This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Scott Tobias on Twin Peaks: The Return's stunning, apocalyptic "Episode 8."
Cut to black.
[Beat.]
July 16th, 1945.
White Sands, New Mexico
5:29 a.m. Mwt
How did we get here? That's the first question – or maybe the second, after "Wtf?!" and a period of extended hypnosis – that comes to mind as the desert lights up with a brilliant flash and a mushroom cloud.
Cut to black.
[Beat.]
July 16th, 1945.
White Sands, New Mexico
5:29 a.m. Mwt
How did we get here? That's the first question – or maybe the second, after "Wtf?!" and a period of extended hypnosis – that comes to mind as the desert lights up with a brilliant flash and a mushroom cloud.
- 12/13/2017
- Rollingstone.com
This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Scott Tobias on Twin Peaks: The Return's stunning, apocalyptic "Episode 8."
Cut to black.
[Beat.]
July 16th, 1945.
White Sands, New Mexico
5:29 a.m. Mwt
How did we get here? That's the first question – or maybe the second, after "Wtf?!" and a period of extended hypnosis – that comes to mind as the desert lights up with a brilliant flash and a mushroom cloud.
Cut to black.
[Beat.]
July 16th, 1945.
White Sands, New Mexico
5:29 a.m. Mwt
How did we get here? That's the first question – or maybe the second, after "Wtf?!" and a period of extended hypnosis – that comes to mind as the desert lights up with a brilliant flash and a mushroom cloud.
- 12/13/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.
There are at least two Ridley Scotts working in Hollywood. Ridley Scott, auteur — the man who revolutionized science fiction and horror cinema at the same time with Alien, who single-handedly resurrected the swords-and-sandals epic with Gladiator, who...
There are at least two Ridley Scotts working in Hollywood. Ridley Scott, auteur — the man who revolutionized science fiction and horror cinema at the same time with Alien, who single-handedly resurrected the swords-and-sandals epic with Gladiator, who...
- 11/9/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
From the 2017 San Diego "Comic-Con", Sneak Peek more images from the upcoming Marvel Studios feature "Avengers: Infinity War", plus take a look @ 'Peter Parker' as the 'Iron Spider':
"...the new trailer screened at 'D23', starts with a passed out, wounded 'Thor' floating in space. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' then accidentally hit him as they fly through space in the 'Milano'.
"Thor is stuck to the windshield and 'Rocket' proposes using the windshield wipers to wake him up. Thor is then brought into the Milano, wakes up, and says, 'Who the hell are you guys?'
"Cut to 'Loki' holding the 'Tesseract'.
"Cut to 'Spider-Man' on a bus, with his arm hair standing up, confirming his 'Spidey' sense is working.
"Cut to 'Iron Man' alongside the Guardians.
"Cut to 'Thanos' arriving to battle the 'Avengers'.
"Cut to Spider-Man wearing his new costume from the end of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
"...the new trailer screened at 'D23', starts with a passed out, wounded 'Thor' floating in space. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' then accidentally hit him as they fly through space in the 'Milano'.
"Thor is stuck to the windshield and 'Rocket' proposes using the windshield wipers to wake him up. Thor is then brought into the Milano, wakes up, and says, 'Who the hell are you guys?'
"Cut to 'Loki' holding the 'Tesseract'.
"Cut to 'Spider-Man' on a bus, with his arm hair standing up, confirming his 'Spidey' sense is working.
"Cut to 'Iron Man' alongside the Guardians.
"Cut to 'Thanos' arriving to battle the 'Avengers'.
"Cut to Spider-Man wearing his new costume from the end of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
- 7/28/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek more footage from the new Marvel Studios feature "Avengers: Infinity War":
"...the new trailer screened at 'D23', starts with a passed out, wounded 'Thor' floating in space. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' then accidentally hit him as they fly through space in the 'Milano'. Thor is stuck to the windshield and 'Rocket' proposes using the windshield wipers to wake him up. Thor is then brought into the Milano, wakes up, and says, 'Who the hell are you guys?'
"Cut to 'Loki' holding the 'Tesseract'.
