The Complete Works Podcast

Jeff Goldblum pops up for a few scenes in Hugh Grant's first American movie, NINE MONTHS, which is... maybe a little better than its reputation suggests? Look, we're only human: If Robin Williams is going to mess around with a chair in a Russian accent, we're gonna laugh at it. Listen to us dive deep on this Chris Columbus romantic comedy! 

Mike and Mike talk about one of the most insane (and definitely the most '90s) movies that Jeff Goldblum has starred in so far - an adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel where Goldblum is seeing through a serial killer's eyes, HIDEAWAY! Come for the bonkers story logic, stay for the immediately-dated visual effects from the director of THE LAWNMOWER MAN! 

The same year he starred in JURASSIC PARK, Goldblum ALSO starred in a TV movie where he and Forest Whitaker hang around and play jazz, and for a while, that's pretty much all it's about! Then the plot kicks in, which is still good, but we would have watched Goldblum play sax and talk groovy lingo for 90 minutes, easy. It's time for LUSH LIFE! 

We finally made it. After a string of Hollywood flops and another string of little-seen EuroGoldblum movies, Jeff Goldblum makes his comeback in the biggest movie of his career. A movie which became the highest-grossing film of all time, where almost every scene has some line or image that has stuck around in pop culture. Goldblum gets the role he was born to play in Ian Malcolm, and we've been wa...

We've finally reached the end of the EuroGoldblum movies, so before we can move on to talk about dinosaurs, we've gotta talk Goldblum in this dark comedy that turns oddly sincere in the third act. Mimi Rogers co-stars in 1992's SHOOTING ELIZABETH! 

Wait wait wait... it's about fathers... AND sons?! That's right, we've got both! Jeff Goldblum plays a father struggling to connect with his son while living on the Jersey Shore. This movie has got a million famous faces, a serial killer, a surprising supernatural twist, was a selection at the Sundance Film Festival... and made about $7000 at the box office. Today, we're talking 1992's FATHERS &am...

We return with another EuroGoldblum movie, this time a comedic farce where he teams up with Bob Hoskins and Natasha Richardson and decides to stuff a lobster down a guy's throat. Did we mention that Goldblum's sort of playing Jesus in this movie? This is THE FAVOUR, THE WATCH AND THE VERY BIG FISH.

Jeff Goldblum starts his return to Hollywood, teaming up with Laurence Fishburne to star in Bill Duke's intensely political (and intensely satisfying) neo-noir, DEEP COVER! Come for the film's firm stance on racial inequality in an unjust system, stay for Goldblum channeling a little bit of Nicolas Cage energy. Barbecue Jumbo Shrimp! 

Alright, so Jeff Goldblum's only in about 10 seconds of this one, and he's one of a zillion different Hollywood cameos that pop up in the movie... that didn't stop us from talking about it, though! Goldblum's final collaboration with Robert Altman is a good one, a deeply cynical moviemaking satire that ironically served as Altman's big Hollywood comeback - this is THE PLAYER! 

Jeff Goldblum is a serial killer who may or may not literally be the devil himself. First name Mister. Last name Frost.  Is this a secret HALLOWEEN sequel in disguise? Find out in our review of MISTER FROST! 

Jeff Goldblum romances Emma Thompson in her film debut in this 1990 comedy written by Richard Curtis and directed by Mel Smith! Before Curtis was the filmmaker behind LOVE ACTUALLY and ABOUT TIME, he got his start with British comedies like BLACKADDER and MR. BEAN - and this movie sort of combines both styles. We're talking THE TALL GUY! 

Goldblum gets in on the direct-to-video erotic thriller craze of the late '80s and early '90s with TWISTED OBSESSION, a Spanish-produced film set in France with American and British leads! Will Mike and Mike succumb to the Dream of the Mad Monkey? 

We're entering the 1990s and returning to the realm of TV movies with this one! Oh wait, sorry, it's not TV... it's HBO. Jeff Goldblum and Kristen Scott Thomas star in the directorial debut of Dean Parisot (GALAXY QUEST, BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC) - it's a crime comedy heist movie about art forgery called FRAMED! 

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis reunite three years after THE FLY for a very different romance... and one of the weirdest 1980s fever dreams you'll ever have. Goldblum, Davis, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and more all star in Julie Brown and Julien Temple's EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY! 

This week, we're talking a movie that bombed at the box office, holds a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes... and actually kind of rocks. Jeff Goldblum teams up with Cyndi Lauper for a paranormal comedy that shamelessly rips off Indiana Jones, Romancing the Stone, and Ghostbusters - it's VIBES! 

Today we talk the fourth and final TV movie Goldblum starred in throughout the '80s - maybe you saw it during a biology class at some point! Find out why the conversation is a little one-sided as we talk Goldblum's role discovering DNA in 1987's LIFE STORY!

Jeff Goldblum reunited with his CALIFORNIA SPLIT and NASHVILLE director Robert Altman to play the lead role this time around, in a movie that... let's say, hasn't aged well, if it ever held up at all. Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, and Christopher Guest all star in BEYOND THERAPY! 

Be afraid. Be very afraid... Jeff Goldblum stars in David Cronenberg's massive horror hit from 1986, THE FLY! Will Brundlefly find a cure? Will Geena Davis nearly steal the movie? Will there be cheeseburgers and monkeys? All these questions and more have been answered with one of Goldblum's most iconic roles!

Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Geena Davis, Michael Richards, and more come together for a zany horror-comedy that may or may not have been a money laundering scheme by the Dow Chemical Company. Seriously. This is TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000!

Jeff Goldblum co-stars with Michelle Pfieffer in a somewhat forgotten John Landis comedy-thriller, INTO THE NIGHT! Also featuring David Bowie and literally everybody who's ever made a movie in their entire lives! 

Aliens! Karate! Rock music! Lithgow! Join us as we discuss one of the nuttiest films to come out of the 1980s, THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION, a box office bomb at the time but a beloved cult classic today. Plus, it features Jeff Goldblum dressed as a cowboy, so it's got that going for it too.

Jeff Goldblum stars as legendary 1950s comedian Ernie Kovacs in an Emmy-nominated TV biopic - plus, it's got Cloris Leachman as his wacky mom. What's not to like? Listen in as we talk ERNIE KOVACS: BETWEEN THE LAUGHTER!

Jeff Goldblum reunites with his INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS director, Philip Kaufman, and appears in a small but pivotal role in one of the great '80s epics, telling the story of the space race and the Mercury Seven astronauts. It's time for Mike & Mike to see if they have THE RIGHT STUFF! 

Jeff Goldblum and  a cast of beloved actors break out in Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 Best Picture nominee, THE BIG CHILL. Is it a hangout classic or a fossil for the Baby Boomers? Either way, Mike & Mike are both buying the soundtrack. 

Jeff Goldblum in a whodunnit? Yep, we're here for it. Here he is, in a murder mystery from the creators of COLUMBO, also featuring Robert Preston, Lynn Redgrave, and not one, but TWO actors from Boy Meets World. This is the 1982 CBS TV movie REHEARSAL FOR MURDER!