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The Complete Works is a podcast dedicated to exploring an actor's filmography, one movie at a time - assessing the highs and lows of their career and how it reflects the film industry at large. The current season, Season 4, is covering the films of Roy Scheider. Past seasons include Nicolas Cage, Jeff Goldblum, and Michelle Yeoh (with new episodes for their respective seasons being published as needed).
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

2025-12-2902:22:24

It's time for the Annual In-Person Episode! Mike Smith is back in New York for the holidays, meaning he and Mike D were able to meet up to record in person and talk at length about AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, joined by podcast mainstays Kyle Cullen and Producer Collin! We also talk a little WAKE UP DEAD MAN and speculate on AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY too, while we're at it!
It's time for another Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, both Mikes have plenty of thoughts on KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR. Then, Smith is talking 2025 releases like WAKE UP DEAD MAN, BUGONIA, and IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, while Mike D is also catching up with some new stuff like ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, FRANKENSTEIN, and PREDATOR: BADLANDS! Plus, both Mikes talk through their recent Movie Days!
It's time for the final Mike Makes Mike Watch of the year! And they're getting into the holiday spirit as Smith makes Mike D reconnect with family in Wes Anderson's THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, while Mike D makes Smith check out John Frankenheimer's Christmas-set action thriller DEAD BANG!
It's time for Part 2 of one of the biggest Complete Works events in history, where two of our subjects are in the same movie together! Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh both return to their roles from last year's WICKED as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Madame Morrible alongside Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and more! It's time for us to talk about WICKED: FOR GOOD!
This week, we're bringing back Music Supervisor Kyle Cullen to finally fulfill something we've been saying we'd do for years... make him watch the TERMINATOR movies! You see, Kyle's never seen them, and with a new AVATAR coming out, we figured this was the perfect excuse to revisit some James Cameron favorites!
A Quick Announcement!

A Quick Announcement!

2025-12-0304:27

Here's a brief update about the podcast in case you missed it in our Season 4 finale episode - The Complete Works is (sort of) on hiatus until early 2026, but Mike and Mike Go to the Movies bonus episodes will continue in the meantime! Listen for details!
It's showtime, folks - we are closing the book on Roy Scheider with our Season 4 Finale Episode! In this epic four-hour discussion, Mike and Mike highlight some specialized categories, count down their Top 10 Roy Scheider performances, and then count down their Top 10 Favorite Roy Scheider movies. Plus, we have some dedicated JAWS time at the end and look ahead at the possibilities for what Season 5 could have in store! Thanks so much to everyone who followed along with our Scheider journey this season, and don't worry - while we are taking a short break before we go into Season 5, we'll still have plenty of Mike & Mike episodes coming out in the meantime!
It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith give Ben Wheatley another shot with A FIELD IN ENGLAND, while Smith is making Mike D cross off an '80s action comedy classic, Martin Brest's MIDNIGHT RUN!
It's finally here, folks - it's time for the final film in Roy Scheider's filmography. And this is a weird case... about 16 years after Roy Scheider's death, a mysterious new project came about which uses archive footage from an unreleased 2003 movie that Scheider starred in, which means he is *technically* in this movie. But that barely scratches the surface to how strange this thing is. Featuring "performances" from Tom Sizemore, Michael Madsen, Cillian Murphy, Harvey Keitel, David Carradine, Crispin Glover, and yes, Roy Scheider, it's time to talk about ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWEIRD.
It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Smith recaps the Montana Film Festival and talks new releases like ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, ROOFMAN, PLAY DIRTY, and THE SMASHING MACHINE, while Mike D talks PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, and more!
On the second-to-last Roy Scheider movie of the season, we're talking DARK HONEYMOON, an erotic thriller also featuring Daryl Hannah, Tia Carrere, and Eric Roberts. The movie isn't very good, but there's a surprising amount of Scheider and it's totally bonkers, which counts for something!
It's Mike D's birthday, and you know what that means - it's time for a Birthday By-Law episode, where he gets to select any movie he wants to talk about! And this year, Mike has selected the 1968 Hammer Horror picture THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, starring Christopher Lee and directed by Terence Fisher!
We are rapidly approaching the end of our Roy Scheider season, and so it's only fitting that we use this occasion to find an excuse to talk about JAWS one last time. Scheider narrates and appears as an interview subject in THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING, a documentary made by JAWS fans exploring the impact and legacy of one of the greatest movies ever made.
Happy Halloween! It's time for a spooky season Mike Makes Mike Watch - Smith is making Mike D catch up with an underrated Mike Flanagan film, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, while Mike D is making Smith watch the cult classic '80s horror comedy FRIGHT NIGHT!
This week, Mike and Mike are tackling THE POET, released in the US as HEARTS OF WAR, and this one... might just be the worst movie we've ever talked about on this podcast. Not just of this season, we mean ever. A World War II romantic epic between (checks notes) a Nazi soldier and a Jewish woman, the film stars Roy Scheider alongside Nina Dobrev, Daryl Hannah, and a conspicuous boom mic popping in and out of frame.
It's been a while, so it's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This time around, Mike D is watching the new NAKED GUN, NOBODY 2, and looking back on Robert Redford's legacy with a viewing of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, while Smith is catching up on new releases like HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, CAUGHT STEALING, TWINLESS, and WICK IS PAIN!
This week, Mike and Mike get a rare surprise at this late stage of Roy Scheider's career - a really good movie! We're discussions Brett Morgan's documentary CHICAGO 10, which blends archive footage with animated re-enactments of the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the infamous trial that followed. Scheider provides voice work alongside Hank Azaria, Jeffrey Wright, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schrieber, and more!
Condorman (1981)

Condorman (1981)

2025-10-1746:58

It's time for another Ko-Fi donation episode! Listener David donated $50 to our Ko-Fi page, which means he got to pick today's topic - and that topic is the 1981 live-action Disney superhero spy comedy riffing on James Bond: CONDORMAN! If you'd like to pick a topic for an episode, you know where to go: ko-fi.com/mikeandmikepods!
This week, Roy Scheider pops up for one scene in the sex comedy LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, and we're not gonna lie - it's breaking our brains a little bit that Scheider is in the same movie as Charlie Day. Directed by Nick Gregory (the son of Andre Gregory from MY DINNER WITH ANDRE) and an early example of digital filmmaking on an indie level, is this movie smarter than it appears to be? Well... let's not go that far, but there might be something here!
This week, Programming Director of The Roxy Theater Mike Emmons returns to the podcast to tell us about everything happening at The 2025 Montana Film Festival, which takes place from October 23rd through 26th at The Roxy Theater in Missoulal!
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