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For this episode of May-usical, the boys traveled to Ireland in the modern musical Once! Made on a shoestring budget with musicians playing as actors, Once follows a down on his luck musician who finds a connection with a Hungarian immigrant. She brings the musical spark back to him. It's a fantastic end to a wonderful month! Ethan also talks about that one time he was a busker. Check out http...

Double the Annie! For this episode of May-usical, we decided to have a little fun and pull a gimmick off that we did for the Miracle on 34th Street! We watched the first half of the original and the other half of the remake. Annie is one of the most famous musicals and has seeped into so many aspects of our culture. This could be because it's great for children or the fact that the songs are c...

The next episode of May-usical features special musical expert guest Lindsay who brought the extremely influential 1972 Cabaret. The movie follows Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and her companion Brian Roberts (Michael York) as they try and navigate Germany in 1931. Sally seems oblivious to the world around her and just wants to enjoy her time performing at the Cabaret. She's a brilliant metapho...

Let's start off May-usical with Guys and Dolls! May is now an entire month of musicals! Guys and Dolls was made in 1955 and it shows. The movie follows two gamblers (sinners) in New York and the ladies they love. Even if they don't know they love them yet. Marlin Brando plays a wealthy gambler who suddenly made a bet that he can actually lose! Frank Sinatra plays a guy who runs a floating...

That 1981 film Heartbeeps asks the question, what would robots do on a fun adventure? Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters dressed up in horrifying robot costumes to answer that question! This movie doesn't have much of a plot, but it did only make 2 million somehow at the box office. This movie is bizarre. I don't think robots could reflect human interaction if the movie doesn't even fu...

The Platform is a high concept sci-fi film from Spain. Each day a large platform comes from the ceiling with food on it. It starts fully furnished at the top and gets slowly consumed as it goes down each floor. Why does this exist? Who goes here? Well, that's the fun of the movie, isn't it? This movie is also super freaking dark so if you're feeling the quarantine blues, maybe don'...

The 1981 film, My Dinner With Andre, features Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn playing themselves. The entire movie consists of them talking to each other for over an hour at dinner. They mostly talk weirdly deep philosophy from a place of privilege in New York City. It's considered a classic film. Please listen to this podcast if you always want to hear two in-over-their-head dudes talk about...

The French film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, took film Twitter by storm when it released at the end of 2019 in select theaters. Now the boys watch the movie about involuntary isolation, love, suppression, women's rights, and what it means to have power. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Support this podcast at — https://re...

Mia and Harrison from the Rewind and Reconsider podcast brought the boys Showgirls to watch! Like the film, not real life showgirls... that'd be kind of weird and also overwhelming. This movie, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven, is notoriously bad and was a massive flop in the box office. Luckily its badness gave it a sort of cult following. Imagine the director of in your face anti-war mov...

Okay, so we have to talk about the Cats movie. This is a movie Mike and Ethan have seen over 5 times each and for some reason, they just NEED to talk about it. Maybe it's because they've been stuck in a house together for over two weeks. Maybe they have digital toxoplasmosis. Whatever the reason here's a podcast that breaks the Other Half format and features two grown men in their late...

Flight of the Navigator is another one of those Disney+ movies. Hopefully, it's more like a Return to Oz and less like a Can of Worms. This movie is clearly a kid's version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Does it even hold a candle to that wonderful timeless movie? UGH, I'm so sad. We didn't find out about this until after the movie, but apparently the child actor from this...

Can of Worms more like Can of Penises! In one of our most phallic episodes ever, the boys lose their minds over what appears to be one of the worst movies on Disney+. Sometimes the Disney channel original movie just fails us all. Maybe it was good back in the day, but it just doesn't hold up. But hey it stars the mom (Erika Christensen) from Parenthood at least? Check out https://shop.theother...

