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!
