80s, Action, Drama, Mook, Thriller

Relentless (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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40s, Drama, Mook, Mystery

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) — Movie Reviews by a Mook

You know what’s great? Travel movies. The kind of film where folks move from city to city, country to country, enjoying the sights, talking with the locals, researching people they don’t know, getting involved in sordid tales of crime, espionage, murder, and eventually ending the matter in a filthy, condemned apartment in Paris with a […]

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