Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Movie Review: “Rio 2”

    Movie Review: “Rio 2”

    Tulio (Rodrigo Santoro) and Linda (Leslie Mann) travelled to the Amazon jungle to release a bird in it’s native habitat. While there, they spot a blue bird and pick up a feather. Tasting it, Tulio determines it is a blue macaw! How can that be? They are nearly extinct. Meanwhile back at home, Blu (Jesse…

  • Movie Review: “Rio”

    Movie Review: “Rio”

    15 years ago Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) was taken from his jungle home and brought to America where he met, and fell in love with, Linda (Leslie Mann). As Linda grew up, Blu and Linda were inseparable. Owning a bookstore: The Blue Macaw…..Linda and Blu lived a happy uneventful life in Minnesota. Then one day a…

  • Movie Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3”

    Movie Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3”

    The High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) is trying to build the perfect civilization, and wants his greatest creation back to help him. Rocket (Bradley Cooper)! The Guardians (Star Lord / Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Rocket, Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Drax (Dave Bautista), Nebula (Karen Gillan), and Groot (Vin Diesel)) are living a peaceful life on a peaceful…

  • Movie Review: “The Beanie Bubble”

    Movie Review: “The Beanie Bubble”

    As you can tell from the picture…..Lori was “invested” in the Beanie Baby “bubble”. Getting up early in the morning and standing in line for hours just to buy the latest Beanie Baby…..not for investment, but, for Kristen (who was a baby then), and, it was fun. 🙂 But I digress…..back to the movie. Warning:…

  • Movie Review: “The Portable Door”

    Movie Review: “The Portable Door”

    Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) is out of work and looking for a job. On his way to an interview, he meets a stranger who claims to know him….he does not, but, that meeting is sufficient to make Paul lose his place in line. Now at the end of a very long line, a stray dog…

  • Movie Review: “Happiness for Beginners”

    Movie Review: “Happiness for Beginners”

    Helen (Ellie Kemper) has been separated for a year. Recently, the divorce has been finalized and Helen, instead of celebrating, is filled with renewed angst. Taking her younger brothers advice, Helen signs up for a wilderness survival course hoping to “reset”. Arriving at the course headquarters (a motel in Connecticut) Helen meets her fellow hikers,…

  • Movie Review: “Flamin Hot”

    Movie Review: “Flamin Hot”

    Richard Montanez (Jesse Garcia) had a rather tough life. He did not go to high school, but, was a great salesman. He was great at selling his mother’s homemade burritos at elementary school, and drugs when he got older. When he and his longtime girlfriend, Judy (Annie Gonzalez) had a child, Richard (and Judy!) decided…

  • Movie Review: “To the Stars”

    Movie Review: “To the Stars”

    It’s the early 1960’s (actually you would think it was 2023 by the way the hateful people are behaving), and Iris Deerborne (Kara Hayward) is an outcast in her small town. Because she is abused by the mean girls in high school and harassed by the dumb-ass boys, Iris is content to be alone. To…

  • Movie Review: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”

    Movie Review: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”

    Peter Parker (Chris Pine) is Spider-Man. The one and only Spider-man. You know the story, so we can move on quickly to…… Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) teen wunderkid who has just been accepted to a top high school in New York City, and, with the help of his policeman dad….he moves in. There, Miles meets…