The Other Half

Welcome to our new series for June, Bombs Away! We discuss movies with a massive budget that bombed BIG at the box office. We're starting off with a cult classic: Waterworld. For those who don't know anything about the award-winning stunt show at Universal Studios, Waterworld is a post-apocalyptic action film released in 1995 starring Kevin Costner. The movie is set in a future where the p...

HoneyBees is back to discuss The Towering Inferno with Mike and Ethan. The movie depicts a grand opening celebration for the world's tallest skyscraper, the Glass Tower, which sadly catches fire due to bad wiring. The film follows the efforts of the building's architect, played by Paul Newman, and the fire chief, played by Steve McQueen, as they work together to rescue the trapped guests,...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is our first, and probably last, Indiana Jones movie for the podcast! Harrison Ford, once again, picks up that whip and starts fighting Nazis all over again. Turns out you can't keep Nazis down. Joined by his goddaughter, Wombat, Indy gets sad about his old-man-life and goes on one final quest for the final piece of the Dial of Destiny! What does the dial...

Cocktail is all about showmanship and being a flashy bartender. It doesn't matter if your drinks taste terrible; people love the pizzaz! Tom Cruise brings the pizzaz in one of his earliest roles. We had expectations for what this movie would be about, and let me tell you in advance, it is not what we thought it would be. There's a lot less talk about cocktails than we hope there will be. R...

Cloak and Dagger was released alongside The Last Starfighter as a way of tying video games into movies! How does the kid from E.T. fare in a spy movie where he has to actually shoot someone and take their life? These are the deep questions Cloak and Dagger is asking. Also, imaginary friends seem all-powerful in this movie and can really get you out of some tight situations. Remember to join our Di...

It sounds like 80 for Brady is right up Ethan's alley. Ethan is satisfied with just an all-star cast of comedic women actors thirsting for Tom Brady in a movie that Tom Brady produced. This follows four ladies, most of whom are over 80, trying to find a way to make it to the Super Bowl. It's a cozy movie! Only one of them has any significant problems they have to work through, and in the e...

Okay so Lerepchaun: Origins we somehow missed. We apologize for this error and we're being punished for it by actually watching this abomination of a movie. Someone thought it would be cool to reboot the franchise and remove all personality from the Leprechaun and make his design so bad that he could be a monster in any other movie you've ever heard of. This is a seriously upsetting movie...

The seventh entry in the Leprechaun series is a sequel to the very first leprechaun movie! Although Warwick doesn't return as the leprechaun, other characters from the first movie do! This is exciting. This is what's been missing from the leprechaun franchise. We just need a little continuity and we finally have it. What a great movie to end the series on! :) Remember to join our Discord f...

The sixth entry in the Leprechaun series and technically a sequel to Leprechaun in the Hood, Back 2 tha Hood takes a much more serious tone than its predecessor. Weirdly enough it may have the best acting in the entire series. But is it enough to balance the total shift the movie makes? Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherha...

For the first time ever, we're watching a movie for The Other Half Podcast AGAIN! Let's see if Leprechaun in the Hood hits differently in 2024. Only 5 years after we originally recorded this episode . What new insights will our prior viewings of the leprechaun franchise reveal? Will we still even like it? What does our leprechaun friend have to say about it this time? Remember to join our...

Leprechaun 4: In Space actually may have broken us. Just like NASA, the budget is gone. There are people you recognize, but no one you love. Everyone is just a little bit horny. They've given up on the Leprechaun costume. Things are looking dire for this franchise. Sometimes movie franchises can have a correction period, let's see if the boys decide it's worth riding this franchise out...

It's Leprechaun 3, which means we're heading to the city of sin, Vegas! Our first direct-to-video movie in our latest Watch Til You Can't Series. It was inevitable I suppose. But maybe this one is a golden nugget in the VHS/DVD bin. There's lots of greed to be had in Vegas hopefully the Leprechaun can hit it big and not have his gold stolen...again! Remember to join our Discord for...

