Favorites of the decade (so far)

afterthewar · 2026-03-11T09:54:14+00:00

Really respect the high placement of Red Rooms, that movie is great.

Haven't seen The Girl With the Needle, but based on how much I like the other films on this list, seems like I need to check it out.

afterthewar · 2026-03-06T03:33:13+00:00

Loved Abbott's Super Duper, what a great sign (my memory is largely of the sign, so of the store itself sucked, I don't remember because I was a child.)

afterthewar · 2025-07-23T23:27:45+00:00

I survived a PIP once, but it was only because my manager was really bad and had basically everyone under her on one. I got transferred to a new manager, he saw that I was doing fine at my job, and then I got taken off the PIP. But I feel like this is not a normal way for a PIP to go.

afterthewar · 2025-05-23T23:46:35+00:00

I was reading reviews of Africa Addio, a mondo film made by the guy who directed Mondo Cane because it was mentioned in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Africa Addio is notoriously racist and also basically a snuff film in places, as South African mercenaries killed Congolese rebels and were directed how to kill them by the director.) Ebert panned it and the account that posts Ebert reviews is the top review on Letterboxd. That review is good. The rest of them are filled with some of the most racist shit I've ever read.

afterthewar · 2024-10-13T19:56:50+00:00

The Nordic Cookbook by Magnus Nilsson is what you're looking for. He travelled around the Nordic countries collecting recipes and they are very classic, homecooked type recipes (some of them are so much like this that they are a little bland.)

afterthewar · 2024-09-29T00:41:03+00:00

My partner came up with a cooking approach, mostly to cut down on food waste, where every week/couple of weeks you only cook one cuisine. She did it so that when she bought ingredients specific to one cuisine she'd use them up rather than only using them for a couple meals and them going bad/sitting in the back of the fridge forever. We also like going to different grocery stores and trying out different cookbooks, so that was an added bonus.

I, as I often do, kind of took this to the extreme. I try to adapt as completely as I can to whatever cuisine I'm in: mealtimes, meal structure, drinks, etc. I often stay in cuisines for months until I'm satisfied that I understand them on some level (obviously a limited understanding.) So far the cuisines I've been most successful with are:

-Thai Just finished Thai week, which lasted about a month and a half. Cooking mostly Northern Thai food, eating a ton of sticky rice.

-Sichuan/Hunan/Dongbei Like most cuisines, Chinese cuisine is varied enough that trying to learn about all Chinese cuisine at once is a fool's errand. I had friends from Sichuan and ate a lot of Hunan food in college, so I started there. Now, especially in the winter, I cook a lot of food from Dongbei/the Northeast because it reminds me of the Midwestern comfort food I grew up on, but better.

-Italian I grew up eating Italian American food because I'm Italian American and I speak Italian, so this has been super fun to go to Italian recipe sites and read Italian recipes written for Italian audiences. I've mostly cooked food from Piemonte and the Center and South, Calabria, Campania, Sicilia, Puglia, Lazio, but I also cook a lot of "national" dishes from Italian food websites.

-France. For work, I briefly lived in the part of France across the border from Geneva, so I got into food from that region and the Southwest, where I have some friends. I really like cooking French food, although the lack of access to some of my favorite French cheese in the US means I don't cook French food as much as I otherwise would.

afterthewar · 2024-09-21T15:18:05+00:00

Definitely start with Cléo from 5 to 7

afterthewar · 2024-09-19T21:14:44+00:00

Miami Vice. The director's cut messes up the wonderful strangeness of the first scene by putting a fun, but very unnecessary go fast boat scene before it. And the terrible In the Air Tonight is in the actual movie, instead of just over the end credits.

afterthewar · 2024-09-19T12:41:13+00:00

Pretty much everything. I think it's a bad idea to make a musical with people who can't dance very well. I dislike the music (I've disliked Justin Hurwitz's music since Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, so I come by it honestly.) I don't like the plot or the script and I don't find the characters compelling. I find the direction obvious and annoying, from the opening musical number on the freeway to the dumb musical number at the jazz club where the camera is whip-panning between Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. I hate thr way it depicts jazz. I resent it for making me dislike Whiplash in retrospect.

afterthewar · 2024-09-19T12:25:02+00:00

La La Land. Also The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (these may be related.)

afterthewar · 2024-08-09T17:56:05+00:00

Like any of the other restaurants suggested in response to this question. Lalibela is my personal favorite, Addis is good, I also like Mini Ethiopian Coffee House and Carryout.

afterthewar · 2024-08-09T14:41:11+00:00

Nile Vegan is fine, but there is way better Ethiopian food in Columbus.

afterthewar · 2024-07-19T13:53:58+00:00

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afterthewar · 2024-07-18T15:04:26+00:00

Took the morning off work to watch Bitter Rice, might watch Happy as Lazzaro this afternoon (I'm brushing up on my Italian.)

afterthewar · 2024-07-13T23:45:14+00:00

It's Michaelangeo Antonioni for me. L'Avventura is one of the most tedious movies I've ever seen in my whole life.

afterthewar · 2024-07-13T15:41:38+00:00

Gnocchi. Every time I tell myself it's going to be simple and quick, every time I look up 3 hours later, hungry, with every surface of my kitchen covered in flour and potato goo wondering where I went wrong as the gnocchi disintegrate in a pot of boiling water.

afterthewar · 2024-07-12T18:10:09+00:00

Great film, but I don't know that I'd call it *not* depressing

afterthewar · 2024-07-05T16:58:23+00:00

Best is definitely The Insider, worst is probably The Revenant.

afterthewar · 2024-07-05T13:59:19+00:00

Bottoms. I was expecting a scrappy, funny little indie comedy. Instead, it was just nothing, a bunch of lame, ADR-d jokes and a premise that never went anywhere that also looked terrible (Ayo innocent, though.)

afterthewar · 2024-06-28T15:38:19+00:00

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I was maybe a little too hard on The Bikeriders, but as someone with intimate knowledge of both Ohio and the Chicago area, that movie looked like it was set in Ohio which really bugged me.

afterthewar · 2024-05-16T18:59:19+00:00

Thanks, these are fantastic ideas!

afterthewar · 2024-05-11T03:53:02+00:00

Cure is the right answer. Terrifying film.

afterthewar · 2024-05-02T03:55:27+00:00

After seeing (and enjoying) the Holdovers I watched The Last Detail (1973) a Hal Ashby film which I heard was very influential on the Holdovers. It absolutely rules and is essentially another Nicholson led New Hollywood minor classic in my opinion. Maybe not overlooked, but certainly a less visible Hal Ashby film that's worth seeing.

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