written by award—winning australian screenwriter catherine s mcmullen and eye—catchingly shot in county wicklowarcy may marlene and, more recently, midsommar in its convincing evocation of the everyday madness of cult life, cut off from the mainstream society which shepherd describes as broken. do you remember when he used to look at us like that? but like the handmaid's tale, to which this also owes a debt, there are echoes, too, of the more familiar world in its depiction of a charismatic male charlatan leader proclaiming his own divinity while lauding it up over his followers, inflicting his clearly self—serving beliefs upon women he claims to revere but actually enslaves, exploits and abuses. sounds familiar? you can decide for yourself by watching the other lamb in cinemas or on mubi. my twins will be 18 next month. they have absolutely no idea what it means to have a father in the house. what fathers even do. i'll leave you with news of another documentary, this one available in select cinemas and on amazon prime video. focusing on an african—american family torn apart by imprisonment, ti