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
Episode 274: Serenity
Serenity is absolutely wild and we love it.
What's wild in a bad way and something we don't love is police brutality.
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01:03:53 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Episode 273: Once
For this episode of May-usical, the boys traveled to Ireland in the modern musical Once! Made on a shoestring budget with musicians playing as actors, Once follows a down on his luck musician who fin…
00:44:20 |
Thu 28 May 2020
Episode 272: Annie (1982) and Annie (2014)
Double the Annie! For this episode of May-usical, we decided to have a little fun and pull a gimmick off that we did for the Miracle on 34th Street! We watched the first half of the original and the …
00:49:35 |
Thu 21 May 2020
Episode 271: Cabaret
The next episode of May-usical features special musical expert guest Lindsay who brought the extremely influential 1972 Cabaret. The movie follows Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and her companion Brian…
01:07:19 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Episode 270: Guys and Dolls
Let's start off May-usical with Guys and Dolls! May is now an entire month of musicals!
Guys and Dolls was made in 1955 and it shows. The movie follows two gamblers (sinners) in New York and the l…
00:53:58 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Episode 269: Heartbeeps
That 1981 film Heartbeeps asks the question, what would robots do on a fun adventure? Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters dressed up in horrifying robot costumes to answer that question! This movie do…
00:55:16 |
Wed 06 May 2020
Episode 268: The Platform
The Platform is a high concept sci-fi film from Spain. Each day a large platform comes from the ceiling with food on it. It starts fully furnished at the top and gets slowly consumed as it goes down …
00:58:43 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Episode 267: My Dinner With Andre
The 1981 film, My Dinner With Andre, features Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn playing themselves. The entire movie consists of them talking to each other for over an hour at dinner. They mostly talk …
00:52:47 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Episode 266: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The French film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, took film Twitter by storm when it released at the end of 2019 in select theaters. Now the boys watch the movie about involuntary isolation, love, suppres…
00:49:54 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
Episode 265: Showgirls
Mia and Harrison from the Rewind and Reconsider podcast brought the boys Showgirls to watch! Like the film, not real life showgirls... that'd be kind of weird and also overwhelming. This movie, which…
01:18:29 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
QUARANTINE SPECIAL: Cats (2019)
Okay, so we have to talk about the Cats movie. This is a movie Mike and Ethan have seen over 5 times each and for some reason, they just NEED to talk about it. Maybe it's because they've been stuck i…
00:44:04 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Episode 264: Flight of the Navigator
Flight of the Navigator is another one of those Disney+ movies. Hopefully, it's more like a Return to Oz and less like a Can of Worms. This movie is clearly a kid's version of Close Encounters of the…
00:38:37 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
Episode 263: Can of Worms
Can of Worms more like Can of Penises! In one of our most phallic episodes ever, the boys lose their minds over what appears to be one of the worst movies on Disney+.
Sometimes the Disney channel…
00:51:25 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
Episode 262: Return to Oz
Return to Oz is as if Dorthey stepped into the Dark Crystal universe while walking down the yellow brick road. Dorthey returns back to the land of Oz after suffering massive PTSD from losing her home…
00:51:42 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
Episode 261: George of the Jungle 2
Not sure if we've ever been as divided about a movie as George of the Jungle 2. A sequel that clearly had almost no budget or notable (in-person) talent, but it looked like it was at least a lot of f…
00:50:40 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Episode 260: Beaches (1988)
Beaches is a classic hit movie about a couple of life long friends. With such different lives, they shouldn't probably be life long friends, but hey life is weird like that.
Starring Bette Midler …
00:47:37 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Episode 259: The Fanatic
The Fanatic is a movie that proves that John Travolta has some sort of eternal debt he has to pay off by taking awful and humiliating movie roles. John Travolta plays a mentally challenged "fan" who …
00:49:00 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Oscar Nominations Best Picture 2020
In this podcast, we discuss our general disappointment in this year's Oscar nominations. We also rank the best picture nominations and talk a little bit about each of the films nominated.
Also, we…
00:29:36 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Episode 258: Ford v Ferrari
Wake up your dad it's time for Ford V Ferrari! Starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, this movie is about two dudes who just love racing and working on cars. Unfortunately, a little spat erupts betw…
00:41:31 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
Episode 257: Marriage Story
The second entry into our Oscar month is Marriage Story! Marriage Story is a semi-autobiographical movie from Noah Baumbach starring Scarlett Johanson and Adam Driver. It's about two people getting d…
00:41:40 |
Thu 30 Jan 2020
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