Year: 2020

AFI Top 100 #006: Gone With the Wind

It pretty much blows. [Aggregate score: 3.75]

Games & Gaming Culture: Weird War II

Get out your Spear of Destiny and strap on your witchcraft-powered jetpack as TLS goes on a tour of video games that feature occult, supernatural, and/or fantastical technology alongside the traditional WWII era and setting.

Film & TV: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen

TLS discusses the new documentary, “Disclosure” by executive producer, Laverne Cox, which focuses on the depiction, lives and experiences of trans persons both within and beyond the film and television industry.

Literature: The Knowers by Helen Phillips

TLS wishes themselves a happy death day while reviewing this solid slice of a short story.
[Aggregate score: 7]

Film & TV: Honey Boy

TLS checks out a missed film from last year, the deeply personal and fascinating story about little boy LaBeouf and the man on the moon.
[Aggregate score: 9]

Film & TV: Escape from L.A.

TLS joins known badass, Snake Plissken, in an absurd though somewhat entertaining romp through John Carpenter’s mid 90s vision of a dystopian America.
[Aggregate score: 6]

Film & TV: Extraction (2020)

TLS salutes the 4th by reviewing an ostensibly American action flick that is more of a vehicle for showcasing foreign talent.
[Aggregate score: 6.6]

Games & Gaming Culture: Next Gen Knowledge

We dive into what information and details have been revealed so far about the upcoming next generation consoles as they gear up to launch later this year.

AFI Top 100 #072: The Shawshank Redemption

TLS emerges triumphant from the sewers in the same way as this bona fide masterpiece. [Aggregate score: 10]

TV & Philosophy: The Modern Antihero/ine

Our take on The Take’s take of the idea of the newest iterations of antihero/heroine characters largely in ‘prestige television.’