The Complete Works Podcast

Roy Scheider followed up his JAWS success with a strong supporting roles in one of the best thrillers of the '70s - Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier lead John Schlesinger's MARATHON MAN! Is it safe?

It's that time of year, campers - the fourth annual Camp Horror Film Festival returns to the Roxy Theater in Missoula, MT. Camp Safety Counselor John Howard joins the podcast to talk all the movies, fun, gore, and s'mores you'll be able to experience this year!

Well, we've reached the big one - Mike and Mike go long as they discuss Roy Scheider's role in what is probably their favorite movie of all time, Steven Spielberg's JAWS. What a picture.

In this impromptu bonus episode, Mike and Mike decided to take an extra 20 minutes to discuss DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE... and then spent almost an hour talking about the current state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as is tradition.

This week, Roy Scheider stars with Jeannie Berlin in this mostly forgotten '70s romantic comedy-drama. But this funny, earnest, heartfelt movie is ripe for rediscovery - and may just feature one of Scheider's best performances.

If you feel it, chase it! The original TWISTER has a long history on this podcast as one of Mike D's fabled Babysitter Movies, so of course we had to talk about TWISTERS, the new follow-up from director Lee Isaac Chung and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell.

This week, we're back in the Cage with one of this summer's biggest success stories, Osgood Perkins' LONGLEGS! The hit horror film from NEON is packing theaters everywhere, and Cage's performance (hidden in all of the marketing) has been generating a ton of buzz - so it's time to talk about it!

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Smith is making Mike D catch up with Walter Hill's rock and roll fable, 1984's STREETS OF FIRE - meanwhile, Mike D is filling in a disaster movie blind spot for Smith with 2003's THE CORE!

This week, Roy Scheider gets his first leading role in a pseudo-follow-up to THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 1973's THE SEVEN-UPS! Come for the grimy '70s New York City crime setting, stay for an all-timer car chase!

It's time for a bonus Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike D is watching a Dario Argento documentary and catches up with BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE and ABIGAIL, while Smith watched David Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER for the first time and has thoughts on HIT MAN, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, and THE ACOLYTE!

Thanks to the help of one of our listeners, Mike and Mike were able to watch the 1972 TV movie ASSIGNMENT: MUNICH, starring Roy Scheider and Lesley Ann Warren. So now, we're talking about it!

We did it, people... after years of using the idea of Shrek 5 as an in-joke on the podcast, Dreamworks Animation has officially dated the fifth SHREK movie for July 1st, 2026 with the original cast returning. Naturally, we had to weigh in on what this means for the future of our podcast... and the world.

This week, we've got a gritty crime thriller and Roy Scheider's second collaboration with French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, THE OUTSIDE MAN! Also starring Ann-Margret, Angie Dickinson, a young Jackie Earle Haley in his film debut, and more!

It's time for the Mike Smith's annual Birthday By-Law episode, where he gets to choose a movie to talk about for his birthday - and this year, he's going with Howard Hawk's classic film noir, THE BIG SLEEP, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall!

This week, Roy Scheider takes off for France to play a small but pivotal role in Yves Boisset's L'ATTENTAT, aka THE ASSASSINATION, aka THE FRENCH CONSPIRACY! (Not to be confused with THE FRENCH CONNECTION, which was last week's episode.)

It's time for another Bonus Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon in the white-water rafting adventure film THE RIVER WILD, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with one of his favorite comedies in recent years, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR! Plus, an unplanned discussion about the BAD BOYS movies!

It's time to talk about the film which brought Roy Scheider into the public consciousness in a big way - and still holds up as a crime drama masterpiece to this day. It's William Friedkin's THE FRENCH CONNECTION, one of the biggest films of its year, the winner of 5 Oscars (including Best Picture), and the movie that gave Roy Scheider his biggest showcase to date (and which netted him...

It's time for an Off Mike Bonus Discussions episode! This week, Mike D has decided that Dudes Rock and is watching EXTREME PREJUDICE and DEN OF THIEVES, while Smith is catching up with new releases like I SAW THE TV GLOW and regales us with tales of the 3rd Annual Movie Day!

It's time for us to enter the breakout year in the career of Roy Scheider! And we kick things off with Scheider's small supporting role in Alan J. Pakula's beloved thriller KLUTE - a film that won Jane Fonda the Oscar for Best Actress and kicked off Pakula's unofficial "paranoia trilogy," alongside THE PARALLAX VIEW and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN.

This week, Roy Scheider gets a solid supporting role in the 1970 Faye Dunaway vehicle PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD! The feature film debut of Jerry Schatzburg, PUZZLE uses flashbacks to look at the fractured psyche of a once-famous model, and how the industry drove her to her current state.

This week, Mike and Mike are joined by returning guest Nick Wermuth to talk about FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA!

This week, we're getting back in the Cage to talk a new horror film starring Nicolas Cage: ARCADIAN! Cage reunites Ben Brewer, director of THE TRUST (and lead vfx designer for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE) on this post-apocalyptic monster story. Is it more than just a QUIET PLACE knockoff? Let's find out!

This week, the mercurial icon and voice of your generation Charley Macorn returns to the podcast to give us the rundown on the 2nd Annual QueerWest Film Festival, happening at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, MT from June 6th through 8th!

This week, we've got Roy Scheider popping up for two scenes in director Irvin Kershner's LOVING, starring George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, and Sterling Hayden!

This week, it's time to talk about Roy Scheider's brief role in the 1969 film STILETTO! Come for the crime thrills, stay for the surprise early appearances from people like Olympia Dukakis and M. Emmett Walsh!