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Phantom Thread - Ooo I Want You, IDK If I Need You - Boogie Mikes Part 8 - Ep 494 Sep 14, 2025

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . BOOGIE MIKES P.8: PHANTOM THREAD REVIEW . Nonspoiler Review: PTA Goes Goth - 2:40 Review Scores/Awards Goods - 5:15 Script Thoughts - 9:29 Performances/Production Values - 15:16 PTA’s Best? - 24:05 . SPOILER WARNING - 26:27 . Spoiler Review: Happiness is Punishment - 27:20 Alma’s Hand, Cyril’s House - 30:57 Mama - 39:55 That Girl is Poison - 42:10 . FINAL GRADES - 47:58 . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 48:49

Venice Awards, TIFF Premieres & 1st Screenings for One Battle After Another - ORC 9/10/25 Sep 10, 2025

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One Battle After Another 1st reactions are in. Then we dive deep into the Venice Awards Winners & tally the ovations. Plus, we discuss the Toronto Film Festival Premieres including Knives Out 3, Brendan Fraser in Rental Family, Channing Tatum’s Roofman, and Sydney Sweeney’s Christy. One Battle After Another 1st Reactions - 1:34 VENICE AWARDS + More Venice 1st Reactions: Golden Lion to Father Mother Sister Brother - 6:37 Silver Lion to Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine - 10:21 Volpi Cup Best Actress to Xin Zhilei, The Sun Rises On Us All - 12:03 Volpi Cup Best Actor to Paul Servillo, La Grazia - 14:02 Grand Jury Prize to The Voice of Hind Rajab + An Ovation Record? - 17:18 Special Jury Prize to Below The Clouds - 21:53 Best Screenplay to At Work - 22:46 Silent Friend wins 2 Awards - 23: 50 Kathyrn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, it’s Trailer & why M1 needs AMC A-List - 26:23 Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire - 32:19 Julian Schnabel’s In The Hand of Dante - 34:47 Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet - 37:19 Venice Standing Ovations Tally - 38:23 TIFF PREMIERES: Reviewing The Reviewers Brendan Fraser in Hikari’s Rental Family - 39:19 Channing Tatum & Kiersten Dunst in Roofman from Derek Cianfrance - 40:41 Fraser & Tatum’s Oscar Chances - 41:36 Sydney Sweeney in David Michod’s Christy + Oscar Chances - 43:55 Wake Up, Dead Man, it’s new trailer + the 25 Film Best Picture Category Field - 46:15 John Candy: I Like Me Documentary + 1st Trailer - 51:13 Matthew McConnaughey & America Ferreira in The Lost Bus - 53:22 Russell Crowe gaining buzz from Nuremberg - 56:19 Hedda, starring Tessa Thompson - 58:08 OUTRO: More on fighting gophers (which are actually marmot groundhogs. Check our twitter for videos or google dancing marmot groundhogs). When you’re done with that, please support our show with a positive rating, review, like, & subscribe. Please spread the good word about MMO to your family and friends, and hopefully you continue to look forward to the huge slate of upcoming Oscar contenders this fall. Plus, we should all continue to enjoy Paul Thomas Anderson and these fall film festivals. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

The Conjuring Last Rites - When a Finale, Isn't - Ep 493 Sep 06, 2025

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . THE CONJURING LAST RITES REVIEW: . Nonspoiler Review: Background and Skeptic AlsoMike - 2:11 Review Scores/Record Setting Box Office Start - 6:02 Is This REALLY The Last One? - 8:44 Script Thoughts - 11:33 Performances/Production Values - 19:16 . SPOILER WARNING - 27:51 . Spoiler Review: Spin Off, Sequel, or Retcon? - 29:04 Landing the Plane - 32:00 Who’s The Boss? - 45:02 More Highs and Lows - 47:52 . FINAL GRADES - 51:22 . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 53:04

Telluride & Venice '25: Big Moments for Hamnet, The Rock, Seyfried & Sandler - ORC 9/3/25 Sep 03, 2025

