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Giant Little Ones Review: Not Just Another Teen Movie

Deirdre Crimmins — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:00:44 +0000

High school isn’t easy, and high school movies have always tried to capture that uniquely uneasy feeling. Giant Little Ones is a drama about going through the social growing pains of gaining autonomy and all that involves, but sets itself apart by taking an honest, in-depth look at how complicated teenaged life can be. On...

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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’ 3.14 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’ 3.11 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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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.09 Recap: “Fruitcake, Anyone?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:00:13 +0000

After a week’s absence to let viewers mull over that mind-bending freakout David Lynch dropped on their heads, ‘Twin Peaks’ returns with a much more plot-oriented episode. Either by design or purely by incompetence (I can’t decide which), this one features one of the worst acting performances you’ll see on TV all year. On the...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.08 Recap: “Got a Light?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:00:24 +0000

What… the… holy… f….. ???… I mean, seriously, what the hell did I just watch? With the latest episode of ‘David Lynch’s Batshit Gonzo TV Experiment’ (inaccurately mislabeled ‘Twin Peaks’ by the network), I think Lynch may have just set fire to the entire medium of television storytelling and gleefully danced around the pyre as...

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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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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.05 Recap: “Off in Dreamland Again, Huh?”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:00:18 +0000

The latest entry in Showtime’s ‘Twin Peaks’ revival is less an “episode” in the normal sense of how episodic television works, than a collection of incidents that (presumably) happen to take place around the same time as one another. As an hour of television, it has no clear goal or structure or narrative of its...

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‘Twin Peaks’ 3.03 & 3.04 Recaps: “It’s Not About the Bunny”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 24 May 2017 12:00:42 +0000

In addition to the two-hour premiere, Showtime has also made the following two episodes of ‘Twin Peaks’ available early via On-Demand. Assuming you weren’t turned off by the premiere enough to give up, these two are a decided improvement, especially Episode 4. Of course, an argument can be made that taking nearly four hours to...

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