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WONDER WOMAN (2017)
When a pilot crashes offshore a mythical island of female warriors, telling of a Great War in the ‘world of man’, an Amazon warrior leaves this paradise to discover her true calling…
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AMERICAN GODS, 1.5 – ‘Lemon Scented You’
All the various and previously disconnected strands of American Gods’ core narrative are beginning to come together. Unlike last week’s excellent but unusual episode, ‘Lemon Scented You’ isn’t a massive departure from what the show’s been doing so far. It’s just a more focused version of a typical episode, using characters we’ve already met to…
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 4’
After the surreal absurdities of “Part 3”, “Part 4” of Twin Peaks: The Return is much more accessible. It’s not without its bizarre set-pieces, but as a narrative it’s less informed by ambiguous symbolism and abstraction and is more a return to Twin Peaks’ domestic environment and its own undercurrent of waking dreams and dark…
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SPLIT (2016)
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
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JACKIE (2016)
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband’s historic legacy.
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THE LEFTOVERS, 3.7 — ‘The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)’
A follow-up to season 2’s “International Assassin”, The Leftovers’ penultimate hour was another imaginative and engrossing piece of television drama, albeit but one that naturally lacked the original’s wow-factor, since we’re now accustomed to the slippery rules of the “astral plane” Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) can access when he dies. For that reason, “The Most…
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EVIL ED (1995)
A mild-mannered film editor is assigned to cut a series of infamous slasher films and is driven murderously insane by the miles of extremely violent footage he edits.
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 3’
Having truly confounded his audience, many of whom were aching to see the quirky, cutesy, soap opera pastiche version of Twin Peaks they loved in the 1990s at the heart of this continuation, David Lynch doesn’t spare the horses in “Part 3” of Twin Peaks: The Return. That we’re definitely not in Kansas anymore seems…
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.7 – ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’
Imagine, you’re a skilled researcher working in a top secret lab completing biochemical trials on crops, and you’ve been out on the lash the night before a critical test. You’re still so pissed the next morning that — whoops !— you cause a major bio-hazard that threatens to end the world. Despite the portentous warning from The Doctor…
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AMERICAN GODS, 1.4 – ‘Git Gone’
“Git Gone” is the best episode of American Gods so far. It’s more than that, though, it’s the show’s first truly great, cohesive, and focused instalment. Here, American Gods trims back the seemingly extraneous material to tell a story with a straightforward and linear narrative. It also answers lingering questions and deepens the complexity of…
