The Complete Works Podcast

This week, it's time to talk about Roy Scheider's brief role in the 1969 film STILETTO! Come for the crime thrills, stay for the surprise early appearances from people like Olympia Dukakis and M. Emmett Walsh!

It's time for our monthly Mike Makes Mike Watch! This month, Mike D is making Smith catch up with John Sayles' MATEWAN, while Smith is making Mike D watch a COVID-era favorite, SPONTANEOUS!

This week, Roy Scheider pops up for one scene and a couple of lines in PAPER LION, a sports comedy featuring Alan Alda as famed sportswriter George Plimpton along with several real-life players for the 1967 Detroit Lions!

Mike and Mike are finally kicking off Season 4 of The Complete Works and diving into the filmography of Roy Scheider! And things begin with Del Tenney's 1964 low-budget horror film THE CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE, featuring a substantial early role for Scheider and also starring CARNIVAL OF SOULS' Candace Hilligoss!

In this Off Mike bonus episode, Mike and Mike are talking new releases like CIVIL WAR, THE FIRST OMEN, IMMACULATE, LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL, MONKEY MAN, and more! Plus, Mike Smith revisits the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy!

It's been a while, but we're back to cover another Jeff Goldblum movie! Goldblum takes the center role in the experimental animated documentary THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER, about an American journalist investigating the mysterious disappearance of a legendary Brazilian musician.

Stay tuned for info about our Roy Scheider season, which kicks off next week!

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is reckoning with the work of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach in 2015's MISTRESS AMERICA, while Smith brushes up on his John Grisham with 1993's THE PELICAN BRIEF!

It's another Mike and Mike bonus episode! This time around, a Ko-Fi donation made in the wake of Akira Toriyama's death has got us watching 2013's DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS!

Mike and Mike episodes are moving over to The Complete Works feed! And this week, we're celebrating April 5th, 2063 (the day humankind first made contact with the Vulcans) as we talk about STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT!

We're gearing up for the upcoming Roy Scheider season of the podcast - but in the meantime, we've got to talk about Michelle Yeoh's voice role in the new animated film THE TIGER'S APPRENTICE! Based on a young adult novel from 2003, this film was in the works for a long time, and was originally meant to premiere in theaters... before unceremoniously getting dumped onto Paramount+ with very little fanfare.