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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Pasta with pesto and chicken. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 2010, directed by Edgar Wright, starring Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. A rock-and-roll-chop-socky-video-game romantic action comedy. With some great lines, it started out better than it finished.

She's Gotta Have It and Same Time, Next Year

Lasagna. Double Feature She's Gotta Have It, 1986, directed by Spike Lee, starring Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell and Spike Lee. Same Time, Next Year, 1978, directed by Robert Mulligan, screenplay by Bernard Slade, starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn.

Encounters of the Spooky Kind

Lasagna. Encounters of the Spooky Kind, 1980, written and directed by Sammo Hung, starring Sammo Hung, Paul Chung Fat, Wu Ma and Yuen Biao. Criterion notes, "The film that launched the hopping-vampire craze that would proliferate throughout the 1980s."

Perfect Days

Lasagna. Perfect Days, 2023, directed by Wim Wenders from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki, starring Kōji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada, Yumi Asō, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura and Min Tanaka.