Mike & Mike Go To The Movies

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D comes to terms with the work of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach with MISTRESS AMERICA, while Smith catches up with an early 90s movie star vehicle, THE PELICAN BRIEF!

In the wake of Akira Toriyama's death, Mike and Mike received another Ko-fi donation to talk about another Dragon Ball movie - this time around, we're talking DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS, the 2013 film which became the basis for the first season of Dragon Ball Super!

April 5th, 2063 is the day that humankind first made contact with the Vulcans... which means it's the perfect time for Mike & Mike to dive deep on STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT! Thanks to a Ko-Fi donation, we're digging into the 8th STAR TREK film, and talking its place in the series as a whole!

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike D catches up with the ORPHAN series and watches some recent Oscar nominees like ANATOMY OF A FALL and THE ZONE OF INTEREST. Meanwhile, Smith wants to spread the good word about his new favorite movie, HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, plus LOVE LIES BLEEDING, GIRLS5EVA, and the original ROAD HOUSE!

This week, it's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Because Mike D is such a big fan of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, Smith is making him watch the Daniels' debut feature, SWISS ARMY MAN! Meanwhile, Mike D is making Smith catch up with one of the better animated movies in the last few years, PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH!

This week, Mike and Mike are breaking down everything that happened at this year's Academy Awards! Plus, we throw in a few extra discussions about films like PERFECT DAYS, STEAMBOAT BILL JR., THE SILENT PARTNER, and more!

This week, Producer Collin joins the Mikes on their journey to the planet Arrakis to break down Denis Villeneuve's highly-anticipated sequel, DUNE: PART TWO! Plus, Nick Wermuth reviews the less-highly-anticipated DUNE Popcorn Bucket!

This week, the Mikes are getting prepped for Dune: Part Two by rewatching the first one! Plus, we're talking Drive-Away Dolls, Lisa Frankenstein, Starship Troopers, Helldivers II, and more!

It's a vehicular action double feature! This week for Mike Makes Mike Watch, Mike D is making Smith catch up with John Frankenheimer's THE TRAIN! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D brush up on his Liam Neeson with Jaume Collet-Sera's NON-STOP!

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, the two Mikes capture two very different Jonathan Glazer movies - Mike D watched SEXY BEAST while Mike Smith caught up with THE ZONE OF INTEREST. Plus, Mike D talks MEEK'S CUTOFF and WHIPLASH, while Smith protects the hive with THE BEEKEEPER and catches up with some older films like THE LAST DRAGON, THE DEVILS, and ROMY AND MICHELLE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is getting hyped for LONGLEGS and making Smith watch Osgood Perkins' THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D do some Miyazaki catchup with an all-timer, SPIRITED AWAY.

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike D closes the book on THE LAST KINGDOM and catches up with some underseen movies from a few years back, including CLIMAX and DESTROYER. Meanwhile, Mike Smith spent four days watching the online portion of the Sundance Film Festival, and has thoughts on AMERICAN FICTION, ALL OF US STRANGERS, and the new MEAN GIRLS.

It's finally here! Mike and Mike are looking back on the year that was and counting down their Top 10 favorite movies of 2023, their Top 10 favorite discoveries of 2023, and the movies they're most looking forward to in 2024. Huge thanks to Mike Emmons, Kyle Cullen, Nick Wermuth, Laura Colaneri, Collin Stiles, Vin Craig, and Charlotte Macorn for their assistance with this episode! Here's to 2024, everyone!

It's time for the annual, end-of-the-year in-person episode! This year, Mike and Mike are joined by frequent guests Kyle Cullen, Nick Wermuth, and Producer Collin to talk GODZILLA MINUS ONE... and a bunch of other stuff too!

It's time for the last episode of 2023, and it involved a lot of 2023 catchup! Smith is watching movies like POOR THINGS, THE BOY AND THE HERON, SALTBURN, and MAESTRO, while Mike D checked in on LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND and caught up with Michael Mann's THE INSIDER!

It's time for the final Mike Makes Mike Watch of the year! To celebrate the holiday season, we're making Mike D catch up with a horror classic: Bob Clark's 1974 slasher BLACK CHRISTMAS! And, because we simply can't get enough of Roland Emmerich on this podcast, Mike Smith is being made to watch his end-of-the-world disaster movie 2012!

This week, frequent guest Nick Wermuth came to us with an idea to rank our favorite characters in the filmography of Joel and Ethan Coen - so that's exactly what we did! Nick joins us as we cover every era of the Coen Brothers, and run down our favorite larger-than-life characters from some of our favorite movies!

This week, it's another Off Mike Discussions episode! Smith is trying to catch up on new releases like NAPOLEON, GODZILLA MINUS ONE, AFIRE, NEXT GOAL WINS, and MAY DECEMBER, while Mike D is filling in some director gaps with David Fincher's PANIC ROOM and Michael Mann's MANHUNTER!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Smith is making Mike D watch Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's FRANCES HA, while D is making Smith finally get around to one of his favorites, the 1999 cannibal horror movie RAVENOUS!

It's time for another Discussions episode! This week, Mike Smith is checking out SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF, and talking new releases like THE MARVELS, THE HOLDOVERS, THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES, ANATOMY OF A FALL, and more! Plus, Mike D has lots to say about BLUE EYE SAMURAI, ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE, and spent some time rewatching the PLANET OF THE APES movies!

Apologies in advance: we had a tech issue this week, and lost about 30-40 minutes of audio in the middle of the episode. So, the episode is a little more truncated than we wanted it to be, but here it is: Producer Collin made a donation to our Ko-Fi page to make us watch Roland Emmerich's 2013 action movie WHITE HOUSE DOWN, and he's joining us to talk about the movie!

