Episode 691: The Top Ten of 1989

The summer series has crested the movie hill and is on the downslope with only a few years remaining in our top tens... but tonight is a pivotal one to Mikey & Dave - 1989 is on the docket and we have lots to talk about! 

And helping us out is Friend of the Show and Almost Pulitzer Prize winning Radio Guru DJ Scotty "Father of Garrison 'Pride of Albany' Ryfun" Ryfun! 

In this episode, the trio chat about Michael Douglas and the Yakuza... Patrick Swayze doing tai chi while smoking a cig... Steve Martin and all the kids... Michelle Pfeiffer on a piano... Tom Hanks in the suburbs... Dave's William Hickey voice... M'Lynn's brown football helmet... Rick Moranis in several films... why 20 minutes in crucial to The Abyss... Audrey Hepburn's last role... and of course DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

Movies discussed and where to find them at time of recording

• The Abyss (Hulu; Disney+)
• Always (for rental)
• Back to the Future II (Hulu: Starz in Time Travel)
• Batman (HBO Max)
• Black Rain (Paramount+)
• The Burbs (for rental)
• Cinema Paradiso (for rental)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (not available)
• Field of Dreams (Peacock Premium+)
• Ghostbusters II (for rental)
• Glory (for rental)
• Honey I Shrunk the Kids (Disney+)
• Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (Paramount+; Disney+)
• Lethal Weapon 2 (TubiTV)
• Major League (Paramount+; MGM+)
• Parenthood (for rental)
• Road House (for rental)
• Say Anything (Hulu)
• Sea of Love (for rental)
• Steel Magnolias (TubiTV)
• The War of the Roses (for rental)
• When Harry Met Sally (for rental)

Episode 487: Top Summer Movies of 1990-94

The heat is hot, the years roll by, the summer movies pile up, and the list gets better and better? What does that all mean? Heck if we know... but we do know that after 486 episodes, it was time to have on local Ghostbusters expert and awesome southern boy Brock Parker, co-host of the Bama Geeks Podcast!

Brock joins Dave & Mikey (Dr Earl being away on medical missions... at the beach...) as they first do a little Box Office Mojo about money makers in the 1990s... then they move onto the Top Summer Films of 1990 to 1994, any movie released from Memorial Day to Labor Day in each of those years.

Amongst the random topics... 

The South Alabama Brock/d$ connection... The video wars between Blu Ray and HDDVD... Howie Long's acting prowess... Brock's Little Mermaid story... The Jack Ryan multi-verse... who returns for Young Guns III... seeing movies on Troy's campus... the Forrest Gump soundtrack... the best Alan Rickman??... the best Ghostbuster song??... are Ghostbuster superfans looking forward to the new film... and Wolverine's F bomb... 

And the infamous Mikey makes Ernie Hudson break down incident...
 

 Movies discussed and where to find them at the time of podcast recording:

• Back to the Future III (1990) - entire trilogy on Netflix 
• Broken Arrow (1996) - for rental 
• Cleaning Up the Town: Ghostbusters Remembered (2020) - Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle
• Dead Again (1991) - for rental 
• Dick Tracy (1990) - for rental
• Forrest Gump (1994) - for rental 
• The Fugitive (1993) - for rental
• Hard Target (1993) - for rental 
• Jurassic Park (1993) - Peacock
• Mo' Money (1992) - Amazon Prime
• Patriot Games (1992) - Peacock Premium
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - HBO Max; TubiTV
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - Showtime
• So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) - Starz 
• T2: Judgement Day (1991) - for rental 
• TOMBSTONE!!! (1993) - for rental 
• Wyatt Earp - who cares. watch Tombstone instead
• Young Guns 2 - (1990) for rental