September Grab Bag

Nuns! Knights! Labor Unions!

Watching

Apparition (2012)

[cw: sexual assault]

I always hold my breath when I watch movies about nuns, waiting to see if the filmmakers will do something stupid. (Benedetta will be the exception, since I already know that stupidity is Paul Verhoeven’s modus operandi.)

Isabel Sandoval’s second feature is set at a wooded convent in the Philippines in the ear…