Unchosen review – Asa Butterfield’s creepy cult show is a total waste of all this talent | Television

Unchosen review – Asa Butterfield’s creepy cult show is a total waste of all this talent | Television

Unchosen is set on this planet of a Christian splinter sect. Everyone lives merely in grace and concord, following Christ’s instructing of peace and love for all humankind, with women and men sharing equally in home and different labour. They exist as shining lights for what is doable once you put aside the patriarchal nonsense…

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‘I have to betray them to save them’: how undercover film-makers exposed a sinister polygamous cult | Documentary

‘I have to betray them to save them’: how undercover film-makers exposed a sinister polygamous cult | Documentary

Film-making results change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former investigative journalist for Frontline, will testify to that. “These films that I’m making,” says Dretzin, “that other documentarians are making, are often more effective than the legal system at effecting change; psychological change and also sometimes systemic and criminal change.” But the impression film-making has in Trust…

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Ashes from Pompeii: incense burners, residue analyses and domestic cult practices | Antiquity

Ashes from Pompeii: incense burners, residue analyses and domestic cult practices | Antiquity

Introduction In AD 79, the Roman metropolis of Pompeii and its hinterland had been buried beneath thick layers of ash and lapilli (small volcanic fragments) following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Beneath this volcanic cowl, different sorts of ashes had been additionally preserved, together with the burnt natural materials contained inside two terracotta vessels recovered…

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