Twin Peaks S02E08: “Drive With a Dead Girl” (17/11/90)
“Drive with a Dead Girl,” the eighth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, had a lot to live up to. For one thing, it’s the first episode in the series that [...]
April 2017
Twin Peaks S02E07: “Lonely Souls” (10/11/90)
“Lonely Souls” was the third episode of the second season of Twin Peaks to be directed by David Lynch and it’s probably my favourite. Like Lynch’s previous episodes, [...]
Brian Eno: Reflection (2017)
Throughout the 2010s there has been something of a renaissance in Brian Eno’s body of work. Granted, we live in an age of comebacks, revivals and reformations, but that’s [...]
Twin Peaks S02E06: “Demons” (3/11/90)
“Demons” picks up right where the previous episode – “The Orchid’s Curse” – left off, placing us between Harold Smith and Maddy Ferguson and Donna Hayward, just [...]
Twin Peaks S02E05: “The Orchid’s Curse” (27/10/90)
Following on from “Laura Palmer’s Diary,” “The Orchid’s Curse” was one of the most tightly plotted and structured episodes in the second season of Twin Peaks, [...]
Rhys Nicholson: “I’m Fine” (Melbourne Comedy Festival, 10/4/17)
Over the course of our three nights at the Melbourne Comedy Festival we saw three acts in three very different venues. The first of these was Rhys Nicholson’s “I’m [...]
Twin Peaks S02E04: “Laura’s Secret Diary” (20/10/90)
Despite the title, the fourth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks doesn’t contain that much of a focus on Laura’s diary, nor on Donna’s relationship with the [...]
Hansen-Love: L’Avenir (Things to Come) (2017)
One of the most beautiful and uplifting films I have seen in some time, Mia Hansen-Love’s Things to Come is a semi-autobiographical drama centred on Natalie Chazeaux, a [...]
Twin Peaks S01E02: “Traces to Nowhere” (12/4/90)
“Traces to Nowhere” was the first “official’ episode in the first season of Twin Peaks and is so differentiated from the pilot that it is still frequently referred to [...]
Verbinski: A Cure for Wellness (2017)
In many ways, A Cure for Wellness is the film I’ve been waiting for Gore Verbinski to make ever since his adaptation of The Ring in 2002. Taken from a screenplay from [...]