2025-26 Oscar Profile Movie Review Film Study Episodes

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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SINNERS OSCARS PROFILE:
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Spoiler-Free Review:
Historic Box Office/Review Scores and WB Redemption - 2:06
Coogler’s “Studio Ruining” Deal - 11:52
The Fumbling of Marketing Black Helmed Films Internationally - 15:00
Expectations/What is an Oscars Movie? - 18:43
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Michael B Jordan - 23:11
Casting/Supporting Performances - 25:37
Ludwig Göransson and Music - 28:06
Cinematography/Prod Design/Costume/MUAH/VFX - 29:50
How Many Noms? - 35:14
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SPOILER WARNING - 40:46
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Spoiler-Filled Review:
A Blues Movie or a Vampire Movie? - 42:00
The Conflict Isn’t What You Think - 48:42
THE Scene - 51:42
The Dilemma - 54:06
In Too Deep and Over Our Heads - 1:01:45
More Highs and Lows - 1:08:00
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FINAL GRADES - 1:15:27
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MMO What’s Next/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:16:48

Sinners Oscars Profile - When Coogler Went God Mode - Ep 478

We very much enjoyed Thunderbolts*, and here’s our full film study review treatment. Non-spoilers begins with big discussions on the MCU and its box office trends, and as always, we build to an Oscars Lens. Then we go beat by beat and discuss the plot in the spoiler filled second half. 

NON-SPOILER REVIEW SECTION:
A big discussion of the recent phases of the MCU and their box office - 2:08 
The Reception is very strong thus far - 9:01 
Our different MCU intakes of late - 11:50 
The Marvel Mental Health Awareness Movie - 15:54 
Falling in love with these characters & these performances 20:20 
Production Values including the unforgettable score that M1 forgot - 26:49 

Spoiler Warning - 32:07 

SPOILER REVIEW SECTION: 
Is Florence Pugh the next do your own stunts daredevil like Tom Cruise? - 33:32 
Major MCU developments - 35:54 
Superhero meet cutes - 37:24 
The Bucky Barnes subplot with Bunk and Elaine - 40:42 
Keeping this new ragtag group together… somehow - 41:41 
Probably the most fun part of the movie - 45:28 
The Un-Marvel Like - 49:10 
Clear Themes and Messaging - 55:17 
The Final Scene + the Mid & Post Credit Scenes - 56:17 
We speculate about Fantastic Four & Doomsday movies - 58:53 
Final Grades & Final Thoughts on how this fits into Modern Times - 1:03:21 

OUTRO: We have a quickie production meeting live on air as we discuss how we’re approaching our 100% Accurate Way Too Early Predictions. Plus, M2 actually praises recap videos on Youtube for helping him with this episode. Otherwise, please follow us on our socials and feel free to reach out. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Thunderbolts* - Save us, Florence Pugh. You're our only hope - Ep. 479

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
“IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT” WINS THE PALME D’OR
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING: OSCARS PROFILE:
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Spoiler-Free Review:
Scores, Box Office, and the Cruise-ness of It All - 3:21
Why Paramount Doesn’t Need This to Break the Bank - 12:13
Script Thoughts - 14:18
Chaotic, Boring, Mishandled…Amazing - 19:00
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Tom Cruise - 21:42
Ensemble - 24:34
Production Values - 26:55
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SPOILER WARNING - 30:12
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Spoiler-Filled Review:
The Mike1 School of Film Marketing - 31:08
“Hey, Why Not…” for A Few, Minor, Basically Invisible, Tiny Plot Holes - 33:26
Gabriel’s Dead End + Fan Service - 42:01
Star Wars-ing - 44:32
Parts of This Movie That’d Kill the Mikes - 47:32
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FINAL GRADES - 53:58
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MMO What’s Next/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 57:10

Mission Impossible 8 The Final Reckoning Oscar Profile - RUN, TOM! AGAIN! - Ep 480

Kolby Mac returns to review James Gunn’s Superman. It’s a massive film study, a pointed Oscars Profile, and we have the perfect guest for the occasion. 

