2 Cents Critic

Tune in as Pride Month rolls onward for its second week on 2CC! Anna ( @banananna024 / @formergleek ) is jumping back on the show for a deep dive into The Matrix, the 1999 sci-fi action movie about a computer hacker who’s bestowed with a quest to free humankind from the simulated reality in which they’ve all been imprisoned. The utterly trans layers of this iconic film, Tom Cruise and his represen...

Tune in as 2 Cents Critic kicks off Pride Month! Yes, this month has circled back around for the year 2025, so the program will be focusing on queer art. For this first episode of June, Robyn Zabukovec ( @TheFinalGirly ) strides on back to her guest chair for a breakdown of Hannibal, the horror-thriller show that premiered on NBC in 2013 and spent three seasons diving into the grisly and psycholog...

Tune in as Rolo Tony ( @PoorOldRoloTony ) hops aboard the podcast to review and recap The Last Supper, the 1995 satirical black comedy movie about a friend group of grad school students who launch a scheme to kill off conservatives by inviting them over for the last supper they’ll ever have. The surprisingly cozy atmosphere wrapped around this film, the politeness and hypocrisy of liberals, the re...

Tune in as Seth Vargas ( Movie Friends ) returns to the program to discuss Videodrome, the 1983 sci-fi body horror film about a TV station president whose discovery of an enigmatic and pornographic video broadcast drags his mind and his flesh down a spiral of terror. The David Cronenberg movie that Seth saw as a wee little child with his mom, recommendations for 1997’s Hercules and the Black Mirro...

Tune in as Anna ( @banananna024 / @formergleek ) jumps back into their guest chair for a breakdown of Drive, the 2011 neo-noir crime thriller film about an L.A. stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Ryan Gosling’s auramaxxing, what qualifies as neo-noir, the strange misogyny that’s given off by issues like NWR’s original goal of casting a porn star as Blanche, and the horr...

Tune in as Andy ( Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts ) strolls back into the 2CC sphere for a plunge into Maeve Fly, the 2023 horror novel by C.J. Leede that follows a young woman who's harboring grim and bloodthirsty urges while playing an ice princess at a certain Californian theme park and laying an eye on her best friend’s intriguing brother. Why people might read splatterpunk books, comp...

Tune in as Sam Frontera and Shelby Schwieterman ( The Rom Complex ) dive back into another collaboration with 2CC for a review and recap of Wilderness, the Prime Video thriller miniseries about a scorned woman’s revenge plan against her dickweasel husband. Drawing comparisons between this show and Gone Girl, the potential that this could have had to take on a more darkly comedic tone, and the knac...

Tune in as Anna ( @banananna024 / @formergleek ) teams back up with Arthur to review and recap Devs, the 2020 sci-fi techno-thriller miniseries about the mysterious and murderous machinations of a quantum computing company. Anna’s mini-review of Civil War, wishing that Alex Garland could grow a political spine, the choice to cast Cailee Spaeny as a teenage cis boy, and how this show deals with wei...

Tune in as Dustin Holden ( The Rewatch Recap ) returns to 2CC for a breakdown of How to Train Your Dragon, the 2010 animated fantasy movie about the bond that grows between a teenage Viking boy and a dragon. The creatures and their mannerisms that inspired Toothless’s design, worries over the upcoming live-action reboot of HTTYD, the aversion to referring to wild animals that you hunt as “game,” a...

Tune in as Guy Bradford ( Jesters of Ravenloft: A D&D Podcast ) jumps back into his guest chair to discuss Magic, the 1978 psychological horror drama movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Corky Withers, a magician and ventriloquist who becomes a little too obsessed with his dummy Fats. The flop sweat that this film is full of, alternative stars who were in the running for the role of Corky, and th...

Tune in as some good old buddies of 2 Cents Critic return to the program in honor of it turning four years old! Glad to have Andy ( Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts ), Anna ( @banananna024 / @formergleek ), Jessica ( Opinionated Lushes ), Marie Nicola ( Alt. Pop. Repeat ), and Robert “Stew” Stewart ( Stew World Order ) hopping back into their guest seats. It really has been a journey for this s...

Tune in as Brett Salter ( Irish Salt ) jumps back onto the program to break down the 2019 sci-fi thriller movie Synchronic, which follows a couple New Orleans paramedics as they get caught up in the mystery surrounding a new designer drug and the reality-altering impact it’s having on its users. Anthony Mackie’s flair for dark comedy, puzzling out the stylistic choices for elements like nonlinear...

