Reviews

Film & TV: The Big Sick

For a change of pace, the Signals check out a relatively more optimistic (and possible Oscar contender) film, The Big Sick.

[Aggregate score: 9.3]

Film & TV: Bright

The Lost Signals takes a look at Netflix’s gritty buddy-cop-fantasy-drama, “Bright.” Leave the burrito, take the wand.

[Aggregate score: 8]

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]

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]

AFI Top 100 #031: The Maltese Falcon

The Lost Signals learns a valuable lesson from #31 on the AFI list: Not every item of renown is in fact a treasure. [Aggregate score: 7.3]

Literature: In the Hills, the Cities by Clive Barker

Join MOTS Ado as we take a walk with the body politic in Clive Barker’s “In the Hills, the Cities.”

AFI Top 100 #014: Psycho

The Lost Signals presents MOTSterpiece Theater.  Tonight’s episode features #14 on the AFI 100, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.  A review to be murdered by. [Aggregate score: 10]

Literature: The White People by Arthur Machen

We venture out into the fields of the unknown to review an under appreciated classic of horror which influenced greats like H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, among many others. First, give The White People a read, and then tune in to our newest episode.

Literature: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe

MOTS wall themselves in with some fine wine to discuss a less famous, but no less impactful story from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.

AFI Top 100 #027: High Noon

Join MOTS as we journey to the old west for drama and red scare commentary in AFI’s #27 feature, “High Noon.”
Don’t forget to wind your clocks. [Aggregate score: 9.75]