Youngest Directors To Create Masterpieces + Movie Review: Masters of the Universe + Trailer Park: How to Rob a Bank
Movie Mike's Movie Podcast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What were you doing at 25? Some of the greatest filmmakers in history were making masterpieces. Mike explores the youngest directors to ever break through in Hollywood, from Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg to modern filmmakers like Kane Parsons and Curry Barker, and examines what it takes to make movie history before turning 30. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Masters of the Universe. It’s about a young man on Earth discovers a fabulous secret legacy as the prince of an alien planet, and must recover a magic sword and return home to protect his kingdom. Mike shares his experience seeing the movie in 4DX, Jared Leto’s performance as Skeleton and why this movie hit him on an emotional level that he wasn’t expecting. In The Trailer Park, Mike talks about How To Rob A Bank. It’s about a crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists, unaware that their growing viral fame has put them in the crosshairs of a veteran FBI agent and a brilliant software engineer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's movie podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | I am your host, Movie Mike. |
| 0:08.3 | Today I want to talk about the youngest directors behind the biggest hits because people are |
| 0:12.6 | hitting on a young director who is making waves right now saying there's no way this |
| 0:16.3 | person directed this movie on their own. |
| 0:18.7 | But when I look back in history on other directors who were |
| 0:22.2 | really young, but had massive, massive movie hits. In the movie review, I'll be talking about |
| 0:27.9 | Masters of the Universe. Did It Win Me Over? Was Jared Leto's performance good enough to not be |
| 0:33.7 | distracting? That's all I was looking for. Even though I wasn't a big fan of He-Man as a kid, I know how much it means to all the 80s kids. And the trailer park |
| 0:43.3 | we'll be talking about how to rob a bank starring Nicholas Holt. It is about a group of |
| 0:47.9 | people on YouTube going viral for robin banks and putting it all online. But they're doing it |
| 0:53.2 | for maybe a good reason. So thank |
| 0:55.1 | you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday morning movie crew. |
| 0:59.0 | And now let's talk movies. |
| 1:01.2 | From the Nashville podcast network, this is Movie Mike's movie podcast. The youngest filmmakers who |
| 1:09.3 | changed movies forever inspired by director Kane Parsons, who just had a massive hit with backrooms because Backrooms has now been picked up for a sequel, which I was telling you guys last week. |
| 1:22.6 | I enjoyed the backrooms. |
| 1:24.5 | I lived in the backrooms. |
| 1:25.9 | I could still quite possibly be there in the backrooms, but I knew this was the start of something beautiful. |
| 1:31.3 | Kane Parsons has made history as becoming one of the youngest directors ever to top the North American box office. |
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