#47 - A Knight’s Tale | Directed by Brian Helgeland (with Shelby Schwieterman and Sam Frontera of The Rom Complex)
02/23/22 • 69 min
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Tune in as Shelby Schwieterman and Sam Frontera (The Rom Complex) hang out on 2CC to cover the 2001 rock ‘n roll medieval sports adventure, A Knight’s Tale. They also chat about Nike product placement, the aural creativity of foley artists, and whether or not Rufus Sewell always plays villains (considering Arthur looked up The Man in the High Castle post-recording and found out that he does indeed play the main antagonist as the Reichsführer of Nazi America, let’s say the answer is “yes”).
Directed by Brian Helgeland (42), A Knight’s Tale stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy, Laura Fraser, Berenice Bejo, James Purefoy, and Christopher Cazenove.
Spoilers start at 12:00
Note: Arthur was mistaken. Helgeland’s Legend is a gangster movie, not a spy movie.
Good Word:
• Sam: ABC’s Abbott Elementary
• Shelby: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Arthur: Love and Monsters
Reach out at [email protected] if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello!
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Tune in as Shelby Schwieterman and Sam Frontera (The Rom Complex) hang out on 2CC to cover the 2001 rock ‘n roll medieval sports adventure, A Knight’s Tale. They also chat about Nike product placement, the aural creativity of foley artists, and whether or not Rufus Sewell always plays villains (considering Arthur looked up The Man in the High Castle post-recording and found out that he does indeed play the main antagonist as the Reichsführer of Nazi America, let’s say the answer is “yes”).
Directed by Brian Helgeland (42), A Knight’s Tale stars Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy, Laura Fraser, Berenice Bejo, James Purefoy, and Christopher Cazenove.
Spoilers start at 12:00
Note: Arthur was mistaken. Helgeland’s Legend is a gangster movie, not a spy movie.
Good Word:
• Sam: ABC’s Abbott Elementary
• Shelby: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Arthur: Love and Monsters
Reach out at [email protected] if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello!
Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms!
Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, and StoryGraph: @arthur_ant18
Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscritic
Follow Arthur on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell
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#46 - Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett | Created by Jon Favreau
3 RecommendationsTune in for Arthur’s dissection of The Book of Boba Fett, the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff series that takes place after the events of Season 2 of The Mandalorian. For the first time ever, fabled bounty hunter Boba Fett is in the lead role as he—with the aid of assassin ally Fennec Shand—endeavors to take control of the criminal empire that had once been ruled by Jabba the Hutt and then Bib Fortuna. Yep, this means more time on the desert planet of Tatooine. In addition, Arthur touches on the 2022 Oscar nominees, gripes about TBOBF pulling a Ulysses Klaue, and gets some amusement out of trying to figure out what a “gonk’s scomp jack” might be.
Created by Jon Favreau, The Book of Boba Fett stars Temuera Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, David Pasquesi, Jennifer Beals, Sophie Thatcher, Jordan Bolger, Matt Berry, Carey Jones, Stephen Root, Danny Trejo, and Thundercat/Stephen Lee Bruner.
Spoilers start at 20:00
Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett blog review: https://2centscritic.com/2022/02/12/my-2-cents-on-disneys-the-book-of-boba-fett/
Resources:
Polygon’s “Book of Boba Fett is so much better when you realize Boba Fett is the series villain” by Tasha Robinson - https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/22929592/book-of-boba-fett-hero-vs-villain
Good Word: X-Men: First Class
Reach out at [email protected] if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello!
Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms!
Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, and StoryGraph: @arthur_ant18
Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscritic
Follow Arthur on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell
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#48 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (with Sam Dixon and Sammi Skorstad of Hardcover Hoes)
1 RecommendationsTune in as Sam Dixon and Sammi Skorstad (Hardcover Hoes) take their seats around the table for a thorough breakdown of Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Arthur had put this 2020 YA contemporary fantasy on hold for the longest time in his digital library with the intention of covering it on 2CC. Now, it’s quite gratifying to reach the point where everyone can talk about 16-year-old Bree Matthews’s quest to infiltrate a secret society with Arthurian roots at UNC-Chapel Hill and unearth the truth about her mother’s car accident. The three hosts also cover the infuriating and insidious nature of microaggressions, TikTok sounds that mystify the TikTokless Arthur, and the cultural touchstone that Twilight has become.
TW: grief, racism, misogyny, death of parent, car accident, slavery, colonialism, anxiety attacks, war; brief mentions of alcoholism, rape, and transphobia
Spoilers unofficially start at 9:00 because of a massively spoilery story beat that was accidentally dropped right after that point.
Note 1: Bloodmarked, the second entry in the Legendborn Cycle, will release on November 8, 2022, not July.
Note 2: did you know that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used to be a stand-up comedian?
Good Word:
• Sammi: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
• Sam: Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg
• Arthur: supporting 🇺🇦Ukraine🇺🇦 by giving donations, spreading the word on social media, and educating yourself on the ongoing invasion
UNICEF: UNICEF: Children Are Bearing Brunt of Intensifying Crisis in Ukraine
Voices of Children: https://voices.org.ua/en/
Territory of Kindness: https://vuf-td.space
Razom for Ukraine: Donate
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR): UNHCR | Ukraine Emergency
Save the Children: https://www.savethechildren.org
The Ukrainian Red Cross: https://redcross.org.ua/en/
People in Need: Ukraine
Free Press Unlimited: https://www.freepressunlimited.org/en/current/ukraine-support-journalists-and-public-access-reliable-information
Reach out at [email protected] if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello!
Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms!
Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, and StoryGraph: @arthur_ant18
Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscritic
Follow Arthur on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell
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