All of our coverage of the Cannes Film Festival over the years in one playlist.

MMO Does Cannes

Our Weekly Awards Season News & Variety Show
Featuring All the Rumors, Buzz, Stats, & Speculation You'd Want.

Including
...Complete Coverage of all the Precursor Award Shows.
...Snubbabble vs Unsnubbable
...Top 5 Golden Questions
...Make the Case & Other Movie Review Segments
...Film Festival Previews & Reviews
...Oscar Trailer Reactions
...Look Backs To Oscar History

& we're adding new segments all the time.

Oscar Race Checkpoint: Our Weekly Show On All Things Awards Season

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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CANNES 2023 LINEUP:
THE PALME D’OR CONTENDERS:
The Women Directed Ratios - 1:16
US Movies: Asteroid City + May December - 3:15
UK Movies: Firebrand, The Old Oak, Zone of Interest - 6:43
Italy Films: La Chimera, Beloccio’s Kidnapped, The Sun of the Future - 9:17
French Films: Last Summer, Anatomy of a Fall, The Pot on Fire - 12:22
Japan Films: Kore-eda’s Monster, Perfect Days, Youth (Spring) - 14:51
Club Zero from Austria - 20:11
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Out of Competition Films Include Killers and Indy 5 - 21:43
I Saw The Devil, but Funny! - 24:28
Johnny Depp in a Period Piece - 26:33
The New Boy w/ Cate Blanchett is Mesmeric - 29:13
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HBO MAX BECOMES MAX:
The Details - 34:50
The Harry Potter Remake; and Why? - 36:22
True Detective, The Regime, The Sympathizer All Are…Interesting- 40:30
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ALL THE NEW STAR WARS SHOWS AND MOVIES ANNOUNCED - 48:26
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ALSOMIKE EATS HIS WAY THROUGH NEW DIRECTORS NEW FILMS:
Leila’s Brothers (and Its Horrible Controversy) + Shrimp Tacos - 52:55
Showing Up and World Famous Banana Pudding - 57:41
Autobiography + Suzume May Have Oscars Legs - 1:01:56
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MIKE1 RUNS DOWN A SMATTERING OF RECENT WATCHES - 1:08:57
(Rye Lane, Vengeance ’22, No Way Out ’87, Escape Room 2, Don’t Breathe 2)
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Erick’s Work/Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 1:17:27
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 1:18:16

Cannes Lineup, MAX Rebrand, and Why, Potter, Why? - ORC 4/19/23

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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ODDS N’ ENDS:
Joker 2 Trailer Beats Barbie’s Viewership - 2:03
We’re Very Wrong About Maxxxine - 5:23
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THE 2024 CANNES LINEUP IS ANNOUNCED:
Recent Cannes/Oscars Crossover - 8:19
The “Extended Looks” Irk Mikes - 10:45
WHO GETS MEGALOPOLIS? ANYBODY?! - 13:53
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Anora, The Apprentice, and Bird - 18:31
Kinds of Kindness, Oh Canada, Parthenope - 26:04
The Shrouds, The Substance, Rumors - 30:52
Emilia Perez, Limonov, The Balconettes - 36:30
The Girl w/ the Needle, The Second Act - 41:45
“Very White, and Very Male” - 45:12
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GOTHAMS WILL HAVE SOLO TV AWARDS SHOW - 46:27
WHY DID THE SPEAK NO EVIL REMAKE…?! - 48:35
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REVIEWS:
The First Omen - 52:45
Civl War - 56:34
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Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 1:06:17
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 1:07:02

