TV legacies are funny things. TV fans, too. By the time Twin Peaks was quietly laid to rest on June 10, 1991, Murder, She Wrote was the top-rated drama on television.
I was talking about Alien: Covenant with a man dressed as AC/DC's Brian Johnson at a party recently when he made a solid point. "If you had never seen any Alien movie before, you would think Covenant was a great movie," he said wagging his finger in my face.
2. "Twin Peaks" gave the public something to talk about with its 1990-91 ABC run, followed by a 1992 feature film, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me." 3. It's still being talked about a quarter-century later as Showtime launches an 18-episode limited-series follow-up that premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern.
This image released by Showtime shows Madchen Amick, left, and Peggy Lipton in a scene from "Twin Peaks." The series debuts Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT.
Starring in an Alien movie, co-writing a Halloween film, and a second season of Vice Principals on the way, it's a good time to be a Danny McBride fan. McBride and David Gordon Green , who directed most of season 2 of Vice Principals , are working on getting Michael Meyers back in theaters next October.
The production of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales hasn't been an easy one for Johnny Depp , whose personal and professional issues have been duly noted in the past year. This latest story isn't likely to make anything easier for Pirates 5 or Depp.
"As a longtime fan of Twin Peaks, I was initially nervous this revival would pull an X-Files and function as simple nostalgia fuel while being not great," posted Yahoo TV's Price Peterson, who attended a Friday screening of the first two episodes in Los Angeles. "But two hours later, a stunned crowd left the theater with the distinct feeling that David Lynch had gotten away with something.
The film, being shopped to buyers in Cannes by The Works International, will the tell the real-life story of how two anti-Apartheid activists in South Africa broke out of Pretoria's maximum security prison in 1978. Neill takes the role of South African social campaigner and activist Denis Goldberg, who was a member of the ANC's military wing and a key player in the struggle against apartheid.
At last a contemporary horror film that is actually scary. Under the Shadow , the debut feature of London-based, Iran-born Babak Anvari, uses 1980s Tehran as the backdrop for a story about the haunting of a child.