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The Horror of ‘Twin Peaks’ – Why Laura Palmer is the scariest horror icon

“She’s dead. Wrapped in plastic” utters a shaken Pete Martell, played by David Lynch staple Jack Nance. This is one of the first lines in...

A Cinema of One's Own

I am the kind of person that sets aside multiple days of the week to go see a movie at the cinema. Even the process of getting the ticket...

Normal People — a gritty chronicle of first love intricacies

With Conversations with Friends and Normal People topping the book charts in the UK and worldwide, transferring Sally Rooney’s work to...

Goodbye "Ray Donovan" – The fixer remains broken

The feeling of sheer disappointment when a favourite TV show is cancelled is an experience that happens to most of us at some point in...

Our Problematic Obsession with True Crime

True crime has left the jurisdiction of the courtroom and moved on to our TV screens. A surge of "adapted from true events" films about...

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