Cannes' Lineup and some Civil War for Dessert - ORC 4/13/24

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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RECAPPING THE FESTIVAL OVATION LENGTH MEANINGS - 1:10
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CANNES 2024 BEGINS:
Meryl ONLY Gets a 2 Minute Ovation, The Failure - 2:02
Furiosa Proves Why Cannes Needs MMO - 4:15
The Second Act Basically Gets Boo’d or Whatever - 9:06
Some Early Cannes Surprises: Wild Diamond; Girl w/ the Needle - 11:00
Bird Proves Why Cannes Needs MMO - 13:28
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CANNES TRAILERS:
Megalopolis Trailer and Controversy/Guardian Article - 18:16
The Shrouds - 25:17
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CONTENER TRAILERS (NON-CANNES):
Wicked’s 74 Minute Pre-Movie Movie Trailer - 28:00
Didi Trailer #1 - 32:00
National Anthem Trailer #1 - 34:32
Never Let Go Trailer #1 - 37:18
It Ends With Us Trailer #1 - 38:22
You’re Cordially Invited - 39:55
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ALSOMIKE REVIEWS BACK TO BLACK - 42:02
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GREENLIGHT NEWS:
Happy Gilmore 2 Officially a Go - 45:21
Peter Jackson Blesses a Gollum Movie - 47:05
VENU Sports is a Coming Sports Bundle - 49:14
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Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 51:12
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 51:46

Why Cannes Needs MMO - ORC 5/17/24

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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CANNES 2024, PART 2:
Megalopolis is a Partial Pundit Parade - 1:33
Kinds of Kindness is Yorgos Being Yorgos - 6:38
Emilia Perez May Be The Big Breakout - 12:13
Oh Canada Disappoints - 16:02
Horizon Brings the Mikes to Their Breaking Point - 17:34
The Substance is a Dark Horse Palme Contender - 23:10
Rumours is for the Political Junkies - 26:50
The Apprentice is Level Headed - 28:40
The Surfer/On Becoming a Guinea Fowl - 30:58
Caught By The Tides/When The Light Breaks - 32:26
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#UnofficialOfficialFestivalOvationOfficials + Palme Race Check In - 34:08
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LONGLEGS TRAILER 2 REACTIONS - 40:10
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BOX OFFICE REPORT/REVIEWS:
IF Has a Confusing Week at #1 - 44:08
AlsoMike Reviews The Strangers ’08 - 46:41
AM on I Saw the TV Glow - 49:40
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Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 53:35
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 54:27

Cannes Rolls On, But The Mikes Are Livid - ORC 5/21/24

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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FOUR DAY OLD CANNES REVIEW + WRAP-UP:
Anora Wins Palme, Oscars Next? - 2:09
All We Imagine As Light Wins 2nd Place - 8:57
Emilia Perez’s Best Actress Award(S) May Have Backfired - 11:40
The Substance, Seed of the Sacred Fig Win Screenplays - 16:57
Grand Tour Has the Best Director - 23:31
Jesse Plemons Wins Best Actor and Highlights New K of K Teaser - 24:40
Black Dog Comes w/ a Warning - 28:51
A Trio of Awards w/ Serious Gravitas - 30:53
Palme Dog Winner + Best First Film Winner - 34:44
Shockingly Low Scores for 2 Big Name Movies - 38:35
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Acquisitions Tally - 40:45
Unofficial Official Festival Ovation Officials Rundown - 45:23
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Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 50:44
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 51:54

Four Day Late Cannes 2024 Recap Spectacular! - ORC 5/30/24

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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BIFA NOM ARE OUT:
Overall Nom Tallies - 2:26
(and Big Orkney Talk)
Best BIFA/International BIFA May Shape the Oscars - 6:17
Director and First Time Director - 10:23
Performing BIFAs - 12:35
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARD NOMS TOO:
History and Nom Tallies - 17:32
Director and Screenwriter - 20:40
Performances - 22:30
What is Bye, Bye Tiberius? Mike1 Tells Us - 25:16
The Rest - 28:00
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HOLLYWOOD MUSIC AND MEDIA AWARD NOMS:
History and Tallies - 32:11
Predictions and Categories - 34:06
Original Score Convo - 41:55
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TRAILER REVIEWS:
September 5 - 46:22
The Brutalist Teaser - 48:32
Queer - 52:42
Maria + Unstoppable - 55:25
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
M1 on The Substance - 1:00:08
The Mikes Cope-Watches - 1:03:00
M1 on Daughters - 1:04:28
AlsoMike on Heretic - 1:06:19
and Other Docs, Daddio, We Grown Now, and more - 1:07:40
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WHAT’S NEXT/LEAVE US 5 STARS/WORDS OF WISDOM - 1:12:50

BIFA, EFA, Leave a Sleeve for Whiz Khalifa - ORC 11/9/24

INTRO - Why we are exactly 75% accurate.

