What’s new, everyone? On the 2 Cents Critic podcast, check out this episode on Tenet, the time-inverting espionage movie from Christopher Nolan. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OQ6K1kmGnnqeuXJ7kCQUZ?si=syM-Ku2CReune8jei_ytfQ&dl_branch=1
Tag: Sci-fi
My 2 Cents on Disney+’s What If…?
What’s new, everyone? Having developed over a decade, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) grew just the teensiest bit bigger after Season 1 of the Disney+ Loki series culminated in the Sacred Timeline branching off into a multiverse. This led directly into the next Disney+ MCU show: Marvel’s What If…?, the animated anthology series that premiered on … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Disney+’s What If…?
My 2 Cents on Steelstriker by Marie Lu
What’s new, everyone? If you’ve been following my reviews long enough, you know that one of my top reads of 2020 was Skyhunter by Marie Lu (Legend, The Kingdom of Back). With its eighteen-year-old heroine Talin Kanami devoting herself as a loyal Striker to her homeland of Mara’s mission of beating back the occupying regime of the … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Steelstriker by Marie Lu
My 2 Cents on The Block by Ben Oliver
What’s new, folks? Last year I read The Loop, a YA dystopian novel by debut author Ben Oliver that kicked off in the future on first-person narrator Luka Kane’s sixteenth birthday. But he couldn’t really enjoy himself while behind bars in the Loop, a death-row prison that the World Government used to run experiments on and … Continue reading My 2 Cents on The Block by Ben Oliver
My 2 Cents on Disney+’s Loki
What’s new, folks? Loki Laufeyson (played by Tom Hiddleston) made his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe all the way back in 2011’s Thor as the Norse trickster god and the brother of Thor. Since then, he’s invaded New York, briefly went into a strained collaboration with Thor to stop the Dark Elves, faked his death, went … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Disney+’s Loki
My 2 Cents on The Tomorrow War
What’s new, folks? When summer saunters in, so does its posse of big and loud blockbusters—one of which this year is The Tomorrow War, the action sci-fi flick that Amazon Prime began streaming on July 2. Skydance Media and Paramount Studios originally had it set for a theatrical release, but the pandemic eventually forced them to … Continue reading My 2 Cents on The Tomorrow War
My 2 Cents on WandaVision
(WARNING: Spoilers for the finale at the bottom of this post) What’s new, readers? Since the Disney+ Marvel series Wandavision debuted with the first two episodes on January 15, I’ve been keeping up with it every following Friday until it concluded with its ninth and final episode on March 5. Out of all the Marvel … Continue reading My 2 Cents on WandaVision
My 2 Cents on Tenet—A Spoiler-Filled Breakdown
What’s new, readers? Let’s dive straight into the breakdown of Tenet, the 2020 espionage thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan. I’m going to dissect the inverted intricacies to the best of my abilities, with any discrepancies and omissions being my fault. The first topic to cover before anything else is the “science” of time inversion. … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Tenet—A Spoiler-Filled Breakdown
My 2 Cents on Tenet
What’s new, readers? Finally. After all this time, after the damn COVID pandemic, we can catch bullets and wait an hour for hot sauce in Tenet, the 2020 spy thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan. I haven’t been so hyped up to see a movie since Avengers: Endgame over a year and a half ago. For months … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Tenet
My 2 Cents on The Top Ten Books of 2020
What’s new, readers? Hooboy, are you as relieved as I am that 2020—the year of COVID-19, bloodred skies, murder hornets, the wrongful deaths of numerous Black Americans at the hands of police, the passing away of Chadwick Boseman and Alex Trebek, the lunacy of Donald Trump and his sycophants, the blazing wreckage that is the Artemis … Continue reading My 2 Cents on The Top Ten Books of 2020
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