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 WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS Twin Peaks in the 90s was a subversion of TV wasteland, an introduction to avant-garde storytelling in a world where cozy marketing was top priority. Twin Peaks shook viewers out of their normality, into the strange & mysterious. The style and attitude are a testament to its time. Today, we're spoiled with a landscape of cinema-style shows Peaks gave rise to, so when it was time for  The Return, Mark Frost and David Lynch broke all the rules  and introduced an entirely new form of storytelling never before seen. If there are seven kinds of stories, The Return introduces an eighth, an evolution of mythmaking with shades of classical voyage and rebirth story structures. Written and produced as a 17-hour movie, Dwayne Dunham’s had the unenviable task of chopping this up into 18 cohesive episodes. Already, episodic structure was evolving; instead of looking at episodes, we were looking at fragments of a bigger movie. Week after week, ...

This is the closest you’ll get to a comic book movie on my list. Does it count that it’s a meta-commentary on the fallout of blockbuster franchises? I love showbiz nightmares – Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink. The viewer gets to look behind the mirror they’re so accustomed to facing. They get to see the dark side of Hollywood glamour, it’s vainglorious path to hell. They get to understand some impression of what a show is a result of. The door opens to the dream factory, where we experience both wonder and fear. What exactly motivates that profound play, that tour de force film, that binge-worthy TV show into existence? That’s the overarching question for Riggan Thompson (Michael Keaton), star of the comic book blockbuster Birdman [or Batman ] franchise. In an effort to reignite his career with more prestige, he has turned to Broadway, writing/directing/starring in his own play, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love , adapted from Raymond Carver’s book. His ...

I don’t think Martin Scorsese was ever satisfied that he had a working formula. He’s an artist in the truest sense, continually outdoing himself film after film, seeking the higher question: how can I do this better? After wowing us with 2011’s 3D epic Hugo , Scorsese went back to the drawing board, venturing down the road fellow NYU alumnus Oliver Stone twice rode with his Wall Street series. Wolf of Wall Street showed this world from a different angle, focusing on the interior of it’s Gordon Gekko counterpart, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ambitious con artist who starts a brokerage firm that grows into a success, illegally.  Jordan starts out as ‘pond scum,’ working as a stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild on Wall Street, when the infamous Black Monday hits, the largest one day stock market drop in history, leaving him and countless others jobless. He gets employed at an unregulated penny-stock boiler room, using his savvy New York salesmanship in a suburban shoppin...