The Other Half

Continuing our Gen Z horror trip we watch It Ends. A movie that's all about life and existential dread. But mostly it's about if you must choose two options to defend you and the rest come and attack you which would you choose? 10,000 rats, 50 hawks, five gorillas, or one guy with a gun? Great question in fact let's ignore how the world that we're forced to live in seems to be beco...

Happy Halloween Spooktacular and we are starting off with a BANG! Obsession is one of the most profitable movies ever released and hugely popular. But does this little indie flick deserve the attention it gets? Join us this week as we talk about the dynamic between Bear and Nikki and how the gender roles are flipped. I don't need to write more of a description about this movie huh? I'm sur...

Legend of the Guardians was a movie with maybe one of the longest titles of all time. I'm not even going to write it out in this description because it would make it too long; SEO be damned. Planned to watch this movie back when Sam Neil passed away, which now feels like forever ago. Regardless this movie is one of the first movies where Zach Snyder we feel wanted to show he had range. He want...

After finishing up the Maze Runner series, we can't get enough of Wes Ball. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was his latest movie before he gears up to make the Legend of Zelda movie. What weirdly seems like the start of a new trilogy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place after all of the apes have already established colonies on earth. Caesar from the first three movies is long dead...

Look it wasn't a hard Watch 'Til You Can't, but we completed another series! Maze Runner: The Death Cure shows what happens when a major city still stands during apocalyptic days. Old friends return, some friends die, it's all coming to an end for 'ol Thomas and the rest of the Gladers. Let's wrap up this epic conclusion! Don't forget to join our Discord for movie night...

Watch 'Til You Can't, continues with the second Maze Runner movies, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. What lies beyond the maze? Turns out it's Gustavo Fring and Alita Battle Angel! They're here to stop WICKED and help the escaped Gladers find a safe space, well maybe not initially. Alan Tudyk is here in a very weird but fun role. Will the boys continue watching after seeing what&#39...

By popular request, the boys watch The Maze Runner series for Watch 'Til You Can't! Plus honor has been restored to Watch 'Til You Can't. We're no longer doubling up. We're experiencing Thomas, Minho, Newt and Theresa's story week-to-week now. Thomas wakes up in a mysterious maze and has to discover what the heck is going on here. Why does the maze open up during the da...

It's the end of this a'Mazin month with the boys watching The Huntsman Winter's War. A prequel/sequel to Snow White and The Huntsman, but without the snow white part (Kristen Stewart). Mazin apparently had a lot of fun writing a film filled with knock off fairy tale tropes, awful goblin designs and dwarf jokes about their women-folk's appearance. Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastai...

We're just cravin' more Mazin, with Senseless! This is one of his earliest movies and stars Marlon Wayans and David Spade. Marlon is struggling at college and takes and experimental drug to gain super senses! Unfortunately he takes too much and loses all of his senses! oh no the wacky hijinks! Look I know we hate doing comedy movies for the podcast, but we had to do it for Craig and honest...

Mike and Ethan continue their journey of this special month of Dog Days of Mazin. This week, the boys split the 2013’s box-office hit Identity Thief, starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. Join us as we navigate a movie that kicks off with Sandy getting punched in the throat, kicked in the balls, and car-rammed across the good ol' US of A. This movie tests the "Craig vs. Mazin" s...

Hungover from Canada month we try another dubiously themed month (we're addicted!!). The creator of Chernobyl and The Last of Us (the show not the game!), Craig Mazin, has a very interesting filmography and we thought it was the right time to examine it. Welcome to Dog days of Mazin! We kick off the month with a rough one y'all. The Hangover III. The biggest cash grab on a franchise that h...

This week on The Other Half, we’re closing out our annual Canada Month series with our wonderful friend Madison to tackle 2013's Dallas Buyers Club. A movie that qualifies for our Canadian theme solely because its late, great director, Jean-Marc Vallée, came from Quebec! Join us as we break down a movie that starts with Matthew McConaughey watching bull riding during a rodeo hookup(?!), collap...

