No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Movie Review: “Barbie”

    Movie Review: “Barbie”

    Everything is perfect in Barbieland. Barbie (Margot Robbie) has the perfect life. She wakes up to a wonderful pink world, food magically falls onto her plate, her feet fit perfectly into her high heels, she has lots of friends and a guy who loves her, Ken (Ryan Gosling) She is content knowing that this perfect…

  • Movie Review: “The School for Good and Evil”

    Movie Review: “The School for Good and Evil”

    Best friends since they were very young, Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie) both love to read, but, other than that….they could not be more different. Sophie, a seamstress, yearns to leave her oppressed upbringing in Gavaldon and become a Princess. Agatha is being groomed by her mother to be a witch. One…

  • Watching Movies: Theaters vs Streaming

    Watching Movies: Theaters vs Streaming

    My point exactly! The theater is empty for this Nicole Kidman ad. 🙂 I have said many times on ForCarol.com, that going to the theater to watch movies is at the beginning of the end. Even though a few “blockbusters” have done well recently (the latest one being “Barbie“) if you study the box office,…

  • Movie Review: “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One”

    Movie Review: “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One”

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has just become sentinent and nothing will be the same. Countries are racing to find the key to control “The Entity” (as the AI sentinent “being” is calling itself)……or kill it. Problem is….The Entity is in the fight….and it has unbelievable power. Luckily, the team from IMF chose to accept this mission…

  • Movie Review: “Fingernails”

    Movie Review: “Fingernails”

    Couples who want to know if their love is true (and two sided) can go to the Love Institute, have a fingernail ripped off a finger (with all the pain that goes with that process), and have those fingernails tested to see if they are indeed in love. The results of the test are in…

  • Movie Review: “The Layover”

    Movie Review: “The Layover”

    It’s been a tough day! High School English teacher, Kate (Alexandra Daddario), lets one of her students read from a manga book with the principal watching. The book is sexual in nature and Kate is asked to resign. Ooops. Meg (Kate Upton) is on a sales call trying to get her new line of cosmetics…

  • Movie Review: “Old Dads”

    Movie Review: “Old Dads”

    Warning: The trailer and review are both R-rated! Three g*ys (the old dads) approaching, or just past, 50 have j*st sold their t-shirt b*siness and are now working for a kid half their age. (Yo* know how that will work o*t!) Two of the old dads: Jack Kelly (Bill B*rr) and Connor Brody (Bobby Cannavale)…

  • Movie Review: “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose”

    Movie Review: “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose”

    Nandor Fodor (Simon Pegg) was a paranormal psychologist back in the 1930’s. He was quite famous and, although he was a true believer at the start of his career, he became a skeptic later on. This movie is based in his skeptic years, or is the start of his skeptic years. Eventually, Nandor believed that…

  • Movie Review: “On the Rocks”

    Movie Review: “On the Rocks”

    Struggling with writers block, successful author Laura (Rashida Jones) is regretting signing up for her next book without it being finished. Unofortunately, her writers block is having an effect on her marriage to Dean (Marlon Wayans). Dean is starting a new company and is travelling a lot on business with his team. Coming home from…