"Cut to 'Spider-Man' on a bus, with his arm hair standing up, confirming his 'Spidey' sense is working.
"Cut to 'Iron Man' alongside the Guardians.
"Cut to 'Thanos' arriving to battle the 'Avengers'.
"Cut to Spider-Man wearing his new costume from the end of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
"Cut to 'Peter' with his mask off saying, 'I’m sorry' to Stark.
"...the new trailer screened at 'D23', starts with a passed out, wounded 'Thor' floating in space. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' then accidentally hit him as they fly through space in the 'Milano'. Thor is stuck to the windshield and 'Rocket' proposes using the windshield wipers to wake him up. Thor is then brought into the Milano, wakes up, and says, 'Who the hell are you guys?'
"Cut to 'Loki' holding the 'Tesseract'.
"Cut to 'Spider-Man' on a bus, with his arm hair standing up, confirming his 'Spidey' sense is working.
"Cut to 'Iron Man' alongside the Guardians.
"Cut to 'Thanos' arriving to battle the 'Avengers'.
"Cut to Spider-Man wearing his new costume from the end of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
"Cut to 'Peter' with his mask off saying, 'I’m sorry' to Stark.
- 7/19/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
“Game of Thrones” is a show that’s always kept us on our toes, year after year, and that’s truer now that we’ve moved beyond adapting George R.R. Martin’s novels and into a 13-episode endgame, stretched across two seasons.
Now that we know how much time we have left in the Seven Kingdoms (at least until the spin-offs start) the question becomes, what will happen when the show ends? While IndieWire may not have the official answers, we have each given serious thought to possible conclusions.
Each member of the TV team has their own theories, based on their own personal opinions and expertise, but the fun thing about “Game of Thrones” is that anything could happen: The crazier the prediction, the more likely it could be right. Season 8 is going to be a doozy.
Read More‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7: All the Clues the Cast...
Now that we know how much time we have left in the Seven Kingdoms (at least until the spin-offs start) the question becomes, what will happen when the show ends? While IndieWire may not have the official answers, we have each given serious thought to possible conclusions.
Each member of the TV team has their own theories, based on their own personal opinions and expertise, but the fun thing about “Game of Thrones” is that anything could happen: The crazier the prediction, the more likely it could be right. Season 8 is going to be a doozy.
Read More‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7: All the Clues the Cast...
- 7/14/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller, Michael Nordine, Steve Greene, Hanh Nguyen and Ben Travers
- Indiewire
It seems like Gilmore Girls fans will have to call Maury Povich in to get to the bottom of the final four words of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Spoiler alert! The Netflix revival ended with Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) telling her mom, Lorelai (Lauren Graham), she was pregnant. Cut to black. Is Logan (Matt Cuzchry), Rory's baby daddy? "That's a question for Amy Sherman-Palladino to answer that question. I cannot answer that question," Czuchry told E! News with a laugh at Fox's 2017 Upfronts. Czuchry will next be seen opposite Emily VanCamp in Fox's new medical drama, The Resident. Czuchry said the Gilmore Girls creator did not give him any guidelines about what he was and...
- 5/16/2017
- E! Online
All right. Now we're getting somewhere.
While I was, at first, taken by the format of the first six episodes of the show, around Episodes 2 and 3, I the lengthy re-enactments were starting to wear on me. It felt like an inefficient and overlong way to tell a story. In my mind, the same story could have been told over the course of 3 or so episodes rather than 5.
But at the end of last episode (Episode 5), there was a promise of something new. The My Roanoke Nightmare story wrapped up completely -- complete with a nice little bow attached to it -- and in the preview for this week's episode, we saw the character, who we now know as a TV producer named Sidney (who's played by the same dude who portrayed Danny in 30 Rock, I might add), telling the cameramen to never stop rolling. It seemed to indicate a complete format change.
While I was, at first, taken by the format of the first six episodes of the show, around Episodes 2 and 3, I the lengthy re-enactments were starting to wear on me. It felt like an inefficient and overlong way to tell a story. In my mind, the same story could have been told over the course of 3 or so episodes rather than 5.
