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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…
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COLOSSAL (2016)
An unemployed party girl from New York moves back home, before realising she’s psychically connected to an enormous monster terrorising Seoul…
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 3.7 – ‘Expenses’
This was a mid-season transitionary episode, where there were no huge moments, just plenty of finessing as the story takes stock, adjusts, then moves in a new direction. The biggest outcome of “Expenses” was getting a further sense of why Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) will ditch his family name, becoming ‘Saul Goodman’, to bend the rules of…
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 1 & 2’
There’s one indelible image that confirms director David Lynch hasn’t only returned, 26 years later, to that Pacific north-western town Twin Peaks, but has also picked up the reins left unattended since his last feature film, Inland Empire (2006). It’s of a twisting highway, framed by trees, and illuminated only by car headlights. A tracking…
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THE LEFTOVERS, 3.6 – ‘Certified’
We all have our least favourite characters on TV, and Laurie (Amy Brenneman) has always been mine on The Leftovers. A whole episode dedicated to her didn’t fill me with excitement, but thankfully this season has been telling such an absorbing and unpredictable story that it’s just great to get another hour. And, considering my…
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR’S REVENGE (2017)
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon.
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DOCTOR WHO, 10.6 – ‘Extremis’
Steven Moffat returns to Doctor Who writing duties this week with “Extremis”, the first chapter of a three-part story. We’re also back in a library for an atmospheric scene-setting tale of conquest by computer simulation. What’s surprising is that he chose to unveil, fairly immediately, that Missy (Michelle Gomez) is the occupant of the vault.…
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ASSASSIN’S CREED (2016)
When Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, he discovers he’s a descendant of the secret Assassins society.
