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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@theotherhalfpodcast.com.

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66:17

Casino Royale (1967)

The Other Half ·

2025/06/12

In this episode of The Other Half podcast, the boys watched two different halves of Casino Royale, the weird parody Bond movie in the series.Watch Til You Can't continues with Oops all Bonds! What if every agent in MI6 was named James Bond 007, and there was a monkey with a wig on (Maybe it's M's toupee)? This is perhaps the weirdest, wildest James Bond movie to exist, and it has an insane cast. This is also the moment in Ethan's life where he learns that Peter Sellers isn't a

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68:15

You Only Live Twice

The Other Half ·

2025/06/05

In this episode of The Other Half podcast, the boys watched two different halves of You Only Live Twice, the fifth Bond movie in the series. This is a movie made to showcase Japan and how pretty it is. It also makes you question every dormant volcano and whether a hidden lair could be there. And boy, is that hidden lair cool looking. Can an impressive set piece save a movie written by THE Ronald Dhal and the fact that James Bond now knows how to throw ninja stars?Remember to join our Discord for

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81:20

Thunderball

The Other Half ·

2025/05/29

The boys were having it pretty good up until Thunderball appeared! This movie has it all. Jetpacks, goofy racks, shark tanks, and lots and lots of underwater cinematography. In a classic plot of SPECTRE stealing nuclear bombs and threatening to use them on the US or UK, James Bond is tasked with finding those bombs! Luckily, it just so happened he was in a health clinic with one of the guys on the plane! Is Bond good at his job, or is he just ultra lucky?Remember to join our Discord for movie nights

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89:07

Goldfinger

The Other Half ·

2025/05/22

The boys tackle the next movie in the Bond franchise, Goldfinger! He loves gold! James Bond is tasked with finding out what's up with Goldfinger's Operation Grand Slam. He also starts becoming the James Bond we all know and some love. He gets with tons of ladies, says corny puns, and starts becoming too dang good at his job! But that's what the franchise is all about, right? It also has most likely the weirdest name for a Bond girl ever.Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and

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74:29

From Russia With Love

The Other Half ·

2025/05/15

From Russia With Love is one of the most famous and well-regarded James Bond movies. There is even a 3rd person video game based on it! That's how you know it was legit. James Bond travels to Istanbul to check out a lead on a Lektor machine to crack some codes. SPECTRE, of course, set a trap for James Bond and with Tatiana Romanova, who is a fake defector of the Soviet Union. This movie has it all: explosions, shootouts, sexy scenes, and a touch of racism, which is a perfect way to encapsulate

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85:55

Dr. No

The Other Half ·

2025/05/08

Dr. No starts our biggest Watch Til You Can't yet. That's right, we're going to try to watch the entire James Bond series from the start! For those not in the doctor know, we'll be watching until we can't handle them any more. Take bets on what James Bond era that will be!Ethan has seen these movies ages ago when he was a young lad and remembers nothing about them. Mike has only seen a few of the latest Bond movies. Let's see how long we can last. Luckily, Dr. No is one of

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81:48

Argylle

The Other Half ·

2025/05/01

Argylle asks the audience an insane question: what if your books about spies could predict the future, so you got kidnapped to write more books about spies before anyone else read them? Argylle, starring Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard, is a movie about a spy fiction writer who strangely predicts actual events happening in the spy world through her books. It also features Dua Lipa in all of the marketing, but she's barely in the movie! Please don't fall for the hype, the trailer is all

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67:30

Snakes on a Plane

The Other Half ·

2025/04/24

Alright, we've had it too good with movies. It's time to watch Snake on a Plane. The infamous 2006 movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and featuring a lot of CGI snakes. It was one of the first movies edited after the fact to appease what audiences wanted out of the movie. In reality, it may have made the film a lot better! But is it a good movie, or did it deserve the middling response it received at the box office?Support this podcast at —

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53:52

Head (The Monkees Movie)

The Other Half ·

2025/04/17

Ages ago, we were suggested to watch Head, the movie about the hit 60s band The Monkees. What a trippy little movie this is. We learned a lot about what it must have been like to try to become a respectable adult band after being in a band for children. It's a cheeky movie with Jack Nicholson helping make it. Is this trippy movie, for 60s standards, any good?Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discussions!Support this podcast at —

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72:06

Better Man

The Other Half ·

2025/04/10

Who is Robbie Williams, besides a monkey (chimp) who does drugs, drinks and sings? Well he made one of the biggest financial flops of 2024 and we decided to watch it. Maybe it's because no one on this pond knows who Robbie Williams is, but this movie is the biopic snubbed for an Oscar. We follow a musician who left a boy band, Take That (5), and tried to be successful on his own. But it wasn't easy getting there. Plus his relationship with his father and grandma went through the

