Mike & Mike Go To The Movies

This week, a podcast patron paid to make us check in with those robots in disguise, and flash all the way back or THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE from 1986, aka the final acting credit from screen legend Orson Welles, or an animated Stan Bush music video. It's more than meets the eye!

This week, Artistic Director of the Montana Film Festival Mike Emmons returns to the podcast to tell us about everything that's happening at this year's MTFF! From exciting new features like THE ROYAL HOTEL, THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, and THE SWEET EAST to incredible shorts an a 35mm screening of Clint Eastwood's UNFORGIVEN (featuring a Q&A with LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan), th...

It's an Off Mike Discussions week - this time around, both Mikes ended up having some pretty massive movie days, and watched new releases like BOTTOMS, THEATER CAMP, NIMONA, THEY CLONED TYRONE, and more!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch Joe Johnston's OCTOBER SKY, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with Greta Gerwig's LADY BIRD!

Mike and Mike are getting ready for spooky season, and they've been thinking about the kinds of films they would want to show someone who was just getting into horror movies. So this week, it's time for Let's Rank Gateway Horror!

This week, thanks to a donation on our Ko-Fi page, the Mikes are boldly going where no man has gone before - that's right, we're watching STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN!

The Mikes each went to different horror festivals this weekend! Mike Smith tells us all about the 3rd Camp Horror Film Festival at the Roxy Theater, where he got to experience a ton of cool shorts and William Castle's THE TINGLER; meanwhile, Mike D went to Zombiethon at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, where he watched movies like ARMY OF DARKNESS, RE-ANIMATOR, and Tom Savini's NI...

This week, it's another Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Smith watch J. Lee Thompson's 1958 World War II thriller ICE COLD IN ALEX, while Smith is making Mike D watch a beloved classic that everyone knows, David Koepp's 2012 bike messenger action movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon, PREMIUM RUSH!

This week, Mike D has mostly been playing BALDUR'S GATE 3, while Mike Smith has been watching new releases like BARBIE, OPPENHEIMER, TALK TO ME, and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM!

This week, the mercurial icon and the voice of your generation Charley Macorn returns to the podcast to talk abut the upcoming Camp Horror Film Festival at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, MT! Plus, since Camp Horror is showing William Castle's THE TINGLER in 35mm this year, Charley's taking us on a journey through another William Castle film: 13 GHOSTS!

It's time for Mike Smith's Birthday Episode! And for his birthday, the Mikes are digging into their new 88 Films boxset of the first four movies in the IN THE LINE OF DUTY series! They've already talked about YES, MADAM and ROYAL WARRIORS on the Michelle Yeoh podcast, so now it's time to get into IN THE LINE OF DUTY III and IN THE LINE OF DUTY IV!

This week, it's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Mike Smith watch Bill Paxton's FRAILTY, also starring Matthew McConaughey and Powers Boothe; meanwhile, Mike Smith made Mike D watch Richard Linklater's BEFORE SUNRISE... but Mike D ended up watching the whole trilogy so we're also talking about BEFORE SUNSET and BEFORE MIDNIGHT! Plus, we talk a little Barbenheimer!

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to discuss the latest entry in the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series! Does DEAD RECKONING PART ONE live up to the high bar that has been set for this series? Does Tom Cruise pull off another incredible stunt? Did that one thing really happen to that one character (gotta be vague for spoilers, obviously)? Find out within!

In this week's Off Mike Discussions episode, Mike Smith completes his pre-Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan rewatch, raves about PAST LIVES, and talks about new superhero TV shows like SECRET INVASION and MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN. Meanwhile, Mike D has begun his bi-annual MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE rewatch, tells us about 1956's ATTACK!, and checks in with Tyler Rake for EXTRACTION 2.

A listener paid us to watch Tom Green's FREDDY GOT FINGERED - at the time a notorious bomb and critically-reviled film, but a movie which quickly gained a cult audience who hold it up as a surrealist masterpiece. Where do we fall on the issue? Let's find out!

This week, Mike Smith and guest host Nick Wermuth are taking a deep dive into the Indiana Jones series! They'll be discussing all four movies in detail, plus talking about what they hope to see in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY!

This week, it's a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Mike Smith watch the exploitation thriller ANGEL, featuring Donna Wilkes, Susan Tyrell, and Rory Calhoun; meanwhile, Mike Smith is making Mike D catch up with a cult classic, 2001's JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS!

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike S is starting a Christopher Nolan rewatch to get prepared for OPPENHEIMER, and he's catching up with new movies like AIR, BLACKBERRY, and ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. Meanwhile, Mike D is getting really into the Max series WARRIOR, rewatches some classics like THE DIRTY DOZEN, and questions his life decisions by w...

Thwip thwip! This week, the Mikes are talking one of their most highly-anticipated movies of the year, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE! Is it a worthy successor to the critically-beloved original? Are there more Spider-people than you can shake a stick at? Are we losing our minds trying to comprehend how they animated this thing? The answers to all these questions and more lie inside!

This week, it's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Mike S turn on his dial-up modem to watch Sandra Bullock in the '90s thriller THE NET, while Mike S is making Mike D one of the finest 3D experiences of the last 20 years (move over, AVATAR), Alexandra Aja's PIRANHA 3D!

There's a new FAST & FURIOUS movie in theaters, and that means it's time to assemble the Family. Kyle Cullen, Vin Craig, Producer Collin, and Nick Wermuth all make their triumphant return to the podcast to join Mike & Mike in discussing FAST X!

This week, it's an Off Mike Discussions episode! Both Mikes have some thoughts on GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and BEAU IS AFRIAD; Mike S has been watching new releases like HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE and SHOWING UP, while Mike D checks back in with YELLOWJACKETS and catches up with some older films like Brian De Palma's BODY DOUBLE and Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA!

This week, in celebration of Mother's Day, the Mikes are counting down their favorite Movie Moms! And it turns out, they each have a slightly different take on what qualifies for a great Movie Mom... let's just say there's a lot of horror movies that pop up on Mike D's list. Happy Mother's Day, everyone!

This week, it's an Off Mike Discussions episode! The Mikes both had a blast with EVIL DEAD RISE - plus, Mike S catches up with CLERKS III, POLITE SOCIETY, and JOHN MULANEY: BABY J while Mike D talks THE POPE'S EXORCIST, DRESSED TO KILL, SUMMER OF SOUL, and more!

This week, it's a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Mike S catch up with Albert Pyun's dystopian vampire cyborg martial arts thriller, KNIGHTS; meanwhile, Mike S is making Mike D check out one of Robin Williams' best performances in Bobcat Goldthwait's WORLD'S GREATEST DAD!