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Games & Gaming Culture: Top Games of 2019

In our grand tradition in our secure studio bastion, we list off the best, worst, decent, and somewhere-in-between games of last year. Also check out Scott’s list at a glance and impressions of more 2019 titles.

Film & TV: Hedy Lamarr Highlight/Bombshell

TLS takes a step away from straightforward reviewing to discuss the documentary Bombshell: the by turns fascinating and tragic story of 1940s Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr who was much more than that.

Literature: Maus by Art Spiegelman

TLS reviews one of the most stunning works both within and beyond the graphic novel format, testifying to its lasting resonance and brilliance.
[Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #018: The General

TLS hijacks a train back to the 1920s era of film to catch up with Buster Keaton’s somewhat divisive flick, The General.
[Aggregate score: 6]

Literature: Day of the Builders by Kristine Ong Muslim

TLS faces off with colonists of some sort or another in this short story.
[Aggregate score: 7.5]

Film & TV: Children of Heaven

TLS follows the captivating journey of two siblings in southern Tehran who just want their shoes back.
[Aggregate score: 9.75]

Literature: The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

TLS finds a shiny leftover present at the bottom of the stocking– a review of a Dostoyevsky story set in an odd Christmas party. [Aggregate score: 10]

Film & TV: Attenberg

TLS trudges through the morose tale of a Greek woman and her estranged relationships in a run-down town. [Aggregate score: 6.75]

Literature: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

TLS reviews this critically acclaimed graphic novel about the author’s experiences growing to teenhood in 1970s-1980s Iran.
[Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #070: A Clockwork Orange

Viddy well our real horrorshow episode on Stanley Kubrick’s influential adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. Yarblockos.
[Aggregate score: 9.25]