The Complete Works Podcast

This week, Roy Scheider as a college debate coach, alongside master debaters Kirk Cameron and Jami Gertz - what starts as a college ensemble movie then takes a hard pivot into the kind of thing you'd expect from a Kirk Cameron vehicle. This is LISTEN TO ME!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch Takashi Miike's AUDITION, while Smith is making Mike D finally get around to Martin Scorsese's THE IRISHMAN!

This week, Roy Scheider co-stars alongside Adam Baldwin as two at-odds assassions in a bleak, nasty thriller from the screenwriter behind THE HITCHER and NEAR DARK - it's time for COHEN AND TATE!

It's a little bit late, but it's time for Mike D's annual Birthday Bylaw! And this time around, he decided to go way back and make us talk about Howard Hawks' seminal 1939 classic drama, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS!

It's finally happened, everyone - two of our Complete Works subjects are in the same movie together! And it just happens to be one of the biggest movies of the year - so let's dive into Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh's supporting turns in WICKED!

This week, Roy Scheider stars in an Elmore Leonard adaptation from acclaimed action/thriller filmmaker John Frankenheimer (and reuniting with his OUTSIDE MAN co-star Ann-Margret while he's at it) - it's time for 52 PICK-UP!

It's been a while, so it's time for another bonus Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Smith is watching a ton of new releases like MEGALOPOLIS, CONCLAVE, THELMA, SMILE 2, and VENOM: THE LAST DANCE. Meanwhile, Mike D has thoughts on RED ROOMS, IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE, STRANGE DARLING, and figured that it was finally time to catch up with THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

Finally, a club for men! Roy Scheider stars alongside Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella, Jennifer Jason Leigh and more as we discover that men will literally throw knives, hit up a brothel, and stage a wedding with a sex worker rather than go to therapy.

Did you know that Roy Scheider provided English narration for the original theatrical release of Paul Schrader's epic biopic MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS? Well, he did - and even though that's not the version most people watch today, it means we've still got to talk about it!

It's time for some post-Halloween spookiness with another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time, Mike D is making Smith catch up with Karyn Kusama's THE INVITATION, while Smith is making Mike D take in Ti West's breakthrough feature, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL!

For the second time this season, we're talking about the sequel to one of the greatest movies ever made. That's right, though he doesn't appear in the original film, Roy Scheider leads the cast of 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT, Peter Hyams' (surprisingly great?) follow-up to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

This week, it's a Guest Makes Mike SCREAM, as Vin Craig returns to the podcast to make the Mikes watch one of his new Halloween favorites, Adam Sandler in HUBIE HALLOWEEN!

This week, Roy Scheider stars in the very first original movie produced for the Disney Channel (which is a slightly different honor than being the first Disney Channel Original Movie) as an again pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in TIGER TOWN!

You're not gonna believe it, folks - we actually got Mike D to watch the JOKER sequel. And guess what? He didn't like it. For that matter, Smith didn't like it either. Time to break it down.

This week, Roy Scheider scores an action hit with 1983's BLUE THUNDER! Directed by John Badham (WARGAMES) and co-starring Malcolm MacDowell, Daniel Stern, and Warren Oates, this '80s thriller features top-notch helicopter stunt work and exciting twists and turns (and according to recent completely unsubstantiated rumor, may be a big influence on Christopher Nolan's next film!)

After taking a couple of years off, Roy Scheider returns with a thriller influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock from the director of KRAMER VS. KRAMER. Co-star Meryl Streep has called it the worst film she's ever been in. It's time for STILL OF THE NIGHT!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith catch up with an underrated horror sequel (just in time for a new one coming out next year), 28 WEEKS LATER! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D finally watch Terry Gilliam's sci-fi masterpiece BRAZIL!

It's showtime, folks! This week, Roy Scheider closes out his 1970s run with another all-timer, Bob Fosse's existential masterpiece ALL THAT JAZZ! This haunting meditation on life, death, and show business is one of the high water marks not just of Scheider's career, but of cinema in general.

We are once again returning to the world according to Jeff Goldblum - and this time, Goldblum really is in charge of the world. He stars as Zeus, the leader of the gods, in Netflix's new spin on Greek mythology, KAOS! We've got our thoughts on the first two episodes (and sort of the state of streaming TV as a whole) right here!

It's time for an Off Mike bonus episode! This week, both Mikes are talking some big horror events, plus Smith is catching up on 2024 releases like BABES and GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE on a plane while Mike D is watching KINDS OF KINDNESS, REBEL RIDGE, and more!

This week, Roy Scheider stars in one of Jonathan Demme's earliest films, the Alfred Hitchock pastiche LAST EMBRACE! It's a riveting conspiracy adventure that's ripe for rediscovery, featuring Murder, Niagara Falls, and Christopher Walken with a mustache!

This week, Roy Scheider is contractually obligated to return for the sequel to the biggest movie of his career - it's time for JAWS 2! Nick Wermuth joins us to dig into why this sequel, despite its troubled production, actually does a solid job of continuing the story of Chief Brody and his family.

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch yet another Roland Emmerich picture, 1994's STARGATE! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D catch up with one of Steven Spielberg's most underrated blockbusters, 2011's THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN!

This week, Roy Scheider reunites with director William Friedkin for a haunting trip through the jungle and one of the most difficult film shoots of all time... only to be destroyed at the box office by STAR WARS. It's time to talk about SORCERER!

It's time for a bonus Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, the Mikes are talking M. Night Shyamalan's TRAP, new releases like THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY and ABIGAIL, and rewatch two of cinema's greatest franchises: STAR WARS and... THE PURGE.