Whew, we're back with Leprechaun 2! What will the sequel hold? Is this even the same Leprechaun? There's no star power in this, so here's hoping this lives up to the original. Also, this was the last Leprechaun movie released in theaters. That doesn't quite bode well. Hopefully, we get some good rhyming in it though! Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast...

After watching all of the Oscar 2024 movies nominated for best pictures, Mike and Ethan sit down to share their favorites and their predictions for the big winner of the night of course making a tier list about all of them! We hope you enjoy our discussion! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://re...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day y'all! It's time to watch all of the Leprechaun movies until we can't! We start the series with the first movie, which you'd expect to be good enough to spawn at least seven other movies. It stars Jennifer Aniston before she became famous on Friends. Warwick Davis plays a crafty little leprechaun who just wants his gold back and will do anything to fin...

Ethan and Mike wrap up Oscar season with American Fiction! Jeffery Wright stars in a movie where he can't get a book sold because the books are just not black enough. So in a drunken rage, he starts writing a book that goes against everything he believes in while using a fake name. The book sells like crazy and hilarity ensues! A strange Oscar movie choice, but hey it calls out previous Oscar...

For Ethan and Mike, maybe their ancestors knew each other in their Past Lives. Maybe this podcast was inevitable. Maybe our ancestors were also discussing various forms of cave paintings before microphones were invented. Past Lives is another Oscar-nominated movie depicting two folks who separated when they were young and are reconnecting over the years. But things get sticky when 24 years later,...

Mike and Ethan continue Oscar Month with Killers of the Flower Moon. The latest in Martin Scorsese's extensive filmography. While not directly a mob, it shares some absolute core DNA with what Scorsese is known for. The movie follows Ernest who marries an Osage Native American woman, Mollie, who just happens to be part of a family RICH with oil money. Ernest's uncle is Robert DeNeiro so yo...

Mike and Ethan kick off Oscar month with Maestro! Bradly Cooper stars and directs a movie about the life of famous conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felica! It's a biopic about someone related to the movie industry so you know Hollywood went crazy for it! Is it worth the nomination though? Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discussions! Check...

Mike and Ethan finish up Shelly Winter's Wonderland with What's the Matter with Helen along with special guest NotTheHoneyBees ! While we worked through their suggestions for Shelly Winters movies we wanted to hear a little Shelly Winters lore straight from the source. What's the Matter with Helen is a horror exploitation movie set around two moms who are trying to escape from their mu...

Mike and Ethan meet with Bloody Mama, also known as Ma Barker a real-life crime lord! Ethan wants out immediately, but Mike is sympathetic to Ma and her boys. Ma Barker loved her boys maybe a little too much and they all became psychopaths and wreaked havoc on whatever local communities were nearby. Will this crime family have a happy ending? Shelly Winters plays Ma Barker. She originally played a...

Mike and Ethan catch a subway to Next Stop, Greenwich Village on their Shelly Winter's journey. What was this famous part of New York like in 1951? We follow an eclectic group of artists living in Greenwich Village who go through relationships, breakups, and Shelly Winters as their mother. Shelly gives the performance of a lifetime. Plus we spot a few big actors in some of their earliest roles...

We're kicking off our month of Shelly Winters, best known for Who Slew Auntie Roo? , with A Place in the Sun! A classic movie that's in America's Congressional library. We're giving her the spotlight she may or may not deserve, but at the end of this month, we'll know for sure. Welcome to a Shelly Winters Wonderland!! Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further po...

The boys ring in a new year with the New Year movie, Holiday! Starring Katherine Hepburn and Carey Grant, Johnny and Julia meet on a holiday in Lake Placid and fall quickly in love. They get engaged, much to the delight of Julia's family! However, when he meets them for the first time, things get weird when Julia's sister, Linda, starts revealing her worldview more aligns with Johnny's...

To close out this holiday season, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in the romantic movie, Carol, which is mostly set during Christmas! They have a thing for each other, but it's the '50s so any same-sex relationship is going to be treated as puppy love or even worse, a mental disorder. How are these two lovebirds going to make it out of this one?? Oh, Cate Blanchett also has a dang husb...