But at the end of last episode (Episode 5), there was a promise of something new. The My Roanoke Nightmare story wrapped up completely -- complete with a nice little bow attached to it -- and in the preview for this week's episode, we saw the character, who we now know as a TV producer named Sidney (who's played by the same dude who portrayed Danny in 30 Rock, I might add), telling the cameramen to never stop rolling. It seemed to indicate a complete format change.
- 10/20/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
When The Blair Witch Project came out in the Summer of 1999, I was working in a movie theater as a concessionist. I started in the summer after graduating high school as the theater was new plus they realized how understaffed they were when they opened with Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I remember the year pretty damn distinctly. There was one film that I kept my eye on, being the horror fan that I was, I knew that a film that was being touted as “scary as hell” was coming out late summer. I expressed my interest of horror films to my co-workers upon meeting them so by the time the hype train for The Blair Witch Project started rolling into the station, people were asking me about it. All I could tell them was the information that I had read from Entertainment Weekly, message boards and IRC chats I frequented.
- 9/16/2016
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Damon put up a hell of a fight on Friday’s winter premiere of The Vampire Diaries — I just think he forgot which side he’s supposed to be fighting.
RelatedVampire Diaries/Originals Crossover Scoop: How Will Klaus React to Caroline’s Pregnancy?
Executive producer Caroline Dries spoke with reporters about this week’s game-changers, but first, let’s make sure we’re all caught up:
Getting Stefan out of the Phoenix Stone was easy, but Bonnie struggled to free Damon, who refused to submit to the pain of his own personal hell. After reliving the same nightmarish day over...
RelatedVampire Diaries/Originals Crossover Scoop: How Will Klaus React to Caroline’s Pregnancy?
Executive producer Caroline Dries spoke with reporters about this week’s game-changers, but first, let’s make sure we’re all caught up:
Getting Stefan out of the Phoenix Stone was easy, but Bonnie struggled to free Damon, who refused to submit to the pain of his own personal hell. After reliving the same nightmarish day over...
- 1/30/2016
- TVLine.com
What's the very first thing that springs to mind when you think of David Fincher's meticulous, pitiless 1995 thriller Se7en, which celebrates its 20th anniversary today? If it's not "What's in the booooox?", odds are it's a close thing.
That memorably bleak finale – in which (spoiler alert, obviously), Brad Pitt's hot-headed Detective Mills realises that serial killer John Doe (Kevin Spacey) has delivered him his wife's head in a box – is not only one of the most iconic in cinema history, but it's also what convinced director David Fincher to sign on in the first place.
Jaded at the time from his experience on Alien 3 ("I thought I'd rather die of colon cancer than do another movie"), Fincher's interest was piqued by Andrew Kevin Walker's script and its unusually dark ending. The problem? The studio, New Line, had already rejected this draft for being too dark,...
That memorably bleak finale – in which (spoiler alert, obviously), Brad Pitt's hot-headed Detective Mills realises that serial killer John Doe (Kevin Spacey) has delivered him his wife's head in a box – is not only one of the most iconic in cinema history, but it's also what convinced director David Fincher to sign on in the first place.
Jaded at the time from his experience on Alien 3 ("I thought I'd rather die of colon cancer than do another movie"), Fincher's interest was piqued by Andrew Kevin Walker's script and its unusually dark ending. The problem? The studio, New Line, had already rejected this draft for being too dark,...
- 9/22/2015
- Digital Spy
Even with as much planning as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, some scenes end up on the editing room floor…
This film has spoilers for every film in the Marvel cinematic universe.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe… if you’ve just clicked into this article, it’s likely that you need little reminding of how much it changed the landscape of Hollywood. But that won’t stop us recapping for continuity’s sake. Heck, it’s what Kevin Feige would want.
It began in 2008, then, with the landmark casting of Robert Downey Jnr as Tony Stark. It’s sometimes hard to remember how much a risk that was at the time, but heck did it pay off. The movie, directed by Jon Favreau, was strong, and a huge hit. And the notion of a post-credits sting was introduced. And it was a big one, too – Samuel L Jackson namedropping the Avengers Initiative.
