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It's time for a monumental moment in the career of Elijah Wood, as the Mikes begin their journey through Middle-Earth with the epic fantasy film THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved book, FELLOWSHIP was a huge hit, the second-highest-grossing movie of 2001, and nominated for 13 Oscars. LOTR fan Nick Wermuth returns to the podcast to discuss the beginning of one of the greatest blockbuster trilogies of all time!

The Montana Film Festival is here once again! Mike Emmons, Artistic Director of MTFF and Programming Director of The Roxy Theater, returns to the podcast to run down everything playing at this year's fest!

MTFF runs from October 22nd through 25th. Tickets and information can be found at montanafilmfestival.org.

It's time for a first here on the Complete Works - we're covering a movie we've done on a previous season! And this one's about a cast of characters who've seen Better Days: we're revisiting CHAIN OF FOOLS! Elijah Wood pops up alongside an ensemble cast that includes Steve Zahn, David Cross, Salma Hayek, David Hyde Pierce, Tom Wilkinson, and of course, Jeff Goldblum in this little-seen crime comedy/Tarantino knockoff that we can't help but be a little bit charmed by.

It's time for another Ko-Fi donation episode! Thanks to a $50 donation from Dave, Mike and Mike are watching the 1985 adventure film REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS starring Fred Ward. The studio was trying to set up an American James Bond - and even brought in a director and screenwriter who made many Bond films! But something didn't click with audiences. Was it the white actor playing an Asian man? It's possible that had something to do with it.

This week, Elijah Wood appears in BLACK AND WHITE, a documentary-style film from director James Toback that explores white suburban teens obsessed with black culture. The movie's got an insane cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Brooke Shields, Gaby Hoffman, Mike Tyson, several members of the Wu-Tang Clan playing themselves, Ben Stiller, Brett Ratner, Jared Leto, and it's the film debut of Michael B. Jordan! Boy, do we wish this one was better!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Smith is making Mike D catch up with the classic John Frankenheimer thriller THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; meanwhile, Mike D is making Smith fill a '90s action blind spot with the Sylvester Stallone vehicle DAYLIGHT!

This week, Elijah Wood is paired up with Rachel Leigh Cook in the little-seen hospital drama THE BUMBLEBEE FLIES ANYWAY! Mike and Mike are asking the important questions in this one like, "Is this actually a stealth sequel to RADIO FLYER?"

We got a Ko-Fi donation this week to finish out a (sort of) trilogy from our listener David. At the beginning of this year, he laid out three actors for him to select movies for us to watch, and we've reached the last one: Stanley Tucci in UNDERCOVER BLUES! The 1993 comedy from the director of FOOTLOOSE which stars Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, and Tucci as Muerte... or is it Morty?

This week, Elijah Wood leads a huge ensemble cast that includes Jordana Brewster, Clea Duvall, Josh Hartnett, and more in the 1998 cult classic THE FACULTY! Doing for alien invasion movies what SCREAM did for slashers, the film is directed by Robert Rodriguez, written by Kevin Williamson, and features tons of fun visual effects and movie references!

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike D recaps his experience at the All-Nighter Horror Marathon at the Cinema Arts Center in New York, while Smith talks new releases like TONY, COYOTE VS. ACME, TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, and gets really into the new HBO series LANTERNS!

This week, the Mikes are bringing in Disaster Movie Expert Producer Collin to discuss Elijah Wood's first real foray into big blockbuster filmmaking, Mimi Leder's 1998 film DEEP IMPACT! Famously released around the same time as Michael Bay's ARMAGEDDON - a movie with a similar plot - this boasts a huge cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall, and more, all of whom are counting down the days until an asteroid collides with Earth.

This week, Elijah Wood stars as The Artful Dodger in the Wonderful World of Disney TV movie version of OLIVER TWIST! Also starring Richard Dreyfuss as Fagin - and if you watch it on YouTube, you can see it as it was originally broadcast, with vintage commercials intact!

This week, Elijah Wood begins transitioning from family films into more adult-oriented roles in Ang Lee's THE ICE STORM! As part of a large ensemble that includes Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Katie Holmes, David Krumholtz, and more, the film follows several families exploring the sexual morays of the 1970s. A melancholy film while also surprisingly funny, this is easily one of Elijah's best films of the '90s!

This week, longtime Mike and Mike staple Laura Colaneri returns to the podcast after a long absence to talk about - what else? - a horror movie! She's helping us dig into 1976's THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and deeply rooted in American history and the cultural morays of its time!

This week, Mike and Mike are joined by the members of the Original Montana Film Guide podcast to talk about Elijah Wood in 1996's FLIPPER! Also starring Paul Hogan and Jonathan Banks, the famous dolphin of 1960s TV was reimagined for a '90s audience, leaving us with important question like, "Did Elijah ever get to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in concert?"

