A weird gunslinger, a bunch of Mexican banditos, betrayal, revenge, a fuzzy timeline, and everybody’s dirty. Yep, it’s another Italian Western! Hole in the Forehead follows Billy Blood, a quirky cowboy with a terrible name that never likes to use his right hand for anything except shooting and always shoots people in the forehead for […]
Read moreThe Meg (2018) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Right now, you’re probably asking why I’d bother reviewing something that made a ridiculous amount of money, featured a AAA budget, and got the major production treatment. It’s simple: The Meg has a B-movie heart in an A-movie shell, it stars a variety of actors whose credits include the kind of things I’d happily put […] […]
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Faithful (2017)
Faithful Lauren’s marriage to her husband Ron has hit a rough patch. Ron’s not happy about the long hours needed in order for Lauren to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor. Desperate to try to reconnect to her spouse, Lauren quits school to focus on her marriage. But Ron seems to have already checked […]
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Taken In (2020)
Taken In Brad stands in his kitchen, drinking his way through a whole bottle of wine and making dinner. In the course of cutting some vegetables he hurts himself (probably due to drinking a whole bottle of wine), breaks a dish and says a few choice words. He figures life sucks and shit happens. But […]
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Unlawful Duties (2021)
Unlawful Duties Two police officers are sent to investigate a local drug-related disturbance in the area one night. When they get to the location they don’t find any drug dealers, just a local homeless man who seems to peddle in street card games. One of the officers engages him in a game, but the other […]
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Piercing Stillness (2019)
Piercing Stillness AKA: L’Immobilità Trafigge An amateur photographer goes for a walk in the countryside where he comes across a small, discarded mannequin. As the filmmaker starts to shoot video of his find, he discovers that his camera suddenly seems to be haunted by an unknown man in black garb who shows the videographer flashbacks […]
Read moreTenet (2020)
Ah yes, Tenet, the movie Christopher Nolan felt would be best in theaters packed full of plague lungs. Love it, hate it, but never forget: you’ll leave with your memories, possibly a headache, and even a potential hospital visit. Thanks, Chris. Despite the back and forth debacle over worldwide release dates, it’s still a big […]
Read moreThe Ice Road (2021) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
No, this is not a movie adaptation of History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers series, though it is about as realistic. Twenty-six miners end up trapped in a Manitoba diamond mine after a methane pocket explodes. With the miners running out of air, local companies and the Canadian government attempt to send in three wellheads to […] […]
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The Stepfather (2009)
The Stepfather Micheal Harding has just returned home after a stint in military school. But when he gets there he finds that his mom Susan has just gotten engaged to David Harris, a man she’s known for only a few weeks. Micheal is understandably quite leery of this new guy who’s just waltzed into his […]
Read moreRelentless (1989) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Cop movies can be a mixed bag. While the Hays Code forced us to always show law enforcement as the good guys, we immediately rebelled the instant we could. The 1960s and ’70s were rife with both good and bad police, sometimes in the same person, with the likes of films such as Dirty Harry, […]
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