Steve Ormosi

Film & TV: The Shape of Water

The Lost Signals ring in the new year with a review of Guillermo del Toro’s fish-loving tour de force, The Shape of Water.

[Aggregate score: 9.3]

Bon MOTS 2017: Gremlins

Secure your plows, hide your dogs at the bank, and always buy American.  It’s time for some holiday mayhem: Gremlins.

[Aggregate score: 9]

AFI Top 100 #080: The Apartment

#80 on the AFI 100- The Apartment, or: Love in the Time of Toxic Patriarchal Capitalism. [Aggregate score: 10]

Bon MOTS: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

12/18/2017

The Lost Signals brings their signature analysis to the eighth installment of the ongoing War in the Stars, featuring the titular Last Jedi.

[Aggregate score: 7]

Bon MOTS: The Disaster Artist

12/13/2017

Having said all they can (or will) about The Room, MOTS goes even more meta with the strange story surrounding its eventual production, as portrayed by James Franco et al. in The Disaster Artist

[Aggregate score: 8]

Bon MOTS: The Room

12/11/2017

The MOTS crew tackles the (in)famously so bad it’s good “The Room,” coming up with some interesting interpretations on the nature of this bizarre yet beloved film.

[Aggregate score: 3.75]

Syntax Error: Interview with game designer, Ara Shirinian

12/6/2017

In a special guest interview episode, Scott and Ian chat with game designer Ara Shirinian, starting with some ideas contained in his previously covered article, and then expanding upon many more nuanced aspects of videogames and their inner workings as a medium at large.

See more from Ara at:

instagram: ara.shir
https://www.youtube.com/user/arashirinian
http://www.shirinian.net/

Bon MOTS: Lady Bird

12/04/2017

MOTS flashes back to high school circa 2002 in their review of Lady Bird, an expertly crafted and presented coming-of-age tale.

[Aggregate score: 10]

Narratology: Identity as Narrative by Herminia Ibarra & Roxana Barbulescu

11/29/17
An exhausted Lost Signals crew discusses how you failed to establish a proper narrative for your childhood Legos.  Also, how storytelling can shape identity.
Read the article here.

Bon MOTS: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

11/27/2017

The gang tackles the challenging, darkly humorous, and scathing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

[Aggregate score: 9.3]