What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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OSCARS SHORTLISTS ARE OUT:
How Did The Best Picture Contenders Do? - 3:53
International Feature Shortlist: One of These IS Your Winner - 10:50
MUAH Marked by its Misses - 22:06
Original Score - 25:17
Original Song is Barbie-fied - 27:30
Sound Has Surprises - 32:25
Visual FX: Not Oppy, So Who? - 33:50
Doc Feature: Another Late Entry, Because Of Course - 38:29
The Shorts Categories Shortlists - 44:45
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ALSOMIKE QUICK REVIEWS:
The Iron Claw - 49:18
The Boys in the Boat - 52:22
Anyone But You - 53:42
Wonka - 56:20
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Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 1:00:03
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 1:02:19

Shortlists, The Iron Claw/Wonka Reviews, Sexual Puns, etc. - ORC 12/24/23

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
Introducing Scott Feinberg, Awards Editor of THR!
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THE FEINBERG FINAL OSCARS PREVIEW 2024:
What’s the Oppenheimer Secret Sauce? - 2:54
(and What Even Is 2nd Place?)
Lead Actress: Lilly vs Emma (vs Sandra Still?!) - 6:10
(and Why 2 Oscars Matters More in the Acting Categories to Voters)
Supporting Actor: Why Was Everyone SURE About RDJ? - 12:25
What Oppenheimer Wins - 15:47
Barbie vs Poor Things in the Tech Categories - 19:46
Bradley Cooper - WTF - 23:34
Dianne Warren - WTF - 26:38
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Ratings Expectations w/ A Huge Oppenheimer Night Coming - 29:52
(and What if the Ratings DON’T Jump Up?)
Forecasting Potential Issues for This Years’ Show - 35:29
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Documentary Feature: Why Is This Primed for an Upset? - 44:10
Short Categories Double Standards + Their Future on the Main Show - 47:36
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THR and Campaigning During and After the Strikes - 53:34
How Scott’s Oral History of Schindler’s List Came Together - 58:38
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Where to Find Dave/Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 1:09:02
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 1:10:00

The Feinberg Final Oscars Preview w/ THR's Scott Feinberg! - ORC 3/8/24

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

We discuss the 97th Shortlists for 11 Academy Awards categories including International and Doc Feature, Original Score and Song, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound & VFX + the 3 Short Films. 

International Feature: Gringmar Bergman & cute college stories about Italians - 1:30 
Documentary Feature: the NBR could be anyone & next oscar year’s resolution - 13:30 
Original Score: liar youtubers & Mike hits the speorg note - 23:48
Original Song: performing vigorously & the correct snubs - 30:24 
Makeup & Hair: smooching heinie & two dolts getting it right- 39:01 
Sound Design: the Everything/Nothing & the NBR illuminati -  41:41
VFX: our wholeness & Droop Goo McBoob - 44:00 
The Tallies: Good Days, Bad Days & the D.E.D. Dead - 46:20

OUTRO - CDG & how everything’s coming up Mike. Da money is mine, and you can leave us your thoughts. What’s coming next is scratching an itch amongst friends, and wayyy too much information about AM’s upcoming NYC trip to see movies.

Oscar Shortlists & How We're Not Wrong Yet - ORC 12/18/24

It’s part 3 of our Woodstock Film Festival movie reviews as we discuss the 26th Awards Ceremony and some must see movies that won hardware. Plus, we review The Black Phone 2 & Shelby Oaks before diving into a non-spoiler AND spoiler review segment on After the Hunt.

