We're back to continue discussing the life and career of actor Nicolas Cage for season 1.5. We last left Cage in 2018 before starting our journey with Jeff Goldblum, and we feel it's time to climb back into the cage to see what he got up to in 2019, 2020, and whatever we can get our hands on in 2021.
This week, we're taking a break from the endless onslaught of direct-to-video Scheider movies of the 2000s to get back to our roots: we're talking JAWS again! More specifically, we're discussing the new documentary looking back on the film's legacy, JAWS @ 50: THE DEFINITIVE INSIDE STORY, currently available to stream on Hulu and Disney+!
It's time for the Birthday By-Law to go into effect for Mike Smith's birthday! And this year, he wants to look back on one of his alll-time favorites, Edgar Wright's 2013 sci-fi comedy THE WORLD'S END. Leave a light on good lady, for though we may return with a twinkle in our eyes, we will in truth be blind - drunk!
This week, Roy Scheider and Peter Weller are FALLING THROUGH... something. It's a pretty forgettable thriller about an illegal passport ring. But the Mikes do end up getting distracted and talking about the BOURNE movies for a while.
We did this a little out of order. Last year, we talked about WEEKS. Last week, we talked about DAYS. Now, the Mikes are back to discuss Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's return to their landmark zombie universe, 28 YEARS LATER!
This week, we're electing Roy Scheider to a third term as President of the United States, in a movie with a plot suspiciously similar to a previous Scheider DTV action movie. This one's got Patrick Muldoon and it reunites Scheider with Michael Biehn - it's CHAIN OF COMMAND!
Before Mike and Mike get to talking about 28 YEARS LATER, we thought it would be fun to revisit the original. It's time to talk about the last quarter-century of zombie media that all owes a debt to Danny Boyle's groundbreaking horror movie, 2002's 28 DAYS LATER!
This week, the Mikes are checking in on the first episode of the 1999 mini-series THE SEVENTH SCROLL, a book adaptation that has a lot in common with things like THE MUMMY and INDIANA JONES. Roy Scheider stars alongside The Lawnmower Man himself, Jeff Fahey. Will we end up covering episodes 2 and 3? You decide!
It's time for another installment of Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is continuing our accidental series on the films of Roland Emmerich by making Smith watch 1998's GODZILLA, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with a '90s slacker favorite, EMPIRE RECORDS!
This week, Roy Scheider appears in a surprisingly solid HBO movie detailing the making of Citizen Kane, 1999's RKO 281! Starring Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles, John Malkovich as Herman Mankiewicz, and James Cromwell as William Randolph Hearst - if you saw MANK and want to hear the Orson Welles side of the story, this is the movie for you!
It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! Both Mikes have thoughts on the new season of The Last of Us - plus, Smith has been watching new releases like FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES, FRIENDSHIP, and ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR, and Mike D is catching up on UNTIL DAWN, WARFARE, THE ICEMAN COMETH, and more!
This week, Roy Scheider appears as the villain in this '90s TV movie about a boy and his wolf. Also featuring Michael Biehn and one of the more insane dummy deaths ever put to film, it's time to talk about SILVER WOLF!
It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Smith is making Mike D watch the sequel to a sci-fi classic, 1970's BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES. Meanwhile, Mike D is making Smith catch up with an underseen Walter Hill film with an all-star cast of guys including Nick Nolte and Powers Boothe, EXTREME PREJUDICE!
This week, Roy Scheider appears in another direct-to-video thriller, this time featuring Ron Silver uncovering a conspiracy surrounding diamonds, the Holocaust, and his own family! If you can make it through the pretty boring first 80 minutes, the last ten minutes are actually kinda wild!
This week, we've assembled our own Impossible Mission Force to discuss the latest (and potentially last?) movie in the Mission: Impossible series, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING! Music Supervisor Kyle Cullen and Producer Collin join the Mikes to talk everything Ethan Hunt, the spectacular action setpieces, and some of the questionable story decisions. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen!
Roy Scheider stars alongside Olympia Dukakis in BETTER LIVING, a comedy about a dysfunctional family dealing with the surprise return of their father. The Mikes aren't crazy about this one, but have you been watching THE PITT? Because you'll be hearing a lot about THE PITT in this episode!
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to discuss the entire MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series leading up to the release of FINAL RECKONING. Join the Mikes as they dive deep into what is arguably the most consistently great franchise in blockbuster filmmaking!
This week, Roy Scheider stars alongside Sonia Braga in MONEY PLAY$, the final film from director Frank D. Gilroy (father of Tony and Dan Gilroy!). It's a Showtime Original Movie about a gambling duo on the run - also starring Jon Polito!
This week, thanks to a listener donation, Mike and Mike are looking back on their childhoods and diving into MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: THE MOVIE! Listen to them talk everything Ivan Ooze, low-rent CGI, recognizing toys that they had, and why Digimon is better than Pokémon.
Nicolas Cage is back this week with a new psychological thriller from director Lorcan Finnegan, THE SURFER! Taking inspiration from Frank Perry's 1968 film THE SWIMMER, Cage stars as a man who starts to lose everything, including his sense of self, when he faces off against a group of surfers in Australia led by Julian McMahon!
Things come full circle this week as we hearken back to an earlier era of The Complete Works - if you liked CON AIR, boy do we have a movie for you! Not only is a shameless ripoff of CON AIR, but it's implied that it takes place... in the same universe??? Roy Scheider stars alongside Dorian Harewood, Ray Wise, Clint Howard, and a little girl named after a JAWS character in 1998's direct-to-video action movie EVASIVE ACTION!
