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Thoughts on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN

By now TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the Showtime shepherded follow-up to 1990-91’s TWIN PEAKS, has been analyzed from every conceivable standpoint

Here we have what may well be the oddest TV show of all time: THE NECESSARY MINUTE OF MONSIEUR CYCLOPEDE

This 1950 Mexican horror fest is notable for its similarities to PSYCHO, which it preceded by a decade

A mind-boggler par excellence, courtesy of Dedalus, who can always be counted on to dig up fascinating Euro-obscurities

I’ve been called a snob about translated novels, but in fact my preference for such books is quite basic and, I believe, well-reasoned

It’s no stretch to call this one of the strangest programs ever broadcast on American television

One of the more infamous examples of the “No Wave” film movement

A product of the late 1960s French avant-garde, marked by decadence, surrealism and a loose reworking of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

Quite simply one of the weirdest, most confounding movies of all time!

A British made exercise in Eastern-flavored weirdness that’s not a bad movie, but it could definitely have used a more adventurous treatment.