Reviews

AFI Top 100 #093: The French Connection

MOTS-terpiece Theater returns with the chase scene-filled classic, The French Connection, also featuring drug deals and Gene Hackman. [Aggregate score: 4.6]

Guest Starring: Leah Behar

AFI Top 100 #022: Some Like It Hot

In the unofficial prequel to Big Momma’s House, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis masquerade as a couple of female jazz musicians to escape the mob after witnessing a bloody murder to hilarious effect, according to some. Listen in to find out exactly who the some who like it hot are. [Aggregate score: 5.5]

Special Guest: Leah Behar

Literature: Pluto is the Furthest Planet by Abraham Rothberg

MOTS Ado discusses a “lost” short story, Pluto is the Furthest Planet, by Abraham Rothberg. Cardiac incidents and familial alienation may be involved. [Aggregate Score: 8.75]

Special Guest: 
Veronica Hernandez

Literature: A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner

MOTS Ado About Nothing delves into “A Good Man is Hard to Find” — Flannery O’Connor’s iconic Southern Gothic horror story of an American family that meets their fate at the hands of a mysterious drifter. [Aggregate Score: 7.75]

Guest Starring:
Leah Behar

AFI Top 100 #058: The Gold Rush

Tune in to MOTSterpiece Theater and hearken back to a simpler time. A time when people met their fortunes, and their untimely demises, in the Alaskan wilderness. Join us and Charlie Chaplin on a quest for adventure and riches. [Aggregate score: 7.5]

Guest Starring: Leah Behar

Literature: The Stranger by Albert Camus

MOTS Ado About Nothing discusses Albert Camus’ classic tale of an alienated man and the greater relation to his philosophy of absurd existentialism within society. [Aggregate Score: 9.00]

Special guest:
Veronica Hernandez

AFI Top 100 #010: The Wizard of Oz

The MOTS crew hops a tornado to Oz in this second episode of MOTSterpiece Theater, where we rate a randomly chosen film from the AFI top 100. Guest Starring: Leah Behar [Aggregate score: 7.66]

AFI Top 100 #097: Blade Runner

MOTS does one of the seminal Sci-Fi films of the 80s. Replicants, and Blade Runners, and Jesus motifs, oh my! Welcome to the scuzzy future, my friends, where even robots can be lonely. [Aggregate score: 8.1]

Guest Starring:
Beth Morgan & Leah Behar

Literature: “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison

In a world where punctuality is law and candy can stop traffic, we discuss Harlan Ellison’s “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman.  [Aggregate Score: 9.00] 

Special guest:
Beth Morgan

Literature: Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

MOTS Ado About Nothing at the crossroads of family and jazz in James Baldwin’s literary classic, “Sonny’s Blues.” [Aggregate Score: 10.00]

Special guest: 
Beth Morgan