mum and i saw it over the weekend.
haven’t stopped talking about it yet!
so much going on, we may go see it again.
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The Hoodoo vs Christianity thing and calling it a controversy seems at best clickbait. I do think there’s space for discussions around those elements in the film, but without getting into it all i can say is that as it is presented in the article its mostly overblown. Watch the movie and enjoy it, stay away from spoilers 
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Bingo.
I watched a trailer but knew very little about it before watching and i am decidedly thankful for that because there are jaw dropping scenes which i knew nothing about.
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I got to the movie as cold as i could possibly hope for. I didn’t even know the movie existed 
my partner was excited and got the tickets and just told me it was a vampire movie.
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[experiences befuddlement]
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I didn’t even know it was a vampire movie when I went to see it. Literally the only thing I knew was it was written and directed by Ryan Coogler, and starred Michael B. Jordan. I hadn’t even seen a trailer. Best way to watch that movie. I may go for a rewatch.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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No prob, I gathered that you were answering teknocholer’s question. I shouldn’t have assumed in that glasses post that everyone would get the reference.
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Lower priced, I’d guess.
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Technically not a question, just a report on my usual morning frame of mind.
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We’re watching the one season of a show from the early 1970s called The Starlost… It was created by Harlan Ellison, with a pretty high concept, a group of young people wandering around an ark ship that is carrying the last of humanity, but the ship is on a collision course with a star, but the young people have no idea how to save it, since they were raised in an isolated dome where they were living like the Amish… an accident had sealed off the domes and they all lost knowledge of what they were doing on that ship (and didn’t even realize they were not a ship)… it’s… not great. Not great acting, not great special effects… some good stories, though (adventure of the week kind of thing). One was based on an Ursula K. LeGuin story… And Ben Bova was involved in some way.
The lead actor keeps forgetting his lines, I think… he’ll stop in the middle of a sentence and then deliver the rest of the line… It’s fun for what it is, though. I think with a good cast and some real money, you could make a good series of it today.
Also watching the Apothecary Diaries…
Which I’m also enjoying. Set in the Forbidden City among the Concubines in the Rear Palace. The protagonist was kidnapped and sold to the palace as a laborer, but is an apothecary who worked for a brothel, so she ends up being made into a lady-in-waiting to deploy her talents there. A nice measure of funny, historical intrigue, and some simmering romance…
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Now that we have a Pope…
A little bittersweet movie about Hope over adversities and the Power of the dreams. Ok. It is about a smugler who wants to make easy money providing sanitáry services to Brazilian pilgrims when the Pope visited His hometown.
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Can’t let a reference to The Starlost pass without mentioning Ben Bova’s The Starcrossed. Dedicated to Cordwainer Bird (IYKYK).
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#1 is… well, #1.
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