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Telluride & Venice first reactions are finally here, and rave reviews have hit for Hamnet, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, The Testament of Ann Lee, Adam Sandler, No Other Choice, Julia Roberts, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Greta Lee, and so many more. VENICE & TELLURIDE REACTIONS (Including Reviewing the Reviewers): Jay Kelly + M1’s Headline for the Episode - 2:00 . Supporting Actor Category Snapshot - 8:11 . Bugonia + Our Trailer 2 & Poster Review - 12:02 Hamnet, the Big 3 in Best Picture right now + Our Trailer Review - 16:48 . Lead Actress Category Snapshot - 23:14 . Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere & M1’s Born To Run Fantasy - 25:43 Ballad of a Small Player & why we’re predisposed to love Colin Farrell in this - 32:09 Tuner includes a starmaking performance per NBP - 34:16 After the Hunt took a beating, but could Julia Roberts still get a nom? - 36:08 No Other Choice is great, but non-werewolf loving critics are a problem - 40:47 Frankenstein, another disappointing masterpiece from GDT (?!?!) - 45:27 Late Fame might be another Greta Lee showcase - 51:48 Father Mother Sister Brother & the ovation rule almost gets dealt with - 53:41 The Wizard of the Kremlin & ovations that don’t fit the tomato score - 56:48 La Grazia, Venice’s Opening Night film puts our rule to the test - 58:54 The Smashing Machine & Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big Venice moment - 1:00:20 . Lead Actor Category Snapshot - 1:02:51 . Supporting Actress Snapshot - 1:06:17 . The Testament of Ann Lee & suspicions re: unexpected musicals - 1:08:34 Cover-Up & a new Doc Feature contender - 1:13:43 . Holdovers from Cannes, Sundance, & Berlin including It Was Just An Accident, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Blue Moon, Nouvelle Vague, The History of Sound & The Secret Agent + its trailer review - 1:14:41 . Venice & Cannes Standing Ovations Tally - 1:18:45 . OUTRO: 1:20:49 Upcoming Venice & TIFF schedules + Words of Wisdom involving stopwatches that beep or not. If you enjoy our show, please help spread the word. You can rate, review, like, subscribe, and follow us via all these links here. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Inherent Vice - We Get It Now - Boogie Mikes Part 7 - Ep 492 Aug 29, 2025

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . PTA REWATCH P. 7 - INHERENT VICE REVIEW: . Nonspoiler Review: Production Story: A Simple Favor - 3:15 Expectations - 9:02 PTA’s Noir Troll - 11:04 Everybody’s In This - 16:33 Production Values Are Impossible On First Watch- 21:15 What’s the Pitch to Make Someone Watch This? - 24:21 . SPOILER WARNING - 28:03 . Spoiler Review: PTA is LA - 29:02 Fight the Power - 37:38 The Finale and Dreams vs Nightmares - 43:50 More Worsts/Bests - 47:42 . FINAL GRADES - 56:17 . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 58:14

Daniel Day-Lewis Returns + Summer Box Office Report Cards - ORC 8/25/25 Aug 26, 2025

