Jan 25, 2021

We talk about the era of existential car chases through the lens of Hollywood vision and Detroit muscle. 

Jan 18, 2021

We introduce the Decade of Dope series and talk about the history of drugs from Mesopotamia to Richard Nixon. 

Jan 11, 2021

We talk about the quintessential Boston crime novel, The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970) and compare it to the film adaptation, starring Robert Mitchum. Hard boiled dialogue and hard nosed criminals trying to avoid doing hard time. 

Jan 4, 2021

We talk about post-period horror movies that are throwbacks to the Long Seventies genre and discuss how the concept of Hauntology might explain why TLS is such a rich source of cultural artifacts for filmmakers to unearth and recycle.