26th WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS: 
An Audience Awards Winner getting its “second wind” in the Oscars race? - 3:52 
The Plague w/ Joel Edgerton wins Best Narrative Feature competition - 7:05 

Steal This Story, Please! Wins Documentary Audience Award + Our Review - 8:35 
https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-film-guide?filmId=689656bde56d04276a7b8bb5 

Floating Carousel wins the Ultra Indie Award + Our Review - 11:24 
https://bestdressedfilms.com/floating-carousel 

The Floaters wins Excellence in Directing Award + Review - 15:05 
https://floatersmovie.com/ 

OTHER WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL RECOMMENDATIONS / REVIEWS: 
The Ark: a doc on an animal refuge in the Ukraine - 19:30 
https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-features?filmId=6888d194890a9096ccbc5cce 

River of Grass: a doc on the alarming state of the Everglades in Florida - 23:31 
https://www.riverofgrassfilm.com/

Park Avenue: an NYC drama featuring a stupendous Fiona Shaw - 26:04 
On The End featuring Tim Blake Nelson in his best role since Buster Scruggs - 28:11 
https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-film-guide?filmId=68a721e699412b9ef7b6ba8b 

Eloise and the Dress: a hilarious short film in need of the feature film treatment - 31:14 
https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-film-guide?filmId=68bede7a397fa68e1fb335a0 

Whale 52: an emotional and adorable animated short feat the voice of Bruce Villanch - 32:45 
https://whale52themovie.com/ 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: 
The Black Phone 2 - 34:53 
Shelby Oaks - 36:29 

After The Hunt Non-Spoiler Section - 39:28 
Spoiler Section for After The Hunt - 45:47 

OUTRO: There’s a big musical biopic hitting theaters soon called Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. There’s a horror holiday, which we like to cover. Plus, we have Gotham Awards Nominations next week. Otherwise, we’re planning more reviews, previews, and interviews that we hope you’ll continue to enjoy. So please follow, like, subscribe, rate and review us via our socials or wherever you get your podcasts. As always, thank you for doing so. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Woodstock Award Winners, After The Hunt + Indie Gems & New Horror - ORC 10/22/25

Amy Herdy - documentary film producer of the Oscar Nominated The Hunting Ground, the 7x Emmy nominated Allen v Farrow + other award winning films & series like The Bleeding Edge, On The Record, Harry & Meghan, etc - Amy is now making her directorial debut with Parrot Kindergarten, available in select theaters on November 3rd. 

Synopsis for Parrot Kindergarten & Career Bio for our guest, Amy Herdy - Top of the Show 

The film’s origin story - 4:44 
How her perceptions were changed - 6:53 
Did Ellie get along with the film crew? - 8:07 
The size & scope of the production + advice from Doug Liman - 9:40 
Why she needed to direct  - 12:09 
The hard earned payoffs in this type of storytelling - 13:53 
How her past career as an investigative journalist drives her work - 16:12 
Being inspired by My Octopus Teacher, Errol Morris, etc - 19:12 

Watch the Full Trailer for Parrot Kindergarten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT_sY-2eOIM 

OUTRO: Thanks to Amy Herdy and to the team at Parrot Kindergarten for coming on Mike, Mike, and Oscar. If you’re new to the show, enjoy our lengthy back catalog of reviews, interviews and series, including our ongoing Hollywood News and Awards Analysis show called Oscar Race Checkpoint, also available on the same feed. You can help support us by leaving a like, hitting that subscribe button or as always, leaving a strong rating or review. Here’s our linktree where you can do so. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Amy Herdy, Director of Parrot Kindergarten - MMO Interviews - Ep 502

The Director/Producer of Class Action Park & How To Rob A Bank - Seth Porges joins our show to discuss his new film, SANTACON, which uncovers a treasure trove of footage of the group that started this red menace, the same people who launched Burning Man & the inspiration for Fight Club’s Project Mayhem, the Cacophony Society. 

You can check out Seth’s film at DOC NYC, including its World Premiere on November 13th at 6:45pm at the Village East Theater by Angelika with a 2nd screening on Saturday the 15th at 9:30pm: https://www.docnyc.net/film/santacon/ 

And SANTACON will also be available via the Online Screenings at DOC NYC here: https://tickets.docnyc.net/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=522060~bd725d56-8b11-414c-8cda-9ccb2ad3128d&_ga=2.65030766.1307042446.1762432735-1258641791.1760054829

On today’s show, Seth Porges discusses SANTACON from all angles past & present, including how the film fits with his filmography and films/TV that influence his style. Plus, we have fun discussing the Fight Club angle, the Michael Moore cameo, and much more! 

