We dive deep into analysis of new Oscar Contender Trailers like Wicked: For Good, Frankenstein, Wake Up Dead Man, Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey & more. Plus, we review The Life of Chuck, Dangerous Animals, Mountainhead, Karate Kid: Legends & lots more as well.

TRAILER REVIEWS:

Wicked: For Good - 2:00

Frankenstein - 8:22

Wake Up, Dead Man - 15:39

Happy Gilmore 2 - 19:27

The Black Phone 2 (SPOILERS FOR BLACK PHONE 1) - 25:06

Kiss of the Spider Woman - 28:13

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey - 30:59

Fantastic Four: First Steps - 37:01

Alien: Earth - 47:23

Dexter: Resurrection (SPOILERS FOR DEXTER: NEW BLOOD) - 52:47

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING // BOX OFFICE REPORT

The Life of Chuck - 55:51

Dangerous Animals - 1:01:00

Mountainhead - 1:03:39

A Box Office Update + Review of Karate Kid: Legends - 1:06:29

Tornado - 1:13:39

Pee Wee As Himself & The Rehearsal (1st 2 episodes) - 1:16:45

Fear Street: Prom Queen - 1:20:37

Presence - 1:21:11

OUTRO: We’re not telling you what’s coming next. Here’s what is coming up next. Then we give you words of wisdom to start your next podcast. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

There’s Cannes Fallout, a new Box Office queen & king with Lilo & Stitch, plus major MCU news with the delay of Avengers: Doomsday. Plus, we review Friendship, The Rehearsal, Bring Her Back, Until Dawn, The Studio, new docs and many new trailers in this Oscar Race Checkpoint.

CANNES FALLOUT:

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident Palme sparks international incident - 2:25

Netflix buys Nouvelle Vague, a Bono Doc Review + the full Acquisitions Tally - 7:52

FUTURE MOVIE NEWS:

Avengers: Doomsday delayed and what it means for the MCU - 11:42

Damien Chazelle’s next film with Daniel Craig & Cillian Murphy - 15:49

Gears of War for Netflix gets a director + M1’s casting hopes - 18:26

A MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE UPDATE:

AM’s Lilo & Stitch Celebration & Review - 20:14

Thoughts on Mission Impossible, Final Destination, Thunderbolts, & Sinners progress - 25:10

Paul Rudd & Tim Robinson’s Friendship makes $$$ + AM’s Review - 32:40

M1 breaks into a review of The Rehearsal: Season 2 - 36:08

Minecraft, Accountant 2, and Hurry Up Tomorrow round out the top 10 - 38:34

TRAILER REVIEWS:

Good Fortune is Dogma, starring Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, & Sherry Cola - 41:25

Caught Stealing from Darren Aronofsky & a stacked August - 43:30

Zootopia 2 knows how to teaser - 46:41

Jurassic World: Rebirth if it works will end a certain way - 47:56

Materialists if it works will end a certain way - 50:34

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:

Bring Her Back - 54:15

Breaking into the Elio & Smurfs Trailers - 57:05

Until Dawn - 58:10

Santosh - 59:44

Paddington In Peru - 1:01:42

Breaking into the Sunset Boulevard Broadway Adaptation Rumors - 1:02:38

Pee Wee As Himself - 1:04:54

The Studio: Season 1 - 1:09:07

OUTRO:

Announcing our Upcoming Superman Rewatch Series - 1:13:09

Announcing our Upcoming PTA Rewatch Series called “Boogie Mikes” - 1:14:23

AM’s Upcoming Slate At Tribeca - 1:16:29

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It’s our 3rd episode on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival as we discuss award winners like It Was Just An Accident and Sentimental Value. Plus, we enjoy awards talk on Highest 2 Lowest, The History of Sound, etc.

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE PART III:

Palme D’or Winner - It Was Just An Accident - 1:47

Sentimental Value gets a 19? Minute Standing Ovation - 8:06

Recapping other winners like The Secret Agent - 16:30

The Young Mother’s Home wins Best Screenplay for the Dardenne Bros - 18:15

Resurrection from Bi Gan - 19:23

The Little Sister wins best Actress - 20:21

Highest 2 Lowest Oscars Talk - 22:55

A Private Life and Splitsville are comedies getting strong reviews - 29:58

The Mastermind from Kelly Reichardt - 33:48

Alpha from Julia Ducournau - 36:55

The History of Sound from Oliver Hermanus - 39:35

Eleanor The Great from Scarlett Johansson & June Squibb - 42:10

Un Certain Regard Winner - The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - 44:32

