The Complete Works Podcast

This week, Michelle Yeoh makes her triumphant return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - but this time, she's playing a different character with a bit more to do than in her brief GUARDIANS 2 cameo. Yeoh appears as Ying Nan in Destin Daniel Crettin's SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, Marvel Studios' first film with an Asian lead and primarily Asian cast. Also starring Simu Liu,...

This week, Michelle Yeoh teams up with Carla Gugino and Angela Bassett to fill out the Sisterhood of Assassins, a secret team who helps out Karen Gillan and Lena Headey in the 2021 Netflix release GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE! Is this female-fronted action film heavily inspired by the JOHN WICK series worth checking out?

This week, Michelle Yeoh makes a brief appearance in Joe Carnahan's long-delayed sci-fi action movie BOSS LEVEL, finally released as a Hulu original in 2021. The film stars Frank Grillo as a man caught in a timeloop, but it is *not* EDGE OF TOMORROW, it's a different timeloop action movie - also starring Naomi Watts, Mel Gibson, and more.

This week, we're talking Michelle Yeoh's supporting role in a Christmas rom-com which stars Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding, is co-written by Emma Thompson, is directed by Paul Feig, and is - very literally - inspired by a beloved WHAM! song. That's right, it's time for LAST CHRISTMAS!

Michelle Yeoh stars in yet another martial arts movie directed by Yeun Woo-Ping, and this time around, it's a spinoff of Donnie Yen's popular IP MAN franchise! It's time to talk about MASTER Z: IP MAN LEGACY, featuring Yeoh, Max Chang, Tony Jaa, and Dave Bautista!

It's already time to get back in the Cage! This week, we're talking Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinneman in the new VOD crime thriller SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, in which Nicolas Cage does NOT play the literal devil... or does he?

This week, it's time for us to tackle a major pillar in the Michelle Yeoh filmography, and a key factor in her recent resurgence over the last few years, 2018's CRAZY RICH ASIANS! Based on the best-selling book by Kevin Kwan, CRAZY RICH ASIANS was a mini-phenomenon - proof that people will still turn up to theaters for romantic comedies, and proof that you can sell these kinds of movies wi...

This week, Mike and Mike are talking about Michelle Yeoh's prominent recurring role in STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - and more specifically, her role in the first two episodes of the show, "The Vulcan Hello" and "Battle at the Binary Stars."

Years before she appeared in SHANG-CHI, Michelle Yeoh made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in a brief cameo playing a different character in 2017's GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2! And what you might not know is that - even though this one has often been maligned in fan circles - GUARDIANS 2 is actually Mike Smith's favorite MCU movie. So we've got a lot to say about this one, even...

We decided to wait a few weeks due to spoilers, but it's out there now: Nicolas Cage has a brief cameo in THE FLASH in which he fulfills his destiny and finally plays Superman on screen. The question now is... is the movie any good? Are we getting sick of multiverses? What exactly is the current state of the DCU? All this and more will be discussed on this week's episode!

It's time to return to Season 2 of the podcast and talk about Jeff Goldblum for the first time in over a year! Goldblum has reunited with director Wes Anderson for his latest film - and though it's a small role, it may just be the most pivotal of the entire movie. Listen to find out what we think of Jeff Goldblum playing The Alien in ASTEROID CITY!

While Mike D is away on vacation, we put together another short bonus episode - this time detailing Michelle Yeoh's role when she joined the cast of Netflix's MARCO POLO in Season 2!

While Mike D is away on vacation, we decided to do this bonus episode to talk Michelle Yeoh's first TV role on the Cinemax series STRIKE BACK: LEGACY!

This week, Michelle Yeoh is one member in the large ensemble cast that constitutes MORGAN, a sci-fi thriller directed by Luke Scott which dares to ask the question, "What if EX MACHINA wasn't as good?" The movie also stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Boyd Holbrook, Rose Leslie, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Brian Cox, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Sullivan, and more!

This week, Michelle Yeoh plays a supporting role in 2016's MECHANIC: RESURRECTION, the sequel to 2011's THE MECHANIC, which was itself a remake of 1972's THE MECHANIC. The Jason Statham vehicle features lots of fun action scenes... and unfortunately, the movie doesn't have Michelle Yeoh get involved with any of them! Instead, we've got a gonzo Tommy Lee Jones performance, rooft...

16 years after the release of the original CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON - an Oscar-winning masterwork and breakthrough for foreign-language films in the US - Michelle Yeoh returned to star in a sequel which was directed by her frequent collaborator Yuen Woo-Ping, co-starred Donnie Yen, and got released straight to Netflix. Did it live up to the first one? Maybe not, but there's a lot to like...

This week, Michelle Yeoh teams up with director Gina Kim to tell a story about family, food, and redemption - it's time to talk about FINAL RECIPE! Yeoh stars alongside Chin Han, Henry Lau, and Bobby Lee.

This week, Michelle Yeoh stars as Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson's biopic, THE LADY! Does this film reach its potential heights, or is it a by-the-numbers Oscar-bait drama? Either way, you can bet that Yeoh's performance in it is great. David Thewlis also stars as Suu Kyi's husband, Michael Aris

This week, it's time to talk about Michelle Yeoh's very first animated film! Yeoh joins the cast of the blockbuster Dreamworks sequel, KUNG FU PANDA 2, alongside voices like Jack Black, Angeline Jolie, Gary Oldman, her future EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE co-star James Hong, and Jackie Chan (now joining the Yeoh Four-Timers Club)!

This week, Michelle Yeoh takes on her first leading role in a martial arts film since CROUCHING TIGER with 2010's REIGN OF ASSASSINS! Directed by Su Chao-bin (with an assist from legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo), the movie features Yeoh as a former assassin who must face her past to save not only her own life, but that of her husband's.

This week, Mike and Mike are taking a break from Michelle Yeoh to get back in the Cage! That's right, Nicolas Cage fulfills his destiny by finally getting to play a real vampire (sorry, VAMPIRE'S KISS) in RENFIELD! Also starring Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, and Ben Schwartz, RENFIELD is Cage's first live-action work at a major studio in over a decade, and he's hamming it up in thick,...

This week, Michelle Yeoh reunites with director Yuen Woo-Ping - at this point, pretty much her most frequent collaborator - for a small supporting role in another martial arts epic. This time around, we're learning the story of Su Can, aka Beggar So, a renowned martial artist known for his skill in Drunken Boxing. But how did he become the Drunken Master? Did it involve David Carradine injecti...

This week, we move on from one troubled blockbuster from the summer of 2008... to another troubled blockbuster from the summer of 2008! Michelle Yeoh appears in Mathieu Kassovitz's BABYLON A.D., a sci-fi action film starring Vin Diesel that plays like a low-rent CHILDREN OF MEN. Critics hated it, audiences hated it, and its production was a disaster - so let's dig into it!

For years, Mike DeCriscio has desperately tried to find any reason to talk about THE MUMMY on a podcast. And now, he gets his wish... sort of. It's time for us to talk about the third movie in the MUMMY trilogy, which boasts a change of scenery, a change in director, an iconic role recast, and also, yetis. And hey, Michelle Yeoh is here too - and she just might be the emotional center of the w...

This week, Michelle Yeoh reunites with TOMORROW NEVER DIES director Roger Spottiswoode in 2008's THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, a historical drama depicting a time period that we've covered pretty extensively on this podcast in the past. Yeoh plays a supporting role in the story of reporter George Hogg alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, and Chow Yun-Fat!