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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of May 26th, 2019 – Bluer Than Velvet Was the Night

Josh Zyber — Tue, 28 May 2019 12:00:49 +0000

Likely owing to the holiday, this week’s disc highlights are truly all Blu-ray, with no Ultra HD on offer. It’s also possible that you may not have even heard of any of the new releases. A couple of catalog reissues will have far better name recognition. New Releases The Oath – Comedian Ike Barinholtz makes...

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Book Review: Room to Dream

Josh Zyber — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

David Lynch has been such an idiosyncratic filmmaker throughout his four-decade career that it should come as no surprise his autobiography would also be a bit unconventional. Room to Dream provides perhaps the most detailed look at the man behind Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks that Lynch himself is ever likely to endorse, but unfortunately...

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‘Lucky’ Review: Sad Stanton

Philip Brown — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:00:30 +0000

When it played film festivals mere weeks ago, ‘Lucky’ was just an oddball curiosity. Now, John Carroll Lynch’s film about Harry Dean Stanton coming to terms with the prospect of death takes on added layers of resonance impossible to ignore. ‘Lucky’ is ultimately a cute and deliberately strange little movie. However, the fact that it...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 24th, 2017 – Before Knight Falls

Josh Zyber — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:00:06 +0000

Have audiences finally had enough of the Bayformers? The theatrical box office is starting to look that way. We’ll have to see how well the latest entry sells on Blu-ray this week. New Releases (Blu-ray) ‘Transformers: The Last Knight‘ – Remember when Michael Bay said he was done making ‘Transformers’ movies after the third one?...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.17 & 3.18 Recap: “See You at the Curtain Call”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:00:42 +0000

‘Twin Peaks’ is over, perhaps for good. Whatever you may have expected or wanted the grand finale of ‘Twin Peaks’ to be, the actual conclusion David Lynch delivered is not that. Whether you find it satisfying anyway will depend on how big an apologist and a masochist you are. Did you really think the Audrey...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.16 Recap: “All Things Considered, He Looks Good”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:00:07 +0000

Being a fan of ‘Twin Peaks’ is an endurance test of delayed gratification. After waiting 26 years between the show’s second season and its third, it took 16 episodes before the one thing that most unmistakably defines ‘Twin Peaks’ finally appeared. Dougie is dead! Dale Cooper has returned! Hallelujah! (Before we get into it, yes,...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.15 Recap: “Goodnight, Margaret”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:00:32 +0000

Throughout this new season of ‘Twin Peaks’, it has often felt to me like David Lynch has willfully set out to frustrate and alienate even longtime fans. As if to balance things out a little before the end, this week offers several significant pieces of fan-service. The episode opens with Nadine Hurley, carrying one of...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.14 Recap: “We Are the Dreamer Who Dreams”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000

The ‘Twin Peaks’ episodes without Dougie are decidedly better than the episodes with him and show the potential of what this new season could, and should, be. It’s a shame there are so few like this. Buckhorn, South Dakota Gordon phones Twin Peaks to return a call from Sheriff Truman. He assumes that means Harry....

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.13 Recap: “What Is This, Kindergarten?”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:00:40 +0000

‘Twin Peaks’ delivers about half a good episode this week. Unfortunately, the other half is a bunch of Dougie shenanigans and other uninteresting nonsense. Let’s get the dumb stuff out of the way first. Las Vegas The Mitchum brothers are ecstatic about their big insurance payout. With Mr. Jackpots and their bimbos in tow, they...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.12 Recap: “Next Stop Wendy’s”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:00:49 +0000

This week’s entry may be the most frustrating episode of ‘Twin Peaks’ yet… and I’m including James’ road trip story arc in Season 2 when I say that. Among other sins, the show finally brings back a beloved character, only to utterly botch the job. As I’ve complained about a couple times previously, this hour...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.11 Recap: “I Guess We Found Out”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:00:24 +0000

In terms of sheer weirdness, ‘Twin Peaks’ will probably never top Episode 8 this season. I doubt any show ever will. This week’s episode is pretty damn odd, though. A great deal of the episode actually takes place in Twin Peaks this time, so we’ll start there. Twin Peaks Miriam, the girl that Richard Horne...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.10 Recap: “This Calls for Another Donut”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:04 +0000

As the ‘Twin Peaks’ pendulum swings wildly from one extreme to another, this week’s episode focuses heavily on the type of David Lynchian quirky comedy that has been in short supply through most of this revival series. It also spends way more screen time in Twin Peaks itself than previous episodes. The episode sort-of addresses...

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