If you enjoy our show, please follow, like, subscribe, rate & review Mike, Mike, and Oscar wherever you get your podcasts, and stay tuned for more filmmaker interviews like these, more Oscar Profile movie reviews like Frankenstein, more special guest hosted shows like an upcoming Oscar Bets Special w/ the Duke of Bettingham himself - David Long, and of course, more episodes of our Hollywood and Awards News Coverage on Oscar Race Checkpoint with both of us Mikes via this same feed. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar 

SANTACON Website and Trailer: https://www.santacondoc.com/ 

Seth Porges - Director of SANTACON, Class Action Park & How To Rob A Bank - Ep 505

Sasha Wortzel, Director of River Of Grass joins the show to talk about her haunting new documentary on the Florida Everglades. 

Learn more about River Of Grass, watch the full trailer and buy tickets to upcoming film festival screenings. https://www.riverofgrassfilm.com/ 

And please follow us here at MMO on Social Media and subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Sasha Wortzel - Director of River of Grass - MMO Interviews - Ep 506

Alex Schmider is a producer of award winning films like Changing The Game, Disclosure and Chasing Chasing Amy, and his next film - KICK - will chronicle the amazing journey of 1500m distance runner Nikki Hiltz to the 2024 Olympics. 

Alex is also the Senior Director of Entertainment at GLAAD, where he oversees consultation and advising on TV, film and digital media that feature LGBTQ characters and storylines. Fresh off his inclusion on the OUT100 list, we are thrilled to have Alex Schmider join the show to discuss his incredible career & filmography. 

Read up on Alex’s latest honor of being included in the OUT100 List https://www.out.com/out100/2025/educators/alex-schmider 

Check out Alex Schmider’s filmography 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9559142/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_4_15

Learn more and support Alex Schmider’s good work at GLAAD https://glaad.org/ 

And if you’d like to support KICK - about Nikki Hiltz - here’s an opportunity to do that as well. https://seedandspark.com/fund/kick-1#story

As for us at MMO, please follow us on social media and support our podcast via positive ratings and reviews wherever you may listen. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Alex Schmider - Producer of KICK, Changing The Game & Chasing Chasing Amy - Ep 508

What is This Episode? - Top of Show
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BOX OFFICE UPDATE: 
Wicked 2 is Making Money, Despite Reviews Dropping - 2:19
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
Train Dreams Review - 5:34
AM Reviews The Running Man - 13:00
AM Reviews Predator: Badlands - 16:30
aaaaaand Being Eddie for Good Measure - 19:55
M1 Reviews The History of Sound - 23:10
AM Reviews In Waves In War - 27:17
Death By Lightning Review - 30:11
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MUSIC CATEGORY CATCH UP:
Clayton’s, Scott’s Current Predix - 32:31
HMMA Winners Include Sinners, Warren - 35:31
KPop Makes a HUGE Grammys Splash - 37:39
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DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY CATCH UP:
The Perfect Neighbor is the Front Runner…So It Will Miss Oscars - 40:49
Cinema Eye Honor Doc Noms - 46:12
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INDUSTRY NEWS:
Amy Pascal to Get PGA Selznick Award - 48:27
Sarah Jessica Parker Getting Globes’ Burnett Award - 49:45
The Globes Doing What the Oscars Should - 52:08
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CONTENDER TRAILERS:
Project Hail Mary Trailer #2 - 54:37
Hunger Games: Reoping Trailer #1 - 58:08
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WHAT’S NEXT/LEAVE US 5 STARS/WORDS OF WISDOM - 1:03:10
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https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Doc Feature Has a Leader, Which Means We Know What Won't Be Nominated - ORC 11/26/25

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.

New tracks tagged #Documentary Feature