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87:48

Sophie's Choice

The Other Half ·

2025/04/03

Women's History Month continues (?!) with Sophie's Choice. A (totally) real person who escaped the horror of the holocaust and now has to deal with one toxic man and one dopey man, while simultaneously navigating the English language. Meryl Streep won an Oscar for this portrayal, but how does the rest of this classic movie stand up? We all know the phrase "Sophie's Choice", but is the movie it came from any good?Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast

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97:46

Maria

The Other Half ·

2025/03/27

To finish off our Women's History Month watches, we watch a movie about a figure neither of us knows about: Maria! So that's why we got the famed guest NotTheHoneyBees to explain how incredible this opera diva was. Why is her Wikipedia a mile long, and why did Angelina Jolie have to play her? Honestly, it's a real history lesson right here in this podcast.Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discussions!Support this podcast at —

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69:13

Priscilla

The Other Half ·

2025/03/20

Priscilla, wife of Elvis Presley. Still alive to this day. Let's see what her relationship was like to the king of rock. Well it has guns, Graceland, mom issues, control issues, boundary issues, drug issues. Huh, it seems like this relationship may be doomed. This quiet, meditative film on such a big personality speaks volumes of what it would be like to be in a romantic relationship with Elvis.Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discussions!Support this podcast at

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111:53

Spencer

The Other Half ·

2025/03/13

Women's History Month continues with Spencer and a special guest, Lindsay! Lindsay is an expert on all things related to the royal monarchy and teaches these two knuckleheads (mostly Ethan) a thing or two about what Princess Diana was going through when she lived with the royal family. The royal family is different from British aristocrats, if you didn't know! This is from the same director as Jackie, Pablo Larraín and follows a similar dream-like quality.Remember to join our Discord for

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65:42

Jackie

The Other Half ·

2025/03/06

Happy Women's History Month! We watched Jackie in honor of it and will be watching other movies with powerful women with one-name titles throughout the month. But this movie stars Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy during the worst moments of her life, the JFK assassination. It shines a light on how absolutely awful it is to lose your husband and how it's even more horrific if he's the president of the United States.Support this podcast at —

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71:27

Bonus: Oscar Nominations 2025 Talk + Store Launch!

The Other Half ·

2025/02/28

Now that we've seen (basically) all of the Oscar-nominated best picture movies, it's time to talk about our predictions and rank our favorites! It was a weird year. Maybe one of the most controversial Oscars in years. We also launched a new merch store where you can buy all of Mike's incredible posters for sale! You can find the link here: https://shop.theotherhalfpodcast.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-other-half/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries:

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78:43

A Complete Unknown

The Other Half ·

2025/02/27

We wrap up the Oscar season with A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic! Let's see how Timmy C and our friend James Mangold, who directed some previous podcast movies like Kate and Leopold and Indiana Jonas and the Dial of Destiny, can bring the musical enigma to life. Set when Dylan decided to break out on the scene and go electric, this follows his encounters with various musicians, most notably his relationship with Joan Baez. He also has a side normie relationship with Sylvia, played by

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87:10

I'm Still Here

The Other Half ·

2025/02/20

Thanks to movie studios not releasing their movies on VOD, I'm Still Here is our first carcast this Oscar season! I'm Still Here is set in Brazil under the 1970s dictatorship, where a wife must find out what happened to her husband while maintaining a healthy family life. I don't want to reveal more details because hearing us discover what's happening and what the movie is truly about is shocking.Remember to join our Discord for movie nights and further podcast discussions!Support

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78:43

Conclave

The Other Half ·

2025/02/13

Conclave shines a light on the process of choosing a new Pope. Just like Oscar voting, it's a mysterious and grueling process full of politicking, even in the house of God. We follow Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) as he tries to run the whole process and keep the entire catholic church from going down a path of bigotry and cruelty. Directed by Edward Berger who did All Quiet on the Western Front, the boys watch and find out if the movie is all it's cracked up to be.Support this podcast at —

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69:22

Emilia Pérez

The Other Half ·

2025/02/06

It's Oscar season baby!! We recorded this before we knew the nominations, but we can bet this movie will be there. For some reason. This is a weird one. Neither of us knew exactly what it was and we were both shocked when we figured out exactly what this movie was. If you never heard of it, do yourself a favor and listen to our podcast. Somehow, Emilia Pérez finds a way to offend almost everyone to some degree.This was recorded before the director said "Spanish is the language of

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