Taika Wai-TIFF-i and His Wascally Wabbit - MMOW 9/16/19

Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit wins the TIFF Audience Award, and we wonder if a Best Picture nom is in its future. We also review a bunch of movies, tv, video games, & pods before you blow our minds with another great SixDegreesOfMMO. NEWS OF THE WEEK: TIFF’s SHOCKING GROLSCH AWARD WINNER - :52 WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: AlsoMike - 8:04 (Tall Girl; Ma; Child’s Play ’19; Yesterday’ Blinded by the Light; DePalma; Holmes and Watson) Best Thing He Saw This Week: 18:35 Best Thing He Heard This Week: 19:40 See, Buy, Skip - 21:04 Mike1 - 21:45 (Scrubs; Penn and Teller; Chappelle Stand Up; On Becoming a God in Central Florida) SIXDEGREESOFMMO: Recap and Awards - 30:35 Winner + New Challenge - 37:32 BOX OFFICE UPDATE - 41:38 TRAILER THOUGHTS: Doctor Sleep Trailer 2 - 47:12 RIP Eddie Money - 49:53 DO YOU CARE (About…): This Week’s New Releases - 51:16 MoviePass Being Dead. Finally. - 54:38 The 45th Saturn Awards - 57:22 Margot Robbie’s Tank Girl Remake - 59:12 The Creative Arts Emmys Day 1 - 1:00:36 Disney+’s Soft Rollout - 1:01:15 HBO’s GoT Prequel Series - 1:02:39 The Suicide Squad Cast - 1:04:23 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 1:06:25 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:07:46 What a loaded MMO Weekly episode this turned out to be! Of course, we begin with some awards season talk after the Toronto International Film Festival picked Jojo Rabbit as its Audience Award Winner. Since there’s a strong correlation between this Grolsch sponsored award & the Best Picture category, we must speculate here. Then in What We’re Watching, Also Mike caught up on a bunch of new movies on VOD & Netflix like Tall Girl, Ma, Child’s Play, Yesterday, etc…, while Mike 1 re-lived his formative years with Scrubs, Final Fantasy VIII, and Penn & Teller. You outdid yourselves once again with SixDegreesOfMMO, and we give you another challenge for next week. There’s a box office update both abroad with Downton Abbey’s early numbers and with the surprise hit Hustlers & the continued profitability of evil clowns with It Chapter Two. We review the new trailer for Doctor Sleep, and then we discuss a ton of news & awards beginning with next week’s theatrical releases. Make sure you check out our OSP of Downton Abbey and stay tuned for our episodes on Hustlers & Ad Astra. Moviepass finally died, we talk about the 45th Saturn Awards and the first night of the Creative Arts Emmys, and there were fun stories about Margot Robbie producing Tank Girl, Disney Plus, Game Of Thrones prequels, & the loaded cast of Suicide Squad 2! We wanna know what you think! Share your takes on anything we discussed today or in any of our episodes. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Just click on our icon in your iTunes, scroll down a few seconds, and you’ll see those 5 stars. Clicking that will help us immensely, and we thank you. As always, we’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!