Author: Mike Pihlman

  • “Unexpected” Movie Review and Trailer

    “Unexpected” Movie Review and Trailer

    Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) is a high school science teacher. She and and her boyfriend John (Anders Holm) are living together and have charted a nice slow course for the rest of their lives. Unexpectedly, Samantha’s school is closing at the end of the school year and Samantha is looking for her dream job at…

  • “Under the Eiffel Tower” Movie Review and Trailer

    “Under the Eiffel Tower” Movie Review and Trailer

    After losing his job selling bourbon, Stuart (Matt Walsh), goes on a bender. Luckily, he has a ton of bourbon in his apartment to sustain his drunken state for a long, long time. A few days later, his best friend calls and invites Stuart to come with his family to Paris on vacation….Stuart accepts, then…

  • Movie Review: “Candy Jar”

    Movie Review: “Candy Jar”

    Lona (Sami Gayle) and Bennett (Jacob Latimore) are fierce academic competitors, the only members of the debate team, and….they hate each other. Lona has her sights set on Harvard while Bennett wants to go to Yale. And….being the overachievers that they are (believe me, we know!)…..they study, study, and then study more. Getting into Harvard…

  • “The Weekend” Movie Review and Trailer

    “The Weekend” Movie Review and Trailer

    Zadie Barber (Sasheer Zamata) is a stand-up comic making zero money. The subject she jokes about is her breakup of three years ago to “Bradford”. She is still suffering. Bradford Collins (Tone Bell) and his girlfriend of two years, Margo Johnson (DeWanda Wise), are going to a Bed and Breakfast weekend with….of all people…..Zadie! In…

  • “Ride Like A Girl” Movie Review and Trailer

    “Ride Like A Girl” Movie Review and Trailer

    Michelle Payne (Teresa Palmer) always wanted to win the Melbourne Cup. Raised with nine other kids and no mother, Michelle and her siblings had to work hard to succeed thanks to the strong guiding hand of their horse trainer dad, Paddy (Sam Neill). Tragedy is not a stranger to this family, however, as another daughter…

  • “The Outcasts” Movie Review and Trailer

    “The Outcasts” Movie Review and Trailer

    BFF’s Jodi (Victoria Justice) and Mindy (Eden Sher) are now seniors in high school. Mindy has applied to MIT and has high hopes of having a new element named after her. Jodi is less sure of what she wants to do, but, it really good in music. In school….because they value studying over partying….they are…

  • “The Kissing Booth” Movie Review and Trailer

    “The Kissing Booth” Movie Review and Trailer

    Shelly Evans (Joey King) and Lee Flynn (Joel Courtney) were born to two different families at exactly the same time. Since that day, Shelly and Lee were the best of friends doing everything together and supporting each other through the good times, and sad times. As juniors in high school, they were still the very…

  • “Late Night” Movie Review and Trailer

    “Late Night” Movie Review and Trailer

    Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) has had an almost 30 year run as a very successful late night show host, but, for the last 10 years…..ratings have been going down and it is time to change…or leave. Stubborn, an asshole to people, and with a complacent, all-white male, writing staff, her jokes are stale and the…

  • Movie Review: “Desperados”

    Movie Review: “Desperados”

    Wesley (Nasim Pedrad) is just starting to date again after a painful breakup. Meeting her blind date, Sean (Lamorne Morris), he decides, after about 10 seconds, to bail. Wes is pissed, but, quickly finds another guy, Jared (Robbie Amell) who she promptly hops in the sack with. After 5 days of not hearing from him,…