AFI Top 100 #082: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Harkening back to the era of silent film, TLS follows a subpar plot with excellent visuals in Sunrise.
[Aggregate score: 5.3]
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Year: 2019
Film & TV: Ad Astra
Such is the gravity of Heart of Darkness that its resonance can be felt far away in space. The caveat being the further the signal travels, the less clear it seems, ala Ad Astra.
[Aggregate score: 5.75]
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Games & Gaming Culture: Easter Eggs
Look closely as TLS attempts to definitively parse out what Easter eggs actually are in videogames, and highlight some of the best (and conversely, worst) instances of them.
Check out What Culture’s video mentioned in this one.
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Film & TV: The Lives of Others
We continue our journey through foreign language films with a review of The Lives of Others, a movie about life in state-controlled East Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. [Aggregate score: 9.6]
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Literature: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
On the rainy plains and in the classrooms of Venus, TLS experiences the sun for the first time in this Ray Bradbury short story.
[Aggregate score: 5.75]
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Film & TV: IT: Chapter 2
TLS returns to the root of their childhood nightmares to confront and overcome them in Part 2 of the modern film adaptation of Stephen King’s IT.
[Aggregate score: 8.3]
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Film & TV: The Distinguished Citizen
Stopping down in South America on their global cinema tour, TLS hangs out with a renowned author returning to his hometown to find out what people really think of him and his work.
[Aggregate score: 10]
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Philosophy & Narrative: JUS IN CINEMA
TLS discusses film, proportionality, and just war theory.
Faraci: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/15/the-strangely-cruel-and-unusual-death-in-jurassic-world
Hurka: https://www.kean.edu/~gkahn/PS4130/hurka.pdf
Jurassic Word clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTE3aH5gpw
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AFI Top 100 #030: Apocalypse Now
After exploring the original story of Heart of Darkness, we review with extreme prejudice what is perhaps its greatest successor, Apocalypse Now.
[Aggregate score: 10]
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Literature: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
“Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late…”
With those words in mind, join TLS for Part 1 of 2 in which we analyze and critique Joseph Conrad’s influential novella, Heart of Darkness, followed by perhaps its most famous contemporary adaptation, Apocalypse Now.
[Aggregate score: 8]
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