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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 17 & 18’
So, David Lynch thought it would be ironically perverse to end Twin Peaks: The Return with just as traumatic a cliffhanger that concluded the original series 25 years ago. But, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. This is, after all, a two-part finale, and “Part 17” had a lot of work to do as various subplots…
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THE FLASH – Season Three
The Flash is often bursting with promising ideas, but it risks running them into the ground through repetition. Time travel and the consequences of changing the past have fuelled much of the adventure so far, but if there’s a lesson for the writers from season 3 it’s that some of this material’s wearing thin. Nevertheless,…
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IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963)
The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find buried treasure…
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THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973)
A professional assassin codenamed ‘Jackal’ plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
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THE GHOUL (2016)
A detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder, but his therapy blurs the lines between fantasy and reality…
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 16’
I confess I had to eat humble pie — probably a cherry pie would be most appropriate — after watching Twin Peaks: The Return “Part 16” this week. A few reviews ago I was convinced we’d never see the real Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) again and, given how strange the narrative has become thus far, David Lynch would be…
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DEATH NOTE (2017)
After a high school student finds an ancient notebook with the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it, he decides to become a secret vigilante, but finds himself pursued by a famous detective…
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RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (1993)
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she’s killed in a motorcycle accident.
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GAME OF THRONES, 7.7 – ‘The Dragon and the Wolf’
The finale was a good antidote to the breakneck pace of season 7, as 80-minutes allowed more space for the character interactions this year’s sometimes pushed aside in favour of spectacle and busily moving the plot along. It was a solid end to this season of Game of Thrones, despite most of the big moments…
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ERIK THE CONQUEROR (1961)
In the 9th-century, two Viking children, separated since childhood (one raised by the British, the other by Vikings), meet in adulthood as rivals after war breaks out between Britain and the Vikings for control of England…
