Shows

Film & TV: Halloween (2018)

Just in time to lead into our annual MOTS-O-Ween marathon, the latest entry in the grandfather of horror franchises returns for the modern age and manages to recapture what made it great in the first place.  [Aggregate score: 9.5]

 

Games & Gaming Culture: The Mechanics of Tension

In keeping tradition, TLS closes off this season of Games & Games Culture with a discussion on horror games, this year focusing on their mechanics and design features via this article from Gamasutra.

Games & Gaming Culture: Time-Travel Based Games

Travel through time with TLS as we attempt to parse out how best to integrate the conceit of time-travel in videogames, narratively and/or mechanically.

 

AFI Top 100 #089: The Sixth Sense

TLS sees specters and reevaluates their own misconceptions in an AFI review of M. Night Shyamalan’s original horror/thriller.
[Aggregate score: 10]

Film & TV: Venom

TLS slithers along with Sony’s live adaptation of Marvel’s Venom in all it’s sub-par glory.
[Aggregate score: 4]

 

Literature: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

The Lost Signals try to discern who is real and who is not in their analysis of John W. Campbell’s (writing as Don A. Stuart) classic tale, “Who Goes There?” [Aggregate score: 8]

 

 

Film & TV: Hell Fest

As a precursor to kicking off Halloween season for 2018, TLS reviews the decently generic slasher flick, Hell Fest.

[Aggregate score: 6]

Film & TV: Interview with Michelle Iannantuono of Octopunk Media

Steve and Scott interview filmmaker Michelle Iannantuono about her upcoming feature, “Livescream,” as well as her company, Octopunk Media, and all of the various projects under its tentacles.

On Facebook:
Octopunk Media
Livescream

Crowdfunded projects Michelle is promoting:
Flesher
Killer Assistant

Film & TV: Disenchantment (Season 1)

TLS reviews the latest Matt Groening brain-child, Netflix series Disenchantment, while channeling the habits and vices of the show’s characters.

[Aggregate score: 8]

Literature: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

Less Dickensian and more Poe-esque, The Signal-Man is a story of ghastly foreshadowing and we’re just the Signals to review it. [Aggregate Score: 7.33]