In the small New England town of Charlestown, the local mill is about to lay off 10,000 workers. The town’s minor league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, is doing no better. After years of failure, this will be the team’s last season. Exasperated player and coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) lets the club’s recent acquisitions, the Hanson Brothers, play. The brothers’ actively violent and thuggish style of play excites the fans. Dunlop retools the team, using violence to draw big crowds.
Slap Shot skated its way into theaters on February 25, 1977.
Slap Shot is Rated R.
Lets take a look and see if Slap Shot scores or winds up in the penalty box.
The Kims – mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung – are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. While Mr. and Mrs. Park are all about status, Mrs. Park has a flighty, simpleminded mentality and temperament, which Min tells Ki-woo to feel comfortable in lying to her about his education to get the job. In getting the job, Ki-woo further learns that Mrs. Park is looking for an art therapist for the Parks’ adolescent son, Da-song, Ki-woo quickly recommending his professional art therapist friend “Jessica”, really Ki-jung who he knows can pull off the scam in being the easiest liar of the four Kims. In Ki-woo also falling for Da-hye, he begins to envision himself in that house, and thus the Kims as a collective start a plan for all the Kims, like Ki-jung using assumed names, to replace existing servants in the Parks’ employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired. The most difficult to get rid of may be Moon-gwang, the Parks’ housekeeper who literally came with the house – she Namgoong’s housekeeper when he lived there – and thus knows all the little nooks and crannies of it better than the Parks themselves. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks.
Parasite creeped its way into theaters on November 8, 2019.
The movie is Rated R for language, some violence, and sexual content.
Did parasite survive or did the guys exterminate it? Let’s find out.
This is one of the rare movies that the guys have a difficult time rating, but for a good reason. If you can tolerate subtitles then Parasite is definitely worth watching.
This sweet romantic comedy reunites Sleepless In Seattle stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. He’s the owner of a bookstore chain; she’s the woman he falls for online. Both are unaware that she runs the little shop his company is trying to shut down.
You’ve Got Mail was delivered to theaters on December 18, 1998.
The movie is Rated PG for some language.
Did You’ve Got Mail make it’s way to the mop bucket or did it end up in the spam folder?
IMDB Rating: 6.7 / 10
Rotten Tomatoes: 69% Tomatometer; 73 %
Dave’s Rating: Large Popcorn
Justin’s Rating: Overflowing Medium Popcorn
Joe’s Rating: Medium Popcorn
It looks like You’ve Got Mail cleared the spam folders and into the inboxes of the guys recommended watching list.
This episode the guys review Dave’s pick: Stroker Ace.
Confident NASCAR driver Stroker Ace (Burt Reynolds) runs into problems when a confrontation with his commercial sponsor causes him to lose his contract. Clyde Torkel (Ned Beatty), the owner of a fried-chicken chain, immediately asks Stroker to be the face of his company. After some pushing by Clyde and his marketing executive, Pembrook Feeney (Loni Anderson), Stroker signs on without even reading his obligations. He then finds himself legally bound to a horrible contract, with no end in sight.
Stroker Ace raced into theaters on July 1, 1983.
Stroker Ace is Rated PG.
Let’s see if Stroker takes home the checkered flag, or crashes coming out of turn four.
This episode the guys review fan pick: Big Trouble in Little China.
Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco’s Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crime lord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack’s best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit.
Big Trouble in Little China hit theaters on July 1, 1986.
Big Trouble in Little China is Rated PG-13.
Will Little China fall into the burnt bucket? Let’s find out.
Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son is in desperate need of a life-saving transplant. When he discovers that his medical insurance won’t cover the costs of the surgery and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a last-ditch attempt to save his child.
John Q was released in theaters on February 15, 2002.
John Q is Rated PG-13 for violence, language and intense thematic elements.
This episode the guys review Dave’s Pick: Reign Over Me.
Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler), who lost his family in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, still grieves over their deaths. He runs into his former college roommate, Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle), and the two rekindle their friendship. Alan himself is feeling the strain of family and professional responsibilities, and his renewed bond with Charlie gives both men the strength to carry on during a turning point in their lives.
Reign Over Me was released in theaters on March 23, 2007.
Reign Over Me is Rated R for language and some sexual references.
Will the popcorn buckets reign over the movie? Let’s find out.
This episode the guys review Justin’s Pick: Grizzly Man.
Pieced together from Timothy Treadwell’s actual video footage, Werner Herzog’s remarkable documentary examines the calling that drove Treadwell to live among a tribe of wild grizzly bears on an Alaskan reserve. A devoted conservationist with a passion for adventure, Timothy believed he had bridged the gap between human and beast. When one of the bears he loved and protected tragically turns on him, the footage he shot serves as a window into our understanding of nature and its grim realities.
Grizzly Man was released on August 12, 2005.
Grizzly Man is Rated R for Language.
Let’s see where Grizzly Man falls on the popcorn scale.