Plus Our Oscar Shortlist Reactions.

***This is a Non-Spoiler Episode***

Intro, What’s MMOW?, & Also Mike’s Holiday Blues - Top of the Show

What We’re Watching: 1:35

The Happy Prince, Dumplin,’ The Guilty, The Sentence, Mary Queen Of Scots, Survivor: Season 37, & The Schmoedown Spectacular.

SixDegreesOfMMO :

Bette Davis to Toni Collette (Deserves An Oscar) Winners - 15:47

Your Next Christmas-y Challenge! - 23:53

Box Office Reactions: Aquaman Murders Mary Poppins - 24:30

Do You Care?

Next Week’s Theatrical Releases (Vice, Holmes & Watson, etc…) - 31:34

Should we watch Birdbox? - 34:52

Marwen Troubles - 35:50

MMOW Trailer Reviews:

Hellboy - 38:38

Men In Black: International - 42:45

Godzilla: King of the Monsters Trailer 2 - 45:36

Oscar Race Update: Our Reactions to the Oscar Shortlists - 48:03

Documentary Feature - 48:52

Foreign Feature - 51:24

Best Makeup + Hairstyling - 54:02

Original Score - 55:44

Original Song - 57:22

Animated Short/Visual Effects - 1:01:51

Outro / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 1:03:56

It’s time for another MMO Weekly, and this is another loaded episode. We react to the Oscar Shortlists, trailers for Hellboy, Men In Black, and Godzilla, and some puzzling Box Office numbers from the showdown between Aquaman and Mary Poppins. Then we also have some fun recounting the winners of our latest SixDegreesOfMMO where we continue our Toni Collette Oscar campaign.

More importantly though, one of the Mikes has the holiday blues in this episode, and in a heartwarming display of the Christmas spirit, the other Mike manages to cheer him up throughout. I’m not saying Mike 1 should be nominated for ALL the Podcast Awards, but most of them would be warranted here. Irregardless of critical acclaim, we did create character arcs for ourselves in this episode, and as we began the month with a Very Merry MMO Holiday Movie Review of The Muppet Christmas Carol, a humbugging character finds the Christmas spirit, and we get to enjoy a bunch of goofy jokes along the way.

MMOW begins as we often do with another jam packed list of rapid fire reviews, and we chat a lot about films like Mary Queen of Scots and other shows we love like The Schmoedown Spectacular during this segment. Our audience interaction segment of SixDegreesOfMMO follows with a familiar winner, but NOT the one you’d think!

We then dive into some of our usual segments like Box Office Reaction, Do You Care?, and another huge Oscar Race Update reacting to the Shortlists. But there’s a new segment and another ridiculous drop from Mike 1 as a centerpiece in this episode where we react to the new trailers for Hellboy, Men In Black, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Let us know what you think about this myriad of movie subjects. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. We are at MMandOscar on Twitter, and you can play along with all our audience interactions including Six Degrees there.

Have the happiest of holidays, and as always, thanks for listening! When reality sucks, keep watching those movies with us.