2 Cents Critic

Joining 2CC today is Alyssa Holbrook, the special effects makeup artist who’s spent plenty of time in the horror genre and whose credits include Jump Scare, Obsession, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, and Appofeniacs. Hellraiser and other influences on Alyssa’s work, practical effects versus CGI, Guillermo del Toro’s filmography, doing union and non-union projects, misogynistic men, and Alyssa getting a seat in the director’s chair with her short film “The Fear of Rejection” comprise some of the discussion material for this episode.

The Fear of Rejection (short film)

Alyssa Holbrook’s work

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Alyssa’s Good Word: Fleabag, Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer, and You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews

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Tune in as Rolo Tony (@PoorOldRoloTony, These Guys Got Juice, and Unsourced Wall Radio) jumps back onto the program for a breakdown of King of New York, the 1990 neo-noir crime thriller about a drug lord who, after being all done serving his prison sentence, is now on a mission to rebuild his criminal empire and direct it towards what he views to be noble causes for the sake of New York City. Subverting and inverting Blaxploitation tropes, Christopher Walken’s vampiric air, Laurence Fishburne radiating such an electric energy, and reading Frank White’s apparent goal of wealth redistribution through a lens of left-wing politics pop up as a few slices of the conversation for this episode.

Directed by Abel Ferrara, King of New York stars Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, Janet Julian, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Calderón, Theresa Randle, Leonard L. Thomas, Steve Buscemi, Roger Guenveur Smith, Carrie Nygren, Joey Chin, Ernest Abuba, Frank Gio, and Harold Perrineau.

Spoilers start at 32:50

Abel Ferrara On "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" 10/23/96 | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

The Best of Abel Ferrara's King of New York Commentary

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• Rolo Tony: Eaten Alive and Toolbox Murders
• Arthur: The Hunting Ground

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Tune in as Kate Hergott (Bookwild) returns to the podcast for a dive into The Hunting Wives, the 2025 Netflix sapphic soapy drama-thriller series that adapts the May Cobb novel of the same name about the sordid darkness that rises up out of a small-town Texan community when a body is found in the woods. The utter camp of this show, religious trauma, the difference between the labels “lesbian” and “sapphic,” and boy mom issues make up some of the talking points for this episode.

Created by Rebecca Cutter, The Hunting Wives stars Brittany Snow, Malin Åkerman, Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes, Dermot Mulroney, Chrissy Metz, Evan Jonigkeit, George Ferrier, Brandon Box, Hunter Emery, Karen Rodriguez, Madison Wolfe, Chosen Jacobs, Jason Davis, Paul Teal, Michael Aaron Milligan, and Abigail Rhyne.

Spoilers start at 27:40

Malin Åkerman Says ‘Fear Her Wrath’ in Hunting Wives Season Two

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• Kate: But Won’t I Miss Me by Tiffany Tsao
• Arthur: Not that Kind of Proposal by Victoria Lavine

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Tune in as Rolo Tony (@PoorOldRoloTony, These Guys Got Juice, and Unsourced Wall Radio) rejoins 2CC to cover Vanilla Sky, the 2001 surrealist romantic drama/thriller film about a rich and vain playboy whose seemingly perfect life gets thrown down a strange and disorienting road in the wake of a car crash. When this movie is (and isn’t) effective at persuading the audience to feel bad for an incredibly privileged and self-centered prick, viewing this as a meta lens on Tom Cruise himself, Arthur getting shocked over discovering Jason Lee’s Scientology connection, and Cameron Crowe’s soundtrack mastery become a few of the topics for this episode.

Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, Vanilla Sky stars Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor, Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Delaina Mitchell, and Johnny Galecki.

Spoilers start at 35:35

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Good Word:

• Rolo Tony: The Box
• Arthur: Furious

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Tune in as Sydney (@sydsbooked) partners up with the podcast for a plunge into Compound Fracture, the 2024 queer YA thriller/horror novel by Andrew Joseph White about a trans teenage boy who’s trying to figure himself out and pursue his socialist politics while fighting back against the violent and cop-enforced bigotry of his West Virginian home. The socially awkward obstacles that come with neurodivergence, mutual aid being a crucial aspect of socialism and anarchism, the oh-so-radical idea that liberals and Democrats shouldn’t be condescendingly throwing away red states and the communities within them, and parents who are trying their clumsy best to accept their trans kid comprise quite a bit of the subject matter for this episode.

TW: death, murder, violence, transphobia, deadnaming, misgendering, gun violence, ableism, police brutality, drug use and abuse, parental death (in the past), car accident (in the past), animal death, child death, physical abuse, emotional abuse, outing, sexual assault, fire, fire injury, vomiting, and alcohol

Spoilers start at 23:35

Manifesto of the Communist Party (or more commonly known as The Communist Manifesto) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Intro to Anarchism-- Q & Anarchy Episode 0 | Thought Slime

My Journey To Anarchism | Anarcha Semiyah

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Good Word:

• Sydney: Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill
• Arthur: Sterling Point

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