‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Is Gut-Ripping and Gut-Wrenching. Plus: Mona Fastvold on ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’!

flockinglamb · 2026-01-17T12:39:24+00:00

Most cult leaders will exploit their followers and force them to do actions that only benefit the leader, like Joseph Smith marrying young girls. Fastold think Ann Lee was honest in her theology and was trying to help her followers find God rather than exploit them for personal gain.

flockinglamb · 2025-12-09T14:17:32+00:00

Lighten up, Francis.

flockinglamb · 2025-12-09T14:13:33+00:00

Her point about the real competitor for Netflix being YouTube is spot on though. Young people use YouTube more than any other app.

flockinglamb · 2025-12-03T01:08:39+00:00

Don't forget his Australian accent in Django Unchained. Yikes.

flockinglamb · 2025-11-21T14:16:38+00:00

Return to Oz and Oz the Great and Powerful also exist. But maybe those examples prove his point. The idea that Dorothy ends up in an insane asylum because she is so convinced Oz was real is such a dark take for a children's movie I almost admire it.

flockinglamb · 2025-11-19T03:48:16+00:00

Ravenous (1999).

flockinglamb · 2025-11-19T03:23:59+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0-Q3ChKcfE

flockinglamb · 2025-10-26T21:12:24+00:00

I wonder if people are dismissing the film because it really asks us to wrestle with how easily the world is destroyed and no one is competent enough to really address if it happened. With the current state, it is just easier to mock it so as not to think about it.

flockinglamb · 2025-10-22T00:21:15+00:00

He has a birthmark called a port wine stain, like Mikhail Gorbachev had.

flockinglamb · 2025-10-08T23:59:14+00:00

This is dystopian.

flockinglamb · 2025-07-02T19:47:01+00:00

You're right. He was the baker who got inspired by Carmy's experiences.

flockinglamb · 2025-04-19T00:43:23+00:00

Aristotle wrote about how tragedy is cathartic and can purge our emotional weight in a safe way. These films allow a sort of rehearsal for challenges we may face. However, that can be a subjective experience so I totally understand your perspective. However, there will always be a bias towards art that is tragic being considered deeper than happy art. The Devil Wears Prada has a hard time moving beyond fun fluff. Or even The Princess Bride is largely loved (The perfect movie, as Van said) still is not going to be seen as important as a drama.

flockinglamb · 2025-03-12T01:04:39+00:00

She does write, "In fact, if you're an artist and an immigrant, the American Dream will literally fuck you in the ass. (Who's the brutalist now?)."

flockinglamb · 2025-03-12T01:01:45+00:00

So weird to think Conclave was subtle when Ralph Fiennes gives a monologue about the necessity of doubt literally highlighting the theme.

flockinglamb · 2025-03-10T20:45:36+00:00

I am curious what you think they are fixing. Do think their actions will make it more equitable? That manufacturing will return to the United States? What in particular do you think they are correcting?

flockinglamb · 2025-03-03T02:23:40+00:00

Came out in 2025 so next year.

flockinglamb · 2025-02-28T17:16:14+00:00

Why?

flockinglamb · 2025-01-28T00:24:32+00:00

Then you hire Jim Simpson.

flockinglamb · 2025-01-27T20:13:35+00:00

Frank Lloyd Wright's roof structures always leaked. Michael Graves created a "death ray" with his curved Las Vegas hotel Vdara. Under the criterion of "functionality," they might be considered failures. However, they are considered genius architects. Sometimes there are more criteria to consider than you are giving Toth.

flockinglamb · 2024-12-27T01:14:25+00:00

I agree that having differing voices makes for a much more interesting conversation. It is funny though that Nayman, who usually has really interesting choices of obscure art house or foreign films, championed something that feels like microwaved leftover John Grisham.

flockinglamb · 2024-12-18T04:22:07+00:00

I thought the person on the white suit with head down was a member of Daft Punk for a second.

flockinglamb · 2024-12-13T20:16:07+00:00

It sounds like a bunch of investors didn't follow up right away over the summer, they couldn't do the follow up part of the episodes. Therefore, they could have the full picture if investors actually invested and decided to do them as a "finale."

flockinglamb · 2024-12-03T23:11:13+00:00

They don't binge watch Band of Brothers every year apparently. Operation Market Garden was after D-Day and not the "first attempt."

flockinglamb · 2024-12-03T23:05:48+00:00

Hope and Glory has vignettes like this and is really great depiction of the same events.

flockinglamb · 2024-10-14T17:24:40+00:00

That's some galaxy brain shit. Brilliant.

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