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.

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Look it wasn&#39;t a hard Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;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&#39;s all coming to an end for &#39;ol Thomas and the rest of the Gladers. Let&#39;s wrap up this epic conclusion!Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Look it wasn&#39;t a hard Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;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&#39;s all coming to an end for &#39;ol Thomas and the rest of the Gladers. Let&#39;s wrap up this epic conclusion!

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure

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Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;t, continues with the second Maze Runner movies, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. What lies beyond the maze? Turns out it&#39;s Gustavo Fring and Alita Battle Angel! They&#39;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;s beyond the maze? You&#39;ll have to listen to find out!Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;t, continues with the second Maze Runner movies, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. What lies beyond the maze? Turns out it&#39;s Gustavo Fring and Alita Battle Angel! They&#39;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;s beyond the maze? You&#39;ll have to listen to find out!

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

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By popular request, the boys watch The Maze Runner series for Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;t! Plus honor has been restored to Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;t. We&#39;re no longer doubling up. We&#39;re experiencing Thomas, Minho, Newt and Theresa&#39;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 day and is crawling with horrible creatures known as griever? Why Gally such a sourpuss? What secrets do the maze hold? Hopefully we&#39;ll find out in this adaptation of the popular YA novel.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

By popular request, the boys watch The Maze Runner series for Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;t! Plus honor has been restored to Watch &#39;Til You Can&#39;t. We&#39;re no longer doubling up. We&#39;re experiencing Thomas, Minho, Newt and Theresa&#39;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 day and is crawling with horrible creatures known as griever? Why Gally such a sourpuss? What secrets do the maze hold? Hopefully we&#39;ll find out in this adaptation of the popular YA novel.

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The Maze Runner

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It&#39;s the end of this a&#39;Mazin month with the boys watching The Huntsman Winter&#39;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&#39;s appearance. Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain star in this movie where also Charlize Theron is supposed to appear at some point considering how large she looms in the poster.Will the boys find this magical land charming or a slog to get through?Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

It&#39;s the end of this a&#39;Mazin month with the boys watching The Huntsman Winter&#39;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&#39;s appearance. Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain star in this movie where also Charlize Theron is supposed to appear at some point considering how large she looms in the poster.

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The Huntsman: Winter's War

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We&#39;re just cravin&#39; 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 honestly, we may be funnier than the movie.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

We&#39;re just cravin&#39; 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 honestly, we may be funnier than the movie.

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Senseless

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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&#39; US of A. This movie tests the &#34;Craig vs. Mazin&#34; scale. Can you even rate his movies on a binary scale? Pull up a chair, hide your credit cards, and let’s find out if this movie is worth a supposedly green-lit sequel.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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&#39; US of A. This movie tests the &#34;Craig vs. Mazin&#34; scale. Can you even rate his movies on a binary scale? Pull up a chair, hide your credit cards, and let’s find out if this movie is worth a supposedly green-lit sequel.

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Identity Thief

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Hungover from Canada month we try another dubiously themed month (we&#39;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&#39;all. The Hangover III. The biggest cash grab on a franchise that has no right to last as long as it did. But Mazin worked on both Hangover III and Hangover II, which are the lowest rated Hangover movies, must I remind you. I remember at least thinking the plot was interesting in the first hangover, but will this one also have a compelling plotline? Because we know the humor is going to age like milk.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Hungover from Canada month we try another dubiously themed month (we&#39;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&#39;all. The Hangover III. The biggest cash grab on a franchise that has no right to last as long as it did. But Mazin worked on both Hangover III and Hangover II, which are the lowest rated Hangover movies, must I remind you. I remember at least thinking the plot was interesting in the first hangover, but will this one also have a compelling plotline? Because we know the humor is going to age like milk.

