreFrequency: Big Mozz’s Mets Mozzarella Sticks Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s Back to the Future but it’s not a comedy; instead it involves a fiery death and a determined serial killer. Always compelling Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel mesmerize us as a father and son trying to avert multiple disasters as they find that correcting one past cataclysm causes a multitude of others
Read MoreMao’s Last Dancer: Chinese Pork Dumpling Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Another undiscovered gem to watch at home on your big screen. And it’s free on Amazon Prime streaming. Not only will you enjoy this true story about a poor Chinese boy who becomes an international ballet dancer, but you will find a new respect for the art itself.
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The Boys in the Boat: Potato Bacon Soup 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Who cares if you’ve never rowed in your life. It’s the middle of the Great Depression and you’re living in a rusted-out jalopy eating a can of beans. Making the Washington State rowing team may be the only way to get a roof over your head and a steady paycheck.
Read MoreSan Antonio and the Perfect Margarita Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The Christmas holidays are never complete without a trip to San Antonio and the historic Riverwalk, Texas’ own version of Venice, Italy.
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Three Days of the Condor: The Condor Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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This 1975 thriller has aged well. The classic paranoia and suspicion of government agencies seem particularly appropriate today. And while it still keeps you riveted to your seat, this thriller actually takes time for character development and great dialogue, unlike the frenetic features Hollywood currently puts out.
Read MoreMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Easy Mint Julep Recipe and More 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Immerse yourself in this lush film, where murderers and scoundrels are as charming as the entire city of Savannah, Georgia. Where even homicide has its comic touches, and “justice” emerges from a mystic cemetery and voodoo rituals as well as the court of law.
Read MoreWhile You Were Sleeping: Homemade Eggnog Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Sandra Bullock glows as the lovelorn CTA ticket taker hopelessly in love with a regular commuter, but the whole cast is tremendous as well. She is the shimmering star atop the Christmas tree, but the others are the lights and ornaments that make this film sparkle.
Read MoreThe Scarlet and the Black: The Bitter Irishman Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This film is what Different Drummer is all about – finding a superb little sleeper that is as extraordinary as it is little known. And this 1983 gem starring such greats as Gregory Peck, John Gielgud, and Christopher Plummer is that in spades.
Read MoreNotting Hill: Hugh Grant’s Apricot Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Romantic comedies, or films in general, don’t get much better than this! Thoroughly delightful, this 22-year-old British film gets better with each viewing. Part of that is the charm of Hugh Grant at ihis zenith here, the loveliness of a radiant Julia Roberts, and a script that is witty and insightful.
The Mustang: Wild Mustang Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A film as spare and Spartan as the Nevada desert that hosts both the wild mustangs and the prison that houses its convict trainers. A brilliant character study that will haunt you long after you leave the theater.
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House 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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Spectre: 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 MoreThe Sixth Sense: I See Dead People Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Probably 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.
Read MoreInsomnia: High Octane Moose Milk Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This taut thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat even while it breaks the rules of its genre. Interweaving complex characters and plot, the nearly flawless film never drops a stitch.
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Jagged Edge: Baked Brie with Roasted Garlic and Nicoise Olives Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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 MoreFugitive Pieces: Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Fugitive 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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