Tune in as Connor Kujawinski ( @connorkuj ) teams back up with Arthur to recap the momentous occasion that is the 2025 Oscars! This past awards season has been brimming with a particularly high amount of chaos and toxicity, and now it’s finally reached its conclusion, allowing people to take a rest from all of this awards hubbub for some time. There was certainly plenty of that hubbub within the O...

Tune in as Clayton Jones II ( Men Who Like Men Who Like Movies Podcast ) heads back to this program for a review and recap of The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the 2017 film that follows a cardiovascular surgeon and his family as their meticulous and pristine life starts to collapse at the hands of a teenage boy. The knack that director Yorgos Lanthimos has for showing the darkest and most grotesque h...

Tune in as Drew and Nino ( Boycott Scream 7 ) join Arthur for a conversation about the campaign that many people are pursuing to boycott Scream 7 (as well as Spyglass in general, considering this production company, which currently owns the rights to the Scream franchise, is a supporter of Zionism). The importance of BDS, how crucial it is to have the boycott appeal to casual horror fans, and excu...

Tune in as Fake-Dating February wraps up on 2CC with the fourth and final episode of the month, where Mama D ( Petals of Support ) hops back into her guest seat for a review and recap of The Wedding Crasher, the 2022 rom-com novel by Mia Sosa that follows Solange and Dean as they create a fake-dating scheme together in the wake of Solange having put a stop to Dean’s wedding. Wondering where the so...

Tune in as Fake-Dating February advances forward with the third episode of the month, where Brett Salter ( Irish Salt ) rejoins 2CC for a breakdown of Love to Hate You, the 2023 Netflix K-drama that follows the chaos and romance between a misandrist lawyer and a misogynistic celebrity. The absolutely wacky comedy that this show is willing to dive into, being grateful that a certain subplot doesn’t...

Tune in as Fake-Dating February keeps rolling onward with this second episode of the month, where Tyler Hewitt ( Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons ,  Jesters of Ravenloft ) teams up with Arthur again to review and recap Anyone But You, the 2023 enemies-to-lovers and fake-dating rom-com that’s loosely based off of the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing. The terrifying nature of those huge huntsman spid...

Tune in as Fake-Dating February kicks off on 2CC in honor of the hijinks and machinations that turn artificial love into authentic love! For this first podcast of the month, Arthur’s buddy Anna ( @banananna024 / @formergleek ) is circling back around for a review and recap of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, the 2018 Netflix rom-com whose fake-dating scheme that Lara Jean Song Covey and Peter Ka...

Tune in as Andy ( Fat Dude Digs Flicks Movie Podcasts ) slides back into his guest seat for a breakdown of Virtuosity, the 1995 sci-fi action thriller that sends a prisoner with a police officer background on a mission to stop a serial killer who’s managed to escape his birthplace of virtual reality and is now terrorizing the real world. The investment that director Brett Leonard puts into VR thro...

Tune in as Jessica and Saunya, along with Dawn Marie in spirit ( Opinionated Lushes ), team back up with Arthur to rank their top ten books of 2024 (with some good old disclaimers). Reading an ostensibly nonfiction book about UAPs as science-fiction, the importance of portraying mental health sensitively, existential dread over the state of our world, and the misogyny festering within nice guys an...

Tune in as Arthur's friend Noah ( @NoahBManiac ) hops back onto the program so that they can reflect on the film journey of 2024 by presenting their rankings of the top ten movies from that whole year. A defense of the intentional comedy and camp in Trap, appreciation for immersive and palpable sound design, a striking connection that The Substance shares with Nightbitch, and the beauty of Say...

Tune in as Vanessa Ondi ( Best Week Ever Podcast ) returns to 2CC so that she and Arthur can take a look back on 2024 and rank their top 10 TV shows of that year. Apple TV+ doing a horrible job at promoting its media, creeps and perverts in Hollywood, and Vanessa’s story about having met Mark Duplass stand out as some of the topics for this episode. Create your  podcast  today!  #madeonzencastr He...

Tune in as Brett Salter ( Irish Salt ) jumps back into his guest chair for a breakdown of Reminiscence, the 2021 tech noir movie that feels strongly evocative of predecessors like Strange Days, Inception, and Chinatown while presenting the ways in which humanity has sunk back into old memories as an escape from the flooding and the climate change that’s plaguing its near-future dystopia. The humid...

Tune in as Christmas wraps up on the podcast for this fourth week of December! Dustin Holden ( Dustin Can Read & Watch  and  The Rewatch Recap ) hops back onto the program to discuss Happiest Season, the 2020 Hulu rom-com that follows lesbian couple Abby and Harper as they make sudden plans to visit Harper’s family for Christmas—a plan that veers off-course when it’s revealed that she had neve...