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Summer Box Office Report Cards are the episode’s centerpiece. Until then, we discuss Daniel Day-Lewis’ return, JLO’s latest musical and new animated feature contenders during our Trailer Reviews segment. We review new movies like K-Pop Demon Hunters, Honey, Don’t, Relay and Eenie Meenie during our Box Office Report and What We’re Watching segments. Plus, AlsoMike turns heel with a shockingly bad review of a beloved classic. Clayton Davis’ latest piece on “No Kings” in the Race Thus Far - 1:50 TRAILER REVIEWS: Anemone, starring Daniel Day-Lewis - 5:04 Arco, a new animated feature contender from NEON - 9:04 The Mastermind, a future MMO classic from Kelly Reichardt - 12:26 Hedda, a new YouTube trailer hit gives us Saltburn & sexy Downton Abbey vibes - 15:14 Eleanor The Great, a hope that this movie might not actually be another Goldfinch - 17:31 Kiss of the Spider Woman, a JLO starrer with a 2nd trailer that gives us pause - 19:48 BOX OFFICE REPORT: K-Pop Demon Hunters, Also Mike’s Review + Netflix’s #1 Box Office Sing-A-Long - 23:20 Talking Weapons’ holding strong and the rest of the Top 8 - 24:13 Reviewing Honey, Don’t - 25:51 Reviewing Relay, starring Riz Ahmed and discussing the rest of the Top 15 - 27:28 SUMMER BOX OFFICE REPORT CARDS (BY GENRE & SINCE MAY): Superhero Films: Thunderbolts*, Superman & The Fantastic Four - 30:44 Pure Action like Mission Impossible, Ballerina, etc. + A Lone Sports Film Hit in F1 - 34:34 Comedies from Friendship to The Naked Gun - 37:01 Dramas like The Life of Chuck & Eddington + Romances like Materialists - 40:13 Horror is still crushing it at the box office from Clown in a Cornfield through Weapons - 44:06 Family Films are buoying it all from Lilo & Stitch through Jurassic World - 46:55 WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: Other than what we’ve reviewed already… Eenie Meenie + a Sinners rewatch - 50:35 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It + The Last Detail revisited by M1 - 52:34 M2’s slander filled heel turn for a beloved classic. What has he done?! - 55:55 OUTRO: Make sure to throw your rotten vegetables at AlsoMike via social media. You can find all our links here https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar Otherwise, if you’re somehow still taken with us, do please support our show by liking, subscribing, rating, and reviewing our podcast favorably in the eyes of all the algorithms out there. We certainly thank you for sticking by us during these contemptible times.

The Master - Ethanol Margaritas For All - Boogie Mikes Part 6 - Ep 491 Aug 23, 2025

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Part 6 of Boogie Mikes is our film study of Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Rami Malek, Jesse Plemons, and Laura Dern. Production History and Reception for The Master - 2:24 Non-Spoiler Story Thoughts + Summary of its Awards Profile - 14:18 Review of the Performances - 18:14 Review of the Production Values - 25:56 Our Final Non-Spoiler Sales Pitch on why you should watch The Master - 30:09 SPOILER WARNING - 31:47 Why This Plot Is So PTA - 32:44 Discussing The Themes - 38:51 Let’s Talk About That Ending - 51:48 Worst Scenes - 1:00:57 Other Best Scenes - 1:02:13 Final Grades & Final Thoughts - 1:06:08 OUTRO: We wait until the last second to recall one of the more memorable (well, maybe not) scenes of the film. So there’s that. Otherwise, we tempt fate and discuss some of what’s coming up in the world of Fall Film Festival Season and September’s film slate, including the upcoming One Battle After Another. So sprinkle some salt and let’s hope to stay healthy. Otherwise, do please help us spread the word about our podcast via positive ratings, reviews, likes, subscribes, etc. Here’s a link to all our stuff, and as always, thank you for listening. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Marty Supreme Enters The Race + YouTube's Oscar Play - ORC 8/20/25 Aug 20, 2025

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What if YouTube bought the broadcast rights to the Academy Awards? We discuss the latest rumors via Bloomberg. Otherwise, we also break down trailers for Marty Supreme, It Was Just An Accident, Ballad of a Small Player, Keeper, etc. We discuss the Lineup for Fantastic Fest & other movie news before reviewing / revisiting some new releases from Highest 2 Lowest & Freakier Friday to Superman & Weapons. OSCAR NEWS: Bloomberg report on YouTube vying for the rights to broadcast the Oscars - 1:46 Best International Feature Selection Announcements begin - 10:36 TRAILER REVIEWS: Marty Supreme enters the race with our allegiance - 13:33 It Was Just An Accident seems like an tense thriller - 19:08 Ballad of a Small Player from Mr. Burger & starring Colin Farrell - 23:23 Peter Hujar’s Day featuring the beautiful words of Owen Gleiberman - 27:38 The History of Sound from Oliver Hermanus + Paul Mescal & Josh O’Connor - 30:22 Steve stars Cillian Murphy ala Half Nelson & Stand and Deliver - 32:55 Keeper proves we love Osgood Perkins & Neon’s trailers for Oz Perkins films - 35:11 Good Boy deserves all the Oscars because he is such a good boy!!! - 37:36 FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: Wicked 2 buzz as Cynthia Erivo set for the Santa Barbara Kirk Douglas Award - 40:11 Fantastic Fest Lineup Highlights - 44:25 FUTURE MOVIE NEWS: Frankenstein, Fairyland & Urchin Release Date Updates - 49:00 Sandra Huller to star in Pawel Pawlikowski’s 1949 - 52:32 Guy Pearce may play Rupert Murdoch for Danny Boyle - 53:50 BOX OFFICE UPDATE & WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: Weapons Rewatch & 2nd Week atop the Box Office - 55:02 A positive Freakier Friday Review - 57:33 Nobody 2 disappoints - 58:35 The Rest of the Top 10 include a Fantastic Four disappointment - 1:00:30 M1’s catches up with Superman - 1:02:23 Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans controversy & Americana bomb - 1:05:18 AM reviews East of Wall - 1:07:31 The brothers’ road trip to see Highest 2 Lowest - 1:09:22 Alien: Earth early review - 1:14:22 OUTRO: Hopefully you heed these words of wisdom as we head into film festival season. Plus, we refuse to jinx ourselves. Please sprinkle some salt. Also, if you enjoy our work, do please feel free to join us in our movie conversations this fall via our social media, and you can also help us by spreading the good word about our podcasts with positive ratings, reviews, likes, and subscribes. Here’s a linktree: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

