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Written by Chuck Serface

First Impressions: Finally Watching Twin Peaks

Soap Opera Twin Peaks is a murder mystery and a soap opera. Lynch and his creative partner Mark Frost intend no soap-opera parody here, as some have hypothesized. No, he’s giving us a soap opera wrapped around a murder mystery. During the summer of 1980, Americans wondered who shot J.R. Ewing, the villainous Texas oil […]

Written by Chuck Serface

Movies So Bad I Love Them

Motel Hell (1980) Roger Ebert once dubbed Motel Hell “a welcome change of pace; it’s to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Airplane! is to Airport.”  Ebert even admires certain scenes, including a chainsaw duel and the final confession from the dying Farmer Vincent, the proprietor of Motel Hello (the “o” on the sign has burnt […]