If I had to distill the entirety of Twin Peaks: The Return into one word, this would be it: time. Which isn’t to say that the themes of the original series or film are left behind. There’s plenty of violence directed towards women, there’s doublings aplenty and a beautifully lit, audacious-sounding conflict between good and …
So obviously that didn’t exactly work out as I planned. Not that I didn’t slightly try. I was curious what would happen if I tossed something onto Medium with absolutely no attempt at publicity whatsoever. The result was… nothing. It disappears. So, with zero people having noticed what I did, I took it down and …
On my old website, I wrote a blog about how I wasn’t really using the blog. I had well-reasoned arguments, I swear, but all of it ultimately boiled down to the fact that time in life is extremely limited, and for the most part I’ve been trying to write the type of thing I really …
The sixth and final essay in my series for 1up.com. Unlike every other title in this series, I’ve never actually played Wing Commander, or in fact any game in its series. As a result, this ended up very research heavy as I tried to understand why people liked those games before writing the essay. This also meant …
The fifth in my series of video game film essays for 1up.com. Tron was enough of a cult classic to get an undeserved sequel many year later. I don’t much care for it, but find it to be more than marginally fascinating from a historical point of view, which is more than can be said for more films …
The fourth in my series of video game film essays for 1up.com. Like Street Fighter before it, I was massively disappointed in this movie when I saw it. I wasn’t even a fan of the Mortal Kombat series, I just happened to think it was kinda lousy. That being said, a few shots stick in my mind, even …
The third in my series of video game film essays for 1up.com. I still remember watching this when I was little and feeling acute disappointment at what was on-screen, which was confusing because I mostly liked everything when little, but somehow I liked this piece of everything a little bit less. While Double Dragon was the first video …
Alongside the Twin Peaks review, I was also told to write two accompanying articles for Paste, one of which would cover the director’s less-known works on television while the other would cover the lengthy impact the series had on the entire medium. These would both be that most hated/beloved of internet-genres, listicles, though for once the format made …
In 2014, I reviewed the entirety of Twin Peaks for Paste Magazine, largely for the same reason I did a lot of reviews back then: I really wanted the blu-ray set. Yes, they paid for the review, too, but the set itself was both expensive and impressive. The review also served as a nice excuse to rewatch the …