The Other Half

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...

This week we're bringing to you something spooky to listen to this Halloween! This is the first episode of Flies, Mike's murder/mystery podcast. It’s the story of a woman who’s trying to bring justice to her brutally murdered cousin ten years later. Things are not what they seem in Wilson, Kentucky. Subscribe to it here on iTunes or check it out on Soundcloud!   Check out https://shop.theo...

Listen to Demon House at your own risk there may be demons INSIDE THIS PODCAST. This is our first documentary ever for this podcast and it's a doozy. For those who don't know Zak Bagansis from the hit show Ghost Adventures. Him and his bro buddies used to go on fun ghost trips, which involved yelling at demons inside of houses. Here's his own solo movie about yelling at ghosts and expl...

Witches get stitches in The Craft. The boys take on the cult spooky movie that found a following among women who enjoy a more adult occult movie. The Other Half treatment for this movie leads to some interesting opinions about how the film shakes out. ------------------------ Looking for something creepy in to listen to in this hallowed month? Check out Mike’s podcast, Flies. It’s the story of a w...

Ethan and Mike tackle scary video games and virtual reality in the '90s with eXistenZ. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law star in this gruesome movie directed by Cronenberg. The plot is basically: Jennifer Jason Leigh must escape from hitmen. It's made difficult in a land where video games are plugged in through your spinal cord and you can't tell what is real. Get ready for some twists...

We kick off our Halloween Spooktacular with Demon Seed! A movie about a robot trying to impregnate a woman and create a robot-human hybrid! It's a weird concept and could only come out of the 1970s. Most importantly, it shows that some robots want to have sex! (Yay) But only because they can't make an artificial womb in time. (Boo) Demon Seed surprisingly takes this off the wall concept an...

Lindsay joins the boys to talk about the classic teen dark comedy movie, Heathers. Winona Ryder and Christian Slater star in a movie about teenage angst, depression and just trying to survive the high school experience. Christian Slater plays the bad boy, but he's like REALLY bad. Winona Ryder tries to fit in with the popular ladies but hates it. All of the other characters have their own issu...

Mariah Carey wants to forget Glitter. She doesn't want you to listen to this podcast on the movie. In fact, she'd rather get this problematic movie out her life and only refer to it as the "G" word. The boys talk about one of the worst movies of the early millennia. No one is exactly sure why this movie did so badly, as it was released on September 11th, 2001? Or was it just becaus...

What '90s kid doesn't remember Indian in the Cupboard? I mean this Frank Oz movie was the hit educational movie you and your friends had to watch. What was surprising was the amount of detail that went into the "historical" accuracy of the movie. Also the fact that Ethan and Mike, despite owning the VHS could not remember a single thing about the movie. What a weird concept though....

The Black Hole was one of Disney's last forays into live-action filmmaking. It was also the most expensive film ever to be made at the time and the first Disney movie rated PG. Sadly, when you're trying to combine Star Wars and 2001: A Space Oddessy, both ingredients come out half-baked. This is a movie Disney you think Disney would love to forget about, but actually, there are talks of a...

The boys dive into Nerve, a young adult movie based on the book by the same name. The movie isn't based on a well known young adult series like The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games or Twilight, but hey, enough people liked the book to get the movie made.  This is one of those high concept movies. If you wished Black Mirror was targeted towards teens, boy do we have the film for you! Imagine the w...

The Other Half takes on the Brian De Palma movie, Snake Eyes. The movie itself starts off great. It even continues being great right after the second half, but somehow the last fifth of the movie complete drops the ball. It sucks because there should be more great Nic Cage movies in the world. Honestly, Nicolas Cage is fantastic in this movie. It's just weird scenes like the one below that com...

The boys decide to check out Split starring James McAvoy, now that there's such a thing as the "M. Night Shyamalan Universe." People say M. Night is back making good movies. The boys remain skeptical. Can Night make a movie about Dissociated Identity Disorder in a sensitive provocative way? Or is this just another stepping stone to a shocking twist? Remeber we covered Unbreakable years...

The boys take on Mamma Mia! The infamous music which recently got a sequel as of this recording. This positions itself as a fun-filled movie staring ABBA's music, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth. Who loves ABBA so much, they'll sit through a paper-thin plot and mediocre cinematography?? Not Ethan that's for sure!   At least it's not offensive AND bad like...

The Other Half tackles, Tiptoes with first-time guest James. The movie Gary Oldman would probably love to erase off his IMDB page.  He plays a little person.... across from an actual little person (Peter Dinklage) who is French for seemingly no reason. The movie tries to tiptoe around its seemingly dark premise of bringing a child who will know a lifetime of pain romantic comedy wrappings. But no...

What if dragons came up out of the earth and destroyed all of humanity? Get ready for the most grim-dark medieval post-apocalyptic movie yet, with our good friend Matthew McConaughey's and newcomer, Christian Bale. 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...