Cinematography before that Golden Frog - 1:57 
Costume Design & why the goths will not accept us - 4:13 
Film Editing and a Mike 1 finally tells us how he really feels about Dune - 6:30 
Makeup and Hairstyling and evil Donald Duck - 11:03 
Production Design and the catacombs of what could have been - 13:39
Original Score and which makes the chores go the fastest - 16:15 
Original Song and how Diane Warren gets in again - 19:15 
Sound Design and how Dylan Goes Electric could be melodious - 21:18 
Visual Effects and we shall divide the baby in twain - 22:36 
International Feature and wishcasting for Ireland - 24:48 
Documentary Feature and oops, we almost did it again - 29:30 
Animated Feature and why it sucks that so many of these films are too good - 32:46 
Supporting Actress and how our pandering to the Irish isn’t working at all - 35:21 
Supporting Actor and how this is the key to several other categories - 38:32 
Original Screenplay and how this category is all over the place - 42:46 
Adapted Screenplay and what the popcorn bucket loving world thinks - 45:08 
Lead Actor and Mike 2’s burger plan to watch The Brutalist- 47:40 
Lead Actress and how we both believing a lot of hype right now - 53:58 
Director and how drastically things have changed in this category - 59:53 
Picture and the post election effect of it all - 1:04:58 
Tallies to make us at least look like we can fake it as real pundits - 1:09:19

OUTRO - Let us know your thoughts & predictions, and if you like our show, please leave us some positive ratings and reviews. What’s Coming Next from us is a bunch of Film Study Reviews, and some words of wisdom that’ll makes your everyday life much better. 

Updated Oscar Predictions - Fall Picks with a 75% Accuracy Guarantee - ORC 11/13/2024

INTRO - lots of Oscar Race Precursor Checkpointing for us today.

AWARDS NEWS: 
The 15th Governors Awards - 1:20 
A Documentary Feature Race Checkpoint - 6:53 
The Camerimage Noms for Cinematography & Controversy - 13:34 
THR’s Festival Standing Ovation Crossover Study - 16:12 

FUTURE MOVIE NEWS: 
Spielberg’s upcoming UFO film is casting - 20:59 
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming (werewolf) film is also casting - 23:34 

BOX OFFICE REPORT:
Catching Up on 2 Weeks Ago - 25:09
Red One confuses us - 25:39 
The Final Gladiator II & Wicked Primer - 31:25 

TRAILERS:
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - 37:17 
The Last Showgirl - 41:40 
I’m Still Here - 43:50 
Babygirl (Trailer 2) - 46:54 
The Room Next Door (Trailer 2) - 48:21 
How To Train Your Dragon - 49:33 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING - 51:41 
A massive list of films that we’ve been watching, and there’s a whole lotta fun detours in the conversation. Your Monster, True Grit, Fear Street Part One, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Terms of Endearment, Sweet Smell of Success, Rumours, Challengers, Boy Kills World, Close To You, WNUF Halloween Special, My Old Ass, Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid. Dickweed. Manhunter, Charlie Wilson’s War, Shock and Awe, Vice, Shrinking Season 2, Letterkenny Seasons 1-8, Blue Ruin, and Mystic River. 

OUTRO - 1:13:55. How to contact us, your homework, words of wisdom as we prepare for Thanksgiving, and what’s coming next from us includes Gladiator II and Wicked film studies.


Glicked, Gov & Doc Awards, Ovation Studies, Final Reckonings + 20 Movie Reviews - ORC 11/21/24

What is This Episode? - Top of Show
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ASTRA AWARD NOMS GIVEN OUT:
List of Noms per Movie - 3:16
A Wicked Road - 5:05
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AWARDS NEWS:
The Girl with the Needle Wins the Golden Frog - 11:11
BIFA Gives Their Crafts - 13:32
AARP Awards Their Noms - 16:43
AAFCA Select Their Tributes - 20:05
Chalamet and Mangold Get Gothams Tributes Too - 22:16
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BOX OFFICE REPORT:
Wicked and Gladiator 2 Are Having Great Weekends - 24:44
But Not as Great as Moana 2 - 27:45
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TRAILERS:
Lily and Stitch Live Action Teaser - 30:21
Snow White Live Action Trailer - 31:52
Elio - 35:47
The Six Triple Eight Trailer #2 - 37:15
Queer Trailer #2 - 40:08
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
MMO on The Piano Lesson - 43:14
AM on Lee, Parachute, The Good Half, Joy, Casa Bonita Mi Amor, Witches
M1 on Satan Wants You!, The Killing, Snack Shack, Places in the Heart, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon
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WHAT’S NEXT/LEAVE US 5 STARS/WORDS OF WISDOM - 1:05:10
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We're More Stuffing Than Humans In This One - ORC 11/30/24

