In Bugonia, power always says "please"
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest movie is a psychedelic nightmare about the ways the powerful use social niceties to pacify their own consciences, writes Lily Osler.
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Why The Amazing Digital Circus could have used better worldbuilding
"Worldbuilding" isn't a dirty word; it's how you make a story feel emotionally real.