The Matrix: The Oracle’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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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.
Vienna Blood: Freud’s Favorite Dessert Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Who knew that Sigmund Freud, or at least one of his fictional pupils, was the first FBI profiler? Well not exactly. It’s not the FBI, but the Vienna Police, and we are way back a century or so as well. But the atmosphere and witty banter are to die for.
Read MoreVertigo: Bittersweet Chocolate Madeleine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Kim Novak turns down the heat to become Hitchcock’s icy blonde, but she’s hot enough to melt Mr. Nice Guy, Jimmy Stewart, the ex-cop charged with watching over her. Rediscover why Hitchcock is the one everyone imitates as you are sucked into this vortex of lust, obsession, and longing in what some consider his finest film ever.
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Midsomer Murders: English Trifle with Fresh Raspberries and Sherry Drizzle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The long enduring British Television mystery series, Midsomer Murders, is like the comfort of an old friend, the kind you welcome to your home without any compunctions about dust or dirty dishes. It is a soothing cup of tea on a cold December day, that comfy old sweater you can never discard even after it is no longer in fashion.
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Nemesis: Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It doesn’t get much better than this. Different Drummer’s Triple Crown: Favorite mystery writer (Agatha Christie), favorite character (Miss Marple) and favorite Miss Marple actress (Joan Hickson).
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Super 8: Sunday’s Apple Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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There’s something rotten in this small Ohio town in 1979. It’s scaring off the local dogs and sucking up car engines, power lines, and a small assortment of human beings. Sure, the military personnel that swoop down to clean up after a spectacular train crash are tight-lipped, but everything about them screams X Files.
Read MoreThe Departed: Drunken Strawberry Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This 2007 Oscar winner is awash with blood and gore and a kind of poetic profanity, but somehow this cops and robbers showdown manages to touch upon the vagaries of identity, the complexity of goodness, and the poisonous nectar of evil without missing a beat. Match that with a truly stellar cast that delivers the goods and you’re in for a 2 1/2 hour roller coaster that soars through the screen.
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Spotlight: Boston Cream Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s not the crime. It’s the cover-up. This well-paced docudrama follows an elite cadre of journalists as they uncover decades of sexual abuse hidden by the Catholic Church.
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Marvellous: Different Drummer’s Petticoat Tails Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Right now the world seems an insecure and frightening place to us, doesn’t it? What better time to watch this terrific film about someone who never let the world or his inborn limitations get him down. Meet Neil Baldwin, Britain’s own version of Forest Gump, but without the Hollywood sentimentality.
Read MoreLion: Indian Jelabi Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/An accidental Huckleberry Finn, not drifting down the Mississippi, but streaming across India in a train that eats up the miles between him and his small Indian village.
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It Happened One Night : Carrot Cake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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The Granddaddy of all rom-coms is still a delight, even if it is 90 years old! And it was the first film to sweep the Oscars, bringing home Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture, and Best Writing [Only others are One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and Silence of the Lambs 1991)]
Read MoreIt’s a wonderful Life : Bermuda Crescent Cookie Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁🥁
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This Christmas classic was the all-time favorite of its director, Frank Capra, and he screened it for his family every Christmas. It was also one of Jimmy Stewart’s favorites, too.
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Ava Bakes Biscotti with Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁
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My pretty and perky granddaughter Ava helped me bake these for her 5th birthday way back in June of 2012.. We had a great time. This recipe is well suited for young ones because so much of it is like working with play dough. It’s nice and messy, too.
Read MoreJennifer Eight: Persimmon Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Feast on a filet mignon mystery that will pique your intellect and send a shiver up your spine. While the underpinnings of the film are ghastly in themselves – a serial killer has just finished off his eighth victim – the horror does not slap you in the face. Instead it nibbles around the edges of the screen like a malevolent shadow with a hunger that will not die.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon: Very Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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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.
Read MoreMarnie: Sour Cream Pecan Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Sean Connery decides the best way “to catch a thief” is to marry her in the relatively unknown and often unappreciated Hitchcock thriller. Watch it for no other reason than to see the ultimate playboy become a determined monogamist relentlessly searching for the root of his wife’s obsession.
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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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The Judge: Boozy Persimmon Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Don’t go to this film expecting a taut courtroom drama complete with murder, mayhem, and melodrama. We have no jagged-edged knives, coyly seductive victims, or evil corporate giants in sight.
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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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The 12th Man: Bløtkake (Norwegian Cream Cake) Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Add this epic war adventure to your list of World War II classics. Norway’s version of Saving Private Ryan is top rate and one you will not soon forget.
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