NON-SPOILER REVIEW SECTION FOR SUPERMAN:
Reception, Box Office, & Our Movie Watching Experiences - 2:37 
General Thoughts + Comparing to other James Gunn Films - 10:16 
Why “superhero fatigue” is a premise for this story - 15:50 
Rewatchability, The Superman Problem & Worldbuilding - 19:11 
How the Politics are benign - 24:48 
An Ensemble of Strong Performances - 31:39 
Production Values and Oscar Lens - 40:57 

Spoiler Warning - 50:55 

SPOILER REVIEW SECTION: 
Changing the canon for good and for ill - 52:18 
Making character scenes count because it’s such an ensemble piece - 58:11 
Where James Gunn is ambitious - 1:02:05 
How a strong evil plan brings about a more rounded hero - 1:08:33 
Combating superhero fatigue & why it’s polarizing - 1:11:01 
More Bests & Worst Scenes - 1:14:29 
What’s coming next for the DCU & Our Grades - 1:20:32 

OUTRO: What’s coming next on The Kolby Told Me Podcast and where you can find all of Kolby’s work on the internet. Make sure you guys follow him on social media and like, subscribe and review & rate him 5 stars. He goes back with us, and we love having him on the show. As for what’s coming next from us, we’ll hopefully do some Mike, Mike and Emmy work with the Emmy Noms incoming this week. Plus, we will continue to follow the Superman Box Office and root for it in theaters. 

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Superman '25 w/ Kolby Mac - Gunn's Big Gamble - Ep 483

We review The Fantastic Four: First Steps in this Oscars Profile Film Study. The Non-Spoiler Section builds to an Oscars Lens, where we predict if this movie will get any nominations, and then we discuss the plot in its entirety in our 2nd Half Spoiler Section.

NON-SPOILER REVIEW:
Which of the Fantastic Four are we? - Top of the Show 
Place in the MCU Phase 6 and that Kevin Feige interview - 2:56 
No Homework - 4:28 
The Reception Thus Far + Early Box Office - 5:23 
Our Expectations & Common Problems People Have - 8:54 
What if James Gunn stayed? + Handling the Origin Story - 12:21 
Pacing Problems & We Wanted More Time To Hangout  - 15:17 
But we do get meaningful stakes + rounded, charming characters - 17:17 
Review of the Performances & Was Pascal Miscast? - 19:29 
Super Strong Production Values - 23:54 
The Oscar Lens on VFX, Original Score, Costumes & Production Design  - 26:57 

SPOILER WARNING - 34:22 

SPOILER FILLED REVIEW:
Talking Galactus - 35:13 
The biggest win for this movie - 37:40 
How The Movie Met or Did Not Meet Mike1’s Predictions - 38:57 
The Most Asinine Complaint about the middle action sequence - 41:51 
The biggest problem with the pacing, but we like the dilemmas in play - 43:06 
Leaving us wanting more - 47:52 
The Retro-Futuristic of it all & The Post Credit Scenes - 49:10 
Final Grades - 52:48 

OUTRO: Heavy breathing into the microphone distracts Mike1 while he’s trying to remember the Outro and belly drums as Mike2 hints at his NYC movie watching weekend. We continue to avoid discussing what’s coming next on the show so as not to jinx Mike1’s health. But do please follow us on our socials and rate & review our show: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

And we do recommend our previous MCU Playlists on Soundcloud, which you can enjoy here. As always, thanks for listening. 

Marvel Cinematic Universe Series Review
https://soundcloud.com/mikemikeandoscar/sets/mcu-series-review-1

Avengers Endgame Coverage
https://soundcloud.com/mikemikeandoscar/sets/avengers-endgame-coverage


The Fantastic Four: First Steps Film Study - Yeah, You Eat Dat Planet - Ep 484

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Superman '25 w/ Kolby Mac - Gunn's Big Gamble - Ep 483

Mike, Mike, and Oscar