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  Sexy Beast 2000

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2025

  I saw this once before with my dad when I was about 15 or 16. Glad I saw it again as an adult to fully appreciate the juxtaposition of a steam bath bank heist.

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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  ★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  One of the widest chasms between film and text I’ve ever seen. This documentary should be stricken from the record of history so that, perhaps, a better doc about the book can emerge and also come sooner than it otherwise would have if this made even the slightest impact, as Manson-related lore goes. 

  I gave up any hope that this was going anywhere once I saw there was only 20 minutes left. It barely scratches the surface of the book,…

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  I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jun 2024

  "How do you live?!"
  "I steal!"

  I saw this movie once before, 20 years ago, and it hit just as hard this time around. Adapted from an autobiographical book by Robert Elliott Burns published in the same year (1932), this pre-code film is vivid in its depiction of the chain gang labor system that prevailed in the postbellum south. The book had a similar effect as others like The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin, etc.; but most interesting is the concurrently…

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