Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Movie Review: “Kong: Skull Island”

    Movie Review: “Kong: Skull Island”

    1944 Two pilots, one American one Japanese, have to parachute out of their planes after a dog fight. They land on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific and now they are fighting each other…….. Until….. 1973 A mission to explore a previously unknown island in the Pacific is mounted by an Amercain private company…

  • Movie Review: “The Tender Bar”

    Movie Review: “The Tender Bar”

    This movie is a true story based on the memoir written by Author JR Moehringer. Young JR and his mother (Lily Rabe) have hit a rough patch and need to move back into Grandpa’s (Christopher Lloyd) house. Mom feels like this makes her a loser, but, JR loves his Grandpa and all the relatives that…

  • Movie Review: “The Tommorow War”

    Movie Review: “The Tommorow War”

    2021 Dan Forester (Chris Pratt) is happily married to Emmy (Betty Gilpin). Together they have a very smart 9 year old girl, Muri (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). Dan is interviewing for a lab job (he has a Ph.D in Biology,) but, for now he is teaching high school biology. Unfortunately, it does not look like he…

  • Movie Box Office Results January 21 – 23 2022

    Movie Box Office Results January 21 – 23 2022

    Spider-Man re-takes #1 in another slow box office weekend. The Movie Box Office Results January 21 – 23 2022 are listed below. Go to BoxOfficeMojo for more information. #1: Spider-Man: No Way Home, $14.1 million, Total so far: $721 million #2: Scream, $12.4 million, Total so far: $51 million #3: Sing 2, $5.7 million, Total so far: $128 million #4: Redeeming…

  • Movie Review: “F9: The Fast Saga”

    Movie Review: “F9: The Fast Saga”

    Roman (Tyrese Gibson) said it best when he wonders how they can have adventures and close calls that are impossible and 1. Survive and 2. Come out without a scratch. He thinks they must be super-human…….Tej (Ludacris) just thinks they are lucky and Roman is stupid. So funny. Yes….the movie is ludicrous to the extreme…

  • Movie Review: “Don’t Look Up”

    Movie Review: “Don’t Look Up”

    Astronomy graduate student and Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), was looking at the stars for her own research when she spotted a comet! Checking the trajectory, she decided to call Professor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) in to take a look and verify her findings. Sure enough, a very large comet….over 6…

  • Movie Review: “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”

    Movie Review: “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”

    Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch) was raised in a wealthy family in the late 1800’s with 5 sisters and a mother that he is “supporting” with odd jobs and leftover money in the bank that is dwindling rapidly. Louis was, to put it nicely, eccentric, when, in fact, he was bordering on mental illness. But he…

  • Movie Box Office Results January 14 – 16 2022

    Movie Box Office Results January 14 – 16 2022

    New #1 this week! We watched “No Time to Die” and “Eternals” on streaming this week. 4k UHD is awesome on our Sony A8G! Better than in the theaters. 🙂 The Movie Box Office Results January 14 – 16 2022 are listed below. Go to BoxOfficeMojo for more information. #1: Scream, $30.6 million, Total so far: $30.6 million…

  • Movie Review: “Eternals”

    Movie Review: “Eternals”

    Celestial Arishem (David Kaye) has been working towards the birth of a Celestial on Earth for millions of years. To encourage human population growth (Celestial births require the energy from billions of people), Arishem built, and programmed, “Deviants” to rid Earth of the nasty animals that kept human population growth under control. But…..as is normal…