Return to Oz is as if Dorthey stepped into the Dark Crystal universe while walking down the yellow brick road. Dorthey returns back to the land of Oz after suffering massive PTSD from losing her home. Made in 1985, this movie features a plethora of practical effects and claymation. It was hated by Disney and was a massive failure at the box office. But the sheer grim weirdness of this film allowed...

Not sure if we've ever been as divided about a movie as George of the Jungle 2. A sequel that clearly had almost no budget or notable (in-person) talent, but it looked like it was at least a lot of fun to shoot. This time George, who has been recast, has to learn what's more important to him: his wife Ursula and kid or his kingdom. Shame, because while he's dealing with that, Mean Lion...

Beaches is a classic hit movie about a couple of life long friends. With such different lives, they shouldn't probably be life long friends, but hey life is weird like that. Starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, Beaches was a flop with the critics, but a huge hit with the fans. The theme song from it actually was number one on the Billboard chart. But over 30 years later, does this movie...

The Fanatic is a movie that proves that John Travolta has some sort of eternal debt he has to pay off by taking awful and humiliating movie roles. John Travolta plays a mentally challenged "fan" who goes "psycho" and stalks the man he is a fan of. None of his friends stop him. He seems to be encouraged by society. Also, people are mean to him for no reason. It's like the Joker,...

In this podcast, we discuss our general disappointment in this year's Oscar nominations. We also rank the best picture nominations and talk a little bit about each of the films nominated. Also, we predict what will actually win this year's best picture! It's a nice little discussion that doesn't depress us at all. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the...

Wake up your dad it's time for Ford V Ferrari! Starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, this movie is about two dudes who just love racing and working on cars. Unfortunately, a little spat erupts between Ford Motor Company and Ferrari and ruins the whole thing. Please bear with us as we try to talk about cars and rich people fighting with huge wades of cash and resources. Check out https://shop...

The second entry into our Oscar month is Marriage Story! Marriage Story is a semi-autobiographical movie from Noah Baumbach starring Scarlett Johanson and Adam Driver. It's about two people getting divorced and all of the emotions that surround such an event. The main thing I got from this is that child evaluators are weird. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the s...

Joaquin Phoenix is the Joker! In Todd Phillip's somewhat controversial movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck. A comedian with mental issues down on his luck. All he wants to do is make the world laugh, but the world doesn't like him, man. IT DOESN'T LIKE HIM DAMNIT AND HE JUST WANTS TO MAKE THE HAPPY STILL ANYWAY?! BANG BANG EVERYONE IS DEAD. Also, Robert Deniro is in this movie. C...

The Holy Flame of the Martial World is a wild ass, balls to the walls movie. The plot comes at you fast and hard along with the insane high-wire action. We follow a brother and sister who have the idea to get revenge on the one super dope-ass white hair lady who killed their parents. There's also a lady called "Snake Boy". It rules. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to he...

Sid and Nancy depicts the bass player from the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, and his self-destructing relationship with his girlfriend Nancy. It's a weirdly simple name for a movie. This movie is hard to watch. It's two people with not a care in the world drink and drug themselves to death. But it does spark interesting Google searches like, what's the drug you do off of the spoon? Check o...

What better way to start off the new year than by watching, New Years Evil, a New Year's themed horror movie? It's corny but creative in its many weird kill scenes. What if a killer liked to kill every time there was a new year celebration in different time zones? Streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room...

Our last episode of this holiday season is Last Christmas starring Emilia Clark and Henry Golding. Emilia Clark is a rude person and she needs to learn the lesson of not being so selfish during the holidays. Luckily a new man enters her life to teach her to not be so inconsiderate to her friends and family. But this new man seems kinda weird, what's his deal? Why is this movie actually called...

The Man Who Invented Christmas is another take on The Christmas Carol but from the perspective of Charles Dickens. This movie portrays Mr. Dickens, Dan Stevens, as a man who just loves giving all his money away! Too much so that he has to ensure his latest Christmas novel is a hit or else his family will fall farther into crippling debt. It's soo much pressure! Basically The Man Who Invented C...