Part 11 and the finale of Boogie Mikes, our Paul Thomas Anderson rewatch series leading up to and reviewing One Battle After Another is here. And like we do with all our series, we wanted to celebrate it with one of our Homemade Awards shows, where we enjoy a slew of fun categories.

NON-SPOILER SECTION: Though to be fair, we do allude to some often memed about scenes that are fully in the zeitgeist these days. So… it’s light spoilers and we do suggest watching ALL of these films regardless.

Wildest Anecdote from a PTA Production - 3:05

Match the unofficial premise to the PTA film - 6:52

Most / Least Californian Stories - 9:08

Characters You’d Most Like To Hangout With - 11:30

Performance by a Non-Actor - 14:05

Cameo Sized Actress Performance - 15:22

Cameo Sized Actor Performance - 17:00

The Overacting Oscar - 18:16

Mr. Congeniality - 18:55

Miss. Congeniality - 20:29

Supporting Actor - 21:50

Supporting Actress - 25:03

Best Duo - 26:44

Lead Actor Categories - 28:08

Lead Actress - 29:50

Best Costumes, Editing, VFX, Sound Design & Best Cinemagraphy- 31:19 -

Production Design + Best Makeup and Hairstyling - 33:36

Best Soundtrack & Original Score - 35:05

Our Top 10 Rankings of PTA Films - 38:42

SPOILER WARNING - 46:42

SPOILER SECTION: all 10 movies including One Battle After Another are fair game.

Some Informal Processing - 47:27

Best & Worst Parent Character Awards - 51:26

Theme Declarations Sections - 53:58

PTA Characters You’d Least Like To Party With - 55:25

Best / Worst PTA Movie Scene At A Restaurant - 59:26

Most Evil AND Funny Scene - 1:03:15

Hardest We’ve Laughed At a PTA Movie - 1:06:15

Most Badass Scene - 1:09:24

Most Thrilling Sequence - 1:12:11

Craziest and 2nd Craziest Final Acts - 1:15:22

Wildest Final Shots and Weirdest Epilogues - 1:17:31

What are PTA’s Trademark Scenes? And what is our PTA Movie cinematic bliss?? - 1:19:10

OUTRO: If you’ve enjoyed this episode, make sure to click on our entire playlist for Boogie Mikes, our PTA Rewatch Series. And maybe check out one of our other Rewatch Series. We’ve done Halloween/Michael Myers, MMO Screams, Mike Mike and Alien, the Conjuring Universe, 2 Mike 2 Furious, the Mission Impossible Films, the MCU, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, the Joker Character Study, the James Bond Character Study and more. You can find all of these playlists under that tab in our Soundcloud RSS Home feed. Otherwise, if you’ve enjoyed our work, please rate & review us positively, like & subscribe and most of all, please tell your friends and relatives about our show. We truly appreciate everybody who have been tuning in and we hope to bring you more rewatch series in the future. If you have an idea for our next series, also let us know! https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

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BOOGIE MIKES P.10: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

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Nonspoiler Review:

A Lifelong Pursuit - 2:20

Money, and the Many Ways it Matters - 5:13

Expectations/Script Thoughts - 15:47

Performances/Casting: Leo’s/Penn/s Best Ever? - 22:04

Production Values - 31:07

How Many Noms? - 35:30

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SPOILER WARNING - 38:19

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Spoiler Review:

Who Would Phillip Have Played?/Daddy Daughter Day - 39:24

Sex, Bay Bee - 44:14

PTA: Crime Boss - 48:02

Saint Nick - 50:34

Finale - 58:06

What Does Leo Know? - 1:02:12

More Highs and Lows - 1:04:45

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FINAL GRADES - 1:10:25

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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:11:46

We discuss Jimmy Kimmel’s reinstatement, the latest developments in Best International Feature, a September MovieReview Bundle including reviews of Downton Abbey, The Long Walk, AKA Charlie Sheen, etc +++ new trailers like Anaconda, The Housemaid, & Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.

