The Complete Works Podcast

This week, we've got a surprisingly solid direct-to-video action movie featuring not one, not two, but THREE pretty incredible car chases! Michael Madsen plays a former stuntman who gets broken out of jail by Keith David and then gets involved in a plot to kidnap the President of the United States - who is, of course, played by Roy Scheider.

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith watch John Sayles' thrilling neo-noir LONE STAR, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with Weird Al Yankovic in 1989's UHF!

We now enter the direct-to-video action thriller phase of Roy Scheider's career, and we begin with the first of two movies he made starring Gary Busey in 1997! Scheider is the villain of the movie, a landmine baron who kidnaps Gary Busey's daughter - it's time for PLATO'S RUN!

A dysfunctional family reunites for the holidays and past secrets finally get revealed. It's time to talk about Roy Scheider alongside Julianne Moore, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Noah Wyle and more in 1997's Sundance dramedy, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS!

What did the Mikes think of this year's Oscars? We'll tell you! It's time to recap the 97th Academy Awards!

In 1993, Roy Scheider took on a journey to boldly go where no man had gone before... underwater! Yes, it's finally time to talk about the two-part pilot episode to Scheider's TV series, SEAQUEST DSV! We also discuss the turbulent production the show faced over the course of its three seasons.

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D makes Smith watch an underseen western noir starring Sterling Hayden, 1958's TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D catch up with the Bob Odenkirk action movie NOBODY so he can prep for Timo Tjahanto's upcoming sequel!

This week, Roy Scheider appears as a mob boss alongside Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, and more in a movie that was so despised that Jon Bon Jovi wrote a song for it and then refused to let the producers use it - it's time for ROMEO IS BLEEDING!

It's been a while, but it's finally time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! Smith has been watching a ton of new releases like Captain America: Brave New World, Paddington in Peru, Companion, and Heart Eyes, while Mike D talks the new Wolf Man, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Jonathan Glazer's Birth, and more! Plus, we've got some TV thoughts, including Station 11, Severance, Mythic Quest, and SNL 50!

This week, Roy Scheider plays a small but pivotal supporting role in David Cronenberg's cult classic, NAKED LUNCH! Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs, Scheider stars alongside Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and more in what may be the strangest and one of the last great movie of his career.