Appetite for Murder:
A Mystery Lover's Cookbook
by Kathy Borich
A tantalizing slant on cooking and crime. Relive your favorite classic detective stories and then whip up the food that caught the culprit.
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An Illustrated Introduction to Classical Horsemanship: Concepts and Skills from A to Z
by Gary Borich
A comprehensive resource in a succinct alphabetical format that brings the beginning rider through every aspect of learning to train and ride for show and trail.
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.
Can a prequel ever better its original? Such is the case in Masterpiece Mystery’s "Endeavour,” about the early career of the curmudgeonly Inspector Morse first featured in that spot. Tender and sometimes tentative, the young constable is also unrelenting, awkwardly outspoken, and quite often downright brilliant. It’s something akin to seeing the colt Secretariat kicking up his young heels in the pasture.
“It’s sharp and cool in the mouth, all at once. Do you know how long it takes chefs to learn that?” Helen Mirren’s Madame Mallory says that about an omelet, but the same can be said of this delightful film.
CIA operative Kevin Costner is halfway between Sean Connery’s brutally efficient James Bond and Michael Caine’s wheezy 80-year-old vigilante Harry Brown. Then throw in the concerned dad part from Liam Neeson’s surprise 2009 hit Taken and you've just about got Ethan Renner.
If you think a thriller has to have macho men sporting washboard abs or action filmed in exotic locales awash with bullets and blood, get ready for a shock. With none of the above, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window delivers a surgical strike of suspense not equaled since its release in 1954. Logic and a telephoto lens are his only weapons as injured photographer Jimmy Stewart must expose murder most foul. Rent it and weep for today's paltry imitators.
Could be that Woody Allen is back in the game with Match Point, his film noir thriller 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.
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