Wonkette Movie Night: The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
Happy Wonkette Movie Night One Year Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary, Movie Night fans!
It's been one year of Movie Nights and we're watching the first film that started it all. The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert(1994.) What started as a group of us snarking over a movie became something much more, thank you all for making it what it is, two hours away from the world, laughing with friends and releasing stress, here's to another great year!
Make sure to always look for the Wonkette Movie Night mascot, Axl the kitty in the movie posters.
Starring Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp and Guy Pearce. Directed by Stephan Elliott. Available for free on Prime, with ads on Tubi and Pluto TV and for $3.99 in all the usual places. Got your popcorn? Enjoy!
Movie Night info can always be found here .
Yes, and no, and yes? It seems to be consensus among historians that Christianity served as a unifying force when the Roman Empire really needed one or would have collapsed altogether. But it's also a force that made it a lot harder for Romans to deal intelligently and fairly with their neighbors, so hostility flourished where maybe it didn't need to. If some other unifying force had been used, one that didn't lean so heavily into the inferiority of outsiders, then maybe Rome would have stood a better chance.
But I will observe that the Eastern Roman Empire survived nearly a thousand years past the Western Roman Empire, so Christianity didn't do the Romans in, not in the East anyway.
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