#85 - While You Were Sleeping | Directed by Jon Turteltaub (with Ryan Conner of Millennial Coffee Break)
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12/21/22 • 87 min
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Tune in as Ryan Conner (Millennial Coffee Break) comes back to 2CC for the third episode of Christmas Month 2022, where we’re sharing our thoughts and feelings on While You Were Sleeping, the 1995 Christmas-y rom-com starring Sandra Bullock as a lonely train station tollbooth worker who falls for a man, then falls for his family—but only after she saves him from getting run over by a train, then gets herself tangled up in a huge lie about her being his fiancée. A few of the topics that Arthur and Ryan comment on are characters breaking numerous moral and ethical boundaries in WYWS, the theoretical importance of leaning, farcical comedy’s love of the miscommunication trope, and movie titles getting dropped with varying levels of clumsiness somewhere into the dialogue.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Glynis Johns, Micole Mercurio, Jason Bernard, Michael Rispoli, Ally Walker, Monica Keena, Ruth Rudnick, Marcia Wright, and Dick Cusack.
Spoilers start at 14:00
Good Word:
• Ryan: Netflix’s Wednesday
• Arthur: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio on Netflix
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Tune in as Ryan Conner (Millennial Coffee Break) comes back to 2CC for the third episode of Christmas Month 2022, where we’re sharing our thoughts and feelings on While You Were Sleeping, the 1995 Christmas-y rom-com starring Sandra Bullock as a lonely train station tollbooth worker who falls for a man, then falls for his family—but only after she saves him from getting run over by a train, then gets herself tangled up in a huge lie about her being his fiancée. A few of the topics that Arthur and Ryan comment on are characters breaking numerous moral and ethical boundaries in WYWS, the theoretical importance of leaning, farcical comedy’s love of the miscommunication trope, and movie titles getting dropped with varying levels of clumsiness somewhere into the dialogue.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Glynis Johns, Micole Mercurio, Jason Bernard, Michael Rispoli, Ally Walker, Monica Keena, Ruth Rudnick, Marcia Wright, and Dick Cusack.
Spoilers start at 14:00
Good Word:
• Ryan: Netflix’s Wednesday
• Arthur: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio on Netflix
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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#84 - Netflix’s Klaus | Directed by Sergio Pablos (with Dustin Holden of Dustin Can Read & Watch and The Rewatch Recap)
3 RecommendationsTune in as Dustin Holden (Dustin Can Read & Watch and The Rewatch Recap) visits the show for a discussion on Klaus, the 2019 Netflix Christmas movie starring Jason Schwartzman and J.K. Simmons in a Santa Claus origin story that’s set in 19th-century Norway. Similarities between Klaus and The Nightmare Before Christmas, themes of selfishness and selflessness, bringing back hand-drawn animation in the modern age, and Klaus’s horror movie beats are just a few of the subjects that Arthur and Dustin touch on here.
Written and directed by Sergio Pablos (Despicable Me), Klaus stars Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, Will Sasso, Norm Macdonald, Neda Margrethe Labba, and Sergio Pablos.
Spoilers start at 13:50
Good Word:
• Dustin: Doctor Who, NBC’s Quantum Leap reboot, A Christmas Story, HBO Max’s A Christmas Story Christmas, F**K My Work Life, Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw
• Arthur: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix
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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#86 - The Santa Clause | Directed by John Pasquin (with Misty Rose)
2 RecommendationsTune in as my friend Misty Rose joins the show for the fourth and final episode of Christmas Month 2022, where we cover The Santa Clause, the 1994 Disney Christmas classic starring Tim Allen as a cynical dad who gets contractually roped into the legendary role of Santa Claus. A few of the included talking points are all the intense pressure and guilt that can accompany Christmas, Allen’s sarcastic charisma, the Popo Gigio backstory, and how Disney+‘s The Santa Clauses retcons the first movie.
Directed by John Pasquin (Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous), The Santa Clause stars Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz, Larry Brandenburg, Mary Gross, Peter Boyle, and Paige Tamada.
Spoilers start at 16:15
Good Word:
• Misty: Black Christmas (1974)
• Arthur: Prime Video’s A League of Their Own
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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