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Author: Mike Pihlman

  • “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…

  • “Here Comes The Boom” Movie Review

    “Here Comes The Boom” Movie Review

    (Funny, Inspirational) — — You may already know that Kevin James  is one of our favorite actors.  In “Here Comes The Boom” he plays Scott Voss a burnt out biology teacher who lets the kids do what they want in class while he comes in late and chases after Salma Hayek (the school nurse, Bella…

  • Carmel By The Sea, Carmel, CA

    Carmel By The Sea, Carmel, CA

    This past weekend we took a day trip to Carmel, CA.  One of our favorite places on earth, we decided to go with our 12 year old Lab, Sunny, hoping he would enjoy the day before getting too old! We think he enjoyed it!  There were hundreds of dogs in Carmel that day, most of…