#71 - Free Guy | Directed by Shawn Levy (with Jessica and Saunya of Opinionated Lushes)

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09/14/22 • 141 min

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Tune in as Jessica and Saunya (Opinionated Lushes) collaborate with Arthur for a deep dive into Free Guy, the 2021 action-adventure comedy that follows the happy-go-lucky bank teller Guy as he realizes he’s an NPC (non-player character) inside a MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) called Free City. Are we being oversaturated with Ryan Reynolds’s presence? How big of a role does the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype play in the movie? Should we be concerned over Christopher Nolan‘s upbringing? The hosts chat about all that and more on this episode.

Directed by Shawn Levy (the Night at the Museum trilogy), Free Guy stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi.

Spoilers start at 31:30

Good Word:

• Jessica: Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

• Saunya: Death Road to Canada

• Arthur: La La Land

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Directed by Shawn Levy (the Night at the Museum trilogy), Free Guy stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi.

Spoilers start at 31:30

Good Word:

• Jessica: Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

• Saunya: Death Road to Canada

• Arthur: La La Land

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, StoryGraph, and Letterboxd: @arthur_ant18

Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram: @two_centscritic

Follow Arthur on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell

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#70 - Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (with Sarah Thompson)

2 Recommendations

Tune in as BookTokker and Bookstagrammer Sarah Thompson joins in to shower praise on Take a Hint, Dani Brown, the fake-dating contemporary romance novel by Talia Hibbert. This is also the second standalone novel in her Brown Sisters trilogy, with its first book, Get a Life, Chloe Brown, having been the focus of a recent episode. Spunky grandma appreciation, support for emotionally self-aware men, and wrapping up a rom-com with a subversive grand gesture are a few of the subjects that get coverage here.

TW: an on-page depiction of an anxiety attack, sexual content, discussion of parental and sibling death, and brief mentions of a past car accident

Spoilers start at 20:10

Good Word:

• Sarah: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

• Arthur: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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#72 - Netflix’s Do Revenge | Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (with Brandi and Mindy of Drunk Bitches Be Like)

3 Recommendations

Tune in as Brandi and Mindy (Drunk Bitches Be Like) hang out on 2CC for a deep dive into Netflix’s Do Revenge, the 2022 modernized twist on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. This incredibly campy throwback to 90s and 2000s teen cinema provides a foundation for the three hosts to chat about plenty of topics: the school life, the cheating capabilities of WhatsApp and Snapchat, the countless felonies and misdemeanors committed by characters in Do Revenge, the upcoming live-action reboot of The Little Mermaid, and more.

Spoilers start at 26:50

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Netflix’s Something Great), Do Revenge stars Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Austin Abrams, Rish Shah, Talia Ryder, Ava Capri, Jonathan Daviss, Alisha Boe, Sophie Turner, Rachel Matthews, Fay the Lizard, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Good Word:

• Brandi: Netflix’s Fate: The Winx Saga

• Mindy: The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu, followed by its sequel Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

• Arthur: Malignant

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!

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Follow Arthur on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/144101970-arthur-howell