Steven Spielberg’s The Post is concerned with historical lies and hidden truths that are all too relevant today. Stewart Gardiner exposes the words behind the fiction.
The mirror cave sequence in Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi is up there with the most iconic sequences of cinema. Stewart Gardiner reflects on that and other memorable examples of mirrors on screen.
Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier plays meta-fictional games with canonicity, delivering answers that are as concrete as they are mysterious. Stewart Gardiner unreliably narrates.
Matthew Weiner follows up Mad Men with a brief, yet significant novel, Heather, the Totality. Like the titular character’s empathy, it is incisive to the point of pain.
Executive producer Sabrina Sutherland revealed hidden truths about Twin Peaks: The Return during a Q&A session at the Twin Peaks UK Festival 2017. Stewart Gardiner was there to listen to the words.
The finale to Twin Peaks: The Return offers wild resolutions and brain melting mysteries that will endure until the end of time. It’s a genius ending to a true masterpiece by David Lynch and Mark Frost.
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 16 is satisfying, glorious, disturbing, and mind blowing television that rewards viewers on every level.
Twin Peaks Part 15 begins with a happy ending, takes a drive down Sunset Boulevard, and visits the darkness of future past.
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 14 triggers memories of old dreams, takes a trip into the woods, and reveals a monster behind the mask.
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 13 toys with time, gets into an epic arm wrestling match, and asks reality to come out to play.
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 12 favors Lynchian talk over action as it reveals the history of the Blue Rose and exposes old wounds.
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 11 turns up the interdimensional weird, takes a trip out to the desert, and makes Stewart Gardiner talk about Gwyneth Paltrow.
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 10 pulls stray story threads together in an hour of television concerned with violence against women. Stewart Gardiner journeys into the heart of darkness underneath Twin Peaks.