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Well, for a start that presupposes getting married means certain things. It doesn’t necessarily. Even though we know the facts of what happened to them, in no way does that explain what happened. You can’t make any assumptions about this. Virginia, just before she died said: there was never any love in the relationship, he forced me to have sex with him. So who do you believe? Everyone seems to go, "Oh well they got married so that means XY and Z." It doesn’t. We will discover what is in that when we get there. I know why they got married and it wasn’t on the surface anything to do with love. … [Read more...] about Michael Sheen’s Masterful Study of Sex and Insecurity

From its depiction of rugged, hard-boiled men embarking on Conrad-ian odysseys into figurative wombs, to its ominously austere aesthetics and its overarching view of mankind’s bestiality, Hold the Dark confirms that Saulnier would have been an ideal fit for True Detective (whose third season he was supposed to spearhead, before departing after clashes with series creator Nic Pizzolatto). Also making one think that—an extended shootout between law enforcement and one of Vernon’s compatriots that’s defined by spatially coherent staging and startling butchery. Like in Blue Ruin, revenge factors into these proceedings, but only to a point, as the filmmakers gradually transform their scenario (initially reminiscent of like-minded efforts such as The Grey and Wind River) into a forlorn meditation on our basest instincts—and our capacity to transcend them. … [Read more...] about Netflix’s Bone-Chilling New Survivalist Thriller Is as Bloody as It Is Beautiful

The New York Times wrote a piece Thursday morning with the title, "How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror." The subhead read this way: "There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drown souls for them to deny knowing precisely what they are doing." … [Read more...] about Tucker Carlson: Our leadership class is fanning racial flames. They’re doing nothing to calm the situation

President Trump has since signed an Executive Order aimed at tackling the social media giants’ “unchecked power to censor restrict, edit shape hide alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences.” … [Read more...] about Twitter Censors Trump Minneapolis Tweet, Accuses Him of ‘Glorifying Violence’

Just one day after Breitbart News reported that Twitter had failed to “fact check” Chinese accounts promoting conspiracy theories about the Wuhan coronavirus, Twitter has applied a “fact check” label to two posts by China Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian that were included in Breitbart’s report on the platform’s failure to hold the communist nation to account for its misinformation on the Chinese virus. … [Read more...] about Twitter Finally ‘Fact Checks’ Chinese Government Account’s Coronavirus Misinformation