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STALKER (1979)
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 10’
Twin Peaks: The Return, like its predecessor, doesn’t flinch from depicting violence towards women. This variation of ‘the evil that men do’ has been a central theme of the entire series — even when men were possessed by supernatural forces beyond their control— and women have often been aligned against the simplistic codification of whore/madonna, saint/sinner. Twin Peaks…
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24: LEGACY – Season One
Just as US television begins a love affair with anthology dramas (American Horror Story, Fargo, True Detective, Feud), the show that could most have benefitted from that format gets in on the act. 24 changed the paradigm of scripted TV in 2001, thanks to a smart “real time” format and whooshing split-screens, which increased the…
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GYPSY – Season One
Netflix original content has gone a little crazy just lately. What started with House of Cards snowballed with Orange is the New Black and Stranger Things, etc, to the point where it felt like there was something new premiering every week. It was getting to the point of over-saturation, especially when Netflix originals were once…
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GAME OF THRONES, 7.1 – ‘Dragonstone’
It’s the beginning of the end for HBO’s all-conquering fantasy Game of Thrones, which begins a bisected final season, with just 7 episodes this year and the remainder following in 2018. It’s also been longer than usual since the last instalment aired, and yet at the same time it feels like only yesterday. “Dragonstone” wasn’t the…
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ROBOCOP (1987)
In a dystopian near-future Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the police force as a cyborg haunted by memories of his human life before…
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AQUARIUS (2016)
A 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil, is now the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building built in the 1940s…
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 9’
After plunging us into the dark origins of Twin Peaks: The Return in “Part 8” (perhaps the most Lynchian expression yet given free reign on television), this week’s episode simply drops us back into the ongoing stories set in the present day. We’re halfway through the season and, while the questions and conundrums continue to…
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WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (2017)
After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind…
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TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958)
A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.
