The Other Half

Cliffhanger stars Sylvester Stallone in the iconic early '90s action movie. He also wrote the screenplay! He's still as charming as ever, but does this movie actually hold up? I mean you have John Lithgow as the villain. Maybe it would have been better if pesky audience testing didn't get in the way. Anyway, enjoy the boy's talk about "Die Hard in the mountains."

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It's been an unprecedented Academy Award season this year. In this bonus episode, we go over all the nominees including the best short animated and live-action films. Let's see just how wrong we are, come Sunday. We have a great in-depth discussion, but hey it's nice to reflect on one of the weirdest yet high-quality best picture nominations in a while. Also we do an Oscar bingo! Enjoy the results:

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The Father is the last Oscar-nominated movie and the only best picture nomination that we never heard of. We gave it a whirl and it's a beautifully haunting portrayal of dementia in our elders. It's also the first horror movie to be nominated for Best Pictures. Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman give a performance of a lifetime in this. If you just want a super existential sad we highly recommend watching this movie about your last days through the eyes of a dementia patient.

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Another Oscar nominated movie we watched, that's supporting "depressing Oscar movies," is Judas and the Black Messiah. Maybe it's less depressing and more rage inducing. This is a movie based on a key moment Fred Hampton's life, his assassination and the mole who helped it. If you want another reason to be mad at the United States goverment, have a listen.

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Get your double bass pedals and earplugs out because the boys are talking about The Sound of Metal. This movie follows a metal drummer who begins to lose the one thing critical to his passion, his hearing. A strikingly grounded movie from a first-time director, Darius Marder.

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We continue trekking through the Oscar best picture nominations with Nomadland. A story about the fragility of human life, what it means to be human, and the best bucket to poop in when you're living in an RV. Based on real people, Nomadland features Francis McDormand trying to heal from losing her job and husband. It's absolutely beautiful.

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It's Oscar (multi) month y'all! It's time for us to watch all the best picture nominations for the year 2021! We recorded this podcast before the nominations were announced, but we knew for sure Trial of the Chicago 7 would be an absolute shoo-in for the best picture nomination. It's historical. It's political. It's Aaron Sorkin. Turns out we were right. But does Aaron Sorkin's writing get a little too self-indulgent in his own politics?

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Alita: Battle Angel is James Cameron's technology baby, but does it hold up even when he can't direct the movie? Robert Rodriguez brings us the American adaptation of the hit Japanese manga. The boys dive in and see if the plot holds up to the $170 million visuals.

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Sony takes their shot at one of the most popular Spiderman villains Venom. It was critically panned, but critics aren't always right! The boys reexamine the Tom Hardy movie and see it is actually any good. Is this a stand-out Marvel movie that may actually have been ignored since it doesn't tie into the MUC?

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A classic American punk, bizarre movie, Repo Man defines genres to create a movie that could have only been made during the '80s. We follow suburban punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) as he gets recruited to become a repo man. From there the movie becomes so wild you'd have to hear us talk about it to believe it.

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