Steve Ormosi

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.

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. 

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.

Bon MOTS: Hacksaw Ridge

Happy New Year from The Lost Signals. The crew reviews Mel Gibson’s newest ode to peace and ultra-violent spectacle, Hacksaw Ridge. [Aggregate Score: 4.00]

MOTS Ado About Nothing: The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick

MOTS Ado gets taken over by an insidious force during their review of classic sci-fi author Philip K. Dick’s The Hanging Stranger.

AFI Top 100 #066: Network

In the latest AFI review, the crew discusses the politics involved in broadcasting news and the dissemination of information in AFI’s #66 film, “Network.” [Aggregate score: 9.6]

Literature: The Fat Guy by Henry Roth

MOTS Ado About Nothing reviews a short story about what some people will do for a little bit of fame. It’s The Fat Guy by Henry Roth.

Literature: A&P by John Updike

In this episode, we review the John Updike short story about a kid who watches some girls in bathing suits wander around a store. It’s called A&P.

Literature: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft

For the final installment of MOTS Ado Halloween 2016, we attempt to wrestle with insanity-inducing indescribable things in a ‘cosmic horror’ story from the progenitor of the genre.

Literature: The Boogeyman by Stephen King

In this second installment of MOTS Ado for the 2016 Halloween season, we journey into the dark reaches of one man’s closet of horrors in Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman.” Is there actually a monster lurking in the dark or is it only in the mind of a broken man?