A Most Violent Year: Sausage Pepper Potato Bake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Despite its title, this character-driven crime drama packs its menace in quiet conversations, camel’s hair coats, and the kind of self-control only known to an alpha male.
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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.
Nebraska: Almost Classic Meatloaf Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/We don’t want to care about him, but we do. This old, taciturn curmudgeon who vows to get to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick up his million dollar promised “prize,” even if he has to walk there all the way from Billings, Montana.
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Flight: Overnight Cinnamon Rolls 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Even when he’s sauced up, pilot Denzel Washington can fly his jumbo jet with the same macho brilliance as those dare devils that buzz the crowds at state fairs. And the actor is just as brilliant, keeping us enthralled even as his grounded character plods and stumbles in a bitter fight with alcoholism, his deft touch now ham fisted and flailing.
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I Can Only Imagine: Bacon and Potato Frittata Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s labeled a Christian movie, but just like the titled song, I Can Only Imagine, the film breaks through genre barriers to reach out to all audiences. And in that way this wonderful film, in its own subtle way, is subversive.
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Match Point: Poacher’s Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Woody Allen’s 2005 film noir thriller is set in posh London, where he cooks up a stew bubbling over with almost all the seven deadly sins. But don’t expect any predictable moralizing. This is, of course, Woody Allen.
Read More300: Greek Moussaka Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/This definitely is not a chick flick. It is a testosterone charged comic book romp through one of the most celebrated battles in history, when 300 Spartans stood against a vast sea of the advancing Persian army at the famed Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
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The Quiet Man: Lamb Shanks Braised in Guinness Stout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s St. Paddy’s Day! Why not come with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara to Ireland? This vintage film is also a trip back to the high-flying fifties, when we were feeling our oats, flexing our muscles, and flaunting our bold Yank ways.
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Les Miserables: French Pot au Feu Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This film has the lyrical beauty of an opera, but with a cleaner, more compelling narrative and characters of unusual complexity. And not a strutting baritone or corseted prima donna in sight!
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The Immigrant: Reuben Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Suddenly every other film of the last few decades seems hollow, contrived, and trivial. Seeing this exquisite film is like kissing a prince and suddenly realizing one has been lip-locking frogs up until that moment.
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Darkest Hour: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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“Four weeks that changed the course of history.” It doesn’t get much bigger than that. If you missed this tremendous film when it was in the theaters, watch it now!
Read MoreThe King's Speech: Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding Recipe🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 2011 Oscar winner is an examination of a British class system that clamps its iron jaws on kings as well as commoners, grinding both beneath its stiff upper lip. It’s not so much a wonder that the king stammers, but that everyone else does not.
Read MoreFury: 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 MoreTaken: Chicken Parisian Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Even if his sweetly indulged daughter does not, her retired CIA dad knows it is a dangerous world out there, and he will use all his cunning, expertise, and unplumbed brutality to ferret out the vermin who have abducted her. Exorcize your PC demons once and for all in this guilty pleasure / take no prisoners action film.
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Deja Vu: New Orleans Jambalaya Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/It’s probably worth watching for the car chase alone, not to mention the dreamy love story, and some solid detective work spiced up with a little Sci Fi. In fact, there’s almost enough there to keep you from thinking too much about a plot that ultimately blows away like dust in the wind.
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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 Good Shepherd: Cuban Roast Pig Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
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The gray everyday grind of the CIA’s early years are as far away from the sexy glamour of James Bond as fact from fiction. Not everyone is going to enjoy this glimpse at a shadowy world of suspicion that slowly erodes the soul.
Read MoreThe Imitation Game: Bangers and Mash Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Meet Alan Turing, the eccentric genius who cracked the infamous Nazi Enigma code and probably shortened World War II by 2 to 4 years. Benedict Cumberbatch embodies all the arrogant awkwardness of the socially backward mathematician with his own acting genius as well.
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Capote: Perfect Roast Turkey Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman does not just portray the eccentric Capote in his 2005 Oscar winning role, but for 98 minutes on screen, he becomes him. Hoffman’s Capote is at once mercurial, maudlin, and manipulative, but also empathetic and at some points, well meaning.
Phoenix: German Jägerschnitzel Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It is low key and in German with subtitles. No thrilling car chases, sex, or profanity. But the way this film deals with the issues of identity, betrayal, and obsession grabs you in a way that haunts and holds on like no other.
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The Equalizer: Blueberry Smoothie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/With the world slowly spiraling out of control, no wonder we flock to the cinema for a man of action. However, at first glimpse, Denzel Washington is anything but, a quiet loner who tidies the shelves at the local Home Depot clone, smiling at the friendly taunts of his young co-workers.
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