Happy Halloween! It's time for a spooky season Mike Makes Mike Watch - Smith is making Mike D catch up with an underrated Mike Flanagan film, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, while Mike D is making Smith watch the cult classic '80s horror comedy FRIGHT NIGHT!
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!