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The Hangover Part III

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This week on The Other Half, we’re closing out our annual Canada Month series with our wonderful friend Madison to tackle 2013&#39;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(?!), collapsing into a pile of nudie magazines, and reacting to a 30-day terminal AIDS diagnosis by immediately doing lines of coke and drinking whiskey in the dark. What a way to set up a character.Along the way, we dive deep into Jean-Marc Vallée’s naturalistic camera style and ear-ringing sound design, obsess over Griffin Dunne playing a hippie clinic doctor and compare the film&#39;s Hollywood narrative to real-life Wikipedia history. Pour yourself a drink, grab some of your favorite &#34;vitamins&#34;, and let&#39;s find out more about the DBC.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

This week on The Other Half, we’re closing out our annual Canada Month series with our wonderful friend Madison to tackle 2013&#39;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(?!), collapsing into a pile of nudie magazines, and reacting to a 30-day terminal AIDS diagnosis by immediately doing lines of coke and drinking whiskey in the dark. What a way to set up a character.

Along the way, we dive deep into Jean-Marc Vallée’s naturalistic camera style and ear-ringing sound design, obsess over Griffin Dunne playing a hippie clinic doctor and compare the film&#39;s Hollywood narrative to real-life Wikipedia history. Pour yourself a drink, grab some of your favorite &#34;vitamins&#34;, and let&#39;s find out more about the DBC.

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Dallas Buyers Club

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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 &#34;gooning&#34; 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 lord character. Grab your skates, protect your neck, and let’s dive into this Canadian comedy!Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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 &#34;gooning&#34; 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 lord character. Grab your skates, protect your neck, and let’s dive into this Canadian comedy!

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Goon

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Okay let&#39;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 &#34;strange&#34; 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&#39;s Canadian, so it felt like a good chance of pace from the previous films we did.The movie is about a Hungarian immigrant family with the POV being 8-year-old Sasha and her adult self reflecting on those memories. What&#39;s real and what&#39;s not real? That&#39;s the question.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Okay let&#39;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 &#34;strange&#34; 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&#39;s Canadian, so it felt like a good chance of pace from the previous films we did.

The movie is about a Hungarian immigrant family with the POV being 8-year-old Sasha and her adult self reflecting on those memories. What&#39;s real and what&#39;s not real? That&#39;s the question.

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Blue Heron

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Canada month wouldn&#39;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&#39;s better than starting a war for a measly 30-point poll boost? Well maybe eating fast food in the white house, a presidential candidate attempted assassination, using propaganda to scare people into hating others from another nation will make you think differently. Also, what a cast in this movie. Is this Michael Moore guy actually pretty funny or is he just good at predicting the direction of where the nation is going?Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Canadian Bacon

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Happy Canada Month, let&#39;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&#39;re hoping that a whole month dedicated to Canada and all of it&#39;s movies will change that!Unfortunately besides being called Oh, Canada, this movie barely takes place in Canada in fact, Jacob Elordi spends most of his dang time right at the border of Canada!Join us as we unpack Paul Schrader&#39;s obsession with miserable men narrating their own existential dread, debate whether digital photography is bad or good, and witness Richard Gere make his grand return to cinema while wearing a adult diapers!Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Happy Canada Month, let&#39;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&#39;re hoping that a whole month dedicated to Canada and all of it&#39;s movies will change that!

Unfortunately besides being called Oh, Canada, this movie barely takes place in Canada in fact, Jacob Elordi spends most of his dang time right at the border of Canada! 

Join us as we unpack Paul Schrader&#39;s obsession with miserable men narrating their own existential dread, debate whether digital photography is bad or good, and witness Richard Gere make his grand return to cinema while wearing a adult diapers!

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Oh, Canada

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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&#39;s actually pretty small. Should be called the LFG to be honest. But that&#39;s just a wittle twingy twanger that bothers us. Mark Rylance stars as the BFG and despite being a character that&#39;s fully CGI, he does a great performance. That can be attributed to the special effects presented in the movie. The main character, Sophie, goes to giant land and the practical effects mixed with the CGI result in some dazzling scenes. Not enough to dazzle audiences though as this is still a Steven Stinker.Also Roald Dahl, really loves using silly little idioms, which makes those whole movie just seem a bit silly. YES WE KNOW IT&#39;S FOR KIDS. Grab some snozzcumbers, slap on some heady-phonies, and get ready to take a ride with the Other Half into Giant Country.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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&#39;s actually pretty small. Should be called the LFG to be honest. But that&#39;s just a wittle twingy twanger that bothers us. Mark Rylance stars as the BFG and despite being a character that&#39;s fully CGI, he does a great performance. That can be attributed to the special effects presented in the movie. The main character, Sophie, goes to giant land and the practical effects mixed with the CGI result in some dazzling scenes. Not enough to dazzle audiences though as this is still a Steven Stinker.

