Reviews in Twos

It’s MARVEL MONTH at Reviews in Twos! This month we’re reviewing “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” first released in 2014. In this episode, we talk about Steve’s moral compass, the role of technology in society, Bucky and Steve’s bond, parallels between movies, and much more!

Guest: Sheila Lin

Host: Nora Kalkman

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Movies, characters, and other things mentioned:

- Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): began with the movie “Iron Man” starring Robert Downey Jr. in 2008, movies and series are based on the Marvel Comics.

- The Avengers (2012)

- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

- Captain America: Civil War (2016)

- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

- Avengers: Endgame (2019)

- Steve Rogers/Captain America/“Cap”: selected to become a Super Soldier during World War Two, was frozen for around 80 years after saving several cities from being bombed, joins The Avengers in the 21st century (once he’s unfrozen)

- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow/”Nat”: former KJB operative, master assassin, recruited to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., now part of The Avengers and close friend to Steve.

- Sam Wilson/The Falcon (now Captain America): formerly part of the U.S. air force, is a Counselor for veterans when he meets Steve. Sam reveals he has a “jetpack with wings” and offers to help Steve in his quest, and is called “The Falcon”. Chosen by Steve to succeed him as Captain America in “Endgame” (2019).

- Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier: Steve’s best friend growing up, member of Captain America’s WW2 squad, fell off a train during a mission, thought dead, brainwashed by Hydra, turned into The Winter Soldier, now has a metal arm.

- S.H.I.E.L.D.: organization dealing with supernatural/super-human/alien threats to Earth.

- Peggy Carter: An amazing woman. Was part of the U.S. army and involved in the Super Soldier programme, where she met Steve and they fell in love.  became a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D.

- Lemurian Star (“the ship”): pirate ship that Cap & friends are sent to rescue agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. who were being held hostage. The special USB/hard-drive given to Steve by Fury held information that Natasha downloaded while on this ship and Fury couldn’t access (suspicious).

- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013-2020): series, after incorporating the events of this movie in their second season, the series broke off from the official MCU but is still inspired by the Marvel Comics.

- Helicarrier: giant airship, meant to be used as weapon against people who S.H.I.E.L.D consider threats, later intended to be used against people Hydra considers as threats.

- Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the person who assembled the original Avengers.

- Hydra: “the science division” of the Nazis, main antagonists for Captain America & Co. during WW2. Now, hiding and working within S.H.I.E.L.D. like a parasite.

- Arnim Zola: super smart science dude working for Hydra, recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. after the war, has his brain stored on multiple hard-drives, still loyal to Hydra.

- Dr. Abraham Erskine (“the doctor”): German scientist and doctor who created the Super Soldier Serum, played by Stanley Tucci, appears in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).

- Socovia Accords: as a result of the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Avengers are forced to sign a contract with the UN, barring them from responding to threats without the governments permission.

- STRIKE team: S.H.I.E.L.D.’s equivalent of a SWAT team.

- Brock Rumlow: works with Steve, turns out to be Hydra, tries to kill Sam, becomes "Crossbones", bad person.

Will Cumbia is back! Inspired by our conversation when reviewing the Eurovision Movie, we now expand on the ideas we mentioned and talk about the use of accents throughout “mainstream” movies and shows.

Episode breakdown:

First, we explain a bit of our positionality and clarify how we’ll be using the term “accents” before chatting about the three different uses of accents I’ve observed in movies and series. Then, we talk about examples (see below), the role of accents in portraying stereotypes, diversity in grammatic structures, accents changing over space and time, and much more! We close by discussing why this is an important subject to discuss, and mention two VERY SPECIAL announcements at the very end :)

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Host: Nora Kalkman

Guest: Will Cumbia

Actors & media mentioned:

- Gal Gadot as Dianna Prince/Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman (2017) & more DC movies.

- The Hemsworth brothers: Chris, Liam, and Luke (Australian),

- Dan Stephens as Alexander Lemtov in Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga (2020 movie)

- Priscilla Barnes as Magda from Jane the Virgin (2014-2019 series)

- Toby Jones as Arnim Zola in Captain America: The First Avenger & other Marvel movies

- Hugo Weaving and Ross Marquand as Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger, Endgame, and Infinity War (movies)

- JoJo Rabbit(2019 movie): Taika Waititi (Director and Actor), Scarlett Johansson as Rosie

- Pitch Perfect 2(2015 movie)

- The Chosen(2019- series)

- Charlotte Hope as Catherine of Aragon in The Spanish Princess (2019-2020 series)

- Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann in The Woman in Gold (2015 movie)

- Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred Son of Uhtred in The Last Kingdom (2015- series)

Join us as we finish our review of the fantasy novel "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss, published in 2007. We discuss World Building, Writing Style, and Use of Medium, while debating about the amount of metaphor usage, discussing crooked noses and perfect ears, and gushing over the writing. 

