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 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 inoffensive, unoriginal family entertain…
00:57:12 |
Thu 06 Dec 2018
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 this movie? Actually, there are no villai…
01:05:47 |
Thu 29 Nov 2018
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, Sam joins us for this episode who is Mike…
01:12:39 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
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 files have been found. You can now liste…
00:45:26 |
Thu 15 Nov 2018
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 dark underside around the edges that isn…
01:03:26 |
Thu 08 Nov 2018
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 book of the same name, follows a young …
00:57:15 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
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 of a woman who’s trying to bring justi…
00:15:52 |
Wed 31 Oct 2018
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 who don't know Zak Bagansis from the hi…
00:57:57 |
Thu 25 Oct 2018
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 Half treatment for this movie leads to some…
01:01:22 |
Thu 18 Oct 2018
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 by Cronenberg. The plot is basically: Jen…
00:56:51 |
Thu 11 Oct 2018
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 concept and could only come out of the 1970s. …
00:57:48 |
Thu 04 Oct 2018
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, depression and just trying to survive the hig…
01:15:45 |
Thu 27 Sep 2018
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 life and only refer to it as the "G" word. …
00:49:00 |
Thu 20 Sep 2018
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 surprising was the amount of detail that we…
00:56:35 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
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 Disney movie rated PG. Sadly, when you're try…
00:46:19 |
Thu 06 Sep 2018
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 Runner, The Hunger Games or Twilight, but hey,…
01:01:56 |
Thu 30 Aug 2018
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 somehow the last fifth of the movie com…
01:01:51 |
Thu 23 Aug 2018
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 back making good movies. The boys remain skeptical…
01:08:33 |
Thu 16 Aug 2018
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 music, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierc…
00:48:08 |
Thu 09 Aug 2018
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.... across from an actual little person (P…
01:16:50 |
Thu 02 Aug 2018
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