The Magic of Belle Isle: Peachy Baby Back Ribs Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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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.
Green Book: Linguini with White Clam Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A tremendous script, spot on performances by the two leads, a wonderful sense of humor, and perhaps most important, humanity and hope replacing the edgy nihilism that so dominates current films.
Read MoreSaint Ralph: Canadian Bacon Egg Cup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Start with an scoop of The Christmas Story, sprinkle in a few bits from Unbroken, and top with dollops of The Quiet Man and Iron Will. Add a little magic and you have the delightfully irreverent sleeper, Saint Ralph.
Read MoreTrash: Brazilian Black Bean Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Three slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro find a wallet in the mountain of trash they dig through daily. It is a Pandora’s box, belching up a rancid mess of evil and corruption, but they cling to one remaining ingredient – hope.
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1883: A Yellowstone Origin Film: Bacon Cheesy Fried Grits Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 ½
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Rattlesnakes, arrows dipped in manure, cattle rustlers, drunken rapists, tornadoes, and a group of hard-headed humans at each other’s throats. Sit back and enjoy the mayhem as you count your blessings.
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Sound of Freedom: Ajiaco: Colombian Chicken and Potato Stew 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Despite its 2023 July release, this wasn’t exactly a summer popcorn movie. But it is definitely a must see because it exposes a concealed crisis from which too many wish to avert their eyes: the human trafficking scourge that affects approximately 2 million children a year.
Read MoreSaving Private Ryan: Truffade: Rustic French Potato and Cheese Pancake 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Possibly the greatest and most realistic war film ever made. Certainly not the typical Hollywood film that tends to glorify war.
In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.
Read MoreThe Last Kingdom: Ploughman’s Platter Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This great series has it all. Brutal battle sequences, excellent character development, nuanced themes reminiscent of both Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, and of course, some pretty great romance, albeit on the graphic side.
Read MoreThe Chosen: Loaves and Fishes Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Just change the point of view and “the greatest story ever told” becomes new and fresh again. This time it is the disciples, uneducated and often lost and confused, who frame this exquisite narrative about Jesus.
Read MoreBreaking Away: Melt in Your Mouth Meatball Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Indiana’s version of Dazed and Confused. But it is also very Greek, too, since it asks the question, “Who Am I?” Except we are not talking about kings and queens, but four Bloomington, Indiana, townies trying to find their way in life the year after high school.
Read MoreThe Bourne Ultimatum: Moroccan Herbed Fish Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/You couldn’t ask for a more thrill-packed adventure, one that propels you from the teeming streets of London to the tiled passages of Morocco. Nor a more compelling figure than Jason Bourne, who relies on his savage cunning against a ruthlessly efficient branch of the C.I.A.
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The Highwaymen: Hoover Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They finally get the story straight and the lawmen – not the thuggish criminals – are the real heroes.
Read MoreThe Thursday Club Murders : Joyce’s Coffee and Walnut Cake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Move over Agatha Christie and Miss Marple. Your Tuesday Club Murders has moved 2 days and about 93 years to become The Thursday Club Murders. And instead of just one elderly spinster, Miss Marple, solving the crimes that perplexed all the professionals around her, we have 4 and then 5 collaborating on past cold cases.
Read MoreRestless: Tacos: New Mexican Style 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Secrets. We all Have them. Some we hide them from our parents. But a parent might hide secrets, too. And this one’s a doozy.
Read MoreMonsieur Spade : Croque Monsieur (French Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich) 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Sam Sade living out his golden years in the South of France. Who would have thunk it? And it’s surprisingly, good, too.
Read MoreHillbilly Elegy: Hillbilly Chicken Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Who am I? That question reverberates throughout great literature, including Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. And it just what JD Vance is asking in Hillbilly Elegy.
Read MoreThe Good Liar: Polish Hunter’s Stew Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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It’s witty and sophisticated, with light touches that lure us in. But’s its more like tragedy’s comic relief, which these Shakespearean trained leads wield with terrible ferocity when we least expect it.
Read MoreThe Big Country: Best Beef Brisket Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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With all this talk about what it means to be a man or a woman, The Big Country offers a unique spin from over 6 decades ago. It also defies the stereotypes of the 1950s, when it was made.
Read MoreQuigley Down Under: Aussie Meat Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Tom Selleck, all 6’4” of his manly magnificence, is at his prime in this often-overlooked iconic Western. Remember when masculinity was not considered “toxic?” A man was as good as his word, he defended the helpless with firearms and his fists, and he didn’t back down from a fight.
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Van Der Valk: Dutch Bacon Pancakes 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Endeavour meets Sam Spade in Amsterdam. Not to mention a little Columbo, Longmire, Vera, George Gently, Brokenwood’s Mike Shepherd, and the grown-up Inspector Morse lurking in the shadows.
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