‘Like a rural Scarface’: Hollywood star Kyle MacLachlan’s wild discovery of Pablo Escobar’s secret town
Drugs, guns, attacked by turkeys – the Twin Peaks star’s outrageous podcast investigation uncovers the tale of a US town paid off by a notorious drug lord. It’s a rollercoaster ride
November 2022
Confess, Fletch review – Jon Hamm wisecracks through screwball mystery
Greg Mottola’s amiable film rattles along with a host of wacky characters and Hamm’s more sophisticated portrayal of Irvin Fletcher
January 2022
Milan men’s fashion week AW 22: key shows – in pictures
Despite Giorgio Armani cancelling his shows and a raft of other designers switching to digital, Milan fashion week went ahead with cameos from Jeff Goldblum, Kyle MacLachlan and Machine Gun Kelly
October 2021
From the Guardian archive
Riddle of the sand: David Lynch’s 1984 version of Dune reviewed
As sci-fi epic Dune hits cinemas across the UK, here’s how the Guardian reviewed the first film version 37 years ago
September 2021
Dune review – David Lynch’s intergalactic epic shoots for the moon
There are moments of dreamlike brilliance in this extravagant fable of imperialism – provided you can stay awake to see them
August 2021
‘A right good piss-up’: Kyle MacLachlan has a crack at Australian accent from Sydney quarantine
Twin Peaks star, who is in Australia to film Joe Exotic, employs local lingo during a monologue about life locked in a hotel
September 2020
Tesla review – portrait of an inventor out of step with his time
Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan star in Michael Almereyda’s humorous and ambitious film about the under-appreciated visionary
May 2020
Capone review – Tom Hardy entertainingly feral as a gangster at the end of the road
Fantastic Four director Josh Trank has created a strange, bitter-flavoured account of the celebrated mafioso in terminal decline in Florida
April 2020
From the Guardian archive
David Lynch's Blue Velvet reviewed – archive, 1987
9 April 1987 A film that exists both on a level of absolute reality and out-and-out nightmare. Love it or hate it, see it you must, says film critic Derek Malcolm
Twin Peaks at 30: some damn fine outfits but what do they mean?
It’s three decades since David Lynch’s groundbreaking TV show hit our screens, and the character’s clothes have aged as well as the drama
Twin Peaks at 30: the weird and wonderful show that changed television
David Lynch’s surprise small screen outing remains one of the most fascinating and compelling pilot episodes ever made
March 2020
This much I know
Kyle MacLachlan: ‘I don’t understand all of Twin Peaks’
The actor, 61, talks about Agent Cooper, working with David Lynch and how he got it wrong with Showgirls
December 2019
Does it matter if a television show tops the best-film lists?
Simran Hans
The lines between cinema and TV are becoming blurred, says film critic Simran Hans
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century
Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say
February 2019
High Flying Bird review – Soderbergh scales new heights on Netflix
A sharp and layered drama about basketball, filmed on a smartphone, is another slam dunk for both the film-maker and the platform
September 2018
The House With a Clock in Its Walls review – post-Potter children's fantasy
Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star in this uninspiring tale of a lonely, recently orphaned boy with supernatural skills
December 2017
2017 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 3 Twin Peaks: The Return
Weird and weirdly wonderful, David Lynch’s maximalist reboot was smarter, funnier, stranger and more perplexing that anything else on TV
September 2017
Film blog
Fire Walk With Me: how David Lynch's film went from laughing stock to the key to Twin Peaks
In 1992 it was critically savaged and fast forgotten. But the new TV series has helped reveal the film to be a harrowing tour de force that shuns easy answers
July 2017
Twin Peaks: the most brain-scrambling moments so far
As David Lynch’s Twin Peaks reboot hits the halfway mark, here are the scenes that have thrilled and baffled fans – and exploded the internet. Prepare for a full-bore nightmare
May 2017
It is deliberately, punishingly tedious – but that's why Twin Peaks is so beguiling
Twin Peaks, by design, is meant to frustrate and beguile you. Here’s how you can learn to watch David Lynch’s masterpiece in the online age
