Bon MOTS Netflix Roulette: The Hunter
MOTS gets stuck alongside Willem Defoe searching the wilderness for a rare and elusive animal while also trying to decipher the point of this film.
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Year: 2017
MOTS Ado About Nothing: Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology by Theodora Goss
MOTS brings real analysis to imaginary anthropology in their discussion of “Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology” by Theodora Goss.
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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]
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MOTS Ado About Nothing: The Gorgon by Tanith Lee
Recently we read and discussed a short story about the unpredictable nature of adventure. This is our review of The Gorgon by Tanith Lee.
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Game Developers Choice Awards 2017: Winners
Back in January the GDC announced their 2017 game award nominees and I went through a few of the categories, going over the games I thought would win in each as well as the ones I thought should in fact win. Yesterday the actual winners were announced, so now it is time of course to recap, see how I fared in retrospect, and give my final thoughts in the aftermath.
Dies Irae: This Shining Example
“Dies Irae” (That Day of Wrath) is a Gregorian Chant which dates back to the 13th century. It is probably one of the oldest and most recognized pieces of early music, and its use throughout the ages has been predominantly for religious music, starting with Catholic and then other Judeo-Christian masses.
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.
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Resident Evil 7: Evil Comes Home
It’s been slightly over a week since Resident Evil 7: Biohazard released, shipping 2.5 million copies in that time, and all I have to say is- goddamned right. Headshots off to Capcom for finally giving us a Resident Evil that returns to its survival horror origins. RE7 is a triumph, taking a spot in the higher tier of the series’ long and sometimes shaky history. But make no mistake, RE7 simultaneously recaptures its former glory and capitalizes on more modern conventions in the best way.
MOTS Ado About Nothing: The Exquisitely Bleeding Heads of Doktur Palmer Vreedeez by John Shirley
This week MOTS Ado experiences John Shirley’s bizarre and darkly whimsical tale of modern horror.
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Literature: Mono No Aware by Ken Liu
The crew reviews this Hugo winning short story by Ken Liu about the struggle to hold onto oneself, even at the end of the world.
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