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Disclosure Day - E.T. Phone Broke - MMO UFO 3 - Ep. 535 Jun 12, 2026

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In part 3 of our MMO UFO miniseries, we review Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Coleman Domingo, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson (which we mispronounce as Hewitt for the entire film because ....Jennifer Love Hewitt?) NON-SPOILER REVIEW SECTION: Difference in Opinion? - 2:32 Production Profile - Inception - 3:49 Best Spielberg in the last 20 years? - 5:40 Critical Reception vs Audience Scores & Early Box Office - 6:55 Why Obsession is a Best Picture nominee side rant & Back to DD Reception - 12:51 Non-Spoiler Script Thoughts - 16:22 Does Emily Blunt Get Nominated? - 21:56 Glowing Reviews of the Score, Cinematography, Editing - 26:24 Oscar Lens: Our Over/Under to how many, if any noms it’ll get - 33:06 SPOILER WARNING - 37:25 SPOILER REVIEW SECTION: Mike 1 on why politics have ruined the ending & message - 38:23 AlsoMike psychoanalyzes Mike 1’s belief in aliens - 45:14 Updated Spielbergian Themes & Remaining Generic - 48:37 Abandoning Intriguing Possibilities & Emily Blunt’s worst scene - 50:11 Issues with the Sci-Fi - 54:21 Issues with the bad guy - 59:45 Even the beginning didn’t get a follow through - 1:02:11 Some Best Scenes & Strong Starts - 1:03:30 Final Grades - 1:06:19 OUTRO: Discussion on how we like to do film festivals after spending some time at Tribeca and hinting at what’s next. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial Brings Hope to 2 Wayward Souls - MMO UFO Part 2 - ep 534 Jun 10, 2026

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We study Steven Spielberg’s E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial for our MMO UFO (mini) series leading up to Disclosure Day. NON-SPOILER REVIEW - 4:53 M1’s 1st Watch Memory & Does it live up to our childhoods? - 7:07 Development Backstory - 10:07 Reception: Box Office, Critical, Audience, Oscars Profile, etc - 14:59 Tremendous Child Actors Made This Movie Work - 17:25 Little Green Men & Men In Black Tropes - 22:04 Other Performance Reviews including the voice of E.T. - 28:41 Production Values featuring the illustrious John Williams - 32:50 SPOILER FILLED REVIEW: 36:50 Bad Friends, but Relatable Families - 38:05 Adorable Meet Cutes, Language Barriers & Frogs - 48:56 Peter Pan Storytime & Halloween is a rough day for mom - 57:07 Gripes - 1:01:39 That Glorious Ending - 1:07:18 OUTRO: We continue to discuss our expectations for Disclosure Day. So yes, make sure to stay tuned to our feed for upcoming episodes on Disclosure Day, the Tribeca Film Festival, The Rock, Toy Story 5, Supergirl, Summer Oscar Bets, The Odyssey etc… etc..

Close Encounters: How Bud Heavy is the Theme Song to the Waining American Dream - MMO UFO 1 - ep 533 Jun 02, 2026

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . MMO UFO: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A THIRD KIND . Spoiler-Free Review: Background, Spielberg’s Inspirations - 2:28 Spielberg: Good; Not an A-Hole - 7:15 Reception in the 70’s - 11:00 Script Thoughts - 16:31 Performances - 24:28 Do The VFX Hold Up After 50 Years? - 30:33 Other Production Values - 33:58 The 1977 Best Picture Conversation - 35:13 . SPOILER WARNING - 37:26 . Spoiler-Filled Review: Literally Though, What IS a Spoiler? - 38:34 Maybe WE are the Dumb Ones - 45:57 WOW to Meh - 48:50 Gone Roy: Bud Heavy as the Soundtrack to the Forgotten American Dream - 50:28 Working Through the Plot - 56:30 . How Would a Secret Sequel Work? - 1:06:43 . . FINAL GRADES - 1:10:15 (And New Spielberg vs the New YouTube Director Crews) . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:14:20

Backrooms Oscars Profile - He's 20, It's Great, and Now We Hate Ourselves - Ep 532 May 29, 2026

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . BACKROOMS OSCARS PROFILE . Spoiler-Free Review: The 4Chan Origins - 2:26 Scores, Projected Box Office, The YouTube of It All - 6:34 “He DiDn’T dIrEcT tHaT!” - 10:42 Script Thoughts - 15:34 Do You Go In? - 17:43 Do We Have Faith Answers Will Come Eventually? - 20:04 Performances - 25:21 Production Values (Backrooms’ Obsession Problem) - 28:23 . SPOILER WARNING - 36:18 . Spoiler-Filled Review: Best Guesses At Themes - 37:14 Is She Gone? What’s With Mom? ANSWER THESE! - 44:46 Dinner’s Ready. But Why is She? - 49:07 Rope Diving and a Theory of Evolution - 54:10 Ahoy Matey - 58:07 The Most Important Question - 1:02:10 . FINAL GRADES - 1:03:07 . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:09:32

Lucia Alenar Iglesias: Writer/Director of Forastera - MMO Interviews - Ep 531 May 27, 2026

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Forastera opens this weekend. Make sure to check out the film at the Film Forum if you’re in NYC. Make sure to check it out in Santa Barbara, and seek out this film in the upcoming weeks and months as it expands theatrically. Information on the Film https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/forastera/ Tickets for Opening Weekend https://filmforum.org/film/forastera Watch The Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq1Mjl8Bni8

Cannes Awards 2026 - Fjord wins the Palme for NEON's 7th in a row! - ORC 5/25/26 May 25, 2026

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Fjord wins the Palme! All of a Sudden’s Virgine Efira & Tao Okamoto win Best Actress, the boys from Coward win Best Actor, and La Bola Negra and Fatherland tie in Director. The Cannes Awards are here, and we discuss them all. Plus, we continue to review the reviewers and tally the ovations in Part III of our coverage of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. BOX OFFICE REPORT: The Mandalorian and Grogu Reviewed - 1:35 Obsession Rewatched - 4:36 CANNES COVERAGE PART III: Fjord wins the Palme and a bunch of independent awards - 9:44 Minotaur takes 2nd - 15:37 A tie in Director between La Bola Negra and Fatherland - 18:03 Netflix Acquisitions: La Bola Negra, Gentle Monster & In Waves - 20:31 Best Actress to Efira & Okamoto from All of a Sudden - 21:40 Best Actor to Macchia & Champagne of Coward & MUBI’s Acquisitions - 23:58 The Jury Prize to The Dreamed Adventure - 23:36 Best Screenplay to A Man of His Time - 27:54 Un Certain Regard’s FIPRESCI PRIZE & Camera D’or to Benimana - 29:43 Everytime and Elephants in the Fog take 2 other top prizes - 33:58 Past Un Certain Regard Film That Have Gone onto Oscar Noms - 37:47 The Queer Palme goes to Teenage Sex and Death - 38:43 A24’s Club Kid scores the largest acquisition price at Cannes - 39:23 Victorian Psycho isn’t set in the Middle Ages but has contemporary music - 41:59 Out of Competition Discussions - 46:51 John Travolta’s Propeller One Way Night Coach, South Korea’s Zombie Film - Colony, Nicholas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, Andy Garcia’s Diamond & Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner. The Final Standing Ovations Tally - 55:22 OUTRO: Make sure to follow us on social media as we comment on everything happening in the movie business. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Cannes Reviews Part 2 - Is The Palme D'Or Down to a Final 4? - ORC 5/23/26 May 21, 2026

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . NETFLIX IS PUTTING CLIFF BOOTH IN IMAX - 1:43 . CANNES 2026, PART 2: The Black Ball Gets a TWENTY MINUTE* Ovation - 8:53 Fjord is a Palme Threat - 14:31 The Man I Love Brings Malek Back to Oscars Fringe - 23:36 Sheep in the Box/Bitter Christmas Are Middling - 28:00 Minotaur Makes 4 - 34:28 The Unknown’s Review Leads to a Mike Fight - 36:51 . Overall Ovation Standings So Far - 42:15 What Films Can Win the Palme? - 43:50 . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 52:36

