No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Motherhood RAP

    Motherhood RAP

    I was bored and started surfing the Internet today and found this video.  Being a mom is so much fun!  🙂  I think this is actually a Fiat commercial. – – Drive Safe!  Never Forget.

  • “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Movie Review

     (Instant Classic) – – “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is a stupendous movie.  An instant classic that is visually spectacular and interesting enough that the 170 minutes felt like 30, it was over just as it was getting interesting.  🙂 Director Peter Jackson takes a few liberties with the book ostensibly to set up the “Lord…

  • “Playing for Keeps” Movie Review

    “Playing for Keeps” Movie Review

     (Brainless predictable fun, Judy Greer) – – The biggest (very pleasant) surprise for me was that Judy Greer was in this move!  🙂 Gerard Butler (George) is a former professional soccer player finding life difficult after retirement.  With no job, and divorced from Jessica Biel (as Stacie), he moves to Virginia to be close to…

  • “Life of Pi” Movie Review

    “Life of Pi” Movie Review

    A teenager, Pi Patel (played as a teen by Suraj Sharma) leaves India on a cargo ship with his family and their zoo animals. A storm in the middle of the Pacific Ocean sinks the cargo ship killing everyone but Pi, a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a Bengal tiger.  It is survival of the…

  • “Wreck It Ralph” Movie Review

    “Wreck It Ralph” Movie Review

    (Fun) – – For 30 years, Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) played the bad guy.  Problem is, bad guys do not get a nice shiny medal or the adulation that the good guys get. Ralph decides he wants to be a good guy. After the arcade closes, Ralph heads off to other arcade games…

  • College Scholarships, Tracy, CA

    College Scholarships, Tracy, CA

    Click here to download the $1,000, Carol Phan College Scholarship Application for a Tracy High IB/Ag Science scholar.

  • “Skyfall” Movie Review

    “Skyfall” Movie Review

    (SPECTACULAR) — – 007 done right. Extraordinary. Daniel Craig (007), Javier Barden (creepy, gay, evil, high tech, ex-MI6 agent), and Judi Dench (M) are STUPENDOUS. Need I say more??? Bond…..James Bond. Go to IMDb for more information.  We watched this at the Tracy, CA CineMark where our poster is STILL UP! – Drive Safe!  Never…

  • “The Magic of Belle Isle” Movie Review

    (Wonderful) – – Monte Wildhorn (Morgan Freeman) is a famous author who has lost his desire to write after losing his wife to cancer 6 years ago.  He travels to Belle Isle to spend the summer. Armed with enough alcohol to choke an elephant, he spends his days taking care of the house’s owners yellow…

  • “Hotel Transylvania” Movie Review

    “Hotel Transylvania” Movie Review

    (Monstrously fun) – – After the death of his wife in a fire (started by humans) Dracula (Adam Sandler) opens the Hotel Transylvania to keep the evil humans away and keep his young 118 year old daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), safe. Throwing a party for Mavis’s 118th birthday the monsters gather at the hotel for the…