The filmmaker, who died in January, showed us what our world was becoming, and how we should respond. In the summer, the actress Natasha Lyonne relayed an anecdote about the late director David Lynch, in which he told her that A.I. in the creative arts would soon be as ubiquitous and indispensable as the pencil. Lyonne, who happens to be the co-founder of an A.I. studio, seemed to be implying that the revered filmmaker had offered his approval to the same nihilistic and destructive technology that recently enabled President Donald Trump to imagine himself as a king in a fighter jet dropping payloads of diarrhea on the people he's sworn to serve. In an interview with magazine in November, 2024, he said that, on the one hand, "the good side" of A.I. could be "important for moving forward in a beautiful way," and, on the other, "if money is the bottom line, there'd be a lot of sadness, and despair and horror." He added, "I'm hoping better times are coming." In January, amid the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, Lynch was evacuated from his home and died shortly thereafter, of complications from emphysema.

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You may have watched the original run of Twin Peaks so many times that you exclaim "damn fine coffee" each and every time you grab a cup, but have you ever played the story through the eyes of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper? You'll soon be able to do just that via the magic of video games. A small French developer called Blue Rose Team has been prepping Twin Peaks: Into the Night for a while now, and it just dropped a demo of the fan-made game. The graphics are retro and decidedly PS1-flavored, which makes sense given how the show premiered in 1990. The gameplay looks to be full of exploration, complete with conversations with the town's many oddball residents, though there's a survival horror element reminiscent of the original Resident Evil titles.

On January 20th, while the world's attention was focussed on the Inauguration, David Lynch quietly turned seventy-five. He spent the day the way he's spent almost every day since the pandemic began: sheltered in his Los Angeles home, engaged with self-prescribed daily routines. "If you have a habit pattern," Lynch told me, over Zoom, "the more conscious part of your mind can concentrate on your work, and you can get ideas and do those things, and the rest sort of takes care of itself in the background." It sounded practical and wholesome, until Lynch related an example: a "famous criminal case" that he'd heard about, involving a man who hacked up his parents with an axe. The mother was killed in the act, but, Lynch said, "the father didn't die right away. He was wounded terribly, in the head, but, in the morning, when it was his time normally to wake up, covered in blood he got out of bed--he didn't even notice that his wife was dead right next to him--he just woke up and made his way down to do his habitual program. . . . Fixed breakfast, but he spilled his cereal all over the place. He made coffee, he made a mess of everything, but he knew the habits, he knew the routine. He went to get his paper, like he does every morning, and he came in with the paper and just bled out, right there in the foyer, and that was the end of him."

Comic-Con 2017 live updates: 'Robot Chicken' has a President Trump puppet, and a real life Iron Man takes off Day two of Comic-Con is all about TV. "Game of Thrones," "Twin Peaks," and "The Walking Dead" will all offer tributes to the throngs of Hall H. And we'll be there, bringing you all the intel and surprises. Stay tuned for interviews, panel updates and more. The can't miss panels at 2017 Comic-Con Inside Comic-Con's Hall H, the most important room in Hollywood Comic-Con through the years, a look back in one GIANT timeline The can't miss panels at 2017 Comic-Con'Robot Chicken's' ninth season will include President Trump: 'Just take a look at the puppet's hands' There is no pop culture or political figure safe from the claymation-style harpooning of Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken."

Today in Entertainment: Billy Bush regrets that'Access Hollywood' flap; 'Twin Peaks' fans left slack-jawed over the reboot And in today's installment of Netflix vs. Cannes Film Festival... Billy Bush says his daughter was especially upset about that'Access Hollywood' tape'Twin Peaks' fans pretty much loved every minute of Sunday night's premiere'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' sparked serious debate at the Cannes film fest John Oliver has a name for Trump's week of scandal: 'Stupid Watergate' Billy Bush says his daughter was especially upset about that'Access Hollywood' tape'Twin Peaks' fans pretty much loved every minute of Sunday night's premiere'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' sparked serious debate at the Cannes film fest John Oliver has a name for Trump's week of scandal: 'Stupid Watergate' Universal Pictures doesn't want to be the only Hollywood studio without a sexy film franchise that it can spin off forever and ever until there's nothing left but action figures and ash. Warner Bros. has its rapidly expanding DC Comics world, Disney has the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now Universal has its newly remodeled monster-verse. The studio is reviving the classic Universal monsters for a scary new world officially titled the Dark Universe. We know only a little about who (or what) Universal will be resurrecting from its vault (which includes a plethora of creepy crawlies from the Wolfman to Frankenstein). However, the official press release confirms that this new world will officially kick off June 9 with the Tom Cruise action film "The Mummy."

Miguel Ferrer, an actor with a long list of credits ranging from "Twin Peaks" to his current role on CBS' "NCIS: Los Angeles," died of cancer on Thursday. A fixture on TV and in movies since the 1980s, Ferrer's reputation as a scene-stealer began with 1987's "RoboCop," where he played Bob Morton, the conniving corporate executive who designed the film's title cyborg. His other landmark role was as FBI agent Albert Rosenfield in David Lynch's landmark series "Twin Peaks," along with its corresponding film, "Fire Walk With Me." Ferrer reprised the role in the upcoming return of the series, which is set to debut in May on Showtime. "Great talent, better man," wrote "Twin Peaks" co-creator Mark Frost on Twitter. "Working & writing for him was a highlight in every part of my life."

The opening screen of Variable State's new video "feature" "Virginia" welcomes players to a small town named Kingdom. It's laid before us as if it were a board game, with little trails leading to a cave or a gas station, a schoolyard or an observatory, all of it presented with the simple cheery look of a brightly filled-in coloring book. Come in, stay awhile and bask in the beauty of small-town life, it seems to say. Press play, however, and things get twisted, and not with the typical things-are-not-what-they-seem subversion. Indeed, the first sign that something is out of the norm comes from the word "feature."

There's not much to do in Virginia. I'm sitting in a diner watching as a waitress drops the bill on the table and my FBI partner gets up to leave. I pick up the bill, then – jump! I'm standing outside a house watching as a man opens the door and my partner holds up her badge. I hold up my own, then – jump!