No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • “Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Road Trip” Movie Review

    “Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Road Trip” Movie Review

    The Garcia Family is about to embark on a vacation to Mexico that Val (Eva Longoria) hopes will reconnect the family with their Mexican roots. The magazine that Val writes for is paying for the trip and the huge, really fancy bus, that will take them there. As they are preparing to leave the bad…

  • “Twisters” Movie Review

    “Twisters” Movie Review

    5 years ago Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is leading a team of five people chasing F1 (the weakest) tornados (see the tornado intensity scale here) to help her test her theory on how to snuff out the tornado before it becomes a killer. Unfortunately, she and her team come up against an F5 (the strongest) tornado…

  • “Miss Congeniality” Movie Review

    “Miss Congeniality” Movie Review

    After uncovering a credible threat against a beauty / scholarship pageant, the FBI did a detailed search of FBI agents capable of being undercover at a beauty pageant. They decided that lifelong tomboy and FBI agent, Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock), is the only person for the job. She reluctantly agreed, as does her team leader…

  • “Ratatouille” Movie Review

    “Ratatouille” Movie Review

    Remy (Patton Oswalt) wants to be the next great French chef. He idolized famous French chef Gusteau (Brad Garrett) and even grabbed a copy of his latest cookbook where Gusteau coined the term: “Anyone can cook”. Entering a restaurant, Remy meets kitchen worker but wanna-be chef Linguini (Lou Romano) and helps him add flavor to…

  • “The Electric State” Movie Review

    “The Electric State” Movie Review

    1990 Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) and her brother Christopher (Woody Norman) are looking forward to Chris heading to college. But…..when war breaks out between the newly sentient robots and humans, it is clear that the robots are stronger and smarter…and the humans are losing badly. Until….. Oh, to see what happens you can STREAM this…

  • “Freaky Friday” Movie Review

    “Freaky Friday” Movie Review

    We streamed this classic movie from 2003 to get ready for the 2025 sequel coming in August (or, rather, a month or two later on Disney+). Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) lost her husband 3 years ago, but, luckily she has found the perfect new guy for her…..Leroy Jethro Gibbs….err, Ryan (Mark Harmon). This coming Friday…

  • “Moana 2” Movie Review

    “Moana 2” Movie Review

    Long ago, Moana’s (Auli’i Cravalho) ancestors wanted to unite all the people of the oceans. Maui (The Rock) sort of messed that up when he stole Te Fiti’s heart and she made sure the people of the oceans were kept separate. Now, Moana has received a message from the ancestors that they want her to…

  • “Venom: The Last Dance” Movie Review

    “Venom: The Last Dance” Movie Review

    Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is being hunted by the police in San Francisco and an alien being named Knull (Andy Serkis) has sent thousands of evil monsters, Xenophages, to find Eddie and Venom. Turns out that Venom and Eddie hold a “codex” within them that will open the prison that Knull is being held in…

  • “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Movie Review

    “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Movie Review

    Many years after Caesar’s death, the world that we see consists of apes and humans. The humans, for the most part, are silent and starving. Reduced to beasts. The apes are making progress…gaining technological skills and knowledge. One ape, Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand), is forming a “Kingdom” by kidnapping clans and killing humans. His base…