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TLS bears witness to a star-crossed love affair that spans both sides of the Iron Curtain in Pawel Pawlikowski’s, “Cold War.” [Aggregate score: 8.75]

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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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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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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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We continue our journey through foreign language films with a review of The Lives of Others, a movie about life in state-controlled East Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. [Aggregate score: 9.6]

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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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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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Stopping down in South America on their global cinema tour, TLS hangs out with a renowned author returning to his hometown to find out what people really think of him and his work.
[Aggregate score: 10]

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TLS discusses film, proportionality, and just war theory.

Faraci: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/15/the-strangely-cruel-and-unusual-death-in-jurassic-world
Hurka: https://www.kean.edu/~gkahn/PS4130/hurka.pdf
Jurassic Word clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTE3aH5gpw

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After exploring the original story of Heart of Darkness, we review with extreme prejudice what is perhaps its greatest successor, Apocalypse Now.
[Aggregate score: 10]

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