There Will Be Blood, But No Milkshake - Boogie Mikes Part 5 - Ep 490 Aug 16, 2025

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PTA REWATCH P. 5 - THERE WILL BE BLOOD REVIEW: . Nonspoiler Review: Production Story: How DDL Met Daniel Plainview - 4:17 Can You Tell a PTA Film? - 23:43 DDL: The Last Dance - 29:01 Production Values and When a Horror Score Goes Drama - 39:50 What’s the Pitch to Make Someone Watch This? - 45:30 . SPOILER WARNING - 47:37 . Spoiler Review: PTA Fusing Spielberg and Altman - 48:27 Does Plainview Love HIs Son? - 54:58 Capitalism: Get Consumed By It! - 57:35 Tick, Tick, Boom - 1:02:10 More Bests and Worsts - 1:10:07 . FINAL GRADES - 1:20:51 What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:22:45

NYFF63 is STACKED, Brendan Fraser's Doing It Again & In Lynette We Trust - ORC 8/12/25 Aug 12, 2025

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We discuss the new AMPAS President before reacting to the full NYFF63 lineup, the TIFF additions and tributes, and by deduction, we work out some of the Telluride slate. Plus we review Cloud, Sorry Baby & Together while also discussing new trailers for Rental Family, One Battle After Another, etc. ACADEMY NEWS: Lynette Howell Taylor is our new President - 1:29 Will the Oscars remain on ABC after Disney makes moves? - 3:52 FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: The NYFF Closes with Bradley Cooper’s latest + a Jim Jarmusch Centerpiece - 8:50 NYFF63 Main Slate is loaded + That Jay Kelly Trailer - 11:26 NY Spotlights The Boss, DDL & double Linklater + Blue Moon Trailer - 17:15 TIFF Tributes are discussed + that Rental Family trailer is working well, maybe too well - 29:30 TIFF Lineup Additions + that Left-Handed Girl Trailer - 34:05 Deducing Likely Telluride Lineup - 41:02 MORE TRAILER BREAKDOWNS: One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Cruise jokes - 43:24 Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington & Jeffrey Wright - 48:45 Ella McCay is one Mike’s dream and another Mike’s nightmare - 52:15 Train Dreams, starring Joel Edgerton is another huge schism betwixt us - 54:49 The Choral, starring Ralph Fiennes would win every Oscar in 1994 - 57:53 Shelby Oaks from Chris Stuckman could be just our speed - 1:0015 NON-SPOILER REVIEWS: Cloud & Folktales at IFC Center + AlsoMike’s Burger Day in NYC - 1:02:29 M1 reviews Sorry, Baby, The General’s Daughter + Quickies on Together & Oh, Hi! - 1:08:01 OUTRO: We try to avoid jinxing Mike1’s health and fail. But if he survives, you can enjoy more Oscar Race Checkpoints in the future. As always, we appreciate all your support. Please follow us on social media, like & subscribe, rate & review - all that good stuff… and you can find a tree of all our links here. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

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