The Other Half

Turn off that Ted Lasso, because Finch is now on hit streaming service Apple+! The story is about a man in the post-apocalypse who built a robot for the only purpose of taking care of his dog when he dies. He then has to teach the robot what it's like to be human. Basically, Tom Hanks creates life. Happy Hanksgiving!

Also this poster doesn't make sense. How is the dog that tall? Maybe Tom Hanks is kneeling, but that massive robot isn't kneeling at all.

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Could Always be Steven Spielberg's hidden gem? I don't think anyone I know has seen this movie. Richard Dreyfuss stars as Pete, a hotshot pilot who fights fires by dropping fire retardent from his tanker plane. Holly Hunter loves him, but he's just too much of a hotshot for his own good. Hope he doesn't die. Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, and John Goodman do their absolute best at trying to bring Steven Spielberg's dialogue to life. So much so it was hard to tell this was a romantic comedy.

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The best part of the movie was Cuba Gooding Jr. and Regina King's performances, while Tom Cruise and Renee Zellwegger try desperately to hold their own. Of course, all of Tom Cruise's lines are quoted for all eternity. Looks like it's about baseball and being an asshole. Maybe someday if you're an asshole you'll learn you're an asshole and maybe you'll stop being an asshole.

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Tommy is THE pinball wizard, that people somehow devote their lives to worshiping. This is probably the first musical we watched based on a band and what better choice than The Who. Like most things from the 1970s, certain aspects of this movie don't age well. But holy cow is it a sight to behold. We're going to be explaining some things in this episode that honestly don't make much sense, but in the moment of the movie, it feels completely natural. Sort of.

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Pulse is a Japanese horror film that came out in 2001 and of course, had an American remake in 2006. Maybe it was a good idea to remake this movie because it absolutely does not hold your hand. In fact, we're not sure we put together the complete story on this one. It's so vague, so bleak, so damn unsettling. Just listen to the episode.

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Child's Play is a classic horror movie franchise that somehow bypassed both of us. Well, I guess the reason was is we were afraid of our toys coming to life and killing us. What can we say, we have trust issues. Now this movie turns out to be a lot like Toy Story in a lot more ways than we expected. First off, the kid's name is Andy! Who knows how old Andy is, but I like to think that the creators of Toy Story took a lot of inspiration from Child's Play.

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Housebound doesn't have anything to do with Southbound. No this is a horror movie about a lady who is confined to her house for being a criminal and there's a ghost in it! It's also a horror-comedy from New Zealand not created by Taika Waititi.

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We're starting Spooktacular month with a throwback, Who Slew Auntie Roo? A horrifying spin on Hansel and Gretel, where the witch is just a sad American lady who is extremely lonely.

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Logan's Run is a classic sci-fi movie where you live in a utopia, but you'd had to die at 30. Is it worth it? Maybe it's better to live outside where people have great taste in musicals. This is definitely one of the better older sci-fi movies out there.

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Waiting to Exhale was pitched to us as a good/bad movie that every mom and auntie saw in the '90s. I'm going to say that's extremely accurate. It's not a well-made movie, but it has a lot of heart and features some fantastic acting from Angela Bassett. Can anyone give these poor women a break? Men are trash.

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