This film has spoilers for every film in the Marvel cinematic universe.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe… if you’ve just clicked into this article, it’s likely that you need little reminding of how much it changed the landscape of Hollywood. But that won’t stop us recapping for continuity’s sake. Heck, it’s what Kevin Feige would want.
It began in 2008, then, with the landmark casting of Robert Downey Jnr as Tony Stark. It’s sometimes hard to remember how much a risk that was at the time, but heck did it pay off. The movie, directed by Jon Favreau, was strong, and a huge hit. And the notion of a post-credits sting was introduced. And it was a big one, too – Samuel L Jackson namedropping the Avengers Initiative.
- 6/9/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Silent Hills is, for all intents and purposes, dead. After weeks of controversy and confusion coming from Konami surrounding the future of Hideo Kojima within the company, statements from both Guillermo del Toro and Norman Reedus have confirmed that Silent Hills isn’t going to happen. Whether this is down to a personal falling out, or simply because Konami want to stifle Kojima’s creativity by forcing him to make Mgs games for the rest of his life (my money is on that one) remains to be seen. But what’s almost certain is that Hideo Kojima will be leaving the company after the release of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain in September, and so his collaboration with del Toro to revive the ailing Silent Hill franchise won’t be going forward. And that sucks.
If Silent Hill, as a series, had been canned a couple of years ago,...
If Silent Hill, as a series, had been canned a couple of years ago,...
- 4/27/2015
- by John Cal McCormick
- SoundOnSight
There have been numerous interweaving and not so interweaving plots during this inaugural season of "Penny Dreadful," but there have been two constants. The first has been the search by Sir Malcom (Timothy Dalton) and Ms. Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) to save Mina (Olivia Llewellyn) from the clutches of a vampire demon. The second has been the systematic haunting of Doctor Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway, Jr.) by his first creation (Rory Kinnear), a vindictive son who brutally demands a bride from his creator. If the series finale told us anything it's that creator John Logan had no intention of dragging these story lines out any more than necessary. More so, Logan appears to have a lot more in store for "Dreadful's" unexpected group of flawed "heroes." Two of the series' best performances have been from Green and Dalton. Their characters have behaved like two adversaries forced to grit their teeth...
- 6/30/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
The past month or so has been incredibly eventful for Adam Green's "Holliston." The show tragically lost one cast member, released Season 2 on Blu-ray, and then got the news that the network it airs on is shutting down...
Creator Adam Green and co-star Joe Lynch sat down with Dread Central recently for a massive interview all about "Holliston."
Show creator and star Adam Green talked about his love for the "Holliston" series. "It's my favorite thing I've ever done," Green said. "It's my best work to date, and I think a lot of the people involved in the show would say the same thing. If you like Season 1, I think Season 2 really blows it away. I think with any sitcom the second season is usually considered to be funnier and better than the first, mainly because you know the characters, you know the world, you know the tone. And...
Creator Adam Green and co-star Joe Lynch sat down with Dread Central recently for a massive interview all about "Holliston."
Show creator and star Adam Green talked about his love for the "Holliston" series. "It's my favorite thing I've ever done," Green said. "It's my best work to date, and I think a lot of the people involved in the show would say the same thing. If you like Season 1, I think Season 2 really blows it away. I think with any sitcom the second season is usually considered to be funnier and better than the first, mainly because you know the characters, you know the world, you know the tone. And...
- 4/21/2014
- by Scott Hallam
- DreadCentral.com
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. A giant spider slowly walks across a bleak Toronto skyline. A history teacher sees a man that looks just like him in a random movie. A pregnant woman thinks her husband may be cheating on her. A mother is just happy her son is no longer satisfied being a third-rate actor. These are a few of the facts that make up Denis Villeneuve's Lynchian new film Enemy, a film I'm still processing and perhaps forever will. Based on "The Double" by Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago, Enemy drowns the mood in darkness as the film opens with a man walking down a long, dark corridor. We'll later recognize him as D-level actor Anthony Clair (Jake Gyllenhaal), but here he is just one of many men, gazing wide-eyed as women dance naked for their pleasure. The dance ends and two more women make an appearance,...