This week, thanks to a donation on our Ko-Fi page, Mike and Mike are talking DRAGON BALL SUPER: BROLY! Will Mike D be able to keep up without having ever seen DRAGON BALL? Will Smith over-explain the entire mythos to Mike D? Tune in to find out!

It's Mike D's birthday episode! For his birthday, he has decided that we must watch the new horror film WHEN EVIL LURKS on Shudder - and then he ended up watching all of the SAW movies in a weekend, so we talk about those too!

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is catching Smith up on a character actor smorgasbord, THE PERFECT STORM. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D watch one of his Halloween favorites, TRICK 'R TREAT!

This week, it's an Off Mike Discussions episode! Mike Smith recaps the Montana Film Festival and talks new releases like SAW X, TOTALLY KILLER, PATHAAN, and THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR; meanwhile, Mike D has thoughts on NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, and subjected his friends to a double feature of THE BOOGENS and TREMORS.

This week, a podcast patron paid to make us check in with those robots in disguise, and flash all the way back or THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE from 1986, aka the final acting credit from screen legend Orson Welles, or an animated Stan Bush music video. It's more than meets the eye!

This week, Artistic Director of the Montana Film Festival Mike Emmons returns to the podcast to tell us about everything that's happening at this year's MTFF! From exciting new features like THE ROYAL HOTEL, THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, and THE SWEET EAST to incredible shorts an a 35mm screening of Clint Eastwood's UNFORGIVEN (featuring a Q&A with LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan), there's going to be something for everyone from October 12th through 15th at The Roxy Theater (the indie theater near Mike Smith's house in Missoula Montana where he also works).

It's an Off Mike Discussions week - this time around, both Mikes ended up having some pretty massive movie days, and watched new releases like BOTTOMS, THEATER CAMP, NIMONA, THEY CLONED TYRONE, and more!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch Joe Johnston's OCTOBER SKY, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with Greta Gerwig's LADY BIRD!

Mike and Mike are getting ready for spooky season, and they've been thinking about the kinds of films they would want to show someone who was just getting into horror movies. So this week, it's time for Let's Rank Gateway Horror!

This week, thanks to a donation on our Ko-Fi page, the Mikes are boldly going where no man has gone before - that's right, we're watching STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN!

The Mikes each went to different horror festivals this weekend! Mike Smith tells us all about the 3rd Camp Horror Film Festival at the Roxy Theater, where he got to experience a ton of cool shorts and William Castle's THE TINGLER; meanwhile, Mike D went to Zombiethon at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, where he watched movies like ARMY OF DARKNESS, RE-ANIMATOR, and Tom Savini's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Plus, Mike D caught up with some masterpieces like DOG DAY AFTERNOON and TAXI DRIVER, while Smith watched some recent releases like MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE and SHIN KAMEN RIDER!

This week, it's another Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Smith watch J. Lee Thompson's 1958 World War II thriller ICE COLD IN ALEX, while Smith is making Mike D watch a beloved classic that everyone knows, David Koepp's 2012 bike messenger action movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon, PREMIUM RUSH!

This week, Mike D has mostly been playing BALDUR'S GATE 3, while Mike Smith has been watching new releases like BARBIE, OPPENHEIMER, TALK TO ME, and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM!

This week, the mercurial icon and the voice of your generation Charley Macorn returns to the podcast to talk abut the upcoming Camp Horror Film Festival at the Roxy Theater in Missoula, MT! Plus, since Camp Horror is showing William Castle's THE TINGLER in 35mm this year, Charley's taking us on a journey through another William Castle film: 13 GHOSTS!

It's time for Mike Smith's Birthday Episode! And for his birthday, the Mikes are digging into their new 88 Films boxset of the first four movies in the IN THE LINE OF DUTY series! They've already talked about YES, MADAM and ROYAL WARRIORS on the Michelle Yeoh podcast, so now it's time to get into IN THE LINE OF DUTY III and IN THE LINE OF DUTY IV!

This week, it's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Mike Smith watch Bill Paxton's FRAILTY, also starring Matthew McConaughey and Powers Boothe; meanwhile, Mike Smith made Mike D watch Richard Linklater's BEFORE SUNRISE... but Mike D ended up watching the whole trilogy so we're also talking about BEFORE SUNSET and BEFORE MIDNIGHT! Plus, we talk a little Barbenheimer!

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to discuss the latest entry in the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series! Does DEAD RECKONING PART ONE live up to the high bar that has been set for this series? Does Tom Cruise pull off another incredible stunt? Did that one thing really happen to that one character (gotta be vague for spoilers, obviously)? Find out within!

In this week's Off Mike Discussions episode, Mike Smith completes his pre-Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan rewatch, raves about PAST LIVES, and talks about new superhero TV shows like SECRET INVASION and MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN. Meanwhile, Mike D has begun his bi-annual MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE rewatch, tells us about 1956's ATTACK!, and checks in with Tyler Rake for EXTRACTION 2.

A listener paid us to watch Tom Green's FREDDY GOT FINGERED - at the time a notorious bomb and critically-reviled film, but a movie which quickly gained a cult audience who hold it up as a surrealist masterpiece. Where do we fall on the issue? Let's find out!

This week, Mike Smith and guest host Nick Wermuth are taking a deep dive into the Indiana Jones series! They'll be discussing all four movies in detail, plus talking about what they hope to see in INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY!

This week, it's a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Mike D is making Mike Smith watch the exploitation thriller ANGEL, featuring Donna Wilkes, Susan Tyrell, and Rory Calhoun; meanwhile, Mike Smith is making Mike D catch up with a cult classic, 2001's JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS!