According to Digital Bits, CBS is not only in the process of creating a Twin Peaks: The Complete Series Blu-ray set, but the package could also possibly include David Lynch’s prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
It will be the first time the complete Twin Peaks universe is available all together, as well as on Blu. It’s being said the set is due out at the end of this year or early next year.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
A dog that ate one of numerous poisoned meatballs found in San Francisco neighborhoods has died.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the 7-year-old dachshund named Oskar died on Thursday, eight days after eating the meatball.
The meatball was among hundreds laced with strychnine that were scattered in the city’s Twin Peaks and Diamond Heights neighborhoods earlier this month. Strychnine is a common rat poison.
San Francisco Police Lt. Miriam Pengel tells the Chronicle that the meatballs had enough poison to kill a human.
Oskar is believed to be the only dog that ate any of them. He was expected to recover.
Police are still investigating the incident and do not know whether dogs were the intended targets.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News
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Norman Bates and his mom were just really, really close, okay? That’s the jumping-off point for A&E’s “Bates Motel” (premiering March 18 at ten), a sort of prequel to Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1960 classic “Psycho” in which mother and son have set up shop in Northern California following the mysterious — and bloody — death of Norman’s dad. But rather than going back to the fifties, Norman’s coming-of-age story is set in the modern day, by way of Twin Peaks with an Oedipal twist. As played by Vera Farmiga, Norma Bates is haunted, protective, sexy, and her relationship with Norman is at once innocent, intimate, and smothering.
Hidetaka Suehiro – or SWERY, as he prefers to be known – has had the chance to do what very few game creators get to do: go back to his game after the critics have had their way with it, and make it better. Not THAT much better, admittedly, but then making Deadly Premonition too much better would rather undermine its shonky charm.
The original Deadly Premonition was at once one of the best and worst games I’d ever played back in 2010, an entrancingly bizarre suburban horror-adventure at turns undermined and enhanced by comically dreadful driving and shooting, extraordinarily weird characters and a story that’s totally compelling despite the fact that it makes almost no sense whatsoever. It’s often said that it’s the video game version of Twin Peaks, and it certainly has that destabilising, post-structuralist Lynchian thing going on. I still can’t quite decide whether it’s intentional.
2010’s low-budget, bargain-priced, beyond-bizarre Deadly Premonition is finally heading to the PlayStation 3 in Director’s Cut form. For PS3 owners unfamiliar with the cult hit, here’s the Cliff’s Notes recap: The one-time 360 exclusive is an open-world murder mystery/ survival horror hybrid set in a Twin Peaks-like town; an eccentric FBI suit chats-up quirky townsfolk, gathers clues, combats shadowy ghouls, and argues the merits of DVD movie extras with an imaginary friend named Zach.
None of this, however, is as strange as its critical reception. It earned a 2/10 on IGN, while other scores hit as high as 100 on Metacritic. While many critics couldn’t look past its lackluster production values and clunky gameplay, its campy charm captivated others. With Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut, developer Access Games is aiming to add to that latter group by fixing what alienated the average gamer, while retaining the alluring weirdness that clicked with its modest, albeit rabid following.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games