Lynch is 71 and I'm 50, I'm probably more viscerally afraid of nuclear weapons than ever, and I was a teenager in the Reagan era. I'm also transfixed by tornado videos, they are my horror films, like nuclear explosions they give me that sense of primal helplessness, the Plains Indians referred to multiple-vortex…

I think it would be a perfect place for Liam and Noel Gallagher to do dueling Oasis reunions that degenerate into a hellish nightmare, which is probably what they would be anywhere, actually,,.

RIP Mary Tamm. I always preferred her Romana.

I love this line of interpretation of Twin Peaks, and it's along the lines of how I interpret the deeper meaning of the season 1 episode of Space: 1999 "Dragon's Domain", where space explorers discover what is a graveyard of ships dominated by a lethal creature that gains entry to their ship as a result of their…

Existentialism.

Those sfx mushroom clouds in The Day After, which were done by dropping coloured oil into a tank of water, are scarier than the real ones, they still give me nightmares. I recommend the British movie Threads as well, which I believe began the first widespread discussion of Nuclear Winter. Kubrick was such a master,…

I feel the same way about the episode, I have that visceral reaction to nuclear detonations, they're creepy af. The idiot world leaders of the 1950's were lobbing them into space in the interests of 'science', blowing out phone systems in the US and setting power plants in Kazakhstan on fire with the EMP. The military…

Social media, as it always does, is overreacting on both ends of the spectrum to this episode. Is it the most groundbreaking thing I've ever seen? No. Is it contemptible film school hackery? No. People are polarised over it, but arguing about it means everyone is talking about Lynch, which is the best possible thing…