Nicolas Cage: A Complete Works Podcast

This week, Mike and Mike are tackling THE POET, released in the US as HEARTS OF WAR, and this one... might just be the worst movie we've ever talked about on this podcast. Not just of this season, we mean ever. A World War II romantic epic between (checks notes) a Nazi soldier and a Jewish woman, the film stars Roy Scheider alongside Nina Dobrev, Daryl Hannah, and a conspicuous boom mic popping in and out of frame.

It's been a while, so it's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This time around, Mike D is watching the new NAKED GUN, NOBODY 2, and looking back on Robert Redford's legacy with a viewing of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, while Smith is catching up on new releases like HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, CAUGHT STEALING, TWINLESS, and WICK IS PAIN!

This week, Mike and Mike get a rare surprise at this late stage of Roy Scheider's career - a really good movie! We're discussions Brett Morgan's documentary CHICAGO 10, which blends archive footage with animated re-enactments of the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the infamous trial that followed. Scheider provides voice work alongside Hank Azaria, Jeffrey Wright, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schrieber, and more!

It's time for another Ko-Fi donation episode! Listener David donated $50 to our Ko-Fi page, which means he got to pick today's topic - and that topic is the 1981 live-action Disney superhero spy comedy riffing on James Bond: CONDORMAN! If you'd like to pick a topic for an episode, you know where to go: ko-fi.com/mikeandmikepods!

This week, Roy Scheider pops up for one scene in the sex comedy LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, and we're not gonna lie - it's breaking our brains a little bit that Scheider is in the same movie as Charlie Day. Directed by Nick Gregory (the son of Andre Gregory from MY DINNER WITH ANDRE) and an early example of digital filmmaking on an indie level, is this movie smarter than it appears to be? Well... let's not go that far, but there might be something here!

This week, Programming Director of The Roxy Theater Mike Emmons returns to the podcast to tell us about everything happening at The 2025 Montana Film Festival, which takes place from October 23rd through 26th at The Roxy Theater in Missoulal!

This week, fan-favorite character Cardinal Siqueros makes his triumphant return to the DRACULA series! Picking up five years after DRACULA II: ASCENSION, Roy Scheider is back for another one-scene performance in DRACULA III: LEGACY, this time featuring Rutger Hauer as Dracula! Plus, our favorite kung-fu vampire hunter priest Father Uffizi is the main character now!

It's Punisher Week on Mike and Mike Pod! Thanks to a listener donation to our Ko-Fi page (ko-fi.com/mikeandmikepods), we're following up our discussion of Roy Scheider in 2004's THE PUNISHER by talking about the pseudo-sequel PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, directed by Lexi Alexander and starring Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle.

This week, we're talking about arguably the last major film of Roy Scheider's career, in which he briefly appears as Frank Castle's father in 2004's THE PUNISHER! We talk Thomas Jane, compare the film to the 1989 version, and have a lot of thoughts about this period of pre-MCU comic book adaptations!

The Mikes are gearing up for Spooky Season with this month's Mike Makes Mike Watch - Mike D makes Smith catch up with THE. CHANGELING starring George C. Scott, while Smith makes Mike D watch Adam Wingard's breakout feature, YOU'RE NEXT!

This week, Roy Scheider appears as the titular Red Serpent in RED SERPENT, a Russian production also featuring Michael Paré! The Mikes debate whether this is one of the worst-looking movies they've ever covered, and get delighted by yet another late-period accent from Scheider.

We accidentally posted this one a little bit out of order, but here it is: Roy Scheider appears alongside Patrick Stewart in a TV movies that adapts KING LEAR and turns it into a western - it's time for KING OF TEXAS!

Did you know that Michelle Yeoh is now a part of one of the highest-grossing movies of all time? The international sensation NE ZHA 2 has made over $2 billion this year - and A24 just re-released it in theaters with a new English dub, featuring the voice talents of Michelle Yeoh! Mike and Mike are getting back into the Yeoh-iverse to parse through Chinese myth and marvel at the animation in this epic story.

This week, Roy Scheider pops up for one scene in the direct-to-video sequel to DRACULA 2000, it's DRACULA II: ASCENSION! It swaps out Gerard Butler for Stephen Billington, and is very much part one of a two-part story... but don't worry, Scheider's in DRACULA III too, so we'll be covering that one in a few weeks!

This week, Roy Scheider gets an unlikely co-star: Trash TV legend Jerry Springer! Scheider plays the governor of Florida in a world where high-profile court cases get turned into AMERICAN IDOL-style TV shows, where the viewers at home get to vote whether the defendant is innocent or guilty. Think THE RUNNING MAN meets NETWORK, but... not quite as good as either of those. It's time for CITIZEN VERDICT!

Noted actor and Resident Adam Sandler expert Vin Craig returns to the podcast to talk the Sandman's latest release, the highly-anticipated HAPPY GILMORE 2! Plus, we toss in a little talk about WEAPONS as well.

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time, Smith is making Mike D catch up with Steven Spielberg's first feature, 1971's DUEL! Meanwhile, Mike D is making Smith watch Frank Marshall's 1990 horror comedy ARACHNOPHOBIA!

This week, we're covering the first half of a TV miniseries based on a novel from the same author behind THE SEVENTH SCROLL - Roy Scheider stars alongside Alyssa Milano and Sean Patrick Flannery in THE DIAMOND HUNTERS!

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! We kick off with a long superhero talk as Mike D catches up with THUNDERBOLTS and Smith talks SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR. Then, Mike D talks FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES, BALLERINA, and PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, while Smith talks EDDINGTON, JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH, and a bunch of Kevin Smith movies!

This week, Roy Scheider appears as the villain in a thriller that poses the question, "What if MEMENTO happened to the dumbest guy you know?" - plus, Mike D really recommends everybody check out Elia Kazan's PANIC IN THE STREETS!

This week, Roy Scheider has to guide a group of passengers led by Ted McGinley out of the LA subway system after a disaster leaves them trapped underground! Also, Mike Smith apologizes to beloved character actor Troy Evans and we assess the state of the podcast after all these direct-to-video thrillers!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch one of the goopiest movies ever made, Brian Yuzna's SOCIETY! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D do some homework before Edgar Wright's upcoming remake to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger in THE RUNNING MAN!

This week, Roy Scheider pops up in a Roger Corman production about a doorway... to hell! When four college kids discover that the house they've agreed to clean is sitting atop a doorway to hell and start getting haunted, Scheider jumps in to try to help!

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!