NEWS:

Jimmy Kimmel’s Late Night Show has been taken off suspension - 1:02

Best International Feature Updates including some surprising selections - 15:03

World Soundtrack Awards mean everything and nothing - 19:49

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - 22:32

Let’s Start A Cult - 27:48

The Long Walk - 29:11

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) - 32:46

Caught Stealing - 34:55

The Roses -36:28

The Ruse - 37:53

Twinless & Splitsville - 38:48

Aka Charlie Sheen - 41:20

Lurker - 43:40

Eden - 45:11

Freaky Tales - 47:30

The Baltimorons - 48:38

TRAILER THOUGHTS:

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - 50:36

Father Mother Sister Brother - 52:28

The Running Man - 54:55

Anaconda - 56:01

The Housemaid - 58:09

Urchin - 1:00:59

OUTRO: One Battle After Another is around the corner. So we hope you’ve enjoyed our PTA Rewatch Series, Boogie Mikes. You can otherwise hear about our Woodstock Film Festival tickets. So if you’re enjoying our work, please rate & review, like & subscribe, and share the good word about our show. As always, we thank you. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

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BOOGIE MIKES P.9: LICORICE PIZZA REVIEW

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Nonspoiler Review:

PTA’s Real Life Evolved - 2:06

Review Scores/Awards Goods - 4:53

Script Thoughts - 9:03

Performances/Production Values - 15:52

Can This Be Recommended? - 30:15

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SPOILER WARNING - 34:01

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Spoiler Review:

May December Oh No - 35:00

Romeo and Juliet - 37:27

More Highs and Lows - 45:35

Why This Ending? - 54:37

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FINAL GRADES - 55:25

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

Hamnet wins the People’s Choice Award as we wrap up our thoughts on TIFF, and we dive into the Best International Feature category amidst many new National Selections. Then we dive into a centerpiece look at the Primetime Emmy Awards, and we finish by catching up with some new movie trailers including the latest looks at Springsteen, Christy & Wicked: For Good.

Our condolences to Charlie Kirk’s family and our sadness at Robert Redford’s passing atop the show make us grateful to have the chance to discuss happier things like awards, even if that means sad movies or series in play.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - 2:07

TIFF WRAP UP

Hamnet wins the People’s Choice Award - 4:00

Hidden Gems List: Other Well Received Films From TIFF we haven’t hit yet - 9:51

Other TIFF Awards including the International People’s Choice - 12:02

Best International Feature Oscar: National Selection Updates - 14:04

PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS:

Nate Bargatze as host + happiness for the Colbert moments - 21:14

The Limited SeriesETC Categories - 24:11

The Comedy Series Categories - 25:30

Drama Series surprises - 27:39

TRAILER REVIEWS:

Song Sung Blue - 31:07

Wicked: For Good - 33:36

Is This Thing On? - 36:17

Wuthering Heights - 40:11

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - 42:30

Christy - 46:51

OUTRO: Make sure to listen to our Pod Pick episode of our recent appearance on Chaz and AJ in the Morning on 99.1 WPLR on 9/15/25. Here’s a link to our Fall Movies Preview + Early Oscar Buzz Segment. https://www.wplr.com/2025/09/15/pod-pick-fall-movies-to-see-or-skip/

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BOOGIE MIKES P.8: PHANTOM THREAD REVIEW

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Nonspoiler Review:

PTA Goes Goth - 2:40

Review Scores/Awards Goods - 5:15

Script Thoughts - 9:29

Performances/Production Values - 15:16

PTA’s Best? - 24:05

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SPOILER WARNING - 26:27

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Spoiler Review:

Happiness is Punishment - 27:20

Alma’s Hand, Cyril’s House - 30:57

Mama - 39:55

That Girl is Poison - 42:10

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FINAL GRADES - 47:58

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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 48:49

One Battle After Another 1st reactions are in. Then we dive deep into the Venice Awards Winners & tally the ovations. Plus, we discuss the Toronto Film Festival Premieres including Knives Out 3, Brendan Fraser in Rental Family, Channing Tatum’s Roofman, and Sydney Sweeney’s Christy.

One Battle After Another 1st Reactions - 1:34

VENICE AWARDS + More Venice 1st Reactions:

Golden Lion to Father Mother Sister Brother - 6:37

Silver Lion to Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine - 10:21

Volpi Cup Best Actress to Xin Zhilei, The Sun Rises On Us All - 12:03

Volpi Cup Best Actor to Paul Servillo, La Grazia - 14:02

Grand Jury Prize to The Voice of Hind Rajab + An Ovation Record? - 17:18

Special Jury Prize to Below The Clouds - 21:53

Best Screenplay to At Work - 22:46

Silent Friend wins 2 Awards - 23: 50

Kathyrn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, it’s Trailer & why M1 needs AMC A-List - 26:23

Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire - 32:19

Julian Schnabel’s In The Hand of Dante - 34:47

Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet - 37:19

Venice Standing Ovations Tally - 38:23

TIFF PREMIERES: Reviewing The Reviewers

Brendan Fraser in Hikari’s Rental Family - 39:19

Channing Tatum & Kiersten Dunst in Roofman from Derek Cianfrance - 40:41

Fraser & Tatum’s Oscar Chances - 41:36

Sydney Sweeney in David Michod’s Christy + Oscar Chances - 43:55

Wake Up, Dead Man, it’s new trailer + the 25 Film Best Picture Category Field - 46:15

John Candy: I Like Me Documentary + 1st Trailer - 51:13

Matthew McConnaughey & America Ferreira in The Lost Bus - 53:22

Russell Crowe gaining buzz from Nuremberg - 56:19

Hedda, starring Tessa Thompson - 58:08

OUTRO: More on fighting gophers (which are actually marmot groundhogs. Check our twitter for videos or google dancing marmot groundhogs). When you’re done with that, please support our show with a positive rating, review, like, & subscribe. Please spread the good word about MMO to your family and friends, and hopefully you continue to look forward to the huge slate of upcoming Oscar contenders this fall. Plus, we should all continue to enjoy Paul Thomas Anderson and these fall film festivals. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

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THE CONJURING LAST RITES REVIEW:

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Nonspoiler Review:

Background and Skeptic AlsoMike - 2:11

Review Scores/Record Setting Box Office Start - 6:02

Is This REALLY The Last One? - 8:44

Script Thoughts - 11:33

Performances/Production Values - 19:16

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SPOILER WARNING - 27:51

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Spoiler Review:

Spin Off, Sequel, or Retcon? - 29:04

Landing the Plane - 32:00

Who’s The Boss? - 45:02

More Highs and Lows - 47:52

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FINAL GRADES - 51:22

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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 53:04

Telluride & Venice first reactions are finally here, and rave reviews have hit for Hamnet, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, The Testament of Ann Lee, Adam Sandler, No Other Choice, Julia Roberts, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Greta Lee, and so many more.

VENICE & TELLURIDE REACTIONS (Including Reviewing the Reviewers):

Jay Kelly + M1’s Headline for the Episode - 2:00

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Supporting Actor Category Snapshot - 8:11

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Bugonia + Our Trailer 2 & Poster Review - 12:02

Hamnet, the Big 3 in Best Picture right now + Our Trailer Review - 16:48

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Lead Actress Category Snapshot - 23:14

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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere & M1’s Born To Run Fantasy - 25:43

Ballad of a Small Player & why we’re predisposed to love Colin Farrell in this - 32:09

Tuner includes a starmaking performance per NBP - 34:16

After the Hunt took a beating, but could Julia Roberts still get a nom? - 36:08

No Other Choice is great, but non-werewolf loving critics are a problem - 40:47

Frankenstein, another disappointing masterpiece from GDT (?!?!) - 45:27

Late Fame might be another Greta Lee showcase - 51:48

Father Mother Sister Brother & the ovation rule almost gets dealt with - 53:41

The Wizard of the Kremlin & ovations that don’t fit the tomato score - 56:48

La Grazia, Venice’s Opening Night film puts our rule to the test - 58:54

The Smashing Machine & Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big Venice moment - 1:00:20

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Lead Actor Category Snapshot - 1:02:51

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Supporting Actress Snapshot - 1:06:17

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The Testament of Ann Lee & suspicions re: unexpected musicals - 1:08:34

Cover-Up & a new Doc Feature contender - 1:13:43

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Holdovers from Cannes, Sundance, & Berlin including It Was Just An Accident, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Blue Moon, Nouvelle Vague, The History of Sound & The Secret Agent + its trailer review - 1:14:41

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Venice & Cannes Standing Ovations Tally - 1:18:45

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OUTRO: 1:20:49 Upcoming Venice & TIFF schedules + Words of Wisdom involving stopwatches that beep or not. If you enjoy our show, please help spread the word. You can rate, review, like, subscribe, and follow us via all these links here. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

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PTA REWATCH P. 7 - INHERENT VICE REVIEW:

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Nonspoiler Review:

Production Story: A Simple Favor - 3:15

Expectations - 9:02

PTA’s Noir Troll - 11:04

Everybody’s In This - 16:33

Production Values Are Impossible On First Watch- 21:15

What’s the Pitch to Make Someone Watch This? - 24:21

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SPOILER WARNING - 28:03

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Spoiler Review:

PTA is LA - 29:02

Fight the Power - 37:38

The Finale and Dreams vs Nightmares - 43:50

More Worsts/Bests - 47:42

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FINAL GRADES - 56:17

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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 58:14