The Complete Works Podcast

This week, Roy Scheider reunites with Gary Busey for another direct-to-video action movie from 1997 - this time also featuring Lorenzo Lamas and Kristen Cloke - it's time for THE RAGE!

In 1985, Jeff Goldblum made a small but memorable performance in Lawrence Kasdan's super-fun western, SILVERADO! Come for the Goldblum discussion, stay for this gradually becoming a Scott Glenn Appreciation Podcast!

That's right, we did it. We've finally reached the end of the Jeff Goldblum season of The Complete Works. And to celebrate this momentous occasion, we're going out in style with a huge finale extravaganza that highlights the entire spectrum of Goldblum's career! We'll run down a few specialized categories before counting the top 5 discoveries we've made on the podcast; after that, we'll count down...

Thanks to a listener donation, Mike and Mike are taking the time to look back on the films scored by Tangerine Dream! In this retrospective, we're talking six films that we felt were representative of the Tangerine Dream filmography: Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, Legend, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile - plus we toss in a couple of extras too!

This week, we've got a surprisingly solid direct-to-video action movie featuring not one, not two, but THREE pretty incredible car chases! Michael Madsen plays a former stuntman who gets broken out of jail by Keith David and then gets involved in a plot to kidnap the President of the United States - who is, of course, played by Roy Scheider.

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith watch John Sayles' thrilling neo-noir LONE STAR, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with Weird Al Yankovic in 1989's UHF!

We now enter the direct-to-video action thriller phase of Roy Scheider's career, and we begin with the first of two movies he made starring Gary Busey in 1997! Scheider is the villain of the movie, a landmine baron who kidnaps Gary Busey's daughter - it's time for PLATO'S RUN!

A dysfunctional family reunites for the holidays and past secrets finally get revealed. It's time to talk about Roy Scheider alongside Julianne Moore, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Noah Wyle and more in 1997's Sundance dramedy, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS!

What did the Mikes think of this year's Oscars? We'll tell you! It's time to recap the 97th Academy Awards!

In 1993, Roy Scheider took on a journey to boldly go where no man had gone before... underwater! Yes, it's finally time to talk about the two-part pilot episode to Scheider's TV series, SEAQUEST DSV! We also discuss the turbulent production the show faced over the course of its three seasons.

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D makes Smith watch an underseen western noir starring Sterling Hayden, 1958's TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D catch up with the Bob Odenkirk action movie NOBODY so he can prep for Timo Tjahanto's upcoming sequel!

This week, Roy Scheider appears as a mob boss alongside Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, and more in a movie that was so despised that Jon Bon Jovi wrote a song for it and then refused to let the producers use it - it's time for ROMEO IS BLEEDING!

It's been a while, but it's finally time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! Smith has been watching a ton of new releases like Captain America: Brave New World, Paddington in Peru, Companion, and Heart Eyes, while Mike D talks the new Wolf Man, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Jonathan Glazer's Birth, and more! Plus, we've got some TV thoughts, including Station 11,...

This week, Roy Scheider plays a small but pivotal supporting role in David Cronenberg's cult classic, NAKED LUNCH! Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs, Scheider stars alongside Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and more in what may be the strangest and one of the last great movie of his career.

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to... RANK the Muppets??? Yes, thanks to a Ko-fi donation from one of our listeners, the Mikes are ranking every theatrically-released Muppets film from worst to best!

This week, we've got another early 90's Cold War thriller, and this time it's a John Le Carré adaptation starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer in the lead roles - Roy Scheider appears alongside them in THE RUSSIA HOUSE!

This week, it's time to return to the Michelle Yeoh season to talk about the brand-new spinoff movie featuring Yeoh's character from Star Trek: Discovery, STAR TREK: SECTION 31! How does this Paramount Plus original fare against the long cinematic legacy of Star Trek films? Let's find out!

It's time for the first Mike Makes Mike Watch of 2025! And this time we... sort of accidentally created a great double feature of bleak, snowy westerns? This time around, Mike Smith is making Mike D watch THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, while Mike D is making Smith catch up with a classic spaghetti western, Sergio Corbucci's THE GREAT SILENCE!

This week, Roy Scheider co-stars with Bonnie Bedelia, Arliss Howard, and Andre Bruagher in a surprisingly solid HBO movie from the early '90s. Scheider is hired to photograph a death row inmate as he's being executed, but he begins to discover that there may be more to this case in 1990's SOMEBODY HAS TO SHOOT THE PICTURE!

It's finally. here! It's time for the Mike & Mike 2024 Year-in-Review Spectacular! We're counting down our Top 10 Films of 2024 - PLUS, we'll be counting down our Top 10 Discoveries of 2024, AND we'll be looking ahead at some of the films we're most excited about in 2025. We didn't plan it this way, but we simply couldn't stop talking about all of our favorites,...

This week, Roy Scheider enters the '90s by almost starting an international incident at the end of the Cold War! Re-teaming with his 52 PICK-UP director John Frankenheimer, Scheider is joined by Jurgen Prochnow and Harry Dean Stanton in THE FOURTH WAR!

Since we didn't get to talk about it for our annual in-person episode, Mike and Mike recorded this quick bonus episode to discuss Robert Egger's latest horror film, NOSFERATU!

Roy Scheider closes out his '80s with a police procedural slasher about a series of murders that tie into Astros baseball games. We brought on resident baseball expert (and horror movie enthusiast) Producer Collin to help us talk about it!

It's time for the annual in-person holiday episode! Now, usually these episodes center on whatever the big holiday blockbuster is that season, and this time around, the timing didn't quite work out for us to do NOSFERATU (though that one's coming!). So, since our Music Supervisor Kyle Cullen had never seen DIE HARD, we decided it was time to make it happen! Producer Collin also joins us to talk Jo...

'Tis the season to watch some Christmas movies, and in true Mike and Mike fashion, we picked the most violent ones. It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch - Mike D is making Smith watch Ben Wheatley's hitman horror movie KILL LIST, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with the zombie musical ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE!