A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) and Floating Weeds (1959)
You may be asking yourself why I’ve listed two movie with very similar titles together. The answer is very simple. A Story of Floating Weeds and Floating Weeds are two separate movies with the same plot. Let me explain. A Story of Floating Weeds is a 1934 silent movie directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The movie was a […]
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The Thing (1982)
A small team of isolated, American scientists in the arctic have a strange encounter with a couple of Norweigians who seem hell bent on chasing down and killing a dog. The two manic Norweigians end up dead and a couple of the Americans fly out to their neighbor’s base to see what could have caused […]
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Frankenweenie (2012)
The plot to Frankenweenie is deceptively simple: Boy loves dog. Dog loves boy. Dog dies tragically. Boy brings dog back to life. Neighbors remember being forced to read Frankenstein in High School and FREAK. Let’s be fair though, when your neighbors look like this “Mad Sciencing” shouldn’t be that much of a surprising hobby. I […]
Read moreThe Hard Way (2019) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
This is the kind of movie where the title is said in the first ten minutes. If that doesn’t tell you what you’re getting into, you’re about to get an education…the hard way. I’m sorry, that was bad. I apologize. While on a mission in Romania, John Payne’s brother gets killed. Payne (played by Michael […] […]
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Let Me In (2010)
Lonely Owen is a 12-year-old boy who’s depressed and upset by his parents divorce. On top of that, he doesn’t have any friends and he’s continually bullied by the kids at school. But things seem to take a turn for Owen when Thomas and his daughter, Abby, move in next door. Abby befriends Owen and […]
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Child’s Play (2019)
Andy and his mom have just moved to a new town. Andy is having trouble making friends, so to make him feel better, Andy’s mom gives him an early birthday present: A Kaslan Buddi doll, one in a line of high-tech, animatronic dolls that are designed to be a lifelong companions, learn from their surroundings, […]
Read moreThe 2nd (2020)
Always remember, no matter how tough life can be, there isn’t any kind of problem, big or small, that can’t be helped by sending in a CIA hit team to kidnap someone’s kid. Seriously, I use them to handle my grocery shopping. Major Vic Davis is a special forces super soldier and not the best […]
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Bloody Wednesday (1988)
Harry is having a rough time of it. Due to some obvious mental instability that he is in complete denial of, he just lost his job as a mechanic, his marriage has fallen apart, and he’s lost his place to live. His brother covertly sets him up in an abandoned hotel one of his clients […]
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Hatchet III (2013)
Hatchet IIIÂ begins exactly where Hatchet IIÂ left off……..
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Slay Belles (2018)
Dahlia and Sadie are a pair of Youtubers calling themselves The Adventure Girls. What do they do? They go to various abandoned locations and film themselves roaming around. Knowing how much their buddy loves Christmas, they grab their friend Alexi and take her on their next trip with them up into the mountains to the […]
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