The Complete Works Podcast

It's time for our monthly Mike Makes Mike Watch! This month, Mike D is making Smith catch up with John Sayles' MATEWAN, while Smith is making Mike D watch a COVID-era favorite, SPONTANEOUS!

This week, Roy Scheider pops up for one scene and a couple of lines in PAPER LION, a sports comedy featuring Alan Alda as famed sportswriter George Plimpton along with several real-life players for the 1967 Detroit Lions!

Mike and Mike are finally kicking off Season 4 of The Complete Works and diving into the filmography of Roy Scheider! And things begin with Del Tenney's 1964 low-budget horror film THE CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE, featuring a substantial early role for Scheider and also starring CARNIVAL OF SOULS' Candace Hilligoss!

In this Off Mike bonus episode, Mike and Mike are talking new releases like CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST OMEN, IMMACULATE, LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL, MONKEY MAN, and more! Plus, Mike Smith revisits the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy!

It's been a while, but we're back to cover another Jeff Goldblum movie! Goldblum takes the center role in the experimental animated documentary THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER, about an American journalist investigating the mysterious disappearance of a legendary Brazilian musician. Stay tuned for info about our Roy Scheider season, which kicks off next week!

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is reckoning with the work of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach in 2015's MISTRESS AMERICA, while Smith brushes up on his John Grisham with 1993's THE PELICAN BRIEF!

It's another Mike and Mike bonus episode! This time around, a Ko-Fi donation made in the wake of Akira Toriyama's death has got us watching 2013's DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS!

Mike and Mike episodes are moving over to The Complete Works feed! And this week, we're celebrating April 5th, 2063 (the day humankind first made contact with the Vulcans) as we talk about STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT!

We're gearing up for the upcoming Roy Scheider season of the podcast - but in the meantime, we've got to talk about Michelle Yeoh's voice role in the new animated film THE TIGER'S APPRENTICE! Based on a young adult novel from 2003, this film was in the works for a long time, and was originally meant to premiere in theaters... before unceremoniously getting dumped onto Paramount+ wi...

We're gonna need a bigger podcast - after a hard-fought battle, the results of our Season 4 poll are in: Roy Scheider will be the next subject of The Complete Works!

You have one week to vote on who you want to see us cover in Season 4! Will it be Nicole Kidman, Walter Matthau, Kirsten Dunst, or Roy Scheider? Go to @CompleteWrksPod on Twitter and place your votes!

It's finally time to figure out who will be the subject of The Complete Works Season 4! Mike and Mike are each bringing 5 nominees to the table for a total of 10 - by the end of the episode, we'll be down to 4 finalists, and then we'll leave it up to you to decide who wins! The poll goes live on Twitter on Monday, February 12th!

Before we gear up to get Season 4 underway, we've got to talk about Michelle Yeoh's latest TV series, THE BROTHERS SUN! From the co-creator of GLEE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and more, THE BROTHERS SUN is an action-crime-comedy series featuring Yeoh in a major supporting role. All eight episodes are available on Netflix now!

We're back in the Cage once again for our final episode of 2023! We're talking Kristoffer Borgli's DREAM SCENARIO, the new dark comedy starring Nicolas Cage, produced by Ari Aster, and released by A24 depicting Cage as a man who suddenly finds himself popping up in people's dreams and becoming an overnight sensation as a result. Plus, we discuss Cage's most recent desire to piv...

This week, it's time to get back in the Cage! A while ago, Nicolas Cage took to Montana to film two westerns back-to-back - the first was THE OLD WAY, released earlier this year. And now, we've got the second: BUTCHER'S CROSSING, also known as the movie featuring the crazy horse that kept trying to kill Nicolas Cage!

We're closing the book on another season of The Complete Works, and that means it's time for a super-sized countdown episode as we say goodbye to our regular Michelle Yeoh coverage! Our epic finale has us listing off our Top 5 Action Scenes, our Top 10 Yeoh performances, and our Top 10 Michelle Yeoh Movies of all time - plus we're throwing in some other stuff just for fun. Until next t...

It's finally happened - we've caught up to Michelle Yeoh! It's the last regular episode of the season, and we're ending on a pretty high note - the surprisingly solid whodunnit A HAUNTING IN VENICE, the latest in Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot series (based on the Agatha Christie novels) featuring Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, and of course, Michelle Yeoh.

This week, Michelle Yeoh gets to voice Airazor, a Maximal Transformer shaped like a falcon in this summer's blockbuster TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS! Does a Transformers movie work without the requisite Bayhem? Is some kind of Hasbro cinematic universe a wise idea moving forward? Find out along with us!

This week, Michelle Yeoh (along with most of the cast of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE) stars in the 2023 Disney+ series AMERICAN BORN CHINESE! This one's an underseen gem based on a beloved graphic novel, check it out!

We are so close to the end of our Michelle Yeoh season - but we simply had to take a break this week to get back in the Cage. THE RETIREMENT PLAN, featuring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Jackie Earle Haley, and Ernie Hudson, has finally been released on VOD, so it's time to talk about it!

Michelle Yeoh closed out 2022 with a major supporting role on THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN, a prequel miniseries to Netflix's hit fantasy series THE WITCHER. Mike D is a big WITCHER fan, who has seen the show, read the books, played the games, you name it. Mike Smith has never experienced a WITCHER thing in his life. So this should be interesting!

This week, Michelle Yeoh stars in this YA adaptation made for Netflix, reuniting with LAST CHRISTMAS director Paul Feig! Well, "stars" is a strong word - it's more like "appears in for about three minutes." Also starring Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburnce, and Olivia Rodrigo needle drops.

This week, Michelle Yeoh stars in... an animated kid-friendly remake of Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES? That doesn't seem like a real movie, but somehow it is - it's time for us to dig into PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK!

Are you ready for Gru to rise? Michelle Yeoh followed up her Oscar-winning turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once with a voice role in an animated film that inspired Gen Z to return to movie theaters dressed in their finest attire. It's time to assemble the GentleMinions to talk MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU!

We finally made it. The movie that is arguably the reason we're doing this season of the podcast. Winner of 7 Oscars - including Best Picture and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh - it's time for us to talk about the Daniels' epic multiverse extravaganza, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE!