Top 10 Movies of the Summer + Denzel Takes a L in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ + Trailer Park: Bugonia and Why Mike Believe in Aliens
Movie Mike's Movie Podcast
Nashville Podcast Network
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The summer blockbuster season has come to end leaving the question for Mike, “What movie won the summer and his heart?” He ranks his Top 10 movies of the summer along with his 5 Biggest disappointments. IN the Movie Review, Mike talks about Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest starring Denzel Washington on Apple TV+. It’s about a powerful music mogul who is targeted by a ransom plot and then forced to fight for his family and legacy while jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Mike talks about Denzel Washington’s lackluster performance, why the movie lost him and the real star of the film. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Bugonia where Emma Stone plays a CEO who is kidnapped by people who think she's an alien. Mike talks about why she and Jesse Plemons are two of the best actors in Hollywood right now, her shaving her head for the flu and why he believes in aliens.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | I am your host, Movie Mike. |
| 0:08.2 | Today, the question is, what was the movie of the summer? |
| 0:13.0 | I have my top 10 summer blockbusters. |
| 0:16.0 | What will take the number one slot? |
| 0:18.2 | In the movie review, we'll be talking about Spike Lee's new movie on Apple TV |
| 0:21.6 | Plus, starring the one and only Denzel Washington called Highest to Lowest. And in the trailer |
| 0:26.9 | park, I love how Emma Stone has committed to the bit, shaved her head for the new Yorgos-Lantimos |
| 0:31.7 | movie, Bagonia. We'll get into that. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. |
| 0:36.4 | Shout out to the Monday morning movie crew. And now, let's talk movies. |
| 0:40.5 | From the Nashville podcast network, this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | What started on Memorial Day weekend came to a close on Labor Day weekend. It is the summer blockbuster season. |
| 0:56.6 | The sun has now set on my favorite time of the year for movies. Why I love summer blockbuster season, it's what gets me the most |
| 1:02.7 | excited. I think my passion for summer blockbusters is really what fuels this podcast. And why I love |
| 1:09.2 | them so much is because they are the movies that come out |
| 1:11.7 | every year that have an energy to them, that have an aura. And that is what I'm using to judge this |
| 1:17.4 | list. It's not just box office numbers. It's not just overall how good the movie is. It's how much |
| 1:23.2 | impact did it have in pop culture. What was the vibe in the lobby? What were the emotions like in |
| 1:29.9 | that theater? And also, how did that translate into the real world after? Did it create a moment on |
| 1:35.0 | TikTok? Was I still thinking about this movie two, three weeks later after I saw it in theaters? Did I go |
| 1:41.2 | see it again? It is movies that demand the big screen movies that had a lot |
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