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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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R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton

Josh Zyber — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:00:44 +0000

After having just wrapped up the new revival of ‘Twin Peaks’, veteran character actor and beloved screen presence Harry Dean Stanton passed away on Friday at the age of 91. With nearly 200 screen credits spanning from the 1950s to present, Stanton had a long and prolific career. Some of his most memorable roles included...

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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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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.06 Recap: “You’re an Interesting Fellow”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:00:45 +0000

A little bit of the Dougie storyline goes a long way in the new ‘Twin Peaks’. This week brings us a lot of Dougie. A lot. For the purposes of these recaps, I still prefer to differentiate between Dougie, who’s dead, and Mr. Jackpots, the mentally-impaired doppelganger that replaced him. All of the domestic satire...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of April 14th, 2013 – Let’s Go Get Sushi and Not Pay

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:00:42 +0000

In terms of volume, this may seem like another slow week in April for new Blu-ray releases. Fortunately, a major new hit movie and some more cult flicks are here to spice things up. New Releases I’m sure that Quentin Tarantino’s Blaxploitation Western mash-up ‘Django Unchained‘ will be many people’s most exciting title of the...

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Auteur Theory: ‘Hotel Room’

Josh Zyber — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:00:10 +0000

You certainly have to give David Lynch credit for persistence. Despite his feelings of resentment about the cancellation of ‘Twin Peaks’ and the stillbirth of his attempted sitcom ‘On the Air’, the idiosyncratic filmmaker made yet another attempt to work in the television medium in 1993. Hoping that HBO would allow him more artistic freedom...

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Auteur Theory: ‘Wild at Heart’ Deleted Scenes

Josh Zyber — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:00:56 +0000

David Lynch has never been accused of doing anything in a conventional manner. Typically, when a filmmaker adapts a book to the screen, he or she must condense the text into a manageable length by removing inessential scenes or storylines. For his 1990 film ‘Wild at Heart’, Lynch took the opposite approach. Despite working from...

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