The Other Half

Let's watch a classic summer horror movie from the 1970s: Piranha!! Just how did these Piranhas make it all the way to the States? This movie says, "Don't worry about it. We know what you want to see: bodies of water turning red!" We certainly didn't expect a cool little animated fish man created by Phil Tippett walking around a scientist's lab for no reason. This is a clas...

The Meg is here to continue our train of summer-vibe horror movies! Jason Statham stars in this massive blockbuster hit from 2018. Some people are here just to watch big sharks eat things, and nothing is bigger than a Megladon. Is this blockbuster worth the hype? Or is it just more chum that Hollywood is releasing to the masses? Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast dis...

The Final Girls kick off our month of Summer Screaming! In August, we're talking about horror movies with summer vibes. What's more summer than a summer camp of horror? The Final Girls is a meta-commentary of the horror movie genre, specifically the final girl trope. Five unsuspecting filmgoers are sucked into a campy horror movie they're watching. What makes it more complicated is tha...

The cover and the trailer seem quirky, but Blow Dry is a serious movie about a silly hair-styling competition. Alan Rickman stars as Phil, a distant dad to Josh Hartnett, who looks like he's from Dumb and Dumber. He returns to town for a massive hair competition that his ex-wife Shelly, played by the late Natasha Richardson, is entering. Shelly faces fierce rivalry from Bill Neighy, who has a...

Kate and Leopold asks the question, can a working woman find love with her ex-boyfriend's great-grandpa? Kate & Leopold is a romantic comedy directed by James Mangold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman in the titular roles. There's also Liev Schreiber. It's Wolverine and Sabertooth if they were somehow related. Leopold gets sent from 19th century New York and is placed in modern-d...

Clifford's basic premise is, what if PeeWee Herman was a horrible gaslighting monster? Clifford is a comedy film starring Martin Short as the main character, a 10-year-old named Clifford Daniels. Despite being 40 years old while filming, Martin Short said age is just a number and went for it! Clifford needs to go to Dinosaur World. Clifford's relentless schemes to get to Dinosaur World dri...

FLASH! UUUUHHHH! It's time to watch pivotal Sci-Fi movie Flash Gordon! For better or for worse, they don't make them like they used to. Much to Ethan's surprise, Flash Gordon doesn't have any super powers. He just happens to be in space from Earth! That's wild. Did you know they based Star Wars off of this stuff?! Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcas...

SURFS UP SKA IS ON THE HORIZON! Meet The Deedles is a movie about two white surfer dudes (Paul Walker and the guy who voices Maxi in Soul Calibur 6) from Hawaii who find themselves as park rangers for Yellowstone! Their first mission is to stop this infestation of prairie dogs! How hard can it be for two classic knuckleheads? Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discus...

For our final Bombs Away, we're checking out Ryan Renold's movie Green Lantern. Don't worry we love comic books and will respect the source material as best as we can. This movie came out right before DC decided they wanted an extended universe of their own so it sits in kind of a weird timeline among WB's slate of superhero films. Ryan Renolds is Hal Jordan, a talented but reckles...

For our third Bombs Away, we're diving into the somewhat successful The Mummy (2017). This movie performed so poorly for Universal that they ended the Dark Universe franchise. It was the beginning of the universe and the end. The Dark Universe franchise was the MCU but for monsters. But if this movie indicates what a franchise full of classic Universal monsters could have been, it would have b...

For our second Bombs Away, we're diving into The Adventures of Pluto Nash! It's an attempt to make Eddie Murphy a dang action hero! It wasn't successful. This 2002 American science fiction action comedy film is set in 2087 and follows former smuggler Pluto Nash, who now runs a nightclub on the Moon after buying it from Paulie from the Rocky movies. Despite a star-studded cast including...

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...