Humble Beginnings

Hello everyone,

My name is Levi Mock, your Low Budget Movie Buff, and like so many others before me, I dare to brave the perilous road of opinion and plunge myself deep into the darkest chasm of this or any other parallel dimension, the internet. Now as we all now, the internet is wild, unpredictable bastion of thoughts, feelings, and ideas that at their best, can inspire and dazzle any hungry soul or at their worst, reek havoc and unearth a dark and vengeful wrath that lays deep within it's bowels. It is with my greatest hope that, through my modest blog regarding the review and analyzation of cinema and the entertainment industry, that I can do more of the former and less of the latter. However, in the end, that is for you, the humble reader to decide. So, please join me as I seek to take you on hopefully a fun and introspective ride through bombastic blockbusters, box office bombs, cinema classics, and the world from whence they came. Now take your seat for the show is about to begin.

- Levi Mock (7/16/2021)

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Never in Theaters; Never at Home; But Perhaps on a Plane? - Breathe 2024

Uninspiring in its appearance. Barely interesting in its premise. Floundering in its conviction. When it comes down to it, 2024’s Breath seems to aim at being nothing more than a passage of time in no measure of impressive or insulting manner, unless you consider the time lost in watching it an insult in of itself. So then what, pray tell, is such a movie good for? What worth does it offer in any real way? Because as a theatrical experience, I’d be an utter disappointment. From the comfort of one’s couch, it may not even be worth having on in the background. But what about as an inflight showing? Do the conditions of coach class crammed seats become numbed with its viewing? Does it in any way pacify the many other pains and annoyances of laboring high altitude travel? If so, it may be the only suitable way to enjoy such a flick. So does it do the trick? Let’s get into it. This supposed sci-fi thriller Breath weaves a fairly straight forward tale of single mom-scientist, Maya ( ...

An Eye-Catching Cacophony of Cardboard Craft - Dave Made a Maze

Meaning … A kingdom of cardboard I craft and mold with my own two hands. Art … both beauty and destruction, if left untempered in expression. In a world masooned by the ceaseless assault of cinematic cgi, Bill Watterson’s “Dave Made a Maze” breaks the mold with a stunning practical production feat, the likes the modern world has seldom seen. But do all other elements hold up as well as the hand-crafted kingdom put before us? Or does the film whimper and mold like an old cardboard crate left out in the rain? Let’s get into it. Dave Made a Maze centers on the titular floundering artist, Dave ( Nick Thune ), who struggles to complete any project he begins. However, amidst coping with the dwindling good will of his parents and girlfriend, Dave has a stroke of creation and envelopes himself in the construction of a box fort maze in his apartment living room. But problems arise when his girlfriend, Annie ( Meera Rohit Kumbhani ), returns home to find him trapped w...

Killin’ at the Job; Not so much at Home - Kill Bok-soon

Blood-soaked contracts. Daggers to the heart. Bullets to the head. All as easy as the next breath. But single parenting and sorting out your love life? Such are challenges not for the faint of heart. Because really, who among us wouldn’t sooner snuff out a life or face down death if it meant putting off being vulnerable for a moment longer? Perhaps, that’s a hair extreme. But when you’re a world-renowned assassin struggling with work-life balance, those seemingly harsh extremes quickly become common far-too-oftens . Then you blink and its decades later, before you realize that maybe, just maybe, you’ve been avoiding what actually matters within your contract-kill-craze existence … actual life. Let’s get into it. Kill Bok-soon is written and directed by Byun Sung-hyun and stars Jeon Do-yeon as legendary killer for hire, Gil Boksoon, a single mom that can best any challenge that isn’t her distant daughter or tenuous love life. And deep within the heyday of John Wick like films and a...

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