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The Other Half
Join Ethan Hawkes and Mike Trujillo as they watch two halves of the same movie and try to piece it all together. Sometimes we learn about filmmaking, but most of the time we learn about ourselves. Have a suggestion for a movie? Email us at email@theotherhalfpodcast.com.
Episodes
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Episode 197: The Christmas Chronicles
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…
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Episode 196: Sierra Burgess is a Loser
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…
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Episode 195: Bachelor Party
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…
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Episode 194: Planes: Fire and Rescue
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…
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Episode 193: Atonement
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…
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Episode 192: The Witches
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…
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Flies: Episode one
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…
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Episode 191: Demon House
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…
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Episode 190: The Craft
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…
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Episode 189: eXistenZ
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…
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Episode 188: Demon Seed
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…
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Episode 187: Heathers
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…
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Episode 186: Glitter
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…
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Episode 185: Indian in the Cupboard
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…
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Episode 184: The Black Hole
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…
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Episode 183: Nerve
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…
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Episode 182: Snake Eyes
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…
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Episode 181: Split
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…
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Episode 180: Mamma Mia!
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…
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Episode 179: Tiptoes
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…
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Episode 178: Reign of Fire
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…
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Episode 177: Hudson Hawk
Bruce Willis can make a weird movie. Part heist film/screwball comedy, it doesn't do either of those well, but it has heart and an off-putting sense of humor…
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Episode 176: The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Phelan is back to bring young girl wish fulfillment movies to The Other Half! This time we tackle Hilary Duff's alter-ego in The Lizzie McGuire Movie. A Disney…
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Episode 175: Failure to Launch
The best way to get someone to leave their parents place is to hire someone to fall in love with them. What happens after they move out? Do they break up? The…
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Episode 174: Love on a Leash
Sometimes just you gotta watch a movie no one has heard of (or should hear of) to remember what a truly bad and incompetent movie is. We can only wait for The…
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Episode 173: EdTV
TruTV, giving you some great Ed! First-time guest Ally joins us in on the show to bring us another Matthew McConaughey hit, EdTV! So imagine a poor man's…
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Episode 172: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Look, comedies are a weird genre to put on the podcast, but romantic comedies are golden eggs. This year we've found one of the best/worst romantic comedies…
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Episode 171: Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is the rejected Mary Poppins we've all been clamoring for. in some ways, it deserves more recognition than it gets. It's a better…
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Episode 170: Speed
One of the biggest surprises success in the box office is also a surprise success in our hearts. It didn't matter that our stomachs were full of alcohol, Speed…
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Episode 169: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
"Hey, this feels like it was written by a child." "It was indeed written by a literal child." "Oh, that explains a lot." "While…
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Episode 168: Blues Brothers 2000
The original Blues Brothers was a classic. One of the best SNL movies around. Now, what happened when they decided to make a sequel to it? They forgot to write…
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Episode 167: MacGruber
What if you take an unlikeable asshole based off an SNL skit with actually no discernable skills and make him the hero of the movie,? Oh it actually turns out…
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Episode 166: A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
Young man! With your CNN watching skills, out of place baseball uniform and strange '90s era lingo, you MUST go back in time and save the whole kingdom! Mia…
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Episode 165: Lost in Space
DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER. This CGI may hurt your eyes. Or maybe the atrocious acting coupled with bad ADR will. Or maybe it's the insane science handwaving…
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Episode 164: Rampage
WHAT IF INSTEAD OF A CRAZY SCIENCE EXPERIMENT THAT CHANGES PEOPLE INTO ANIMALS... A CRAZY SCIENCE EXPERIMENT THAT CHANGED ANIMALS INTO BIGGER ANIMALS?! Why…
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Episode 163: Commando
We may or may not be on an Arnold streak here, but here's one of his other famous movies, not to be mixed up with the Predator, Commando! I sure hope this…
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Episode 162: Ready Player One
HAPPY UNOFFICIAL EASTER MOVIE!!! The boys jump into the biggest Easter egg hunt movie of all time. Will the fantasy/sci-fi movie hold up over the intense…
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Episode 161: Alice in Wonderland
Take all the whimsy out of Alice and Wonderland, but add more "stuff" to it and here's what you get: A screen overblown with nonsensical characters and…
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Episode 160: True Lies
Everyone says this movie is as excellent as "a pair of titties that make you wanna stand up and beg for buttermilk," but does it really hold up with…
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Episode 159: Leprechaun in the Hood
Warwick Davis is a pot and murder loving Leprechaun in the 4th movie in the Leprechaun series and sort of a soft reboot. This movie was straight to DVD in…
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Episode 158: Boss Baby
He's the boss and he's a baby! Alec Baldwin personally came and told us he had to voice all of the baby crying in this movie. Not just for Boss Baby, but for…
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BONUS EPISODE: Oscars 2018 (+Dunkirk)
One day before the Oscars and we've seen them all! Even though we've only seen half of all of most of the movies, collectively we've seen more than most of the…
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Episode 157: The Post
It's our last movie of Oscar month! It's weird watching a movie with the guy from the Americans being almost a spy for the Americans instead of Russians. It…
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Episode 156: Phantom Thread
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in the "last" film of his career. I mean, what other skills does that guy have? Sure he could retire, but I feel like he'd make…
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Episode 155: Call Me By Your Name
This movie was made as propaganda for the Italian tourism agenda! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room…
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Episode 154: Lady Bird
You'd think this movie would be some mumblecore indie movie, but somehow it transcends the mumblecore parts of itself and becomes something both these boys…
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Episode 153: Darkest Hour
Who's that man covered in face makeup? Why it's Gary Oldman playing Winston Churchill! The boys begin to tackle the movies nominated for the Best Picture…
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Episode 152: Stepford Wives
Lindsay is back with another horror movie! In... January? Whatever, we watch the old and significantly better Stepford Wives movie, featuring creepy stiff…
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Episode 151: Despicable Me 3
There were a lot of great movies that came out in 2017. There were a lot of great animated movies that came out in 2017. There were a lot of franchises who…
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Episode 150: The Pest
Finally. It's been too long since we've seen an outright irredeemable movie. Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get…
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Episode 149: Willow Creek
This is one of those stories about why you should never meet your hero. Especially if that hero is a giant hairy ape thing. Check out…
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Episode 148: Happy New Year
WAHOO!!! Ring in the new year with something the boys have never done before. Entered the bombastic world of Bollywood, the largest maker of films! Sure, maybe…
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Episode 147: Christmas Inheritance
Netflix just cranks out movies left and right feeds them to the people who will eat them. What happens if the wrong audience decides to watch a…
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Episode 146: Office Christmas Party
Things that make Mike mad: The font Arial, boring characters you don't care about, a terrible and predictable plot, jokes that don't land or have a payoff…
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Episode 145: 8 Women
For some reason, the title of this movie reminds me of little women. Nope, it's not like the movie at all. Even if it were in English, this weird blend of…
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Episode 144: Body of Evidence
I mean, there's a WHOLE body of evidence. This court case should be pretty easy to figure out? Right? Maybe Madonna can help.. oh she's one of the suspects…
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Episode 143: Philadelphia
It's our annual Hanksgiving episode! Join us as we see Tom Hanks act his pants off in a movie about AIDS discrimination.... Okay, I didn't do a great job…
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Episode 142: Children of the Corn
What better way to ring in the fall but with the kids of one of the best vegetables ever!? Sadly, to say this movie was corny is an understatement. Okay, I'll…
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Episode 141: Every Which Way But Loose
You'd think growing up in Bakersfield would warm Mike up to this movie, but instead, it did the opposite. It also didn't help that almost all of his half took…
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Episode 140: Up in the Air
Up in the Air is a movie about George Clooney traveling the globe firing everyone in sight. Also, he's a minimalist. Like I dig minimalism, but this guy goes…