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Discussions on narrative in movies, television, literature and video games
We cover an article by man of the peoples’ philosopher Slavoj Žižek, exploring emerging ideas and the landscape of what posthumanism might evolve into via current pop culture touchstones.
On the frontier as always, we define and discuss the practice of recontextualizing and/or defamiliarizing narratives in games (and some other media) framed around likely the most famous example of such found within the Nier series.
In this guest ep, TLS is joined by new friends and old to reflect back 25 years later on the best/most seminal films of 1996. Featuring series regular Joe Soria and first time guest Dan Kirschenbaum.
An invigorating discussion of Asian American/Pacific Islander helmed films with great friend of the show, Morgan Goldin.
See below for the films and where to find them streaming.
Better Luck Tomorrow – Amazon PrimeThe Namesake – HBO MaxChildren of Invention – IMDB StreamingColumbus – KanopyMinding the Gap – HuluBONUS The Debut – for rent on Amazon Prime
Utopia isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in this classic story from one of the greats that is more of a thought/discussion piece. [Aggregate score: 6.75* Score reflects limits of MOTS system in this case, as expanded upon in episode]
In grand post-Academy tradition, it’s…time! for TLS to hit up Vegas in a review of this year’s choice of infamously panned/ostracized film. [Aggregate score: 3.66]
Another year, another delightful conversation with Morgan Goldin. We got his thoughts on the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards, who we liked, who we didn’t, and how the show has changed in the last 6 years.
For the third entry in our focus on Mel Brooks comedies, we go way back to post-revolution Russia and the search for family jewels. [Aggregate score: 8.3]
G&GC returns once again in a new ‘season’ and as always we start off with 2020’s titles duking it out to see which come out as the best, worst, and merely mediocre. See Scott’s full list and impressions here.
