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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Return of the Beast from Outer Space (2021)
Return of the Beast from Outer Space Tom and Claire head out to the woods one weekend to do a little peaceful camping, but their quiet getaway turns into a weekend of horrors when they’re suddenly attacked by a mysterious monster. But things are apparently not what they seem. As they frantically search their campsite […]
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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 morePresumed Innocent (1990) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Murder. Corruption. Adultery. Bribery. This movie is pretty much about how I spend my Thursdays. Harrison Ford plays Rusty Sabich, a prosecutor in the District Attorney’s office of an unnamed American city in Kindle County. Rusty’s a tough prosecutor but also an idealist who remains loyal to his boss despite losing ground in the ongoing […] […]
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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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Warlock: Armageddon (1993)
Warlock: Armageddon AKA: Warlock: The Armageddon Warlock: Armageddon plays out very similar to the first Warlock: Satan’s son wanders about the US collecting magical stones that will allow Satan to destroy the earth. Except this time the Warlock really is the son of Satan, not just some random shlub that’s promised the part if he […]
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Warlock (1989)
Warlock Warlock is the story of… wait for it… a Warlock who was captured in 1691. On the eve of his execution, a magic storm is summoned that propels him 300 years into 1980’s Los Angeles. Luckily, Redferne the witch hunter follows and he and 20 year-old airhead Kassandra (spelled with a K, a fact […]
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Night of the Demons (2009)
Night of the Demons Angela Feld is having a hoppin’ Halloween party at a rundown mansion with a dark history in New Orleans. It’s a place where six house-guests mysteriously went missing one Halloween night over one hundred years ago. She’s invited a ton of people, but just as things are getting underway, the police […]
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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 […]
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Silent Scream (1979)
Silent Scream AKA: The Silent Scream Silent Scream is about a small group of collage students who rent rooms at a newly “we are now taking applications” Victoria boarding house at the beginning of the semester. Naturally, it doesn’t take long for people to start showing up in elegant, bloody piles. Silent Scream is a […]
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