The Complete Works Podcast

This week, Jeff Goldblum makes a one-scene appearance in the infamous Johnny Depp heist-comedy MORTDECAI... which means we need to talk about it. We discuss the rise and fall of Depp's career, talk about how this movie *almost* works, and prepare to open our boys. Put on your best false mustache and listen!

This week, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a couple celebrating (?) their 30th anniversary in Paris, when their weekend is interrupted by - you guessed it - Jeff Goldblum! It's a BEFORE SUNRISE-esque romance for the over-60 crowd, and we're both pretty into it. Goldblum reunites with MORNING GLORY director Roger Michell for 2014's LE WEEK-END! 

Jeff Goldblum reunites with director Wes Anderson to join the vast ensemble of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL! It's still Wes Anderson's biggest critical and financial success - nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and making over $170 million. It is, in some ways, the definitive Anderson film, and it boasts an insane cast that includes Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revelori, Jude...

This week, Jeff Goldblum appears alongside Leonard Nimoy, Samuel L. Jackson, Abigail Breslin and more in the 2012 South African animated movie ZAMBEZIA! Is it a bust or is it ah-mah-zing? Either way, we've got #ZambeziaFever! 

Jeff Goldblum is now Chef Goldblum in his brief appearance in TIM AND ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE, spun off from the hit Adult Swim series TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB! We get into the background of Adult Swim as a programming block, throw some appreciation out there for John C. Reilly, and get to say Robert Loggia's name a bunch of times!

This week, Jeff Goldblum stars in a 2010 romantic comedy that takes place in New York City featuring Patrick Wilson and one of the cast members from GAME NIGHT... but wait, we talked about THE SWITCH last week. It must be time to talk MORNING GLORY, from the director of NOTTING HILL and the writer of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA! It's a movie that features Harrison Ford saying the word "frittata." Theref...

This week, Goldblum pops up as the Stock Romantic Comedy Best Friend Character in 2010's THE SWITCH, starring Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston! Is the movie charming enough to get past its reprehensible premise? Let's find out! 

This week, Jeff Goldblum joins the main cast of LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, taking on a prominent role during the eighth and ninth seasons of the long-running spinoff to the unstoppable franchise! We're covering his first two episodes on the show to see how he's introduced and observe how bringing in Goldblum changes the dynamic of the show - plus, we talk the history of LAW & ORDER as a...

Jeff Goldblum takes on a rare leading performance in Paul Schrader's provocative Holocaust drama, ADAM RESURRECTED - it's a fascinating movie that walks a fine line between artfulness and tastelessness, and has often been compared to the infamous Jerry Lewis movie THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED. Also starring Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, and Ayelet Zurer. This is a strange one, folks. 

This time Jeff Goldblum takes on what is apparently his favorite role: himself! PITTSBURGH is a mockumentary about Jeff Goldblum and some friends (Ed Begley, Jr. and Illeana Douglas) starring in a two week run of The Music Man at a regional theater in Pittsburgh. It's surprisingly fun and silly, and clocks in at a perfect 80 minutes. We also have a quick aside about the 9 minute short film directe...

Now THIS is an interesting one - Back in the '90s, filmmaker Hal Hartley made a movie called HENRY FOOL, a dark comedy-drama about a garbageman who becomes a famous poet. And in 2007, he returned to the characters from that movie... and placed them in a twisty, espionage-filled spy thriller! We're talking FAY GRIM this week, which features Jeff Goldblum as a shifty CIA Agent who may or may not hav...

Back in the '80s, Jeff Goldblum tried his hand at leading his own TV show with TENSPEED AND BROWN SHOE. The show was short-lived and it would take more than two decades before Goldblum would lead his own series again... and this one would also prove to be short-lived. Goldblum stars at the title character on RAINES, a police procedural with a supernatural twist that aired on NBC in the spring of 2...

Jeff Goldblum pops up for a couple of minutes as a shady executive in this Robin Williams... comedy? The jury's still out on that one - MAN OF THE YEAR is a political satire, a romance, a thriller - and not particularly great at any of those things. We dig into why the premise of a TV personality running for president is sort of weird to watch in hindsight (three guesses why)!

