The Other Half

Straight from Sweden, dripping with existential dread, comes the famous film, The Seventh Seal. This movie is considered one of the greatest of all time, but it came out in the '50s! Does it still hold up today. Despite our positive talk, this episode is NOT sponsored by the Criterion Channel. If you're hungry for us, talking about well-regarded classic movies in the history of cinema you...

Phelan joins the podcast to do what she does best, bring awful girly movies to the podcast! John Tucker Must Die is of the time and that time is 2006. Surprisingly, a lot has changed since then, but girls bonding together to bring down an awful man still resonates today. Let's just hope he learns his lesson. Check out some of Phelan's other girl movies such as The Lizzie McGuire Movie and...

Cool Runnings is based on the true story of the first Jamaican Bobsled team to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics. It's a Disney sports movie like Miracle! But how true is it? Don't worry, Mike is on the case! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-half/exclusive-co...

It's time to watch, Grave of the Fireflies, which is considered one of the saddest films of all time. Somehow the boys work some laughs into this Studio Ghibli film, but boy was it a rough watch. Just listen to our episode on the movie and it will take a lot of sting out of this absolutely devastating motion picture. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and...

Surprisingly, this episode won't feature the sound of music, but us talking about the hit musical The Sound of Music! We watched the classic Julie Andrews movie to see if it holds up and were just shocked by how much of an impact on it made on modern culture. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — http...

Somehow even the action movie, 48 Hrs, makes this podcast bring up Green Book. We can't escape that movie no matter how hard we try. Shame on us and shame on me. Look, it's a buddy cop movie set in the '80s with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, can you image how this will go? Surprisingly, this movie is far more serious than you may expect! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ t...

From the people who brought you "Angels in the Outfield," comes The Big Green. Perhaps the blandest sports movie to ever exist. The director, Holly Goldberg Sloan, went on to direct this insane movie called Heidi 4 Paws, which I've included at the bottom of these show notes. Look The Big Green is a mess. This podcast episode just goes into detail how speeding up action shots don't...

Y'all ready for the Oscars?!?! We are because we can finally be done with these episodes . In this bonus podcast, we talk about all the other best picture Oscar nominations and create a bingo board for your own watch party! Find a link to our bingo cards here! A PDF to a single one can be found here. Shout out to myfreebingocards.com for allowing us to cut corners and not make bingo cards ours...

Spike Lee brings power to the people in Blackkklansman. Green Book preaches racism was bad but sure is good that it's dead, while this movie spits directly in the face of that idea. Also, this movie totally has Steve Buscemi in it. Not his potentially evil twin. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — h...

A Star is Born saved Ethan and Mike from what's been a dismal Oscar season. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga carry the show in the fourth remake of this tragic love story. One thing never changes over time, musicians can be a handful! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-h...

It's time for us to watch a little political movie called Vice! It's all about how Dick Cheney came out of nowhere and became the most powerful man in the free world. But more importantly it's almost two hours for director and writer Adam McKay to ravage your sense! Remember when he just did Step Brothers and didn't try to say anything smart besides don't put your balls on your...

Our Green Book podcast takes aim at one of the weirdest Oscar nominees. Green Book has Viggo Mortensen learn from Mahershala Ali that racism is bad and just because you're rich, it doesn't mean you can avoid it. It also has little to do with the actual Green Book, which is deeply disappointing besides the fact that most of this movie is probably fake. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpod...

The boys begin their Oscar podcast month (two months?) with Bohemian Rhapsody! Basically, it's an acting showcase for Rami Malek to get his Oscar with a little story of the band Queen for good measure! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-half/exclusive-content Adverti...

Ethan and Mike watch the very '90s movie GO. It's got bad hair, Katie Holmes and a nonlinear drug/crime plot. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-half/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pr...

The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel is a weird movie. It's like three different movies all crammed into one. Tonally, it's all over the place and at the end of the movie it's kind of revealed to be a propaganda piece for the good old days. Plus that CGI blood is atrocious, but there's never a dull moment hanging out with the four protagonists. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodc...

What could be better than More American Graffiti? How about the fact that it takes place entirely on New Year's Eve! The boys tackle the ill-fated sequel to George Lucas' American Graffiti. What a fantastic bad name. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-half/exclus...

The Nutcracker 3D is one of the few movies on Rotten Tomatoes to boast a 0% rating. We have to find out exactly HOW bad a movie like this can be and yeah it's really bad. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-half/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcirc...

Pottersville is a Christmas movie barely related to It's a Wonderful Life and Jaws? When you have a cast this good, there's no way you can fail right? Oh, you could just cast everyone in the wrong role and make the movie about a town gaining popularity because Micheal Shannon tricked everyone by dressing up as bigfoot once. That's a good way to ruin a movie. Check out https://shop.theo...

The dynamic duo is joined by Ally to watch her favorite Christmas movie as a kid, To Grandmother's House We Go. She reveals herself as an "Olsenhead" and drops some deep Olsen twin knowledge that none of the boys certainly know. The movie revolves around a poor mom who lost her kids and can't find ONE competent person around to help her. Good thing her kids are adorable because, to...

The boys tackle The Christmas Chronicles. It's the most basic and generic story absolutely carried by Kurt Russell's great performance. Netflix is the king of inoffensive, unoriginal family entertainment. But hey at least Kurt Russell gets some work. Welcome to Christmas time y'all! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art...

Sierra Burgess is a Loser is a Netflix movie starring Shannon Purser of Stranger Things fame. Did you think your hero needed to lie more than the villains of this movie? Actually, there are no villains in the movie except for Sierra Burgess herself. The real star of the movie is Veronica. She has a rough life and actually learns a lesson at the end of the film. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfp...

In preparation for Hanksgiving and Mike's bachelor party, the boys watch Bachelor Party starring Tom Hanks in his third role ever! As an extra special bonus, Sam joins us for this episode who is Mike's actual planner of his stag party. The movie's plot is simple. Tom Hanks is getting married. Tom Hanks is told he can't have sex at his bachelor party by his fiance. His awful friends...

In December of 2015, the boys recorded Planes: Fire and Rescue, unfortunately, the hard drive containing the files was lost. Now, nearly three years later the files have been found. You can now listen to 2015 versions of Mike and Ethan (though I guess those already exist on this website already) in all their young, naive glory. This is the direct sequel to Planes, which was a spin-off of the Car&#...

The boys, fresh off of Halloween, tackle Atonement. This is one of those fancy upper-class British movies with big houses and forbidden romance. But there's a dark underside around the edges that isn't fully revealed until the end. Can you trust the plot of movies Mike and Ethan explain to you? Let's be honest, probably not. Honestly, there's a dark underside to this whole podcast...

The Witches be brewing up a storm at the Witches convention. I think that's the most Halloween sentence I've ever written. This movie, based on the Ronald Dahl book of the same name, follows a young boy and his witch hunting grandma as they go on vacation to help her diabetes. By pure misfortune, they end up at a witches convention at the same hotel. Wackiness ensues when the grand high wi...