The Christian hate group One Million Moms (Twitter count: 4,202) has issued an apology after prematurely celebrating the cancellation of the cartoon Little Demon. For months now, Monica Cole, the one mom associated with the group, has been waging a war on the Disney/FXX cartoon series. The show is about a girl named Chrissy and her […]
Film/TV
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The bizarre history of the ‘Norm of the North’ Twitter account
Corporate twitter handles are usually grotesque, cringey mouthpieces that try to pass off unfettered capitalism as “companies are people just like you.” Whether it’s KFC tweeting that it’s “Morbin’ Time!” or Greyhound tweeting “Spoiler Alert: The Best Seat is Every Seat” between responding to furious customers asking why rain is coming through the roof of […]
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Texas mom: ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ will make you ‘fall victim to the schemes of hell’
Congratulations to KWTX in Texas for finding the most insane Christian mom in the community, convincing her it was a good idea to appear on camera so she could tell viewers that the biggest threat to their children was the movie Hocus Pocus 2, and then making sure the camera was fully zoomed in on […]
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Prominent atheists claim problem with ‘Jihad Rehab’ film is ‘identity politics’
Jihad Rehab, a new documentary focusing on Islamic extremism, is getting attention and criticism after its recent premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, but some of the most defensive reactions are coming from prominent atheists who refuse to dig into the nuance. The film (now called The UnRedacted) takes place inside a Saudi Arabian rehabilitation […]
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Review: ‘Pearl’ and ‘Blonde’: great horror films, misleading marketing
If you stuck around through the end credits of Ti West’s retro slasher X this past spring, you were treated to a campy teaser advertising Pearl, a prequel promising the origin story of that film’s horny, homicidal antagonist gamely played by Mia Goth (who also plays X’s aspiring adult film star Maxine. X is a […]
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Pastor Greg Locke whines after ‘Shadowland’ filmmaker quotes him accurately
On Wednesday, NBC’s streaming service Peacock released a six-part documentary series called Shadowland in which a team led by filmmaker Joe Berlinger shadows people responsible for and affected by various conspiracy theories. From that vantage point, the show “reveals how conspiracy theories have moved from the margins to the mainstream, exploring how people come to […]
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Movie Review: “God’s Not Dead 3”
For your movie streaming pleasure, here’s my review of #3 in the “God’s Not Dead” movie franchise series. While it did poorly financially, the script was an improvement on its predecessors.
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The Rings of Power, and why fantasy dialogue is just terrible
“The same wind that seeks to blow out a fire may also cause it to spread.” “There can be no trust between hammer and rock. Eventually one or the other must surely break.” “For, unlike the stone, her gaze is not downward, but up.“ Behold, some examples of dialogue from the new Amazon Prime series […]
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The Rehearsal: How Nathan Fielder found religious fundamentalism
Nathan Fielder’s new show The Rehearsal covers myriad topics, including secrets, emotional repression, social anxiety, connecting with other human beings, and parenthood. As with many Fielder projects, it’s meta-textual and voyeuristic in a way that breeds deep discomfort in the viewer. It’s a comedy show that lives on cringey moments where we watch people who […]
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Why a Black Targaryen makes more sense than a white Jesus
If your orbit includes Amazon Prime, HBO, and social media, you may well be aware of a whole lot of fuss being kicked up in terms of casting decisions. It has come to the horror of many fantasy fiction literalists that recent TV prequels to The Lord of the Rings and The Game of Thrones […]