INTRO - Is that guest host Nick Nolte or does Mike have a cold? Plus, we qualify the “everything and nothing” maxim. 

GOTHAM AWARDS + NYFCC OVERREACTIONS:
Sing Sing wins Lead & Supporting - 2:00 
Nickel Boys wins 2 Best Director Awards + Breakthrough Performer - 7:17 
A Different Man wins Best Film at Gotham & The Brutalist wins NYFCC - 9:26 
International Feature goes twice to All We Imagine As Light - 14:13 
Documentary goes twice to No Other Land - 17:22 
Breakthrough Director goes to Vera Drew of the People’s Joker - 19:39 
Gotham Screenplay to Azazel Jacobs, NYFCC to Anora - 21:34 
Thoughts on the Gothams Livestream / Broadcast - 24:03 
Gotham Tribute commentary featuring Sing Sing’s big moment - 30:02 
A Few More NYFCC Awards to Cover - 37:50 

BOX OFFICE REPORT:
Further breakdowns of the Record Setting Weekend for Moana 2 & Wicked - 41:32 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
Juror No 2 - 47:16 
Nutcrackers - 49:44 
Beatles ‘64, Yacht Rock, The Last of the Sea Women - 50:43 
Five Easy Pieces - 52:53 
Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Unforgiven - 53:57 
Network - 58:21
Through A Glass Darkly, Superman, Madden Docuseries - 1:00:17

OUTRO - How to contact and follow us, more Oscar Race Checkpoints to come, and some words of wisdom to live by this (and every) awards season. 
https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Gotham Awards & NYFCC Overreactions - 2024 edition - ORC 12/3/2024

It’s part II of our Cannes Film Festival coverage, and we have a lot of passionate thoughts. You get our reviewing the reviewing, and we keep you up to date on those ovations. Plus, we discuss a half dozen trailers and review a batch of new movies while we’re at it. 

CANNES PART DEUX: Reviewing the Reviewers 
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme - 1:24 
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague - 7:41 
Lynn Ramsay’s Die, My Love - 17:37 
Ari Aster’s Eddington - 23:49 
The Secret Agent starring Wagner Moura - 28:19 
A Magnificent Life from Sony Pictures Classics - 34:02 
Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water - 35:24 
Harris Dickinson’s Urchin - 37:11 
Pillion starring Alexander Skarsgard - 38:41 
Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No. 3 - 41:15 
Other Notable Receptions & The Standing Ovations Tally Through Sunday - 42:18

TRAILER REVIEWS: 
Ballerina - 44:54 
Together - 47:34 
Bring Her Back - 52:55 
Predator: Badlands - 55:32 
Nobody 2 - 57:44 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
The Accountant 2 - 58:38 
Clown in a Cornfield - 1:00:11
The Surfer - 1:01:50 
The Legend of Ochi - 1:03:55 
Streaming Movie Reviews: Summer of ‘69, Nonnas & Another Simple Favor - 1:06:33 

What Mike1 has been watching, including Dimension 20, Taskmaster, The Studio, The Last of Us, and The NBA Playoffs - 1:07:44 

OUTRO - We have another production meeting live on the air to discuss our next movie review film study. Plus, we talk more about how we’d handle the Cannes experience if we were made official timekeepers of the applause. 


Cannes '25 Part Deux: From Rapturous to Somewhat Muted - ORC 5/20/25

MMO is talk radio for movie fans with weekly news shows, reviews, previews, and special guests. We celebrate the Oscars by making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. If you love cinema, if you love showbiz, welcome home.

Cannes '25 Part Deux: From Rapturous to Somewhat Muted - ORC 5/20/25

Mike, Mike, and Oscar