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We could spend all day talking about how Fire Walk With Me relates to the current return of Twin Peaks but it’s more interesting to consider it as something of a watershed moment in Lynch’s filmography: from this film on his output got…

Back in May of this year I wrote an Art Encounters article called The Rescue Act. It was about the events that led to my adopting a border collie called Oscar. The title was a bit tongue-in-cheek, like the title of an action movie and I was…

February 27th 1991, director David Lynch went on the Late Night Show with David Letterman to discuss the second season of Twin Peaks, his beloved murder-mystery drama. Only a few hours earlier, the show had been put on hiatus, so his…

The NO ENCORE boys are back - not in town, for they already reside there - with all the happenings in the music world, with everything from Kanye West's hospitalisation to We Cut Corners' recent headline show in Temple Bar to the return of…

Packed, packed house this week in the NO ENCORE studio as film critic and American sports enthusiast Dave Higgins makes his grand return to the podcast and oft-referenced friend of the show Joshua Hughes comes in from the Toronto cold to…

Across three seasons, Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal became a critical success and developed a rabid cult following as it weaved a narrative of the darkest forms of romance, seduction, cruelty, and terrified beauty that nothing on network TV had…

Evolution is Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s first film in 11 years, following her debut Innocence. Both films share many of the same stylistic and thematic beats: emphasis on atmosphere above plot, static long takes of the natural world, child…

No, we didn't fool around with Jay Z. At least I don't think we did. Anything is possible on episode six of the NO ENCORE podcast as HeadStuff Music Editor Dave Hanratty, Hot Press hero Colm O’Regan and Newstalk's answer to Patrick Bateman,…

FKA twigs M3LL155X Its very hard to describe, much less review, FKA twigs. Mellissa (stylised as M3LL155X), twigs' latest EP is an audio/visual piece very much in line with her previous output. Which is to say it's unlike anything…

I love Twin Peaks. Even when it’s bad (deep in the doldrums of mid-season 2) I still like it, and when it’s at its best it’s some of the most interesting stuff ever put on television. In anticipation of the 2016 revival, I’ve had a great…