Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Movie Review: “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”

    Movie Review: “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”

    I asked Google Gemini AI to write a 150 word summary of this movie. I added the italics and pictures for accuracy and completeness. 🙂 Three years after the events of Afterlife, the Spengler family and their friends join forces with Winston (Ernie Hudson) and Ray (Dan Aykroyd) to revive the Ghostbusters in New York.…

  • Movie Review: “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F”

    Movie Review: “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F”

    I asked Google Gemini AI to provide a 150 word summary of this movie. I added the italics and pictures for clarity and completeness. 🙂 Decades after his original Beverly Hills adventure, Detroit detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the West Coast. This time, it’s his estranged daughter, Jane (Taylour Paige), who’s in…

  • AI Assisted Movie Review: “A Family Affair”

    AI Assisted Movie Review: “A Family Affair”

    Gotta love AI! Saves me a LOT of time. 🙂 I asked Google Gemini to write a 150 word summary of this movie. I added the words in italics and the picture for clarity and completeness. “24-year-old Zara (Joey King) is burnt out, working as an underappreciated assistant to self-absorbed and selfish Hollywood actor Chris…

  • STEM / STEAM: Remote Working After COVID

    STEM / STEAM: Remote Working After COVID

    COVID forced everyone to understand the value of telecommuting, videoconferencing, and remote work. During that time……remote working / telecommuting / videoconferencing helped keep the world spinning for a few years while people worked at home. Now that the pandemic is “over”….there should no longer be ANY hesitation about continuing to remote work! After all……the benefits…

  • Movie Review: “Five Blind Dates”

    Movie Review: “Five Blind Dates”

    After her grandmother (Popo) passed away, Lia (Shuang Hu) left her hometown for Sydney and opened a traditional Chinese tea shop (Popo’s Tea Time) with the help of her best friend, Mason (Ilai Swindells). Unfortunately, the world wants bubble tea and does not understand, nor want, the traditional tea offered (stubbornly) by Lia. As such,…

  • Movie Review: “The Wolverine”

    Movie Review: “The Wolverine”

    August 9, 1945 Wolverine is a prisoner being held in a hole in the ground, when the B-29’s from America arrive over Nagasaki, Japan. His guard, Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi), tried to save him, but, was unsuccessful. Instead…..Wolverine saved Yashida. Present Day Yashida is on his death bed and he sends his very dangerous “grand-daughter” Yukio…

  • Finding the 2024 Fireworks Booths in Tracy CA

    Finding the 2024 Fireworks Booths in Tracy CA

    Start: June 28, 2024 at Noon End: July 4, 2024 at 9 PM Here are the 2024 Nonprofit Fireworks Booths in Tracy, CA Bookmark this page and come back often…. Mission City Church 2994 W. Grant Line Rd. (near Adrians Beauty College) GOOGLE MAP  The South Side Community Organization 1801 W. 11th Street (near Safeway on 11th)…

  • Movie Review: “Die Hart 2: Die Harter”

    Movie Review: “Die Hart 2: Die Harter”

    In this sequel to “Die Hart”, Kevin (Kevin Hart) is trying to get funding for a movie that will put him at the top of the list as an action hero. Unfortunately, funding is not coming, but, someone is…. Trying to kill him, Jordan (Nathalie Emmanuel), and Andre (Ben Schwartz). Who is the killer? Well….to…

  • Movie Review: “See You on Venus”

    Movie Review: “See You on Venus”

    Mia (Virginia Gardner) was an infant when her birth mother put her up for adoption. Now, at 18, she is an orphan and wants to head out to Spain to find her birth mother. She has 10 names to visit. Kyle (Alex Aiono) is dealing with the guilt of being the driver in a fatal…