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That's about the level of sensitivity on display in the documentary. One of the vignettes is about a woman who is murdered by an abusive husband after having an affair with someone she met online. Meanwhile, one of the church members featured prominently in the film is raising three kids alone after his wife left him

If you'd like a more seasonal riff on that, there's a documentary called Hell House from 2001 by George Ratliff that's about an evangelical Christian community in Texas that stages a hell house designed to scare people into being saved by Jesus. There's a bizarre juxtaposition between the absurd vignettes in the house

If I was in his shoes, I'd have probably ordered a drone strike on Fox News HQ years ago.

If nothing else, I think the time he trolled the Westboro Baptist Church with a pink bus called the Sodomobile may be the best thing ever. I thought Fred Phelps was going to cry.

I've been trying to convince my local art house to do this for years.

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I think Strangelove is the superior film, but the tension and dread of Fail-Safe really work for me.

Don't stub your toe on that low bar.

I don't think that's off the table. Veronica Deane could be a stage name, and if Barry's mid-30s to early-40s, his teen mom could now be an aging movie starlet.

This one is more like stick-figure people behaving in ways that don't make sense in order to create semi-clever gotcha moments. It's the kind of thing I'd probably need to watch a second time to really get all the machinations, but I don't care nearly enough about the characters or the story to do so.