Mildly Pleased

This week the Stream Police grade the Ryan Phillippe (not even gonna spell check that), Anna Paquin “indie” project Straight A’s. Michael and John also talk about some of the best tune of 2014 and some of the not so best. Episode Breakdown 2:08 – 2014 Tune Talk 13:47 – 48: 20 – Straight A’s […]

Fists are flying in this review of Jackie Chan’s Kung Fu cult classic, Project A 2. Additionally, Michael and John gab (mostly complain) about the geektacular phenomenon that is the San Diego Comic Con. Here’s the breakdown San Diego Comic Con: 3:26 – 10:08 Project A 2 Review: 10:11 – 36:40 Michael and John Recommend: […]

In an effort to remain a contributing member to Mildly Pleased, I and my fellow film friend-o Michael Sevigny have decided to put together a ‘lil podcast. “Stream Police” is a movie review podcast with a bit of a twist. The twist being that our movie choices will be completely in the cold calculating hands […]

The new Transformers movie is out and it really looks like Michael Bay has another hit on his hands, to basically no one’s surprise. If you read any of the reviews, you’ll see just how weary America’s critics are at trying to explain how deeply flawed this franchise is, especially compared to other quality sci […]

In this, the month of dads and grads, we are happy to bring back Pitching Tents. Inspired by Father’s Day, which was a week ago if you haven’t been calendar watching lately, we decided to come up with the best movies about fatherhood that haven’t been made. And that’s a tricky one, given that there […]

Did you guys see Louie this week? I guess it was something we knew was coming, but can you believe, just conceptually, that a show about a comedian living in New York would ever get to the point of showing a harrowing hurricane rescue? That’s a pretty special show, and we’re all lucky to be […]

The new Godzilla was not very original when it picked its name, but does the rest of the movie suffer from that same laziness. Find out by listening to this, the fifth episode of Some Kind of Movie. Seems like it would be higher, doesn’t it? It’s been a long time since we did one […]

What started as a fun list of the unsung heroes of the Star Wars universe quickly took a turn for the horrific this week as we ended up spending well over an hour coming up with a new hope for the legendary franchise that… Well, you’ll just have to listen. Why did we do this? […]

If you’re going to release a self-titled album, you damn well better do it in 1969. That’s right, this week we’re talking about music again as we take the ship of the imagination back to 1969 in honor of Mad Men‘s return to television. If this isn’t the boldest, most groundbreaking podcast episode you’ve ever […]

This week on Top Ten Thursdays Sean learns he cares too much about the shows he spends his time watching, John finally opens up about what it’s like to still care about The Simpsons, Colin has a bone to pick with Everybody Loves Raymond, and Matt makes his triumphant return! It’s a jam-packed episode that […]