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith watch the Ridley Scott war film with an insane early 2000s cast, BLACK HAWK DOWN! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D experience Chevy Chase in the classic comedy noir FLETCH!

It's been a little while, but we're back with an Off Mike Discussions episode! This time around we're mostly talking new releases like THE ODYSSEY, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, DISCLOSURE DAY, BACKROOMS, OBSESSION, THE INVITE, and more! Plus, Mike D spent the last two months rewatching all of GAME OF THRONES!

This week, it's time to talk about one of the most notorious films of the '90s, a movie that is arguably more remembered for Roger Ebert's scathing review of it than for the movie itself. So we have to ask: is NORTH as bad as its reputation? Could Rob Reiner - who had directed so many classic films - stumble this much in his generational run? Couldn't the insane cast this movie assembles save it somehow?

Well, it's time to find out - since Elijah Wood is in it, we've got to talk about NORTH!

It's time for the biggest movie of young Elijah Wood's career (well, unless you count BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II). This week, Elijah Wood is paired up with the biggest child star on the planet in the early '90s, Macaulay Culkin, for a tense thriller about a sociopathic child. Or is it a dark comedy? Did it really traumatize a generation? And most importantly - is it any good (son)? We'll find out if Mr. Highway is thinking about the end!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D continues our run of episodes on the films of Roland Emmerich by making Smith watch THE PATRIOT. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D catch up with one of his favorite films from one of the best filmmakers alive, Paul Thomas Anderson's MAGNOLIA!

This week, Elijah Wood is front-and-center as the star of the Disney adventure film based on the classic Mark Twain book, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN! From director Stephen Sommers (who would go on to direct Mike D favorite THE MUMMY), Wood stars alongside Courtney B. Vance, as well as a huge ensemble cast including Ron Perlman, Robbie Coltrane, Curtis Armstrong, and Anne Heche (in her film debut)!

This week, Elijah Wood stars alongside Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in one of the very first screenplays written by J.J. Abrams, 1992's FOREVER YOUNG! Gibson is a pre-World War II fighter pilot who gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the '90s, where he befriends Elijah Wood and goes on a journey to return to the one he loves!

It's time for Mike Smith's annual Birthday By-Law episode! This year, he's finally getting around to a movie he really should have seen by now: 2005's THE BAXTER, written, directed by, and starring Michael Showalter. He and Mike D talk about the movie and Smith's lifelong obsession with the work of Showalter and David Wain!

This week, Eilijah Wood stars as an imaginary friend named Day-O in a TV movie called... DAY-O! Also starring Delta Burke, Charles Shaughnessy, and Fred Thompson, and boldy staking their claim to Harry Belafonte's classic song a couple of years after BEETLEJUICE cemented it in a cinematic classic.

This week, Elijah Wood co-stars with JURASSIC PARK's Joe Mazzello in 1992's RADIO FLYER! Directed by Richard Donner, from the writer of THE SANDLOT, and also featuring Lorraine Bracco, Adam Baldwin, John Heard, and an uncredited Tom Hanks, it's a film that mixes flights of fantasy with realistic depictions of incredibly dark subject matter. How well does it mesh together? Now you can find out!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Smith is making Mike D catch up with his favorite Hitchcock film, DIAL M FOR MURDER! Meanwhile, Mike D is making Smith finally watch John Woo's first American film, HARD TARGET!

This week, Elijah Wood spends the summer with some family friends, learns some life lessons, and maybe teaches the adults a thing or two while he's at it! Wood stars alongside real-life married couple Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, plus a pre-HOCUS POCUS Thora Birch in PARADISE!

It's time to get back in the Cage! Nicolas Cage is now starring in his very first TV series, a pseudo-spinoff of SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE in which he brings the character of Spider-Man Noir from animation to live-action. The full season is available now, and the Mikes have thoughts on the first two episodes!

Director Barry Levinson directed some of the biggest films of the '80s, and he followed up his Oscar-winning hit RAIN MAN with a semi-autobiographical tale about an immigrant family assimilating into life in America. And since Elijah Wood is in it, it's time for Mike and Mike to talk about AVALON!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith catch up on Denis Villeneuve's breakout hit, PRISONERS. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D watch the incredibly fun Hitchcock-for-kids thriller CLOAK & DAGGER!

This week, Mike and Mike discuss Elijah Wood's very first starring role in the 1990 TV movie CHILD IN THE NIGHT! This is a semi-forgotten thriller that was rediscovered by Vinegar Syndrome a few years back, featuring JoBeth Williams, Tom Skerritt, Darren McGavin, and a lot more of Peter Pan and Captain Hook than you're probably expecting!