Also Roald Dahl, really loves using silly little idioms, which makes those whole movie just seem a bit silly. YES WE KNOW IT&#39;S FOR KIDS. Grab some snozzcumbers, slap on some heady-phonies, and get ready to take a ride with the Other Half into Giant Country.

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The BFG

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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 wars of all time.Join us as we unpack a movie that is somehow equal parts Saving Private Ryan and Racing Stripes. One of us suffers in the trenches and the other one complains about the cost of a horse. 30 guineas! What the hell are they?! Doesn&#39;t matter enjoy this annoying goose.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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 wars of all time.

Join us as we unpack a movie that is somehow equal parts Saving Private Ryan and Racing Stripes. One of us suffers in the trenches and the other one complains about the cost of a horse. 30 guineas! What the hell are they?! Doesn&#39;t matter enjoy this annoying goose.

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War Horse

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We continue our Steven Stinker&#39;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&#39;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 &#34;funny&#34; ideas on paper, but executed poorly. For example Christopher Lee as a Nazi and Slim Pickins as a California bumpkin stuck in a U-Boat sounds hilarious! But in reality it&#39;s kind of odd. Plus don&#39;t forget about the literal ninjas featured in the movie.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

We continue our Steven Stinker&#39;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&#39;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 &#34;funny&#34; ideas on paper, but executed poorly. For example Christopher Lee as a Nazi and Slim Pickins as a California bumpkin stuck in a U-Boat sounds hilarious! But in reality it&#39;s kind of odd. Plus don&#39;t forget about the literal ninjas featured in the movie.

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1941

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What&#39;s up y&#39;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&#39;re starting with the lowest one first, Sugarland Express. To be fair, at this point he wasn&#39;t a household name yet, so we can see why it didn&#39;t make a lot of money. But quality wise, a &#34;true&#34; story about love and crime starring Goldie Hawn has to at least be entertaining to watch right?Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

What&#39;s up y&#39;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&#39;re starting with the lowest one first, Sugarland Express. To be fair, at this point he wasn&#39;t a household name yet, so we can see why it didn&#39;t make a lot of money. But quality wise, a &#34;true&#34; story about love and crime starring Goldie Hawn has to at least be entertaining to watch right?

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The Sugarland Express

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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 by Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton. Will they be able to get themselves out of the grasp of vampires who hunt vampires!?<img src="https://theotherhalfpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/daniel-mays-in-byzantium-700x467.jpg">Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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 by Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton. Will they be able to get themselves out of the grasp of vampires who hunt vampires!?

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Byzantium

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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&#39;re so mean to our boy Daniel Mays who drives around the rich kids in this movie. Don&#39;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.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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&#39;re so mean to our boy Daniel Mays who drives around the rich kids in this movie. Don&#39;t worry though, Nanny McPhee is here to whip those kids into shape. Oh also Maggie Gyllenhaal for some reason as the mom?

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Nanny McPhee Returns

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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 &#34;Young Reporter&#34; who interviews Mr Nobody. If you enjoy listening to the boys suffer trying to grasp a plot, this is an episode for you!<img src="https://theotherhalfpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/image-700x363.png">Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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 &#34;Young Reporter&#34; who interviews Mr Nobody. If you enjoy listening to the boys suffer trying to grasp a plot, this is an episode for you!

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Mr Nobody

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Okay so we&#39;re starting something strange. We&#39;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 starring Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan as old retirees who go around solving cold case murders.Don&#39;t forget to join our <a href="https://discord.gg/KqrQp6frPM" rel="nofollow">Discord</a> for movie nights and additional podcast discussions! Check out https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com/ to help support the show and get your room some cool art! Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Okay so we&#39;re starting something strange. We&#39;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 starring Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan as old retirees who go around solving cold case murders.

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The Thursday Murder Club

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Join Ethan Hawkes and Mike Trujillo as they watch two halves of the same movies and try to piece it all together.

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.