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 protected].
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 460
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Crawl
The tagline of this movie, Crawl, is not "Later Gator". I'm upset. This week Mike and Ethan dive into the modern monster movie where gators go wild! This movie stars relatively minor actors, who are …
00:51:35 |
Thu 22 Oct 2020
The Legend of Hallowaiian
Time for us to take a look at The Legend of Hallowiian, a movie Ethan only heard about because he was eating at King's Hawiian in Torrance once. Turns out, it's King's Hawiian's first movie! Let's di…
00:52:12 |
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Episode 292: Fantasy Island
We celebrate the first week of Spooktacular with Blumhouse's Fantasy Island! It's based on the old TV show of the same name from the '70s. Below you can see the intro to this wonderfully forgotten TV…
01:03:57 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
Episode 291: Giant
In honor of James Dean's death, Ethan and Mike watch the last movie he starred in, Giant. Clocking in at 3 hours and 21 minutes, Giant tells the story of a rancher family and how even the best-laid p…
01:19:24 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
Episode 290: Sunset Boulevard
Ethan and Mike watch the CLASSIC movie Sunset Boulevard. Does this movie made all the way back in the '50s still hold up? Turns out it's one of the best movies we've seen for the podcast in a while. …
01:05:43 |
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Episode 289: #Alive
The writers behind this movie were not exactly #Alive while writing this paint by numbers zombie flick. Ethan and Mike watch a South Korean zombie movie set in our modern social media times. Unfortun…
00:44:19 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Episode 288: Radio Rebel
If we told you Radio Rebel, a made for TV Disney movie, was an allegory for rising up against your oppressors, you'd probably say, "Yeah it has Rebel in the title."
This movie has aged soo poorly,…
00:52:42 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Episode 287: Infamous
We regret to bring you Infamous. Bella Thorne and Jake Manely star as "influencers" who gain their fame through robbing dispensories. The moral of this story is crime doesn't pay...or is it? This is …
01:07:07 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
Episode 286: Hook
To end '90s month, the boys watch a Steven Spielberg classic, Hook! We'll be honest, we were not looking forward to this movie at all, but it turns out it's actually not as bad as we thought it would…
01:19:13 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
Episode 285: My Girl
My Girl is Boomer catnip. At least that's what we thought the movie was about at first. After discussing more of the plot deals, we still believe this movie was mostly beloved for its portrayal of "t…
00:49:33 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Episode 284: Fried Green Tomatoes
In our second week of '90s month, the boys talk about Fried Green Tomatoes. Eating fried unripe tomatoes could be considered a southern past-time, but you know what's also southern?
Racism when y…
01:06:03 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Episode 283: Only Yesterday
It felt like Only Yesterday Mike was born. Okay, 1991 was quite a long time ago, but in the honor of Mike's birth year, we're watching movies from 1991 all month!
Only Yesterday came out in Japan …
00:50:08 |
Thu 06 Aug 2020
Episode 282: The Package
To round off Netflix month we end on the raunchy comedy, The Package. The story of the package is a guy accidentally cuts off his own penis. The joke of The Package is a guy accidentally cut off his …
00:48:00 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Episode 281: I Lost My Body
I Lost My Body is a French animated film that was modeled in 3D beforehand and then painted over. It's like rotoscoping! It's right up Ethan and Mike's ally, but are they going to enjoy the tale of N…
00:48:39 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Episode 280: Swiped
Swiped may be the most poorly written, poorly acted, poorly delivered movie since we watched Love on a Leash. It's about a nerd who made a hook-up app that he later regrets! You should honestly just …
01:03:26 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Episode 279: A Whisker Away
While watching A Whisker Away, it dawns on Ethan and Mike, they are finally not watching masterpiece level anime for the podcast. A Whisker Away centers around a spunky girl who just can't make a fri…
00:51:41 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
Episode 278: Dolemite Is My Name
The boys dive into a biopic about Rudy Ray Moore's quest to make a movie in Dolemite Is My Name. It's like The Disaster Artist if the main character was actually likable and you rooted for him. Rudy …
00:51:11 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Episode 277: Scoob!
Ruh-roh, what if the Hanna Barbera cinematic universe is doomed because Scoob! released during a global pandemic? Or what if it's doomed because Scoob! isn't a good movie?!
The boys both have diff…
00:52:52 |
Thu 25 Jun 2020
Episode 276: Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas is a depressing movie. It was maybe a rough watch to see Nicolas Cage playing an alcoholic in what be his most perfectly cast role. Elisabeth Shue playing a sex worker is also an am…
00:56:04 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Episode 275: What a Girl Wants
Phelan joins the podcast to talk about What a Girl Wants! It's one of those movies where a clumsy American girl goes to Britain because she wants to find her dad. Turns out dad is not only Colin Firt…
01:01:19 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
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