It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Smith talks SINNERS and grapples with the legacy of Star Wars with REVENGE OF THE SITH back in theaters, while Mike D catches up with new releases like BLACK BAG and COMPANION! Plus, we've got some thoughts on the new season of THE LAST OF US!
It's time to get back in the Cage! Nicolas Cage recently starred in the VOD western GUNSLINGERS, also starring Stephen Dorff, Heather Graham, and Officer Mark Hoffman from SAW III, SAW IV, SAW V, SAW VI, SAW 3D, and SAW X. Mike and Mike will spend the episode debating the question: is this among the worst Nicolas Cage VOD releases?
This week, thanks to a Ko-Fi donation from one our listeners, we're talking about Sam Peckinpah's 1978 film CONVOY! Starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Burt Young, Ernest Borgnine, and more, it was one of Peckinpah's last films and his biggest box office hit - but does it hold up?
This week, we're talking about... possibly the most nonexistent movie we've ever talked about. Roy Scheider pops up for one scene in the 1997 comedy THE DEFINITE MAYBE, also known as NO MONEY DOWN! He joins a cast that includes Josh Lucas, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Al Franken, and Ally Sheedy!
It's a baseball double header for this month's Mike Makes Mike Watch - Smith is making Mike D watch Sam Raimi's FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, while Mike D is making Smith watch MAJOR LEAGUE! Baseball expert and major Yankees fan Producer Collin joins us for these two movies in which the Yankees are the bad guys - whoops!
This week, Roy Scheider pops up for a brief part in Francis Ford Coppola's legal thriller THE RAINMAKER! Based on a John Grisham novel and starring Matt Damon (in his first leading role), alongside Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, Danny Glover, and more, this was Coppola's final studio film!
This week, Roy Scheider has been elected to a second term as the president of the United States, this time in the 1997 Dolph Lundgren vehicle THE PEACEKEEPER! It's a film that boldly asks the question, "What if DIE HARD took place in a missile silo?"
It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, both Mikes have rewatched the entire Final Destination series (and they're willing to talk more about them for a Ko-Fi donation)! Smith is talking new releases like MICKEY 17 and BLACK BAG, while Mike D is back into TV in a big way with shows like REACHER and GANGS OF LONDON!
This week, Roy Scheider reunites with Gary Busey for another direct-to-video action movie from 1997 - this time also featuring Lorenzo Lamas and Kristen Cloke - it's time for THE RAGE!
Thanks to a listener donation, Mike and Mike are taking the time to look back on the films scored by Tangerine Dream! In this retrospective, we're talking six films that we felt were representative of the Tangerine Dream filmography: Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, Legend, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile - plus we toss in a couple of extras too!
This week, we've got a surprisingly solid direct-to-video action movie featuring not one, not two, but THREE pretty incredible car chases! Michael Madsen plays a former stuntman who gets broken out of jail by Keith David and then gets involved in a plot to kidnap the President of the United States - who is, of course, played by Roy Scheider.
It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith watch John Sayles' thrilling neo-noir LONE STAR, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with Weird Al Yankovic in 1989's UHF!
We now enter the direct-to-video action thriller phase of Roy Scheider's career, and we begin with the first of two movies he made starring Gary Busey in 1997! Scheider is the villain of the movie, a landmine baron who kidnaps Gary Busey's daughter - it's time for PLATO'S RUN!
A dysfunctional family reunites for the holidays and past secrets finally get revealed. It's time to talk about Roy Scheider alongside Julianne Moore, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Noah Wyle and more in 1997's Sundance dramedy, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS!
What did the Mikes think of this year's Oscars? We'll tell you! It's time to recap the 97th Academy Awards!
In 1993, Roy Scheider took on a journey to boldly go where no man had gone before... underwater! Yes, it's finally time to talk about the two-part pilot episode to Scheider's TV series, SEAQUEST DSV! We also discuss the turbulent production the show faced over the course of its three seasons.
It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D makes Smith watch an underseen western noir starring Sterling Hayden, 1958's TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D catch up with the Bob Odenkirk action movie NOBODY so he can prep for Timo Tjahanto's upcoming sequel!
This week, Roy Scheider appears as a mob boss alongside Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, and more in a movie that was so despised that Jon Bon Jovi wrote a song for it and then refused to let the producers use it - it's time for ROMEO IS BLEEDING!
It's been a while, but it's finally time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! Smith has been watching a ton of new releases like Captain America: Brave New World, Paddington in Peru, Companion, and Heart Eyes, while Mike D talks the new Wolf Man, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Jonathan Glazer's Birth, and more! Plus, we've got some TV thoughts, including Station 11, Severance, Mythic Quest, and SNL 50!
This week, Roy Scheider plays a small but pivotal supporting role in David Cronenberg's cult classic, NAKED LUNCH! Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs, Scheider stars alongside Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and more in what may be the strangest and one of the last great movie of his career.
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to... RANK the Muppets??? Yes, thanks to a Ko-fi donation from one of our listeners, the Mikes are ranking every theatrically-released Muppets film from worst to best!
This week, we've got another early 90's Cold War thriller, and this time it's a John Le Carré adaptation starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer in the lead roles - Roy Scheider appears alongside them in THE RUSSIA HOUSE!