movie reviews

Film & TV: 2019 Oscar Recap

It’s MOTScars season again, and anarchy reigns as TLS proceeds without a show-host in their discussion of the good, the bad, and the snubbed films of the 2019 Oscars.

Join us for this very special episode as Steevo and Scott try to balance Ian’s shame with Chris’ insufferable monologues.  Cue the music!

Film & TV: If Beale Street Could Talk

Join TLS as we intensely get caught up in Barry Jenkin’s masterful cinematic version of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” [Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #060 Duck Soup

TLS endures the Marx Brothers’ satirical political shtick-storm that is “Duck Soup.” We never forget a movie, but in this case we’ll make an exception, with a hey-nani-nani and a *honk honk.* [Aggregate score: 2.25]


MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

MOTS-O-Ween 2018 concludes with The Return of Another Hollywood Halloween cash-grab. All trick, no treat! [Aggregate score 2.75]

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

In the Amazon jungle, a lonely merman’s paradise is permanently polluted and his courtship curtailed by colonialists with spears, nets, and too many outfits in 1954’s “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” [Aggregate score 5.25]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: The Mummy (1932)

TLS unearths some recurring themes, a couple fine performances and a creepy love triangle from the sarcophagus of 1932’s “The Mummy.” [Aggregate score 6.75]

 

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Frankenstein (1931)

Angry mobs with torches, the titular doctor’s madness and a nameless monster in love, bring discussions of creators and creations in 1931’s “Frankenstein.” [Aggregate score 7.6]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: The Wolf Man (1941)

A new moon, wolfsbane in bloom and a voyeur’s intent is thwarted by a band of gypsies, a wolf and a discussion on the duplicity of the human condition in our review of 1941’s “The Wolf Man.”  [Aggregate score 7.75]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Dracula (1931)

TLS scare up Universal’s oeuvre of monsters for this year’s MOTS-O-Ween, starting with a discussion of vampires, stalkers and European economics in 1931’s “Dracula” starring Bela Lugosi. Leave the bugs, bring the garlic.  [Aggregate score 8]