AFI Top 100

Reviews of the 2007 AFI Top 100 List

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]

 

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.

AFI Top 100 #004: Raging Bull

MOTS steps into the ring to tangle with the classic Scorsese flick, Raging Bull. [Aggregate score: 8]

 

AFI Top 100 #020: It’s A Wonderful Life

In the next episode of MOTSterpiece Theater, we review the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. I wonder what the world would be like if this movie had never been made. [Aggregate score: 4.66]

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]

AFI Top 100 #074: The Silence of the Lambs

Join us for dinner and a movie in a special Halloween episode of The AFI 100. Whether you prefer to flay or to fillet your victims, our discussion of the classic thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, will surely whet your appetite. [Aggregate score: 10]

AFI Top 100 #065: The African Queen

The MOTS crew travels up the river on “The African Queen.” Love boat or torpedo boat? Listen and find out. [Aggregate score: 4.6]

AFI Top 100 #100: Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur had the largest budget for a movie at that time. I suspect it was mainly due to the fact that Charlton Heston was constantly chewing on the scenery. [Aggregate score: 6.6]

AFI Top 100 #043: Midnight Cowboy

MOTS-terpiece attempts to hustle their way through the 1969 gritty classic, Midnight Cowboy, possibly being taken for a ride themselves along the way. [Aggregate score: 9]

AFI Top 100 #084: Easy Rider

MOTS hits the highway, looking for adventure, reviewing whatever comes their way, which in this case was the 1969 classic, Easy Rider. Starring J. Ian Manczur as Dennis Hopper, Scott Thurlow as Peter Fonda, and Steven Ormosi as Jack Nicholson. [Aggregate score: 9.6]