Mildly Pleased

Listeners, beware, you’re in for a scare!!! Just in time for Halloween, Michael and John discuss five essential Goosebumps episodes along with other favorites in this spooktacular edition of Stream Police. Join them as they struggle to remember the plots to a program intended for children and delve into the mind of R.L. “Spooky Spider” […] The post Stream Police Ep. 20: Goosebumps appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

We interrupt your usual Shocktober coverage with… Well actually this fits in pretty well with those posts. Because after months, years, a lifetime of watching horror movies, us here at Mildly Pleased have a pretty good idea of what the market’s like, and what the market lacks. So come down into our deep, dusty dungeon […] The post Pitching Tents 14: Scary (Featuring Paul Otteni!) appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

I had myself a little brush with death this week. At the very beginning of my morning commute, I got t-boned. It’s kind of hard to process, but I’m OK, the other driver’s OK, both our cars are only a little messed up. Events like this are supposed to make you think, right? Maybe I […] The post T3 95: Top 10 Fruit appeared first on 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! The post Stream Police Ep. 19: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 94: Top 10 Most Annoying Movie Franchises appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 93: Top 10 Movie Franchises appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post Pitching Tents 13: College (Featuring Paul Otteni!) appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 92: Summer Songs appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 91: Atari Games appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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? […] The post Pitching Tents 12: Super Heroes appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post Pitching Tents 11: Nerds Mess Things Up appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 90: Top Stuff of 2015 So Far appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post Stream Police Ep. 18: An Extremely Goofy Movie appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 89: Top 10 Snacks appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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. […] The post T3 88: Top 10 Sitcom Characters with Whom We’d Like to Hang Out appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 87: Top 10 Albums of 1970 appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 post Stream Police Ep. 17: Dead Man appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post T3 86: Top 10 Cover Songs appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post Pitching Tents 10: Young Adult Fiction (Featuring Kollin Holtz!) appeared first on Mildly Pleased.

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 […] The post Stream Police Ep. 16: Shakespeare in Love appeared first on Mildly Pleased.