Reviews

Literature: The Plague by Albert Camus

Taking a quick detour from traditional reviews, two TLS members discuss a few of the key elements and ideas from Camus’ classic tale of the human spirit in the face of a titular plague.

Film & Literature: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson starring Will Smith (2007)

TLS combines the original story and the latter film version of vampire-virus related tale, I am Legend, for a double feature compare/contrast session in lieu of separate MOTS reviews for each.
[Aggregate scores– Novella: 8.5 Film: 5.25]

AFI Top 100 #049: Intolerance

TLS puts up with only so much Intolerance.
[Aggregate score: 4]

Film & TV: It Comes at Night

TLS fosters a healthy paranoia during a review of tense pandemic psych-horror, It Comes at Night. [Aggregate score: 9]

Film & TV: 12 Monkeys

TLS questions reality to stop a plague while reviewing time-travel/virus related flick, 12 Monkeys.
[Aggregate score: 9.75]

Film & TV: 28 Days Later

18 years later, TLS reviews 28 Days Later (in these uncertain times.)
[Aggregate score: 8]

Film & TV: Brazil

Pull yourself up by your bureaucratic bootstraps and clean out your ducts for our review of Terry Gilliam’s surrealist dystopian jaunt, Brazil.
[Aggregate score: 9]

Film & TV: Shaun of the Dead

Pop ’round the pub for a pint, and sort your life out with us during our review of Edgar Wright’s zombie apoca-parody, Shaun of the Dead.
[Aggregate score: 8]

Film & TV: Under the Silver Lake

TLS meanders their way through an uneven underbelly of conspiracies and coincidences in a review of Under the Silver Lake.
[Aggregate score: 6.25]

Film & TV: The Death of Stalin

Find out what happens when TLS faces a power vacuum similar in nature to the portrayal in The Death of Stalin.
[Aggregate score: 8.75]