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Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Movie Review: “Champions”

    Movie Review: “Champions”

    NBA J-league assistant coach, Marcus (Woody Harrelson), has bounced around in his life as a a coach mostly due to his hot temper. During a game he disagreed with the head coach’s play call, pushed him to the floor, and walked away. The team made it easier for him to walk away……as they fired him.…

  • Movie Review: “A Chance Encounter”

    Movie Review: “A Chance Encounter”

    After the death of his mother, emerging poet, Hal Flynn (Paul Peterson), travels to Taormina, Italy for inspiration and time to honor his mother who left him some money to pursue his passion. Arriving in Taormina he happens upon a woman singing and playing guitar in a plaza by the ocean, and recognizes her as…

  • Movie Review: “Paint”

    Movie Review: “Paint”

    Carl Nargle (Owen Wilson) is a small town PBS network star with a show based on him painting (ala Bob Ross). Carl has fame, not quite fortune, and any woman he wants….in the back of his van. Not a nice guy, but, loveable in his own way. Years ago, Carl found out that the local…

  • Movie Review: “The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay”

    Movie Review: “The Curious Case of Dolphin Bay”

    15 year old, Quinn (Izabela Rose), wants to be a marine biologist. This summer, she is travelling to Australia to be an intern with her best friend, Daniella (Ella Proberts), at the Dolphin Bay Marine Biology Center. When she arrives she finds out that she is one of four interns including Daniella, Jennifer (Allegra Teo),…

  • Movie Review: “Avatar: The Way of Water”

    Movie Review: “Avatar: The Way of Water”

    Fourteen or so years ago Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) killed the maniacal military leader of the RDA, Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), and Pandora was at peace once again. Now Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is a full-fledged Nav’i and he and Neytiri have a family of their own, all pretty much teenagers and all helping dad raid…

  • Finding the 2023 Fireworks Booths in Tracy CA

    Finding the 2023 Fireworks Booths in Tracy CA

    Start: June 28, 2023 at Noon End: July 4, 2023 at 9 PM Here are the 2023 Nonprofit Fireworks Booths in Tracy, CA Bookmark this page and come back often as I get updated information…. Tracy Rampage Youth Football & Cheer 2994 W. Grant Line Rd. (At the front entrance to Walmart) GOOGLE MAP  The South Side…

  • Movie Review: “Avatar”

    Movie Review: “Avatar”

    Nearly 5 years after taking off for Pandora, the latest crew is just coming out of stasis as they arrive at this distant world. Pandora is inhabited by a people who are very tall and blue and the land has untold riches to be mined. The Nav’i are at peace with themselves and with nature.…

  • Movie Review: “Air”

    Movie Review: “Air”

    1984 Brash upstart Nike, caters to the running community by making running shoes that appeal to most runners of the time (except me….I liked, and still like, Saucony). But Nike wanted to break into the basketball shoe business dominated by Converse and Adidas. To help them in the basketball arena, Nike founder, Phil Knight (Ben…

  • Movie Review: “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”

    Movie Review: “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”

    Edgin (Chris Pine) was in a secret organization when the people he trusted within that organization murdered his wife. Luckily, his infant daughter (Kira (Chloe Coleman) was hidden and survived. Pissed off, Edgin picked up his old ways as a thief with his gang: old friend Holga (Michelle Rodriquez), Sorcerer Simon (Justice Smith), and Shape…