Author: Mike Pihlman

  • 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…

  • Movie Review: “No Time to Die”

    Movie Review: “No Time to Die”

    James Bond (007) is getting ready to retire to a tropical paradise. But before he does, he has one last adventure, and that is to help an old friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright), track down the bad guy who stole an advanced biological weapon that has the potential to wipe out humanity. That…

  • Movie Box Office Results January 7 – 9 2022

    Movie Box Office Results January 7 – 9 2022

    This is getting boring! 🙂 Spider-Man takes #1 for the 4th week in a row. The Movie Box Office Results January 7 – 9 2022 are listed below. Go to BoxOfficeMojo for more information. #1: Spider-Man: No Way Home, $33.0 million, Total so far: $669 million #2: Sing 2, $11.9 million, Total so far: $109 million #3: The 355, $4.8…

  • Movie Review: “Long Story Short”

    Movie Review: “Long Story Short”

    Teddy (Rafe Spall) is always putting things off until “later”. New Years Eve, at a party, Teddy rushes (his normal way in his hectic life) to his girlfriend as the clock strikes midnight and kisses her! Only problem is…..the woman he kissed is NOT his girlfriend! Ooops. As it turns out, that kiss leads to…

  • Movie Review: “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”

    Movie Review: “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”

    Three kids are given their last Christmas gifts from their late mother. Clara (Mackenzie Foy) received the most interesting and puzzling gift: A card from mom that says everything Clara will need is inside the fancy metal egg she was given. But….there is no key!! Clara is a a mechanical wizard, but, even she could…