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Pastries, Freedom, and Love: An Interview with The Artist Airidescence

August 17, 2022 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

The Artist Airidescence is a multimedia anarchist creator whose work has picked up significant attention on social media. Their ongoing anarchist raccoon art series has been popular enough to warrant sold out print runs on Etsy. Recently, in collaboration with scholar Zoe Baker, they have produced an animated short film entitled Pastries, Freedom, Love: A Malatesta Story based on […]

Movie Review

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

December 29, 2017 By Nathan Frontiero 1 Comment

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“Let the past die,” says Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) to Rey (Daisy Ridley) at a pivotal moment in The Last Jedi. It’s a surprising line to hear in the eighth episode of a 40-year-old saga. It also perfectly captures writer-director Rian Johnson’s approach to Star Wars. Unlike J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens, a showcase for […]

Television

Ghostwood Radio: Episode 5 “The One-Armed Man”

November 14, 2017 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

In contrast to the previous episode’s elegiac tone, “The One-Armed Man” is a heated affair. Several plotlines kick into gear, and the lives of the town’s residents begin to intersect. Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) spends most of the episode following up on the leads from his dream. He meets up with the eponymous one-armed man, who […]

Television

Ghostwood Radio: Episode 4 “Rest in Pain”

November 3, 2017 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

“Rest in Pain” is a melancholy installment of Twin Peaks. This week we see many of Laura Palmer’s friends and family cry out in anguish as she is finally put to rest. Meanwhile, Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) uses the funeral as a litmus test as he continues to scope out suspects for her murder. Prior to the […]

Television

Ghostwood Radio: Episode 3 “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer”

October 18, 2017 By Søren Hough 2 Comments

Twin Peaks continues to juggle the jovial tone of last week’s episode with the crime serial seriousness in “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer.” In this episode, Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) employs a special technique for identifying the next lead in his case. His bizarre antics lead him to Leo (Eric DaRe), an abusive and violent […]

Television

Ghostwood Radio: Episode 2 “Traces to Nowhere”

October 8, 2017 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

In this week’s episode of Twin Peaks, we see a shift from the pilot. A lighter tone has begun to seep into the show with “Traces to Nowhere,” with obvious moments of levity, a bouncier soundtrack and a brighter, more colorful visual palette. For my part, I welcomed the change from the dour season opener […]

Television

Ghostwood Radio: Episode 1 “Pilot”

September 24, 2017 By Søren Hough 4 Comments

Grab some of that damn good coffee, folks — we’re headed into Twin Peaks! Join us for our new series, “Ghostwood Radio,” in which we’ll be discussing the wildly influential show from David Lynch and Mark Frost. J is a longtime fan of Twin Peaks, a show which in many ways changed the landscape of […]

Op-Ed

The Shining: A Vendetta Story

April 1, 2015 By Jonny Smith 1 Comment

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Over the last 35 years, humanity has achieved many great feats: the end of the Cold War, the creation of the Internet, four more identical films in the Rocky franchise. Yet one lingering mystery still plagues our species’ mere mortal brains — Stanley Kubrick’s seminal classic, The Shining. For most people, The Shining is a mildly […]

Television

Twin Peaks Returns

October 20, 2014 By Esther Rosenfield Leave a Comment

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I was excited when Showtime announced plans to bring back Twin Peaks for a nine episode season in 2016. I’m a huge fan of David Lynch and I know the cultural impact that show has had on the television landscape. Yet in all the time since its first run in the 90s, I haven’t taken the time to sit […]

London Film Festival 2024 Highlights

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