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  Fat City 1972

  Watched 16 Feb 2025

  [2017]

  In 1972 John Huston, fresh off of directing a film about the Book of Genesis, decided to make a movie about boxing. The source was a novel by an unknown author named Leonard Gardner titled Fat City. Unlike the tone of Rocky, which became the highest grossing film just four years later, Huston’s movie isn’t about inspiration, it’s about discouragement. He chose downtown Stockton, California as the setting, an area abandoned and riddled with flophouses for sex offenders and…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★ Watched 07 Jan 2025

  I was impressed by how Eggers managed to take such fertile source material and make it so incredibly boring. Certainly missed the forest for the trees.

  Ick factor = 0
  Creep score = 1
  Scare points = 0
  Sex style = 0
  Cinematography = 0
  Acting = -2
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  Total = ?

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  Flatliners 1990

  Added 3

  This would be a great film if it had a different director, better writing, and an entirely new cast. Cinematographer stays.

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  Corridor of Mirrors 1948

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2021

  I film I had forgotten about until it appeared to me one morning without warning in the midst of reading a book. The book felt so similar in plot and tone that I could not shake the creeping sensation that I had read it before, that it and the movie were one and the same story - coincidentally a mirror of the movie’s themes.

  A dramatic romance, not my preferred genre. But in the months since watching it has grown…