On the latest episode, the Mikes are of two minds about this one - is it a grossly good time or is it just gross? What we do know is that it's got a pretty great cast - Jeff Goldblum (obviously), Alec Baldwin, Carrie-Anne Moss, Luke Wilson, all led by a compelling performance from a pre-TWILIGHT Nikki Reed. It's time to talk about 2006's MINI'S FIRST TIME!

We need to take another break from Goldblum to get back in the Cage - because Nicolas Cage has another new movie out! Hot off the success of PIG, Cage is back, this time collaborating with director Sion Sono (in his English language debut) for PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND! Cage says this is "the wildest movie" he's ever made. Do we agree? Is it even a movie? Let's talk about it!

Jeff Goldblum appears in this indie that sat on the shelf for a couple of years after it first premiered - which is a shame, because it's a surprisingly solid directorial debut from Scott Caan! Starring Goldblum, Caan, Shawn Hatosy, and Kelly Lynch (with a few early appearances from actors like Selma Blair, Isla Fisher, and Freddy Rodriguez) - this is DALLAS 362!

Today we talk about the first of many collaborations between Jeff Goldblum and director Wes Anderson! Goldblum features in a small but pivotal role as Alistair Hennessey, the lifelong rival of Bill Murray's titular Steve Zissou. We're joined by longtime friend of the show and frequent guest on Mike and Mike Go To The Movies, Nick Wermuth (@DownyPlusUltra)! 

Jeff Goldblum makes a brief appearance in this mockumentary featuring a collaboration for the ages - Werner Herzog (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD) and Zak Penn (READY PLAYER ONE)! There's not a lot of Goldblum here, but this was a fun discovery!

Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, and Liev Schreiber star together as three American political consultants who are brought over to Russia to assist with the re-election of Boris Yeltsin - it's SPINNING BORIS! A solid political satire based on true events, that offers a surprising glimpse of how the world got to where it is today. 

This week, it's a pretty obscure one - Jeff Goldblum and Lake Bell star in this failed pilot that ended up airing as its own movie on NBC! It's a tough one to track down but we managed to do it - this one is called WAR STORIES, a solid (and surprisingly progressive...ish) post-9/11 drama in which Goldblum and Bell play journalists in war-torn Uzbekistan. 

We're getting back into the cage this week - Nicolas Cage is getting rave reviews for his latest movie, the subversive revenge thriller, PIG. Not the movie many will expect it to be, and a surprise contender to be considered one of the best movies of the year. It's sort of unbelievable how good this movie is. Cage co-stars with Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin in this feature debut from Michael Sarnoski!...

On the latest episode, Mike and Mike talk Goldblum's cameo in RUN RONNIE RUN, the feature film based on the beloved series Mr. Show with Bob and David. In the process, they dive into the history of Mr. Show, what made it a landmark in sketch comedy, all the various careers it launched, and try to figure out where things went wrong with the movie. Y'all are brutalizin' this podcast if you don't lis...

Goldblum gets to be his sleaziest as he portrays D.H. Barnes, the godfather to a rich kid who runs off on his own. That kid is Igby, played by Kieran Culkin in his breakout role. Taking inspiration from early Wes Anderson movies and a J.D. Salinger book (guess which one), this is a solid independent comedy-drama with a killer cast that also includes Bill Pullman, Claire Danes, Amanda Peet, Jared H...

Fun fact: literally every kid who was around in 2001 saw the movie CATS & DOGS. And it feels like very few people today actually remember all that much about it. We certainly didn't - but now, after just having passed its 20th anniversary, we're ready to talk Jeff Goldblum, super-spies, Ninja Cats, an MVP performance from Sean Hayes, terrifying CGI, impressive puppetry, pies in the face, and m...

Jeff Goldblum stars as Herbert Biberman, who is... one of the Hollywood Ten! It's the infamous period of Hollywood that involved the HUAC hearings, the blacklist, and the making of a movie that the FBI did not want people to see, 1954's SALT OF THE EARTH. It's all here in this surprisingly solid biopic, ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN!