DAILY CALL SHEET: NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Calvaire (2004) A low rent lounge singer's car breaks down in the most backwoods rural setting France has to offer. The good news for our hero(?) is one of the locals offers to help. The really bad news is this leads to the gayest version of Misery one could imagine. Actually, the film seems to be asking what if male characters in movies were treated in the same manner many female characters are. The answer, apparently, is that things would quickly go out-of-control bonkers.

TIL: It probably goes without saying, but the Church considers kidnapping and hostage taking a great evil. Such actions are an offence against bodily integrity, something recognized by the Church as a nearly inviolable human right trumped by very little except for, in some instances, the right to life.

Fortress of Amerikkka (1989) Having served time for a crime he didn't commit, a Native American returns home to start a three-way war with the corrupt local police force and a backwoods militia full of social deviants. It's Rambo by way of Troma, with everything that studio name entails. That might be okay in small doses, but the filmmakers decided this thing needed to be a nearly two-hour opus because... I don't know, they hate you, I guess.

TIL: Decades before his death in Auschwitz, St. Maximilian Kolbe founded The Militia of the Immaculata. Rather than an amateur fighting force, backwoods or otherwise, it's a worldwide evangelization organization formed to encourage total consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary.