Episodes
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!
Published 04/29/24
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!
Published 04/19/24
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!
Published 04/15/24
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!
Published 04/05/24
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.
Published 03/04/24
We're gonna need a bigger podcast - after a hard-fought battle, the results of our Season 4 poll are in: Roy Scheider will be the next subject of The Complete Works!
Published 02/26/24
You have one week to vote on who you want to see us cover in Season 4! Will it be Nicole Kidman, Walter Matthau, Kirsten Dunst, or Roy Scheider? Go to @CompleteWrksPod on Twitter and place your votes!
Published 02/12/24
It's finally time to figure out who will be the subject of The Complete Works Season 4! Mike and Mike are each bringing 5 nominees to the table for a total of 10 - by the end of the episode, we'll be down to 4 finalists, and then we'll leave it up to you to decide who wins! The poll goes live on Twitter on Monday, February 12th!
Published 02/05/24
Before we gear up to get Season 4 underway, we've got to talk about Michelle Yeoh's latest TV series, THE BROTHERS SUN! From the co-creator of GLEE, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and more, THE BROTHERS SUN is an action-crime-comedy series featuring Yeoh in a major supporting role. All eight episodes are available on Netflix now!
Published 01/29/24
We're back in the Cage once again for our final episode of 2023! We're talking Kristoffer Borgli's DREAM SCENARIO, the new dark comedy starring Nicolas Cage, produced by Ari Aster, and released by A24 depicting Cage as a man who suddenly finds himself popping up in people's dreams and becoming an overnight sensation as a result. Plus, we discuss Cage's most recent desire to pivot to television!
Published 12/11/23
This week, it's time to get back in the Cage! A while ago, Nicolas Cage took to Montana to film two westerns back-to-back - the first was THE OLD WAY, released earlier this year. And now, we've got the second: BUTCHER'S CROSSING, also known as the movie featuring the crazy horse that kept trying to kill Nicolas Cage!
Published 12/04/23
We're closing the book on another season of The Complete Works, and that means it's time for a super-sized countdown episode as we say goodbye to our regular Michelle Yeoh coverage! Our epic finale has us listing off our Top 5 Action Scenes, our Top 10 Yeoh performances, and our Top 10 Michelle Yeoh Movies of all time - plus we're throwing in some other stuff just for fun. Until next time - thanks for taking it Yeoh.
Published 11/27/23
It's finally happened - we've caught up to Michelle Yeoh! It's the last regular episode of the season, and we're ending on a pretty high note - the surprisingly solid whodunnit A HAUNTING IN VENICE, the latest in Kenneth Branagh's Hercule Poirot series (based on the Agatha Christie novels) featuring Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, and of course, Michelle Yeoh.
Published 11/20/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh gets to voice Airazor, a Maximal Transformer shaped like a falcon in this summer's blockbuster TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS! Does a Transformers movie work without the requisite Bayhem? Is some kind of Hasbro cinematic universe a wise idea moving forward? Find out along with us!
Published 11/13/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh (along with most of the cast of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE) stars in the 2023 Disney+ series AMERICAN BORN CHINESE! This one's an underseen gem based on a beloved graphic novel, check it out!
Published 11/06/23
We are so close to the end of our Michelle Yeoh season - but we simply had to take a break this week to get back in the Cage. THE RETIREMENT PLAN, featuring Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Jackie Earle Haley, and Ernie Hudson, has finally been released on VOD, so it's time to talk about it!
Published 10/30/23
Michelle Yeoh closed out 2022 with a major supporting role on THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN, a prequel miniseries to Netflix's hit fantasy series THE WITCHER. Mike D is a big WITCHER fan, who has seen the show, read the books, played the games, you name it. Mike Smith has never experienced a WITCHER thing in his life. So this should be interesting!
Published 10/23/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh stars in this YA adaptation made for Netflix, reuniting with LAST CHRISTMAS director Paul Feig! Well, "stars" is a strong word - it's more like "appears in for about three minutes." Also starring Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburnce, and Olivia Rodrigo needle drops.
Published 10/16/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh stars in... an animated kid-friendly remake of Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES? That doesn't seem like a real movie, but somehow it is - it's time for us to dig into PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK!
Published 10/09/23
Are you ready for Gru to rise? Michelle Yeoh followed up her Oscar-winning turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once with a voice role in an animated film that inspired Gen Z to return to movie theaters dressed in their finest attire. It's time to assemble the GentleMinions to talk MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU!
Published 10/02/23
We finally made it. The movie that is arguably the reason we're doing this season of the podcast. Winner of 7 Oscars - including Best Picture and Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh - it's time for us to talk about the Daniels' epic multiverse extravaganza, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE!
Published 09/25/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh makes her triumphant return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - but this time, she's playing a different character with a bit more to do than in her brief GUARDIANS 2 cameo. Yeoh appears as Ying Nan in Destin Daniel Crettin's SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, Marvel Studios' first film with an Asian lead and primarily Asian cast. Also starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, and - in his very first English-languafe role - the legendary Tony Leung!
Published 09/18/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh teams up with Carla Gugino and Angela Bassett to fill out the Sisterhood of Assassins, a secret team who helps out Karen Gillan and Lena Headey in the 2021 Netflix release GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE! Is this female-fronted action film heavily inspired by the JOHN WICK series worth checking out?
Published 09/11/23
This week, Michelle Yeoh makes a brief appearance in Joe Carnahan's long-delayed sci-fi action movie BOSS LEVEL, finally released as a Hulu original in 2021. The film stars Frank Grillo as a man caught in a timeloop, but it is *not* EDGE OF TOMORROW, it's a different timeloop action movie - also starring Naomi Watts, Mel Gibson, and more.
Published 09/04/23