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!
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!
This week, fan-favorite character Cardinal Siqueros makes his triumphant return to the DRACULA series! Picking up five years after DRACULA II: ASCENSION, Roy Scheider is back for another one-scene performance in DRACULA III: LEGACY, this time featuring Rutger Hauer as Dracula! Plus, our favorite kung-fu vampire hunter priest Father Uffizi is the main character now!
It's Punisher Week on Mike and Mike Pod! Thanks to a listener donation to our Ko-Fi page (ko-fi.com/mikeandmikepods), we're following up our discussion of Roy Scheider in 2004's THE PUNISHER by talking about the pseudo-sequel PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, directed by Lexi Alexander and starring Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle.
This week, we're talking about arguably the last major film of Roy Scheider's career, in which he briefly appears as Frank Castle's father in 2004's THE PUNISHER! We talk Thomas Jane, compare the film to the 1989 version, and have a lot of thoughts about this period of pre-MCU comic book adaptations!
The Mikes are gearing up for Spooky Season with this month's Mike Makes Mike Watch - Mike D makes Smith catch up with THE. CHANGELING starring George C. Scott, while Smith makes Mike D watch Adam Wingard's breakout feature, YOU'RE NEXT!
This week, Roy Scheider appears as the titular Red Serpent in RED SERPENT, a Russian production also featuring Michael Paré! The Mikes debate whether this is one of the worst-looking movies they've ever covered, and get delighted by yet another late-period accent from Scheider.
We accidentally posted this one a little bit out of order, but here it is: Roy Scheider appears alongside Patrick Stewart in a TV movies that adapts KING LEAR and turns it into a western - it's time for KING OF TEXAS!