The Complete Works: Roy Scheider

It's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Smith is making Mike D catch up with Walter Hill's rock and roll fable, 1984's STREETS OF FIRE - meanwhile, Mike D is filling in a disaster movie blind spot for Smith with 2003's THE CORE!

This week, Roy Scheider gets his first leading role in a pseudo-follow-up to THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 1973's THE SEVEN-UPS! Come for the grimy '70s New York City crime setting, stay for an all-timer car chase!

It's time for a bonus Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike D is watching a Dario Argento documentary and catches up with BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE and ABIGAIL, while Smith watched David Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER for the first time and has thoughts on HIT MAN, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, and T...

Thanks to the help of one of our listeners, Mike and Mike were able to watch the 1972 TV movie ASSIGNMENT: MUNICH, starring Roy Scheider and Lesley Ann Warren. So now, we're talking about it!

We did it, people... after years of using the idea of Shrek 5 as an in-joke on the podcast, Dreamworks Animation has officially dated the fifth SHREK movie for July 1st, 2026 with the original cast returning. Naturally, we had to weigh in on what this means for the future of our podcast... and the ...

This week, we've got a gritty crime thriller and Roy Scheider's second collaboration with French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, THE OUTSIDE MAN! Also starring Ann-Margret, Angie Dickinson, a young Jackie Earle Haley in his film debut, and more!

It's time for the Mike Smith's annual Birthday By-Law episode, where he gets to choose a movie to talk about for his birthday - and this year, he's going with Howard Hawk's classic film noir, THE BIG SLEEP, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall!

This week, Roy Scheider takes off for France to play a small but pivotal role in Yves Boisset's L'ATTENTAT, aka THE ASSASSINATION, aka THE FRENCH CONSPIRACY! (Not to be confused with THE FRENCH CONNECTION, which was last week's episode.)

It's time for another Bonus Mike Makes Mike Watch! This time around, Mike D is making Smith watch Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon in the white-water rafting adventure film THE RIVER WILD, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with one of his favorite comedies in recent years, BARB AND STAR GO TO V...

It's time to talk about the film which brought Roy Scheider into the public consciousness in a big way - and still holds up as a crime drama masterpiece to this day. It's William Friedkin's THE FRENCH CONNECTION, one of the biggest films of its year, the winner of 5 Oscars (including Be...