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Ears Wide Shut: How Agent Cooper Dreamed Blue Velvet

Could the origin story of Twin Peaks’ favourite FBI agent be found beyond the picket fences of David Lynch’s 1986 film?

Throwaway Star Wars Moments: The Rise of Skywalker One Year Later

Taking another look at the final entry of the Skywalker Saga with the assistance of the novelisation, art of book and visual encyclopedia

A Certain Amount of Risk: The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars

Stewart Gardiner leans away from Ballardian nightmares and into a galaxy far, far away with a look at Landry Walker’s Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars

The Cosmic Horror of Mandy

Panos Cosmatos’s midnight movie starring Nicholas Cage has a delicate relationship at its core, although also features graphic violence, tigers, Cheese-Goblins and exploding heads

The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs

Simon Shiel delights in this cluttered treasure trove of Wes Anderson information, yet wishes it had addressed the accusations of cultural appropriation and poor representation

Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna

Stewart Gardiner praises the structurally audacious biography / autobiography of David Lynch

Once More With Lynchian Feeling

In this archival interview, Stewart Gardiner speaks with the director of the 2007 David Lynch documentary Lynch (One)

The Fragmented World of David Lynch

How a moment of darkness on a painter’s canvas led Lynch to film