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True Detective Season 3 just keeps getting better and better. On the surface, Episode 6 appears to dish up several answers to this mystery on a plate, but I don't buy that for a minute---what we don't see may be more important than what we do. The title for the episode, "Hunters in the Dark," …
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Television series are often judged by their series finale, for better or worse. Here at 25YL, we’re going to be looking at both the best and worst finales and what made them great (or not so great) in our “Art of the Finale” series. This week, guest author Mel Reynolds looks at what makes the …
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The following is a guest post from Tim Fuglei. Stephen King once described the act of writing as telepathy; across time and space, the writer plants thoughts into readers and an unbreakable connection of minds is formed forever. From a cinematic standpoint, David Lynch holds dreams in similar esteem. His dreams become ours as we …
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Ok, I wasn't expecting to hear the news from FX today that X-Men Comics TV adaptation Legion was ending and my initial reaction was one of great despondency. However, knowing that it was creator Noah Hawley's decision to end it at Season 3, as he had apparently always planned, was music to my ears. Cancellation would …
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Art is objective. One man's trash is another man's treasure, but yet in a weird, meta way does the fact that I'm really finding it hard to big up Velvet Buzzsaw perhaps mean I'm just like any of the awful, pretentious characters in this film? Why didn't I like this film that I am seeing mostly …
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As part of our month of celebrating Twin Peaks this February, I caught up with Scott Ryan, Managing Editor of The Blue Rose Magazine, the only in print magazine dedicated to Twin Peaks and the work of its creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost. LS: The Blue Rose had a pretty great 2018, what were …
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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!—in bite-sized articles perfect …
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Featured Image courtesy of The Geek Mansion Ok, this news has pricked up my ears! Richard Stanley (Dust Evil, Hardware) is directing a feature-length adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1927 short story, The Color Out Of Space. It will be Stanley's first feature film in 20 years. If that wasn't exciting enough, Nicolas Cage has been chosen as …
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This is a guest article from our dear friend, Jill Watson. We hope you enjoy her telling of the working weekend she spent with Sheryl Lee and Gary Hershberger at The Actors Director Workshop. I'm riding a high. I've been touched by an angel. I've been touched by TWO angels. I'm on cloud nine. Hell …
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It has been four long years since True Detective last appeared on our screens, having been almost damned into non-existence by the mixed reviews of Season 2. While it is true that the second story did not capture that same Southern Gothic feel or the perfectly difficult charm of the relationship between Season 1's Rust …
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