I (31 genderfluid Utah) am a baby pagan. I have my disability hearing tomorrow. I'd like to pray and make an offering before the hearing
I don't know who would be relevant here or how to work with them
Any advice?
Examples:
Blade (1998)
Underworld (2003)
Van Helsing (2004)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Resident Evil (2002)
And as slight edge cases: The Matrix (1999) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
When I can't move and can't even think, I usually just watch educational YouTube videos, so I don't feel like I'm wasting my life.
Every time I watch a kung fu movie, I think "this is awesome"
But I've only seen movies like Love Hurts (2025) or Jackpot (2024). I haven't even seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
So I figure I might as well go back to the classics of the genre and go watch the great kung fu movies
What is the best that kung fu has to offer?
I just barely got into anime, and I feel like I have a huge blind spot in my understanding of the world and its art forms. I feel like there are all these anime that everyone else has seen like Akira, Pokémon, and Dragonball Z that I just missed out on. I'm making a list of what to watch. What are the anime that even if someone doesn't like anime, you're genuinely surprised they haven't seen a single episode of it?
I'm talking about physical items. For example, I use a trash picker so I don't have to bend over to pick stuff up
I have a huge gap in my film knowledge, a lot of movies that it seems like everyone has seen and I haven't. Movies like Star Wars (1977) or The Little Mermaid (1989)
I want to fill in that gap in my film knowledge
I couldn't find it on JustWatch or Interlibrary Loan, and I can't even pirate it
Transfer is David Cronenberg's first short film, and you can really tell. It shows.
I'm not saying that it's bad. It is bad. But like, the movie came out in 1966. And he made it when he was a decade younger than me. Yeah it's going to have some technical limitations to it.
No, the reason you can tell this is his short film is because he really hasn't figured out who he is as a filmmaker yet or what he wants to say, because this movie has nothing to do with bodies. It has nothing to do with gods. It has nothing to do with horror.
It is a Brechtian dialogue between a man and his psychiatrist, and it is pretty clear that they are gay lovers who broke up recently, and the man is trying to get back with the psychologist.
And to be fair, there's a little bit of Cronenberg in there. Cronenberg's movies have been queer for a very long time, although there are very few queer characters in those films. His characters are weirdly straight, but the films are weirdly queer. And yeah, he likes therapy, I guess?
But this feels more like something that was given as a college assignment than it does as a passion project or as something that he even wrote.
It does feature a lot of his visual style though: this very practical, pragmatic, straightforward visual style that will just show you what you need to see.
It's also weirdly surrealist though, in a way that does not fit the rest of his work. The two main characters are out in the snow out in the middle of nowhere interacting with things that shouldn't be there, with things that don't belong in the snow in the middle of nowhere.
It's just strange that this movie came out from this man. It's also a strange movie. It's on YouTube, link below: https://youtu.be/IWqm0yGMXJ8?si=s5OPrT4gRnC72DFT