Mike, Mike, and Oscar

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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BACKROOMS OSCARS PROFILE
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Spoiler-Free Review:
The 4Chan Origins - 2:26
Scores, Projected Box Office, The YouTube of It All - 6:34
“He DiDn’T dIrEcT tHaT!” - 10:42
Script Thoughts - 15:34
Do You Go In? - 17:43
Do We Have Faith Answers Will Come Eventually? - 20:04
Performances - 25:21
Production Values (Backrooms’ Obsession Problem) - 28:23
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SPOILER WARNING - 36:18
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Spoiler-Filled Review:
Best Guesses At Themes - 37:14
Is She Gone? What’s With Mom? ANSWER THESE! - 44:46
Dinner’s Ready. But Why is She? - 49:07
Rope Diving and a Theory of Evolution - 54:10
Ahoy Matey - 58:07
The Most Important Question - 1:02:10
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FINAL GRADES - 1:03:07
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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:09:32

Forastera opens this weekend. Make sure to check out the film at the Film Forum if you’re in NYC. Make sure to check it out in Santa Barbara, and seek out this film in the upcoming weeks and months as it expands theatrically.

Information on the Film
https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/forastera/

Tickets for Opening Weekend
https://filmforum.org/film/forastera

Watch The Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq1Mjl8Bni8

Fjord wins the Palme! All of a Sudden’s Virgine Efira & Tao Okamoto win Best Actress, the boys from Coward win Best Actor, and La Bola Negra and Fatherland tie in Director. The Cannes Awards are here, and we discuss them all. Plus, we continue to review the reviewers and tally the ovations in Part III of our coverage of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

BOX OFFICE REPORT:
The Mandalorian and Grogu Reviewed - 1:35
Obsession Rewatched - 4:36

CANNES COVERAGE PART III:
Fjord wins the Palme and a bunch of independent awards - 9:44
Minotaur takes 2nd - 15:37
A tie in Director between La Bola Negra and Fatherland - 18:03
Netflix Acquisitions: La Bola Negra, Gentle Monster & In Waves - 20:31
Best Actress to Efira & Okamoto from All of a Sudden - 21:40
Best Actor to Macchia & Champagne of Coward & MUBI’s Acquisitions - 23:58
The Jury Prize to The Dreamed Adventure - 23:36
Best Screenplay to A Man of His Time - 27:54
Un Certain Regard’s FIPRESCI PRIZE & Camera D’or to Benimana - 29:43
Everytime and Elephants in the Fog take 2 other top prizes - 33:58
Past Un Certain Regard Film That Have Gone onto Oscar Noms - 37:47
The Queer Palme goes to Teenage Sex and Death - 38:43
A24’s Club Kid scores the largest acquisition price at Cannes - 39:23
Victorian Psycho isn’t set in the Middle Ages but has contemporary music - 41:59

Out of Competition Discussions - 46:51
John Travolta’s Propeller One Way Night Coach, South Korea’s Zombie Film - Colony, Nicholas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, Andy Garcia’s Diamond & Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner.

The Final Standing Ovations Tally - 55:22

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What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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NETFLIX IS PUTTING CLIFF BOOTH IN IMAX - 1:43
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CANNES 2026, PART 2:
The Black Ball Gets a TWENTY MINUTE* Ovation - 8:53
Fjord is a Palme Threat - 14:31
The Man I Love Brings Malek Back to Oscars Fringe - 23:36
Sheep in the Box/Bitter Christmas Are Middling - 28:00
Minotaur Makes 4 - 34:28
The Unknown’s Review Leads to a Mike Fight - 36:51
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Overall Ovation Standings So Far - 42:15
What Films Can Win the Palme? - 43:50
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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 52:36

Conan returns as the Oscars Host, and we discuss the advantages of this. Then we dive into the Cannes Film Festival in part I of our coverage episodes, including an early Palme D’or and Best Picture favorite that one of us already predicted!!!

CONAN RETURNS AS OSCARS HOST - 2:10

CANNES COVERAGE 2026 Part I - 10:20
Paper Tiger and the Mikes have separate rants about the applause timers - 10:42
All of a Sudden and AlsoMike rants against Mike1’s prediction powers - 19:03
Fatherland, the 5 Minute Rule & Multiple Acting Noms in the same category? - 26:55
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma finally makes us happy - 34:52
Why Parallel Tales is considered the worst film ever made? - 38:10
Gentle Monster & Lead Actress Campaign for Lea Seydoux - 41:04
Clarissa and the stellar cast that makes an awards run possible - 47:03
The Beloved is not Sentimental Value, nor does it seem sentimental - 48:39
Hope seems cool - 50:48

Tallying the Ovations - 56:37
John Travolta’s Outfit - 58:36

OUTRO: Stay tuned for more coverage episodes on the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where we will continue to Review The Reviewers & Tally The Standing Ovations. You’re welcome. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandosc