Mildly Pleased

We’re baaaack! Yep, Johnatello and Mikey have returned from a lengthy hiatus to deliver you a steaming hot new episode of Stream Police. This week’s episode is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it’s a shell of a time! Also, what was better, Toy Story 2 or Toy Story 2 on Ice? Check it out!

As we established last week, right now we’re in film’s age of the franchise. Depending on who you ask that could have started as far back as the late seventies or as recently as the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the serialization of cinema. Previously, we focused on the positive aspects of that […]

Can you feel it in the air, when the music’s playing? People everywhere are saying franchises, franchises. This year was and will go on to be one of the biggest franchise years ever, with Jurassic World making all the money, Marvel putting out a hit and a half, Terminator, Mad Max, and a million other […]

Soon summer will be over. The college kids will return to their campuses, after PAX and Bumbershoot we won’t have big events to worry about, the children will spend their days in schools. Oh, and it will stop being hot and sunny. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Join us this week on Pitching Tents as we […]

Hot damn! I can’t believe we are already the amount of days into August we are when this was posted! It’s basically back-to-school time already. But don’t fret, old buddy, there’s still some summer left. Let’s not treat it like one long Sunday and instead try to have some actual fun. Yeah! And you know […]

First Pixels, now the Fantastic Four… Man, it’s been a bad few weeks for movies that sound like a bad idea. Hey, speaking of Pixels, that was a movie about video games. You know who likes video games? We do, to varying degrees. You know what would be fun is if we did a podcast […]

Something I heard about Age of Ultron that I liked was that Joss Whedon had done a great job putting the “hero” back in “super hero.” That’s referring to how the Avengers actually spent their time trying to save people, instead of just trying to stop bad guys. That’s what makes these characters great, right? […]

Happy Sunday! Boy, it sure is hot. Bet you don’t want to do anything else tonight. True Detective? Too much work. You should just sit back, turns the lights off, grab a fan, and turn on your favorite podcast. Is it this? It it Pitching Tents? You don’t have to lie to me. Look, how […]

So they cancelled Hannibal. A year ago, I called that show one of my halfway heroes, when its second season completely blew me away. Now it’s third could very well be its last – never say never in a world with Hulu and Netflix – and like its titular villain, I’ll have to savor every […]

Just when you thought we were done, Stream Police is back with a vengeance! Not only that but we get to review one of the greatest films ever made! I mean, An Extremely Goofy Movie? How lucky are we? So pump it up, shake your groove thing, and enjoy as Michael and John give you […]

In the beginning there were three meals a day. That wasn’t enough. Top Ten Thursdays said, “let there be snacks!” And there were snacks. And they were good. But which were the best? This was a topic worthy of considerable debate, for what truly is a snack if not any food eaten ‘tween meals? Could […]

This is a weird one. I mean, the thing about doing a top 10 list podcast is that it’s hard to break the formula of top 10 albums of a year, movies about a subject, video games on a console, that sort of thing. There are plenty of people out there doing lists like that. […]

For the last time, Mad Men is back and to everyone’s surprise, the Sixties are over. And if we all thought that decade was weird, just wait until you find out what the Seventies have in store for us! Yes, the decade that gave us Star Wars and jokes about Star Wars on That ’70s […]

It’s ’95 Fest here at Stream Police and Michael and John are counting down some of their favorite flicks of that iconic year. Who will make the cut? Casper? Batman Forever? Mortal Kombat, maybe? (It did have some impressive puppets). On top of that, the dynamic duo reviews, indie heartthrob Jim Jarmusch’s ’95 cult western, […]

The story of the video game Rock Band, as well as its sequels, is the story of how the world’s greatest cover band eventually becomes the most popular group of all time. Here at Mildly Pleased, we’d like to believe that could happen someday. I mean, is that really such a far cry from what […]

It’s the future. The bad future. The one where it’s been more than two months since the last Pitching Tents. Now our only hope is a young woman with a lot of determination but very little ability to actually drive the plot. It’s up to her to be bossed around by all the men in […]

It’s an Oscar Extravaganza on Stream Police! Who gets to walk the red carpet this week? Why it’s good ‘ol Bill Shakespeare from the 1998 Best Picture Winner Shakespeare in Love. If that wasn’t enough, listen to Michael and John dish on this weekend’s prestigious award show. Who will take home the gold? Why the […]

I’m not so sure about Ant-Man, everybody. Marvel’s been on a hot streak because they’ve always put passionate, talented fans behind the camera for every single one of their movies. This was supposed to be the ultimate realization of that, a project Edgar Wright had been working on since 2006 (that’s two thirds of Boyhood […]

There’s something really tricky about top 10 lists. When you don’t have a list at all, when you just have to name a movie your favorite of the year, it’s actually not that bad. It seems like it would be, but usually there’s just one movie that you truly, truly want to stand up for. […]

Well, so I’m pretty sure everyone had an exciting day today watching the Seattle gridiron team come from behind to earn their tickets to the Big Game in overtime. That was a game so exhilarating, you might need a little help coming down. You gotta cool off, right? You’ve got work in the morning. Maybe […]

It’s January 17th and you know what that means, only 341 days until Christmas! To celebrate this festive time of year Stream Police has reviewed the iconic 2014 family-holiday film Santa Claws . We’ll also talk about some of our Christmas favorites and some of our not so favorites. Isn’t it Exciting? Or do you […]

Hey, wow, did you see those album lists we did? Well, expect more where that came from. A lot more. Well, wait. Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. After all, our sort-of slogan is “Lower your expectations.” And you know, sometimes I forget to do that. Every year I find myself getting crushed because I’m […]

Things get a little messy when Michael and John delve into Park Chan-wook’s 2006 revenger thriller Lady Vengeance. Also, Michael and John talk about the logistics of a Star Wars movie set in a “Space Zoo”. Hear that and more on Stream Police.

Hold on to that good feeling as long as you can! We’re now entering that weird, delightful, somewhat bittersweet time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, when it’s hard to get anything done at work and the days seem to just fly by if you’re at home. Try to treasure it, try to make every […]

Have you gone and seen Exodus: Gods and Kings? What about Interstellar? Or The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies? All of them are long-ass epic movies, with gigantic setpieces and even bigger budgets. That’s what people like now, you see. If they’re going to bother actually going to the theater, they want to be […]