The Other Half

Return to Oz is as if Dorthey stepped into the Dark Crystal universe while walking down the yellow brick road. Dorthey returns back to the land of Oz after suffering massive PTSD from losing her home.

Made in 1985, this movie features a plethora of practical effects and claymation. It was hated by Disney and was a massive failure at the box office. But the sheer grim weirdness of this film allowed it to become a cult classic.

It's clear from the beginning this doesn't take many queues from the musical. Gone are the upbeat songs and "animals" represented by people dressed up in cute outfits. Instead, we get a lot of severed heads and electroshock therapy.

Ethan also gets to flex his knowledge on all things Oz related.

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Not sure if we've ever been as divided about a movie as George of the Jungle 2. A sequel that clearly had almost no budget or notable (in-person) talent, but it looked like it was at least a lot of fun to shoot.

This time George, who has been recast, has to learn what's more important to him: his wife Ursula and kid or his kingdom. Shame, because while he's dealing with that, Mean Lion and Ursula's mother-in-law have completely different ideas.

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Beaches is a classic hit movie about a couple of life long friends. With such different lives, they shouldn't probably be life long friends, but hey life is weird like that.

Starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, Beaches was a flop with the critics, but a huge hit with the fans. The theme song from it actually was number one on the Billboard chart.

But over 30 years later, does this movie still hold up?

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The Fanatic is a movie that proves that John Travolta has some sort of eternal debt he has to pay off by taking awful and humiliating movie roles. John Travolta plays a mentally challenged "fan" who goes "psycho" and stalks the man he is a fan of.

None of his friends stop him. He seems to be encouraged by society. Also, people are mean to him for no reason. It's like the Joker, but actually offensive on not just a quality level.

Oh, by the way, this movie was created by Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. Have a listen, but don't say we didn't warn ya!

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In this podcast, we discuss our general disappointment in this year's Oscar nominations. We also rank the best picture nominations and talk a little bit about each of the films nominated.

Also, we predict what will actually win this year's best picture! It's a nice little discussion that doesn't depress us at all.

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Wake up your dad it's time for Ford V Ferrari! Starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, this movie is about two dudes who just love racing and working on cars. Unfortunately, a little spat erupts between Ford Motor Company and Ferrari and ruins the whole thing.

Please bear with us as we try to talk about cars and rich people fighting with huge wades of cash and resources.

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The second entry into our Oscar month is Marriage Story! Marriage Story is a semi-autobiographical movie from Noah Baumbach starring Scarlett Johanson and Adam Driver. It's about two people getting divorced and all of the emotions that surround such an event.

The main thing I got from this is that child evaluators are weird.

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Joaquin Phoenix is the Joker! In Todd Phillip's somewhat controversial movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck. A comedian with mental issues down on his luck. All he wants to do is make the world laugh, but the world doesn't like him, man. IT DOESN'T LIKE HIM DAMNIT AND HE JUST WANTS TO MAKE THE HAPPY STILL ANYWAY?!

BANG BANG EVERYONE IS DEAD.

Also, Robert Deniro is in this movie.

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The Holy Flame of the Martial World is a wild ass, balls to the walls movie. The plot comes at you fast and hard along with the insane high-wire action.

We follow a brother and sister who have the idea to get revenge on the one super dope-ass white hair lady who killed their parents. There's also a lady called "Snake Boy". It rules.

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Sid and Nancy depicts the bass player from the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, and his self-destructing relationship with his girlfriend Nancy. It's a weirdly simple name for a movie. This movie is hard to watch. It's two people with not a care in the world drink and drug themselves to death.

But it does spark interesting Google searches like, what's the drug you do off of the spoon?

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