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Here at 25YL, we love The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Jennifer Lynch gives us a masterful glimpse into Laura’s inner life that enriches any viewing of the series and the prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Over the next few weeks, we will be doing a deep dive into the Secret Diary …
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I had no idea Hulu was making a 10-episode series about the origins of the Wu-Tang Clan. I usually avoid biopics like the plague, but the draw of seeing all those personalities coming together to eventually make one of my all-time favorite albums is something I actively want to watch. And Hulu just announced they’ve …
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“I’ve always had a vivid imagination, but this dream unsettled me. It was wild and dark and weird, even by my standards. So yes---it began with a dream.” ‘My Name is Alan Wake and I’m a writer’. The words I have heard so many times since the game's release in 2010. I remember first playing …
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While there are many great shows out there, only a few of them have a perfect beginning—the kind that draws you in immediately and leaves you wanting more. In 25YL's new Perfect Pilots series, we will be looking at pilot episodes we think are flawless. For our inaugural post of the series, J.C. Hotchkiss looks …
Paterson screened in cinemas in late 2016. I remember this distinctly because I saw the posters plastered all over the London underground. They seemed unusual to me, Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani curled into each other on a rumpled bed, and it seemed wonderfully simple and quiet. I didn’t catch it in the cinemas, but when …
The core representatives of two of the most critically acclaimed films of 2018 are set to team up in the ever-expanding (and always-spending) Netflix universe. As reported by Variety on February 12th, Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman is in negotiations to star in BlackkKlansman director Spike Lee's next film, titled Da 5 Bloods, which itself is in …
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“We are like flies crawling across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: we cannot see what angels and gods lie underneath the threshold of our perceptions. We do not live in reality: we live in our paradigms, our habituated perceptions, our illusions; the illusions we share through culture we call reality, but the true historical …
Josh Brolin, who most recently was seen as Thanos in the blockbuster that is The Avengers: Infinity War, but whom I will always remember as Bran from The Goonies, has joined the cast of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune as Gurney Halleck. The role was originated in David Lynch’s version by Sir Patrick Stewart. Brolin joins Timothee …
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I was too young to see Muriel's Wedding at the cinema on its initial release but I remember sitting down with my mum a year or so later when it premiered on UK TV screens and I knew instantly that I was watching something special. It would be easy to describe this movie as a …
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I was pleasantly surprised with the premiere of Fox's The Passage when it debuted in mid-January, but definitely planned on taking a wait-and-see approach to how the rest of the season would unfold. Now at the halfway point of the season, I can say that despite a few minor complaints, I still feel that horror/thriller …
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