Pillion + Urchin wins several + this year’s Palme Dog section - 45:35

A Cannes Acquisitions Summary makes the Neon/Mubi rivalry a real thing - 47:31

The Standing Ovations Tally from MMO - 50:20

Best International Films Possibilities - 51:35

OUTRO - What’s coming next from us includes more Oscar Race Checkpoints and Oscar Profile Reviews. Plus, we’ll be sending out the Bat Signal soon to a returning guest. Otherwise… and as always, we want to hear your thoughts on which films you’re most excited to see from Cannes. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

What Is This Episode - Top of Show

“IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT” WINS THE PALME D’OR

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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING: OSCARS PROFILE:

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Spoiler-Free Review:

Scores, Box Office, and the Cruise-ness of It All - 3:21

Why Paramount Doesn’t Need This to Break the Bank - 12:13

Script Thoughts - 14:18

Chaotic, Boring, Mishandled…Amazing - 19:00

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Tom Cruise - 21:42

Ensemble - 24:34

Production Values - 26:55

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SPOILER WARNING - 30:12

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Spoiler-Filled Review:

The Mike1 School of Film Marketing - 31:08

“Hey, Why Not…” for A Few, Minor, Basically Invisible, Tiny Plot Holes - 33:26

Gabriel’s Dead End + Fan Service - 42:01

Star Wars-ing - 44:32

Parts of This Movie That’d Kill the Mikes - 47:32

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FINAL GRADES - 53:58

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MMO What’s Next/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 57:10

It’s part II of our Cannes Film Festival coverage, and we have a lot of passionate thoughts. You get our reviewing the reviewing, and we keep you up to date on those ovations. Plus, we discuss a half dozen trailers and review a batch of new movies while we’re at it.

CANNES PART DEUX: Reviewing the Reviewers

Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme - 1:24

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague - 7:41

Lynn Ramsay’s Die, My Love - 17:37

Ari Aster’s Eddington - 23:49

The Secret Agent starring Wagner Moura - 28:19

A Magnificent Life from Sony Pictures Classics - 34:02

Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water - 35:24

Harris Dickinson’s Urchin - 37:11

Pillion starring Alexander Skarsgard - 38:41

Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No. 3 - 41:15

Other Notable Receptions & The Standing Ovations Tally Through Sunday - 42:18

TRAILER REVIEWS:

Ballerina - 44:54

Together - 47:34

Bring Her Back - 52:55

Predator: Badlands - 55:32

Nobody 2 - 57:44

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:

The Accountant 2 - 58:38

Clown in a Cornfield - 1:00:11

The Surfer - 1:01:50

The Legend of Ochi - 1:03:55

Streaming Movie Reviews: Summer of ‘69, Nonnas & Another Simple Favor - 1:06:33

What Mike1 has been watching, including Dimension 20, Taskmaster, The Studio, The Last of Us, and The NBA Playoffs - 1:07:44

OUTRO - We have another production meeting live on the air to discuss our next movie review film study. Plus, we talk more about how we’d handle the Cannes experience if we were made official timekeepers of the applause.

What is This Episode? - Top of Show

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CANNES IS UNDERWAY:

DeNiro Hints at Trump Tariff Unrest - 2:24

Mission Impossible Meh - 11:23

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A “Febrile” Reviewing the Reviewers of the In Competition Films - 16:24

The Best Review of 2025, and What’s with These Pushes? - 28:11

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GOLDEN GLOBES ADD BEST PODCAST - 38:23

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CONTENDER TRAILERS:

The Smashing Machine - 45:47

Weapons - 49:51

Highest 2 Lowest Teaser - 54:31

F1 - 57:44

Materialists - 59:28

Superman Trailer #8000 - 1:01:50

Conjuring Last Rites - 1:06:59

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WHAT’S NEXT/LEAVE US 5 STARS/WORDS OF WISDOM - 1:09:19

It’s the second half of our 100% Accurate Way Too Early Oscars Predictions for 2025/26. In this episode, we discuss the Supportings, Casting, Director, Picture and 12 categories in all!