Pre-Review: Preface & summary of book

Part 1: Discussing character

Part 2: Character, Plot, and World Building

Part 3: World Building, Writing Style, Use of Medium

Editor’s note:

Since recording, I've found out that there is a pronunciation guide available in the “deluxe special edition” version of the book, and several YouTube videos on the channel “The Eolian” where Rothfuss goes through some pronunciations, but it’s done as an FAQ so it's very hard to find specific pronunciations. I do stand by my 9.5, because I believe things like a pronunciation guide should be accessible to all readers ;)

Links:

The Eolian YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyGXfjMVCT_GDa2NprHzCDA

Description of the deluxe edition of the book: https://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/books.asp

Guest: Sara Falk

Host: Nora Kalkman

Instagram: @reviewsin2s

E-mail: [email protected]

Characters:

Kvothe/Kote (main character), Denna (Kvothe's love interest), Chandrian (evil group of people, killers of Kvothe’s family, Kvothe’s obsession), Chronicler (writing Kvothe's auto-biography and author of “The Mating Habits of a Common Draccus”), Bast (Kvothe's student), Auri (Kvothe's friend), Fela (Kvothe’s University friend), Devi (money lender), Wilem and Simmon (Kvothe’s best friends), Deoch (co-owner and “bouncer” at the Eolian), Skarpi (storyteller), Masters (professors), Stanchion (co-owner and music manager of the Eolian).

Places:

Imre (the artistic city next to the University), Trebon (the town where the tragic wedding happened), the Eolian (esteemed music/bar place), Tarbean (city where Kvothe lived before going to the University).

Other:

Tinker Tanner (song), Sympathy (form of “magic”), Sygaldry (form of “magic”), Alchemy (form of “magic”), The Lay of Sir Savien Traliard (song), The Mating Habits of a Common Draccus (book), the Edema Ruh (Kvothe’s people group, often Troupers), Siaru (language), Scrael (spider monsters).

Join us as we continue our review of the fantasy novel "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss, published in 2007. We continue our discussion on characters, talking about how female characters are incorporated into the story, masculinity, and best friends. We also start talking about plot, introduce the category of Setting & World Building, and much more! 

Pre-Review: Prefacing the book and summarizing the story.

Part 1: Discussing character

Part 2: Character, Plot, and World Building

Editor’s note:

Minute 9:15-9:30 – To clarify on my comment: I do not appreciate that women don’t have a lot of options in this setting, however I appreciate that Rothfuss addressed the reality of the options for women in this type of society.

Guest: Sara Falk

Host: Nora Kalkman

Instagram: @reviewsin2s

E-mail: [email protected]

Characters:

Kvothe/Kote (the main character), Denna (Kvothe's love interest), Chandrian (evil group of people, killers of Kvothe’s family, Kvothe’s obsession), Chronicler (writing Kvothe's auto-biography and author of “The Mating Habits of a Common Draccus”), Bast (Kvothe's student), Auri (Kvothe's friend), Fela (Kvothe’s University friend), Devi (money lender), Wilem and Simmon (Kvothe’s best friends), Deoch (co-owner of and “bouncer” at the Eolian), Skarpi (storyteller).

Places:

Imre (the artistic city next to the University), Trebon (the town where the tragic wedding happened), the Eolian (esteemed music/bar place), Tarbean (city where Kvothe lived before going to the University). 

Other:

The Lay of Sir Savien Traliard [a.k.a.: what I call "The Tale of Sir Savien" in this episode] (song), The Mating Habits of a Common Draccus (book), the Edema Ruh (Kvothe’s people group, often Troupers), Siaru (language), scrael (spider monsters).

A little update on what's been going on (a.k.a.: why there haven't been any episodes published in so long) and some future plans for this podcast. Don't worry, this isn't over yet ;)

Host: Nora Kalkman

Instagram: @reviewsin2s

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Join us as we begin our review of the fantasy novel "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss, published in 2007. We discuss the drama of the main character, the presence of female characters in the story, and much more!

Pre-Review: Prefacing the book and summarizing the story. 

Part 1: Discussing character 

Guest: Sara Falk

Host: Nora Kalkman

Instagram: @reviewsin2s

E-mail: [email protected]

Characters: 

Kvothe/Kote (the main character), Denna (Kvothe's love interest), Chronicler (the person who is writing down Kvothe's auto-biography), Bast (Kvothe's student), Auri (Kvothe's friend). 

Places: 

Imre (the artistic city next to the University), Trebon (the town where the tragic wedding happened).  

Join us as we summarize "The Name of the Wind", a fantasy book by Patrick Rothfuss released in 2007, in preparation to review it. Enjoy!

Guest: Sara Falk

Host: Nora Kalkman

Intagram: @reviewsin2s

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We continue our review of the movie "Shazam!" (2019) by evaluating it in different categories. 

Part 1: Recap

Part 2: Remarks on the movie

Part 3: Reviewing the movie with a score out of 10

Guest:

Meredith Carter

@merelayne

Host:

Nora Kalkman

@reviewsin2s

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Join us as we continue our review of the movie "Shazam!" released in 2019. We chat about some things that we enjoyed, the DC universe, and some easter eggs as well!

Part 1: Recap

Part 2: Remarks on the movie

Part 3: Reviewing the movie with a score out of 10

"Everything GREAT About Shazam!" CinemaWins video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfySdl6GPg

Guest:

Meredith Carter

@merelayne

Host:

Nora Kalkman

@reviewsin2s

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