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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  I don’t fear death. I do fear murder.

  YOU ARE BEING WATCHED

  To make this on a lark BETWEEN Godfathers. Iconique. And Gene? You bow to no one.

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  McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025 2

  Pity the small business owner just trying to make an honest living! Thoroughly bleak but oh so charming at the same time? America is truly the land of hucksters, crooks, and killers, always has been. You might be the big fish in a little pond but one day a shark is going smell blood in the water and hire an evil Englishman to come and kill you. That’s the American way baby!

  The version on Kanopy was so rough, looked and sounded like ass. I would love to see a properly restored version.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 27 Dec 2024 3

  2000s horror remake slop hiding under prestige “elevated horror” directors brand. Just so crushingly average. Not a lot of purpose or perspective underneath all that technical style. Eggers once again getting lost in the woods when it comes to his devotion to verisimilitude. I was also lost in that I could hardly see a thing for most of the movie. Hard to come up with a reason why this needed to be made or what this retelling brings to the…