Cannes '26 Coverage Part 1: A Culture of Applause + Conan Returns for the 99th - ORC 5/19/26 May 19, 2026

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Conan returns as the Oscars Host, and we discuss the advantages of this. Then we dive into the Cannes Film Festival in part I of our coverage episodes, including an early Palme D’or and Best Picture favorite that one of us already predicted!!! CONAN RETURNS AS OSCARS HOST - 2:10 CANNES COVERAGE 2026 Part I - 10:20 Paper Tiger and the Mikes have separate rants about the applause timers - 10:42 All of a Sudden and AlsoMike rants against Mike1’s prediction powers - 19:03 Fatherland, the 5 Minute Rule & Multiple Acting Noms in the same category? - 26:55 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma finally makes us happy - 34:52 Why Parallel Tales is considered the worst film ever made? - 38:10 Gentle Monster & Lead Actress Campaign for Lea Seydoux - 41:04 Clarissa and the stellar cast that makes an awards run possible - 47:03 The Beloved is not Sentimental Value, nor does it seem sentimental - 48:39 Hope seems cool - 50:48 Tallying the Ovations - 56:37 John Travolta’s Outfit - 58:36 OUTRO: Stay tuned for more coverage episodes on the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where we will continue to Review The Reviewers & Tally The Standing Ovations. You’re welcome. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandosc

Obsession: A Horror Film Study of Curry Barker's Smash Debut - Ep 530 May 16, 2026

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It’s our film study of Curry Barker’s film - Obsession, and yes, we debate some Oscar / other Awards chances here for this new horror smash hit. NON-SPOILER REVIEW OF OBSESSION: Production Profile + Reception & Scores - 2:22 Theater Going Stories + Composition Thoughts - 8:46 Performance Reviews - 17:15 More Writing Thoughts + Original Screenplay Oscar Category Forecast - 21:48 Production Value Reviews & Why Comedians Make Good Horror - 27:51 Final Oscar Lens Debate - 32:52 Spoiler Warning - 38:16 SPOILER REVIEW OF OBSESSION: A Fun Love Square - 38:28 MMO Love Advice for all Humanity - 46:45 Who is Wish Nikki? Real Nikki?? - 49:41 Escalations & Curiosities & Objections - 53:39 That Ending, Elevated Horror? & Drawing From The Classic Romances - 59:33 What’s next for Barker, this “franchise?” - 1:05:10 Final Grades - 1:06:19 OUTRO: This may indeed be an Oscars contender. Irregardless, we love covering the best in horror year round, building to our Scaries: Horror Movie Awards Show on Halloween. So stay tuned to our feed for more horror movie reviews incoming. Otherwise, we’ll be covering the Cannes Film Festival from our perch here in Hollywood East. So you should also stay tuned for all of the Reviewing the Reviewers and Timing the Ovations that we love to hate to love every spring in upcoming Cannes episodes of Oscar Race Checkpoint! https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Summer Box Office Over/Unders - $1.2B for The Odyssey? $700M for Grogu? Find Out! - ep 530 May 12, 2026

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show . SUMMER BOX OFFICE OVER/UNDERS: . Comparing January - March of the Last Few Years - 2:19 Project Hail Mary: O/U $700M? - 8:08 April Box Office/Super Mario Bros O/U $1B? - 10:11 Michael O/U $800M - 12:55 . May/Devil Wears Prada 2 O/U $750M? - 16:53 AM Reviews Mortal Kombat II/The Sheep Detective - 21:57 Mandalorian and Grogu O/U $700M? - 26:00 Rest of May’s Slate (Obsession, Is God Is, etc) - 32:27 . Masters of the Universe/Scary Movie - 37:07 Disclosure Day O/U $525M? - 40:20 Toy Story 5 O/U $925M? - 46:12 Supergirl O/U $455M? - 52:00 . Minions and Monsters O/U $1B? - 59:25 Moana O/U $1B? - 1:01:25 The Odyssey O/U $1.2B? - 1:04:18 Spider Man O/U $1.2B? - 1:09:42 . The Troubling August Layout - 1:11:08 . . What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:19:41

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