Dave’s Pick: Bull Durham

In Durham, N.C., the Bulls minor league baseball team has one asset no other can claim: a poetry-loving groupie named Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon). As the team’s season begins, Annie selects brash new recruit Ebby Calvin Laloosh (Tim Robbins), whom she christens “Nuke,” to inspire with the religion of baseball. Nuke also receives guidance from veteran player Crash Davis (Kevin Costner), who settles Nuke’s erratic pitching and teaches him to follow the catcher’s lead.

Bull Durham hit theaters on June 15, 1988.

Did Bull Durham hit a grand slam or did they strike out? Let’s find out.

IMDB Rating: 7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: *CERTIFIED FRESH* 97% Tomatometer, 82% Audience Score

Justin’s Rating: Small Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Overflowing Small Popcorn

Dave’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

It looks like Joe and Justin agree that Bull Durham hit a couple of foul balls, while Dave thinks that Bull Durham hit at least a single.

Justin’s Pick: Die Hard

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages — but him.

Die Hard hit theaters on July 20, 1988.

Die Hard is Rated R.

Now lets see what the guys think.

IMDB Rating: 8.2 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: *CERTIFIED FRESH* 94% Tomatometer, 94% Audience Score

Justin’s Rating: Small Popcorn

Dave’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Large Popcorn

For such a classic movie the guys not only have differing views on the Christmas Movie debate, but the reviews are as well.

FAN PICK: Throw Mama From The Train

Larry (Billy Crystal), an author with a cruel ex-wife, Margaret (Kate Mulgrew), teaches a writing workshop where Owen (Danny DeVito), one of his students, is fed up with his domineering mother (Anne Ramsey). When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie’s plot into action and offers to kill Margaret, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already sealed Margaret’s fate.

Throw Mama From The Trained rolled into theaters on December 11, 1987.

Will the guys throw Mama from the train? Let’s find out.

IMDB Rating: 6.3 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 63% Tomatometer, 54% Audience Score

Dave’s Rating: Medium Popcorn

Justin’s Rating: Overflowing Medium Popcorn

Joe’s Rating: Overflowing Medium

It’s easy to see that the guys would not throw mama from the train. Stay tuned as the guys review Die Hard.

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.