Film & TV: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Two old crew reflect a bit on Breaking Bad and review the Netflix film follow up to its story, El Camino.
[Aggregate score: 9]
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Games & Gaming Culture: Beyond The Nietzschean Gameplay of the Resident Evil 2 Remake
Taking a starting point from this video/essay on the RE2 Remake, TLS delves into some of the (possible) connections between Nietzsche’s idea of the ubermensch, and the systems/mechanics within the game.
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Philosophy & Narrative: The Vampire Myth
TLS sinks their Freudian fangs into a discussion on analyzing the prevalence of the vampire myth in pop culture.
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AFI Top 100 #041: King Kong
On a forbidden secret island, TLS discover who the real monsters are in the 1933 classic, King Kong.
[Aggregate score: 8]
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Literature: The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Join TLS in discovering the secrets behind the veil of reality in this detective/psychological cosmic horror story as we head into the 2019 Halloween season.
[Aggregate score: 8.3]
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AFI Top 100 #082: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Harkening back to the era of silent film, TLS follows a subpar plot with excellent visuals in Sunrise.
[Aggregate score: 5.3]
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Film & TV: Ad Astra
Such is the gravity of Heart of Darkness that its resonance can be felt far away in space. The caveat being the further the signal travels, the less clear it seems, ala Ad Astra.
[Aggregate score: 5.75]
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Games & Gaming Culture: Easter Eggs
Look closely as TLS attempts to definitively parse out what Easter eggs actually are in videogames, and highlight some of the best (and conversely, worst) instances of them.
Check out What Culture’s video mentioned in this one.
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Literature: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
On the rainy plains and in the classrooms of Venus, TLS experiences the sun for the first time in this Ray Bradbury short story.
[Aggregate score: 5.75]
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Film & TV: IT: Chapter 2
TLS returns to the root of their childhood nightmares to confront and overcome them in Part 2 of the modern film adaptation of Stephen King’s IT.
[Aggregate score: 8.3]
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