The Other Half

The next episode of May-usical features special musical expert guest Lindsay who brought the extremely influential 1972 Cabaret. The movie follows Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and her companion Brian Roberts (Michael York) as they try and navigate Germany in 1931.

Sally seems oblivious to the world around her and just wants to enjoy her time performing at the Cabaret. She's a brilliant metaphor for apathy in times of crisis. Cabaret does not hold back. It makes a stark split between the joy of the Cabaret and the hate crimes constantly becoming normal.

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Let's start off May-usical with Guys and Dolls! May is now an entire month of musicals!

Guys and Dolls was made in 1955 and it shows. The movie follows two gamblers (sinners) in New York and the ladies they love. Even if they don't know they love them yet. Marlin Brando plays a wealthy gambler who suddenly made a bet that he can actually lose! Frank Sinatra plays a guy who runs a floating craps game and just maybe he can make enough money after one big score to finally marry his fiance.

Frank needs $1,000. Marlin has $1,000 and loves to bet. Frank bet Marlin that he can't get Jean Simmons to go on a date with him to Havana for $1,000. Hi-jinks and music ensue!

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That 1981 film Heartbeeps asks the question, what would robots do on a fun adventure? Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters dressed up in horrifying robot costumes to answer that question! This movie doesn't have much of a plot, but it did only make 2 million somehow at the box office.

This movie is bizarre. I don't think robots could reflect human interaction if the movie doesn't even fully understand normal human interaction....

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The Platform is a high concept sci-fi film from Spain. Each day a large platform comes from the ceiling with food on it. It starts fully furnished at the top and gets slowly consumed as it goes down each floor. Why does this exist? Who goes here? Well, that's the fun of the movie, isn't it?

This movie is also super freaking dark so if you're feeling the quarantine blues, maybe don't listen to this podcast.

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The 1981 film, My Dinner With Andre, features Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn playing themselves. The entire movie consists of them talking to each other for over an hour at dinner. They mostly talk weirdly deep philosophy from a place of privilege in New York City. It's considered a classic film. Please listen to this podcast if you always want to hear two in-over-their-head dudes talk about life philosophy for a while.

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The French film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, took film Twitter by storm when it released at the end of 2019 in select theaters. Now the boys watch the movie about involuntary isolation, love, suppression, women's rights, and what it means to have power.

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Mia and Harrison from the Rewind and Reconsider podcast brought the boys Showgirls to watch! Like the film, not real life showgirls... that'd be kind of weird and also overwhelming. This movie, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven, is notoriously bad and was a massive flop in the box office. Luckily its badness gave it a sort of cult following.

Imagine the director of in your face anti-war movies like Starship Troopers and Robocop taking a swing at the entertainment/sex industry. It handles sensitive subject matters like a monkey with hammer. This movie was recommended by Mia who also recommended filling an entire month with only Madea movies.

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Okay, so we have to talk about the Cats movie. This is a movie Mike and Ethan have seen over 5 times each and for some reason, they just NEED to talk about it. Maybe it's because they've been stuck in a house together for over two weeks. Maybe they have digital toxoplasmosis.

Whatever the reason here's a podcast that breaks the Other Half format and features two grown men in their late 20s talking about Universal's/ Tom Hooper's Cats. Be prepared for a Jellicle time.

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Flight of the Navigator is another one of those Disney+ movies. Hopefully, it's more like a Return to Oz and less like a Can of Worms. This movie is clearly a kid's version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Does it even hold a candle to that wonderful timeless movie?

UGH, I'm so sad. We didn't find out about this until after the movie, but apparently the child actor from this movie was caught robbing banks?!

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Can of Worms more like Can of Penises! In one of our most phallic episodes ever, the boys lose their minds over what appears to be one of the worst movies on Disney+.

Sometimes the Disney channel original movie just fails us all. Maybe it was good back in the day, but it just doesn't hold up.

But hey it stars the mom (Erika Christensen) from Parenthood at least?

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