Year: 2020

Film & TV: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

TLS has their own Mexican standoff during this review of Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone’s iconic and influential spaghetti Western .
[Aggregate score: 9]

Literature: Killing/Stalking by Koogi

TLS discusses (without reviewing) the first 10 chapters of this Korean comic that depicts a quite unnerving yet deeply fascinating relationship portrayal as well as its unique use of the digital graphic format.

Film & TV: Palm Springs

TLS relives a wild wedding night again and again in this modern and fresh take on the Groundhog Day loop. [Aggregate score: 8.25]

Games & Gaming Culture: Ghost of Tsushima

TLS samurai salutes Sucker Punch’s most recent and hugely successful release, delving into why this game is so excellent on numerous fronts.

Film & TV: Starship Troopers

Strap in soldier! As TLS reviews this retroactively perfect propaganda parody piece by Paul Verhoeven. [Aggregate score: 10]

Literature: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

TLS awakes to find themselves in an uncanny review of the quintessential Kafkaesque experience. [Aggregate score: 9]

Film & TV: First Cow

In what is possibly the first bakery attack, TLS commits small time milk robbery in latest A24 flick, First Cow. [Aggregate score: 7]

Literature: The Daughters of the Moon by Italo Calvino

TLS discovers who among us are moon children and who are the ravenous consumers while discussing this dreamy, fairytale-like story.
[Aggregate score: 5.5]

AFI Top 100 #054: M*A*S*H

Somewhere at the corner of offensive and uncomfortable, adjacent to unfunny, lies M*A*SH. [Aggregate score: 2]

Games & Gaming Culture: Summer Digital Showcases 2020

TLS recaps a few of the digital/direct game showcases so far this season in lieu of the usual E3 and similar expos.

As mentioned in the ep, check out the Devolver Digital Direct 2020 show.