The sixth entry in the Leprechaun series and technically a sequel to Leprechaun in the Hood, Back 2 tha Hood takes a much more serious tone than its predecessor. Weirdly enough it may have the best acting in the entire series. But is it enough to balance the total shift the movie makes?

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For the first time ever, we're watching a movie for The Other Half Podcast AGAIN! Let's see if Leprechaun in the Hood hits differently in 2024. Only 5 years after we originally recorded this episode. What new insights will our prior viewings of the leprechaun franchise reveal? Will we still even like it? What does our leprechaun friend have to say about it this time?

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Leprechaun 4: In Space actually may have broken us. Just like NASA, the budget is gone. There are people you recognize, but no one you love. Everyone is just a little bit horny. They've given up on the Leprechaun costume. Things are looking dire for this franchise. Sometimes movie franchises can have a correction period, let's see if the boys decide it's worth riding this franchise out until the end.

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It's Leprechaun 3, which means we're heading to the city of sin, Vegas! Our first direct-to-video movie in our latest Watch Til You Can't Series. It was inevitable I suppose. But maybe this one is a golden nugget in the VHS/DVD bin. There's lots of greed to be had in Vegas hopefully the Leprechaun can hit it big and not have his gold stolen...again!

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Whew, we're back with Leprechaun 2! What will the sequel hold? Is this even the same Leprechaun? There's no star power in this, so here's hoping this lives up to the original. Also, this was the last Leprechaun movie released in theaters. That doesn't quite bode well. Hopefully, we get some good rhyming in it though!

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After watching all of the Oscar 2024 movies nominated for best pictures, Mike and Ethan sit down to share their favorites and their predictions for the big winner of the night of course making a tier list about all of them! We hope you enjoy our discussion!

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day y'all! It's time to watch all of the Leprechaun movies until we can't! We start the series with the first movie, which you'd expect to be good enough to spawn at least seven other movies. It stars Jennifer Aniston before she became famous on Friends. Warwick Davis plays a crafty little leprechaun who just wants his gold back and will do anything to find out where it is!!

You can hear our previous episode of Leprechaun in the Hood here! It came out back in 2018. Wow, how time flies.

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Ethan and Mike wrap up Oscar season with American Fiction! Jeffery Wright stars in a movie where he can't get a book sold because the books are just not black enough. So in a drunken rage, he starts writing a book that goes against everything he believes in while using a fake name. The book sells like crazy and hilarity ensues! A strange Oscar movie choice, but hey it calls out previous Oscar winner Green Book so maybe the nomination is another attempt to say the Oscars are not that white after all.

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For Ethan and Mike, maybe their ancestors knew each other in their Past Lives. Maybe this podcast was inevitable. Maybe our ancestors were also discussing various forms of cave paintings before microphones were invented. Past Lives is another Oscar-nominated movie depicting two folks who separated when they were young and are reconnecting over the years. But things get sticky when 24 years later, Nora is confronted with meeting her long-lost lover in the flesh while she's happily married!

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Mike and Ethan continue Oscar Month with Killers of the Flower Moon. The latest in Martin Scorsese's extensive filmography. While not directly a mob, it shares some absolute core DNA with what Scorsese is known for. The movie follows Ernest who marries an Osage Native American woman, Mollie, who just happens to be part of a family RICH with oil money. Ernest's uncle is Robert DeNeiro so you know that can only cause trouble for the town and the Osage people. Sit back and relax as we dive into this over three-hour-long epic. 

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Mike and Ethan kick off Oscar month with Maestro! Bradly Cooper stars and directs a movie about the life of famous conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felica! It's a biopic about someone related to the movie industry so you know Hollywood went crazy for it! Is it worth the nomination though?

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Mike and Ethan finish up Shelly Winter's Wonderland with What's the Matter with Helen along with special guest NotTheHoneyBees! While we worked through their suggestions for Shelly Winters movies we wanted to hear a little Shelly Winters lore straight from the source. What's the Matter with Helen is a horror exploitation movie set around two moms who are trying to escape from their murderous son's past. Shelly of course plays a conservative woman while Debbie Reynolds plays someone willing to change themselves completely to have a leg up on life. Ethan and Mike even bring the cosplay out for this special episode!

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Mike and Ethan meet with Bloody Mama, also known as Ma Barker a real-life crime lord! Ethan wants out immediately, but Mike is sympathetic to Ma and her boys. Ma Barker loved her boys maybe a little too much and they all became psychopaths and wreaked havoc on whatever local communities were nearby. Will this crime family have a happy ending?

Shelly Winters plays Ma Barker. She originally played a parody of Ma Barker in Batman 1966. She was known as Ma Parker and also toted a machine gun. This may have gotten her this role.

Anyway here's the first shot of Shelly Winters as Ma Barker. It sets the scene for the rest of this movie.

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Mike and Ethan catch a subway to Next Stop, Greenwich Village on their Shelly Winter's journey. What was this famous part of New York like in 1951? We follow an eclectic group of artists living in Greenwich Village who go through relationships, breakups, and Shelly Winters as their mother. Shelly gives the performance of a lifetime. Plus we spot a few big actors in some of their earliest roles!

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We're kicking off our month of Shelly Winters, best known for Who Slew Auntie Roo?, with A Place in the Sun! A classic movie that's in America's Congressional library. We're giving her the spotlight she may or may not deserve, but at the end of this month, we'll know for sure.

Welcome to a Shelly Winters Wonderland!!

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The boys ring in a new year with the New Year movie, Holiday! Starring Katherine Hepburn and Carey Grant, Johnny and Julia meet on a holiday in Lake Placid and fall quickly in love. They get engaged, much to the delight of Julia's family! However, when he meets them for the first time, things get weird when Julia's sister, Linda, starts revealing her worldview more aligns with Johnny's while Julia and Johnny don't quite mesh. But they're in love so they're going to find a way to make it work! Also, a surprising lack of holidays are present for a movie titled Holiday.

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To close out this holiday season, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in the romantic movie, Carol, which is mostly set during Christmas! They have a thing for each other, but it's the '50s so any same-sex relationship is going to be treated as puppy love or even worse, a mental disorder. How are these two lovebirds going to make it out of this one?? Oh, Cate Blanchett also has a dang husband she's divorcing, and he's always getting in the way! He's as large as a barge and his name is Harge!

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The Family Stone feels like a Hallmark movie if it had actual star power behind it. You got Diane Keaton, Racheal McAdams, Claire Danes, Sarah Jessica Parker and more! Let's see what happens when a fun free-spirited guy brings home a conservative girl for Christmas. The drama is like a real Christmas movie because all of the actors sell the drama.

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It's been a while since we've had a truly bad holiday movie on this podcast, but finally, Deck The Halls is here. Starring Matthew Brodrick (Lillard?) and Danny DeVito, this movie centers around someone who just wants to have Christmas a particular way and another person who is an egomaniacal monster. Who is the villain? It's hard to tell if you listen to movie logic!

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Oh no, Bad Santa said the F-word! This movie has been wiped from Ethan's mind so it's time to watch it as we kick off our holiday special. This movie is a dark comedy about a professional thief, Willie, who, along with his partner Marcus, poses as a department store Santa Claus during the holiday season to rob malls on Christmas Eve. Also, did you know this movie was produced by the Coen brothers?! Will that make an early 2000s comedy age better because it has two masters of cinema backing it up?

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