AFI Top 100

Reviews of the 2007 AFI Top 100 List

AFI Top 100 #014: Psycho

The Lost Signals presents MOTSterpiece Theater.  Tonight’s episode features #14 on the AFI 100, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.  A review to be murdered by. [Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #027: High Noon

Join MOTS as we journey to the old west for drama and red scare commentary in AFI’s #27 feature, “High Noon.”
Don’t forget to wind your clocks. [Aggregate score: 9.75]

AFI Top 100 #013: Star Wars

After having processed the origin of hero myths through Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces, TLS turn that lens onto one of the most influential modern hero arcs—the original 1977 Star Wars. [Aggregate score: 9.5]

AFI Top 100 #056: Jaws

The Lost Signals crew debates who the real villain of the 1975 classic Jaws is: a misunderstood predator looking for a snack? A plucky small town bureaucrat trying to save the summer?  John Williams?  Spoiler: It is definitely John Williams. [Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #025: To Kill A Mockingbird

The crew takes on the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, looking at the social, cultural, and legal points of this classic story, with guest Geoff Blackwell returning to the set. [Aggregate score: 8]
Check out Geoff’s law-centric podcast at: http://alltoocommonlaw.com/

AFI Top 100 #045: Shane

MOTSterpiece tags along the ranch with a reluctant gunslinger whose name the film will never let you forget, in the titular 1953 western classic, Shane. [Aggregate score 7.5]

 

AFI Top 100 #087: 12 Angry Men

This week, TLS decided to review the deliberation room classic, 12 Angry Men, and joining us to lend a whiff of legitimacy was someone with some legal experience himself, Geoff Blackwell. [Aggregate score: 9.5]

Geoff is voice of the news podcast from a legal perspective, All Too Common Law and a lawyer with American Atheists.

AFI Top 100 #004: Raging Bull

MOTS steps into the ring to tangle with the classic Scorsese flick, Raging Bull. [Aggregate score: 8]