The Best Movies of 2020 – Laser Time #423

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The Best Movies of 2020 – Laser Time #423

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Better late than never, our annual tradition of picking out the best films of the year has arrived, if not without a COVID shaped caveat. But a pandemic can’t keep cinema down, even if is keeping cinemas closed. There was... Read more

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Jan 28, 2021

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Laser Time is a show featuring folks in the video games industry, although not necessarily about video games. It’s a hyper-silly, multimedia-infused look at film, TV, comics, music, pop culture, and nostalgia from the perspective of people who game for a living. Obviously, their opinions are their own and do not reflect that of their employers.

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The Best Movies of 2020 – Laser Time #423

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