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I thought I'd share this interview for the Friday the 13th fans. McLoughlin has a script for the 13th Friday the 13th movie. With the rights situation, it probably won't get made anytime soon, but it sounds awesome.

The Devils is a 1971 Warner Bros. movie, directed, written and produced by Ken Russell. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave star, with support from Dudley Sutton. It is an adaptation of The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley and John Whiting’s 1960 play, The Devils. The movie was mainly shot at Pinewood Studios, London. It received an X rating in the U.K. and U.S. Several countries banned the movie or extensively edited it prior to release. The Vatican condemned the picture. Among the contemporary, negative reviews, Roger Ebert gave it zero stars. It won best director at the Venice International Film Festival and from the National Board of Review. It made $11-million in rentals.

Set during the plague, Reed plays Urbain Grandier, a Catholic priest and romancer in Loudun, France. Grandier gets a woman pregnant and leaves her, starting his myriad of troubles. He is also the obsession of Redgrave’s Sister Jeanne, a mother-superior nun who catches one glimpse of Grandier from her convent and begins having sexually charged visions involving the priest. Meanwhile, a baron, played by Sutton, comes to Loudun and begins tearing down its fortifications on orders from King Louis XIII (played by Graham Armitage) and Cardinal Richeleau (played by Christopher Logue). When Reed’s character puts a stop to the destruction of Loudun’s fortifications, the baron makes it his duty to ruin Grandier.

The Devils is based on a true story. I had never heard of the Loudun possessions before. Based on my preliminary research, it seems that The Devils sticks mostly to the facts of the 1634 witchcraft trial. History is often a lot darker than we like to imagine.

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I so badly wanted to defend this show, but here we are.

Plaguing might be too strong a word, but Beef has been, at the very least, festering on low heat for way too long. As in, it's just existed on my Netflix recommended list ever since I watched the first season back in 2023. Now, I am quite the sucker when it comes to random titles, and this one definitely caught my eye. I liked the sound of it, that two people simply have beef with each other and there is no way around it. The only resolution is for the situation to gratituously escalate and combust. It seemed like a simple, solid story that would tie together in the end. No complications. No random side quests that bloat the main storyline and slowly reduce its impact. To be fair, the show did begin that way. It introduced two characters, Amy (Ali Wong) and Danny (Steven Yeun), who get into a bit of a road rage debacle and things just get worse and worse from that point on.

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