- 3/14/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Horror, the Horror!
Why isn’t there a quality, poker-themed horror movie? The title, "Poker Night: Dead Man's Hand," is a bit campy, but so are many horror movies. Imagine eight college grads uniting on a remote island for a night of boozing and strip poker. The plot writes itself. One by one, the clothing layers are removed and one by one, the players get lured from the table and slaughtered in a most grizzly fashion.
At the end, there is only one person left, and she (it has to be a she) is forced to play our killer in a poker game to the death. All you can see is the killer’s eyes behind a Yoda mask (or any other mask that terrifies you), as he deals the cards on the blood-soaked table. The girl shivers, forced to face her fears while playing the most important game of her life.
Why isn’t there a quality, poker-themed horror movie? The title, "Poker Night: Dead Man's Hand," is a bit campy, but so are many horror movies. Imagine eight college grads uniting on a remote island for a night of boozing and strip poker. The plot writes itself. One by one, the clothing layers are removed and one by one, the players get lured from the table and slaughtered in a most grizzly fashion.
At the end, there is only one person left, and she (it has to be a she) is forced to play our killer in a poker game to the death. All you can see is the killer’s eyes behind a Yoda mask (or any other mask that terrifies you), as he deals the cards on the blood-soaked table. The girl shivers, forced to face her fears while playing the most important game of her life.
- 3/8/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the season 1 finale of Masters of Sex, stop reading now. If you have seen the episode, click through for Executive Producer Sarah Timberman’s take on the final moments of “Manhigh.”
A man shows up at a woman’s door to profess his feelings — in the pouring rain. It could have come off as clichéd, but Masters of Sex’s first season has carved out a more complex dynamic for its leads William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan). Based on real-life sex scientists Masters and Johnson, the Golden Globe-nominated series...
A man shows up at a woman’s door to profess his feelings — in the pouring rain. It could have come off as clichéd, but Masters of Sex’s first season has carved out a more complex dynamic for its leads William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan). Based on real-life sex scientists Masters and Johnson, the Golden Globe-nominated series...
- 12/16/2013
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside TV
Last week, Nashville engaged viewers in a game of carrots and sticks – promising primetime character death on last night's mid-season finale. The show even got its own #WhoWillDie hashtag trending on Twitter. That question (or was it a pun?) is still relevant, as the final minutes of the episode extended that tease with two mutually exclusive potential killings in fade-to-black fashion.
22 'Nashville' Songs That Made the Show
First was psycho pregnancy-fabricator Peggy, who took an assassin's bullet, in front of Rayna, that was intended for Teddy (who, regrettably, escaped unscathed...
22 'Nashville' Songs That Made the Show
First was psycho pregnancy-fabricator Peggy, who took an assassin's bullet, in front of Rayna, that was intended for Teddy (who, regrettably, escaped unscathed...
- 12/12/2013
- Rollingstone.com
I started writing this piece a little over two years ago when, wondering if this was a debate whose terms I wanted to propagate, I thought twice. After the recent Godard retro in New York, however, thinking thrice, I've decided not to think about it again. With very special thanks to Sam Engel, Matthew Flanagan, Danny Kasman, Andy Rector, Gina Telaroli, who provided so much of the source code for this piece. There's no greater fount of wisdom in the world for a guy to plagiarize.
And so:
***
“Pauvres choses! Elles n’ont que le nom qu’on leur impose.”
“Poor things! They have nothing but the name imposed upon them.” — Film Socialisme
“You can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll.
Very sorry baby, doesn’t look like me at all.” — Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song”
"Three Jewish characters, it's a lot for a single film. The fourth...
And so:
***
“Pauvres choses! Elles n’ont que le nom qu’on leur impose.”
“Poor things! They have nothing but the name imposed upon them.” — Film Socialisme
“You can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll.
Very sorry baby, doesn’t look like me at all.” — Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song”
"Three Jewish characters, it's a lot for a single film. The fourth...
- 12/5/2013
- by David Phelps
- MUBI
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