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Twin streams of light cross in a shadowed hallway, illuminating little. Smoke unfurls from a Marlboro cigarette, and hands seek each other out in a dim hospital room. The iconography of The X-Files is minimal to the extreme and steeped in ambiguity: empty spaces, creeping shadows, and answers hidden beyond the next corner, always out …
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La Dolce Vita and Satyricon are bookends to a decade where Fellini established himself as the leading author of Italian cinema in the 1960s.
In the spirit of Twin Peaks Season 3 and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier, my wife’s memories of our Twin Peaks life together (as a result of watching the series and immersing ourselves in nearly all that it has offered over the last 28 years!) differ from mine. Not fundamentally, but enough for …
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Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews… you name it, we've got it. "Favorites" takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, we will take you through a list of favorites -- whether it's moments, scenes, episodes, characters, lines of dialogue, whatever! …
September 22nd, 2004. The ABC network debuted a highly talked about pilot that would break the record for not only most expensive pilot ever (rumored to have cost 14 million dollars to produce) but also the highest viewed pilot of all time with 18.6 million people tuning into Part 1 of a 2 hour premiere. …
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Any day that I get to write about Herschell Gordon Lewis, I consider a good day. I'm a big fan of the director that has more than earned the title "Godfather of Gore." How does this work? How do I love the guy who said: "I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who …
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American Horror Story: Apocalypse is back for its second episode, directed by 25YL favourite Jennifer Lynch, who wastes no time in diving into the scares. Emily (Ash Santos) is getting undressed in her room within Outpost Three; her lights go out and upon lighting a candle her wardrobe door creeps open. When she checks she's …
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Welcome back to our Secrets and Mysteries series, where it is our goal to offer in-depth looks into Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel section by section. As these each engage with the novel’s plot, giving close examination of its connections to the overall narrative of Twin Peaks, new readers should be aware that …
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Twin Peaks writer / producer as well as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me co-writer Bob Engels. Bob was extremely gracious with his time and we spoke for just over an hour. We covered a lot of ground that hopefully Twin Peaks fans will enjoy reading. As …
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The air of the room chilled his shoulders. He stretched himself cautiously along under the sheets and lay down beside his wife. One by one, they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. He thought of how …
Continue reading "The Leftovers: Every Ghost Story is a Love Story"