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Filming Location: San Francisco

Films in this library shot in San Francisco, a city whose hills and fog give it a geography no set can fake. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.

The USS Athena starship set from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a large standing set built at Pinewood Toronto Studios.Canada

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026) Review

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy rates minus ten thousand on the rewatch scale. It is the worst thing I have ever watched, film or television, and that includes Battlefield Earth. Pure garbage. Horseshit. Something written by small children with crayons on…

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Lee Marvin in a dark suit stands in a stark modernist interior with geometric shadows across the walls, his face composedCalifornia

Point Blank (1967) Review

Point Blank (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lee Marvin threw the script in the bin, handed his script and casting approval to a British director who had never worked in Hollywood, and the result is…

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Bette Davis in a scene from All About Eve, looking over her shoulder with dramatic intensity in a classic Hollywood setting.California

All About Eve (1950) Review

All About Eve (1950) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The best script ever written about ambition, in a film where everybody is intelligent and nobody has to be dim for the schemer to win. Fourteen nominations,…

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