This week on The Other Half , Mike and Ethan near the finish line of Canada Month by tackling the cult classic sports comedy Goon . Join us as we navigate an opening ten minutes completely derailed by the modern redefinition of "gooning" and a strong warning for anyone Googling the name of this movie without context. I wish we could hire a goon to take out Jay Baruchel’s insufferable edge...

Okay let's get a little timely, a little Canadian and a little Letterboxy, with Blue Heron. A relatively new director, Sophy Romvari, puts out a semi-auto biographical banger about growing up with a "strange" sibling. The movie plays with memory, time and audience perspective an a refreshing and controlled way. This movie blew up on Letterboxed in a big way and it's Canadian, so it...

Canada month wouldn't be complete unless the USA got in the way! This week Mike and Ethan dive headfirst into Michael Moore’s only scripted narrative feature, Canadian Bacon. A movie that was poorly reviewed in 1995 but feels a little too accurate today. What's better than starting a war for a measly 30-point poll boost? Well maybe eating fast food in the white house, a presidential candid...

Happy Canada Month, let's watch Oh, Canada! despite admittedly knowing very little about Canada besides Trailer Park Boys, Letterkenny, Scott Pilgrim, and the film My Winnipeg. But we're hoping that a whole month dedicated to Canada and all of it's movies will change that! Unfortunately besides being called Oh, Canada, this movie barely takes place in Canada in fact, Jacob Elordi spend...

We close out Steven Stinkers with one of his latest stinkers, the BFG. Now we want to mention that The BFG is a silly name. Because compared to other giants, he's actually pretty small. Should be called the LFG to be honest. But that's just a wittle twingy twanger that bothers us. Mark Rylance stars as the BFG and despite being a character that's fully CGI, he does a great performance....

Steven is back with a movie about a horse that goes into war. Imagine World War I but through the eyes of a horse. It actually kind of feels like a Disney movie that way it all comes together. That makes sense considering it was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures so it kind of lines up. Surprisingly a PG-13 movie of this style kind of works even thought WWI was one of the bloodiest...

We continue our Steven Stinker's month with another one from his collection of flops, 1941! A movie he had made fairly soon after Jaws. Which is a curious choice considering this movie starts with a Jaws visual gag. It's a choice. Just like making a choice to parody 1941 in America. Not always the funniest of times then. You can consider most of these choices to be "funny" ideas on...

What's up y'all, Steven Spielberg is in the house with our new month of Steven Stinkers! These are all the movies that the most prolific man in Hollywood made that made the least amount of money. We're starting with the lowest one first, Sugarland Express. To be fair, at this point he wasn't a household name yet, so we can see why it didn't make a lot of money. But quality wise...

We say goodbye to Mays Days with Byzantium, which is like if Twilight was for emotionally immature adults! Daniel Mays is in this movie as a young man who is down on his luck and just wants to spend 50 quid on a sex act. Luckily the vampire mom and daughter squad take a liking to him and use his house to start a new brothel in this rundown small town. But trouble follows these two vampires played...

Nanny McPhee Returns stars Emma Thompson and is also written by Emma Thompson who apparently loves a cheeky fart joke. Mike says F them kids as they're so mean to our boy Daniel Mays who drives around the rich kids in this movie. Don't worry though, Nanny McPhee is here to whip those kids into shape. Oh also Maggie Gyllenhaal for some reason as the mom? Check out https://shop.theotherhalfp...

Mays Days continues with Mr Nobody and more than ever are we regretting our decision. Mr. Nobody follows Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto) as he goes through his memories and all of the different choices he would have made. The movie is meant to be incoherent, but luckily Daniel Mays is there to help set things straight! He plays the "Young Reporter" who interviews Mr Nobody. If you enjoy listening...

Okay so we're starting something strange. We're going to be dedicating a whole month to looking at Daniel Mays, the character actor, and seeing where his career takes us. We did something similar with Barbera Streisand and it turned out to be a lot of fun, but what about someone that not a lot of people have heard about? We start off with a Chris Columbus movie, The Thursday Murder Club st...

For our final Rom Com month movie, we watch a recent film called Regretting You. It's about two lover who well... actually you know it's best if you don't know at all what happens before listening to this podcast because it gets WEIRD. Don't forget to join our  Discord  for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help supp...