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Author: Mike Pihlman

  • “22 Jump Street” Movie Review

    “22 Jump Street” Movie Review

    (VERY Funny) – – Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) have graduated from high school and are heading off to college to find the drug dealer selling a new drug. At college, Jenko joins the football team, joins a fraternity, and hangs with a new bro (the Quarterback of the team).  Broken hearted at…

  • “Blended” Movie Review

    “Blended” Movie Review

    (Sandler & Barrymore Shine) – – Sometimes Adam Sandler gives you stupid. Sometimes he gives you a really good movie. “Blended” is the latter: A low key (for the most part) comedy about two single parents trying to do the best for their kids….99% of the time. On a blind date, Sandler (as Jim) takes…

  • “Maleficent” Movie Review

    “Maleficent” Movie Review

    (Mag-leficent) – – I loved everything about this movie: the script, the acting, the pacing,  the colors, the computer graphics, the scenery, the humor, the battle scenes, the fantastical creatures (one even looks like Dobby), Angelina Jolie (as Maleficent), Elle Fanning (as Aurora is the best actor of the Fanning bunch), and so much more.…

  • “X-Men: Days of Future Past” Movie Review

    “X-Men: Days of Future Past” Movie Review

    UPDATE: Rewatched this movie June 15, 2024. The only problem is….it’s NOT on Disney+ so we had to rent it on VUDU….err, Fandango Home. To change history (and save them all from annihilation), the remaining X-Men send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back in time so he can stop Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from killing that one crucial…

  • “Godzilla” Movie Review

    “Godzilla” Movie Review

    (Exciting. Electrifying. Epic.) — — Fifteen years ago, nuclear power plant engineer, Joe Brody (Brian Cranston) was concerned that a recent swarm of tremors near the power plant in Japan were not natural. Brody went to work one day, with his wife Sandra (Juliette Binoche), very concerned about the safety of the plant. He sent…

  • Inyoung Hong Our 2014 College Scholarship Winner

    Inyoung Hong Our 2014 College Scholarship Winner

    Computer Program Inyoung submitted a link to a computer program she wrote explaining her passion (link updated by Inyoung April 27, 2022): Note: This is FABULOUS!!!!! https://inyounghong.github.io/passion/ Essay Two days before my 18th birthday, at 1 AM on a Monday morning, one of my best friends told me that she was going to die. An…

  • “Neighbors” Movie Review

    “Neighbors” Movie Review

    (Raunchy Brainless Fun) — — It is a relatively safe bet that if you go to a Seth Rogan movie you are going to a funny,raunchy affair. No difference here. “Neighbors”  is not an Oscar winning film, but, rather a movie you can get away from reality for a couple of hours. Not boring, fun,…

  • “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Movie Review

    “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Movie Review

    (Not Amazing) — — Not good when my mind drifted during the movie to the mantra “Where is Tobey?”  This version of Spider-Man, although more accurately depicting the comics, is juvenile, goofy, and predictable. Andrew Garfield is Spider-Man / Peter Parker, and is VERY busy saving almost everyone who needs saving in the metropolis.  He…

  • “Mud” Movie Review

    “Mud” Movie Review

    (Powerful) — — Mud (Matthew McConaughey) is a drifter wanted by the authorities for the murder of the boyfriend of the woman he loves, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon). Two boys (Tye Sheridan as Ellis, and Jacob Lofland as Neckbone) ride their boat to an island where they claim a boat in a tree as their own.…