Revisiting: Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me

David Lynch and his troubled relationship with television

In May 1990, David Lynch controversially stormed the Cannes Film Festival with his adaptation of Barry Gifford’s Wild at Heart, picking up the prestigious Palme d’Or. Two years later, when he premiered Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – the feature length…

The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn

Distills essence of 1980s adventure cinema but lacks Hergé’s light touch

In an interview shortly before his death in 1983, Hergé, the creator of Tintin, said that the only person who could bring his creation to life on the big screen was a young director called Steven Spielberg. The director himself had only been turned on…

Age of the Dragons

Flawed take on Moby Dick a sea of flat performances hampered concessions to original text

(12A) 90min This loose retelling of Moby Dick boasts some sumptuous cinematography and the unlikely star pairing of Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones. But transplanting the action to a fantasy land (an effectively shot Utah) and swapping dragons for…

Hall Pass high on gross-out but low on entertainment

Farrelly Brothers’ take on wife-sanctioned adultery is just unfunny

(15) 105min From its preoccupations with midlife crises and marital woes, it’s tempting to think that Hall Pass represents the Farrelly Brothers having grown up. Rest assured however, there are plenty of gross-out gags – culminating in what may be…

Twin Peaks complete series released on DVD - Mark Frost interview - complete transcript

To mark release of the Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold DVD Box Set, Murray Robertson interviews the seminal TV series’ co-creator and producer Mark Frost. This is the complete unedited transcript of the interview.

Twin Peaks boxset released on DVD - Mark Frost interview

Almost twenty years to the day since Twin Peaks first aired, the long-awaited conclusion to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal series is finally released on DVD. Series co-creator and executive producer Frost tells Murray Robertson what took so…

Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

Having passed on the Harry Potter directing reigns after the second instalment, Chris Columbus attempts to kick-start another fantasy franchise with this adaptation of the first book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and The Olympians series.

Valentine’s Day

With a cast that seems calculated to appeal to every possible demographic, Garry Marshall’s eponymous ensemble piece feels very much like a patriotic riposte to Richard Curtis’s Love, Actually.