Joe’s Pick: Uncle Buck

When Cindy (Elaine Bromka) and her husband, Bob (Garrett M. Brown), have to leave town for a family emergency, there is only one person available to babysit for their three kids: Bob’s lazy, carefree brother, Buck (John Candy). While he immediately gets along with the two younger children (Gaby Hoffman, Macaulay Culkin), Buck must change his bachelor lifestyle if he wants to be a responsible caregiver for the angst-filled teenager, Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly).

Uncle Buck arrived in theaters on August 16, 1989.

The movie is Rated PG.

Let’s see where Uncle Buck lands on the popcorn scale.

IMDB Rating: 7 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 64% Tomatometer, 76% Audience Score

Dave’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Uncle Buck made the shortlist of CERTIFIED MOVIES, stay tuned as the guys review Throw Mama From A Train.

Dave’s Pick: Thank You For Smoking

Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a lobbyist for big tobacco, finds it difficult to balance his duties defending the dangerous substance with those of being a good role model for his young son. Nick’s life gets even more complicated when a liberal senator mounts an anti-smoking campaign that he must counter. Based on the novel by Christopher Buckley.

Thank You For Smoking was released to theaters on March 17, 2006.

The movie is Rated R for language and sexual content.

Will the reviews be rich and full of flavor, or will they go up in smoke?

IMDB Rating: 7.6 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: *CERTIFIED FRESH* 86% Tomatometer, 87% Audience Score

Joe’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: OVERFLOWING Large Popcorn

Dave’s Rating: OVERFLOWING Large Popcorn

The guys agree with the masses, Thank You For Smoking is worth a watch.

Mentalist Derren Brown engineers an audacious social experiment demonstrating how manipulation can lead an ordinary person to commit an appalling act.

The Push was released on Netflix on February 27, 2018.

This special is Rated TV-MA.

Would the guys push or not? Let’s find out.

IMDB Rating: 7.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 75% Audience Score

Justin’s Rating: Overflowing Large Popcorn

Dave’s Rating: Overflowing Large Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Overflowing Large Popcorn

It’s obvious that The Push is an interesting film, and a great conversation piece. Stay tuned as the guys review Thank You For Smoking.

Fan Pick: The Princess Bride

A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the William Goldman novel “The Princess Bride” which earned its own loyal audience.

The Princess Bride arrived in theaters on October 1, 1987.

This movie is Rated PG for violence and language.

Let’s see if the guys save the Princess, or let her fall victim to the bad guys.

IMDB Rating: 8 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: *CERTIFIED FRESH* 97% Tomoatometer 94% Audience Score

Justin’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Dave’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Joe: Rating: Large Popcorn

The Princess Bride is a CERTIFIED LARGE POPCORN for the guys, and well deserved at that. Stay tuned as we review Justin’s pick, The Push.

Joe’s Pick: The Shawshank Redemption

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn’t commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years.

The Shawshank Redemption first arrived in theaters on September 22

The Shawshank Redemption is Rated R for language and violence.

Here we go with the ratings:

IMDB Rating: 9.3 / 10

Justin’s Rating: MOP BUCKET

Dave’s Rating: MOP BUCKET

Joe’s Rating: MOP BUCKET

It’s without a doubt that The Shawshank Redemption receives a CERTIFIED MOP BUCKET rating. Coming up next for the guys is The Princess Bride.

Dave’s Pick: Unfinished Business

Tired of playing second-fiddle to his obnoxious boss (Sienna Miller), businessman Dan Trunkman (Vince Vaughn) quits and forms his own competing mineral sales firm. He takes a retiring associate (Tom Wilkinson) and a dim-witted sales applicant (Dave Franco) with him. After a year and a half of struggle, a promising deal is in sight — then promptly folds, thanks to Dan’s ex-boss. Determined to save the deal, Dan and company fly to Germany, where a series of outrageous obstacles awaits.

Unfinished Business hit theaters on March 5, 2015.

Unfinished Business is Rated R for some strong risqué sexual content/graphic nudity, and for language and drug use.

Now is the time for the guys to finish “Unfinished Business”.

IMDB Rating: 5.4 / 10

Dave’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Joe’s Rating; Medium Popcorn

It appears this movie still has some unfinished business as far as ratings go, stay tuned as the guys review Shawshank Redemption.

Justin’s Pick: Awakenings

The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at the time.

Awakenings first entered theaters on January 11, 1991

Awakenings is Rated PG-13.

Lets see what the guys think of Awakenings.

IMDB Rating: 7.8 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 89%, Audience Score: 89%

Dave’s Rating: Overflowing Large

Justin’s Rating: Overflowing Medium

Joe’s Rating: *MOP BUCKET*

Awakenings is a great think piece and a great part of the Robin Williams catalog. Stay tuned as we review Unfinished Business.

Fan Pick: Willow

Enter the world of “Willow.” Journey to the far corners of your imagination, to a land of myth and magic, where dream and reality live side by side … to a place that never existed, a time that never was. It is a world where a young man named Willow lives out an adventure that explodes beyond the boundaries of his own hopes and fears.

Willow was first released to theater on May 20, 1988.

Willow is rated PG .

Now lets take a look at what the guys think of Willow.

IMDB Rating: 7.3 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 52% Tomatometer, 79% Audience Score

Joe’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Dave’s Rating: Overflowing Medium Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: Large Popcorn

Willow survives the guys review, stay tuned as we review Awakenings.

Joe’s Pick: Now You See Me

Charismatic magician Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) leads a team of talented illusionists called the Four Horsemen. Atlas and his comrades mesmerize audiences with a pair of amazing magic shows that drain the bank accounts of the corrupt and funnel the money to audience members. A federal agent (Mark Ruffalo) and an Interpol detective (Mélanie Laurent) intend to rein in the Horsemen before their next caper, and they turn to Thaddeus (Morgan Freeman), a famous debunker, for help.

Now You See Me made it’s appearance in theathers on May 31, 2013.

The movie is rated PG-13 for language, some action and sexual content.

Lets check out the review and see if the guys have anything up their sleeves.

IMDB Rating: 7.2 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 50% Tomatometer, 70% Audience Score

Dave’s Rating: Overflowing Medium Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Large Popcorn

It appears that Dave and Justin were not as impressed with the smoke and mirrors as Joe was. Stay tuned as the guys review Willow.

Dave’s Pick: Streets of Fire

Synopsis: Raven Shaddock (Willem Dafoe), along with his gang of merciless biker friends, kidnaps rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane). Ellen’s former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody (Michael Paré), happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen’s manager, Billy Fish (Rick Moranis), hires Tom to rescue Ellen. Billy and Tom, along with former soldier McCoy (Amy Madigan), battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.

Streets of Fire first arrived to theaters on June 1, 1984.

This movie is rated PG.

It’s now time to set the review on fire.

IMDB Rating: 6.7 / 10

Tomatometer: 69%, Audience Score: 70%

Dave’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: Small Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Small Popcorn

It appears Streets of Fire didn’t burn up the review charts for the guys. Stay tuned as they review Now You See Me.