It's time for another Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Smith is talking new releases like MILE END KICKS, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, MORTAL KOMBAT II, and HOKUM, while Mike D is talking the latest season of GANGS OF LONDON plus his new tradition of Criterion Channel Sundays!

This week, Elijah Wood makes another blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the 1990 crime thriller INTERNAL AFFAIRS, from LEAVING LAS VEGAS director Mike Figgis! Featuring an insane performance from Richard Gere, a no-nonsense lesbian cop played by Laurie Metcalf, and WAY more infidelity than you're expecting.

"You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!" The wait is finally over - we're kicking off a brand new season of The Complete Works! As we look back on the films of Elijah Wood, we have to start by talking about one of Smith's favorite film series of all time. Elijah Wood makes his debut film appearance in a brief but memorable role in Robert Zemeckis' 1989 blockbuster sequel, BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II!

And now for something a little different on the podcast - we're not talking movies at all! Instead, to celebrate the release of the new film MORTAL KOMBAT II, Mike and Mike are ranking their five favorite video games of all time!

The Complete Works: Season 5 is finally set to make its debut! Look out for the first episode of our Elijah Wood season on Monday, May 18th!

It's time for another Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, both Mikes have thoughts on Lee Cronin's The Mummy, which of course leads Mike D to give some thoughts on THE MUMMY (1999), plus NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, THRASH, and REDUX REDUX. Meanwhile, Mike Smith has been singing the praises of SPEED RACER since 2008 and the rest of the world has finally caught up, and he's got thoughts on new releases like THE DRAMA, FACES OF DEATH, THEY WILL KILL YOU, and more!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time, Mike D is making Smith finally get around to Zack Snyder's magnum opus, the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D understand the power of rock with TENACIOUS D IN THE PICK OF DESTINY!

Thanks to a Ko-Fi donation, Mike and Mike are looking back on the 2020 Pixar film ONWARD! Mike D has never seen it, Smith saw it in theaters (one of the last pre-COVID releases he got to see before everything shut down!). Find out if they'd place it among Pixar's best!

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! Mike and Mike are talking a lot of new releases like PROJECT HAIL MARY, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE, SEND HELP, SCREAM 7, READY OR NOT 2, and more!

This week, thanks to a listener donation on Ko-Fi, Mike and Mike are talking about 1979's THE VILLAIN! Director Hal Needham (SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, HOOPER) made this Looney Tunes/western pastiche starring Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, and a VERY young Arnold Schwarzennegger!

If you want to choose a topic for a Mike & Mike episode, all you have to do is donate $50 to Ko-Fi.com/mikeandmikepods and let us know what you want to make us watch!

Sure we're almost two weeks late on posting this, but don't you want to hear the Mikes talk about the Oscars? We're recapping the ceremony, the winners, the Conan, the awkward presenters, and more!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time, it's a comedy double feature as Mike D makes Smith watch Todd Philips' OLD SCHOOL, while Smith makes Mike D watch Frank Oz's BOWFINGER!

Mike and Mike are bringing back Let's Rank to discuss their favorite movie monsters! The twist: Godzilla and King Kong are NOT allowed on either list - so find out who does make the cut!

It's time for another Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Smith is talking new releases like NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE, and even a few things with normal-length titles! Meanwhile, Mike D is talking PRIMATE, MERCY, MEL BROOKS: THE 99-YEAR-OLD MAN, and more!

It's time to return to Season 3 - Michelle Yeoh plays five different roles in a new short film centered on the night market in Penang, so of course we had to talk about it! ANORA and THE FLORIDA PROJECT director Sean Baker teams up with Yeoh to shine a light on a part of Malaysian culture rarely seen on film.

The results are in and the people have spoken - The Complete Works Season 5 will be about the films of Elijah Wood! Mike and Mike take a little time to look back on the poll and get ready for the season ahead!

This week, the mercurial icon and the voice of your generation Charley Macorn returns to the podcast for a Guest Makes Mikes Watch! And it' s a fun one - Charley is making the Mikes watch the 2000 camp classic PSYCHO BEACH PARTY, a pastiche of '50s beach movies and '80s slasher movies featuring Lauren Ambrose, Amy Adams, Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aunt Zelda from Sabrina the Teenage Witch and more!

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Smith is making Mike D catch up with THE BEEKEEPER (so that he's prepared for Timo Tjahanto's upcoming sequel!), while Mike D is making Smith cross an action classic off his list, the movie that pushed Eddie Murphy into superstardom, Walter Hill's 48 HRS!

The poll for The Complete Works Season 5 is now live! Head to BlueSky to determine whether we'll be covering Benicio del Toro, Elijah Wood, Kristen Stewart, or Philip Seymour Hoffman in our upcoming season. The poll will close on February 16th!