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Aaron North eases his dirty silver truck onto Sunset Boulevard and tells me how this is going to go. “I don’t want to be interrogated,” he says on this mid-summer night, sliding into Hollywood traffic

Suppose you’ve been asked to write a science-fiction story. You might start by contemplating the future. You could research anticipated developments in science, technology, and society and ask how the

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By Angela Morrison · Published on June 1st, 2017 David Lynch is one of the most distinctive directors in film history. His visuals, themes, narratives, and soundtracks are instantly recognizable and h

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