A famed astrologer has been able to figure out a way to celestially figure out possible upcoming threats to the US, and gets tangled up in strange conspiracy dealing with the ultimate forces of good and evil.
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The Wrong One (2018)
The Wrong One Journalism students Lisa and Tim are paired up to work on an assignment, which involves researching a local crime where a mother killed her child, and then presenting their findings to the class. But as the two of them discover more and more about the brutal crime, Lisa starts seeing similarities to […]
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Jacob’s Ladder (2019)
Jacob’s Ladder After the traumatic death of his brother during the war, Jacob Singer is finally getting his life together. But after serving in the war himself, Jacob is not the same man he was before he was deployed. He remains haunted by flashbacks and hallucinations related to his service, and his episodes are starting […]
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Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
Puppet Master: The Legacy The man currently in possession of Andre Toulon’s puppets is confronted by a rogue assassin who tries to force him to tell her the secret behind the life-giving serum that animates the puppets and the history of their creation. Hmmm…well I see that plan A didn’t work well…. Dear god this […]
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The Driller Killer (1979)
The Driller Killer A struggling New York artist, increasingly troubled by the seemingly easy success of those around him and frustrated by his own failures, slowly goes insane while he and his roommates struggle to pay their mounting bills. He continues to hold his mounting anger inside and doesn’t talk about his dark and violent […]
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River’s Edge (1986)
River’s Edge In a small Northern California town, high schooler John has just strangled and killed his girlfriend, Jamie. John is not horrified, ashamed, or even phased by this act. Quite the opposite. He seems almost proud of it, in fact. So proud that he immediately tells his friends what he did and takes them […]
Read moreThe Snowman (2017) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Let me just read you a few names from the cast list: Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Gainsbourg, J. K. Simmons, Toby Jones, Chloë Sevigny, James D’Arcy, and Val Kilmer. Sure, some of these folks have made some questionable movies, but to put it mildly, it’s amazing that they’re all a part of this massive train wreck […] […]
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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 […]
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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