Cinematography - 2:16

Film Editing - 5:07

Animated 9:38

International - 13:09

Documentary - 17:51

Costume Design - 20:24

Production Design - 23:24

Supporting Actor - 29:00

Supporting Actress - 37:24

Casting - 41:17

Director - 45:00

Picture - 52:00

OUTRO - Go back and enjoy our entire Oscars Year In Preview Series as we discussed the calendar, reviewed Sundance, and previewed Cannes. Do look forward to our continuation of our Oscar Profile Movie Reviews series as we’ll do film study episodes on upcoming contenders. But first, we cannot wait to review the reviewers and time the standing ovations from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival later this week. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

It’s Part One of our Way Too Early 2025-26 Oscars Predictions Special, or Guarantees Special as we should have called it. Screenplays, VFX, Sound, Score, Song, the Shorts, yes - The Shorts, Make-up & Hairstyling, plus Lead Actor and Actress are all discussed.

Original Screenplay reveals films where we’re heavy + where Vegas leans - 3:07

Adapted Screenplay includes former winners, noms + a UFC champ - 11:37

VFX w/ Avatar & F1 + sentimental favorites & trailers that look good to us - 18:00

Sound Design w/ F1 as the favorite + other blockbusters - 23:00

Original Score has a murderers row of legendary contenders - 25:22

Original Song includes multiples by two films + the Diane Warren rule - 28:48

Documentary Short included the most research ever - 31:48

Animated Short included the least research ever - 35:09

Live Action Short is as clear a vision into the future as we’ve ever had - 36:44

Make-up & Hairstyling where we share 4 noms, but talk honorable mentions more - 39:26

Lead Actor has huge stars and irrational confidence levels from us in our picks - 41:05

Lead Actress - 47:07

OUTRO - 55:00 - Make sure to go back to the rest of our Oscars Year In Preview Series. We have specials to preview each section of the calendar, plus a Sundance review and a Cannes preview. Also stay locked on our feed for Part Two, where we’ll predict the Supportings, Director, Casting, Best Picture and the rest of the 24 Oscar categories. And as always, let us know your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns, and your predictions via our socials. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

We very much enjoyed Thunderbolts*, and here’s our full film study review treatment. Non-spoilers begins with big discussions on the MCU and its box office trends, and as always, we build to an Oscars Lens. Then we go beat by beat and discuss the plot in the spoiler filled second half.

NON-SPOILER REVIEW SECTION:

A big discussion of the recent phases of the MCU and their box office - 2:08

The Reception is very strong thus far - 9:01

Our different MCU intakes of late - 11:50

The Marvel Mental Health Awareness Movie - 15:54

Falling in love with these characters & these performances 20:20

Production Values including the unforgettable score that M1 forgot - 26:49

Spoiler Warning - 32:07

SPOILER REVIEW SECTION:

Is Florence Pugh the next do your own stunts daredevil like Tom Cruise? - 33:32

Major MCU developments - 35:54

Superhero meet cutes - 37:24

The Bucky Barnes subplot with Bunk and Elaine - 40:42

Keeping this new ragtag group together… somehow - 41:41

Probably the most fun part of the movie - 45:28

The Un-Marvel Like - 49:10

Clear Themes and Messaging - 55:17

The Final Scene + the Mid & Post Credit Scenes - 56:17

We speculate about Fantastic Four & Doomsday movies - 58:53

Final Grades & Final Thoughts on how this fits into Modern Times - 1:03:21

OUTRO: We have a quickie production meeting live on air as we discuss how we’re approaching our 100% Accurate Way Too Early Predictions. Plus, M2 actually praises recap videos on Youtube for helping him with this episode. Otherwise, please follow us on our socials and feel free to reach out. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

What Is This Episode - Top of Show

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SINNERS OSCARS PROFILE:

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Spoiler-Free Review:

Historic Box Office/Review Scores and WB Redemption - 2:06

Coogler’s “Studio Ruining” Deal - 11:52

The Fumbling of Marketing Black Helmed Films Internationally - 15:00

Expectations/What is an Oscars Movie? - 18:43

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Michael B Jordan - 23:11

Casting/Supporting Performances - 25:37

Ludwig Göransson and Music - 28:06

Cinematography/Prod Design/Costume/MUAH/VFX - 29:50

How Many Noms? - 35:14

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SPOILER WARNING - 40:46

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Spoiler-Filled Review:

A Blues Movie or a Vampire Movie? - 42:00

The Conflict Isn’t What You Think - 48:42

THE Scene - 51:42

The Dilemma - 54:06

In Too Deep and Over Our Heads - 1:01:45

More Highs and Lows - 1:08:00

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FINAL GRADES - 1:15:27

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MMO What’s Next/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:16:48