Well, this is a weird turn. We had heard a couple months back that Lena Dunham would have a role in the upcoming clownsandTrump smorgasbord of American Horror Story. Click here for Tanyas bio. Click here for Tanyas blog. Star Trek Star Cross Part 2 Tall, blonde Amazon confounds perception, Haughty eyes bespeak superior race. Its hard to look at the movieor any of Cassinis hauntingly beautiful imagesand not think of something appropriately morose for its Grand Finale. Read all the hottest movie news. Get all the latest updates on your favorite movies from new releases to timeless classics, get the scoop on Moviefone. Yahoo Lifestyle is your source for style, beauty, and wellness, including health, inspiring stories, and the latest fashion trends. Greetings, my Westerosi window envelopes As you can probably guess, last weeks episode of Game of Thronesand its increasing dominance over the pop culture. Get the latest Rolling Stone new music news, song and album reviews, free music downloads, artist videos pictures, playlists and more. Cult Movie Clips Toy Story Of Terror! Cult Movie Clips Toy Story Of Terror! Lena Dunham Plays the Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol on American Horror Story Cult, Because Why Not. Well, this is a weird turn. We had heard a couple months back that Lena Dunham would have a role in the upcoming clowns and Trump smorgasbord of American Horror Storys seventh season. Now we know who shes playing Valerie Solanas, a feminist writer and actress who shot Andy Warhol in 1. The information comes from last nights FX premiere screening of the new seasons first three episodes. Entertainment Weeklys dispatch from the event contains a lot of information about the upcoming series, including Dunhams odd historical turn. For the non history buffs in the room, let me explain in 1. Valerie Solanas, a denizen of New York City, published the SCUM Manifesto, a legendary incendiary radical feminist text which exhorted its readers to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex. Ribbit Movie Out. The next year, after Andy Warhol declined to produce a play she wrote, Solanas went to his studio and shot him, along with art critic Mario Amaya. Both survived. After her arrest, Solanas was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was sentenced to three years in prison, briefly flirting with the mainstream feminist movement upon her release before fading into obscurity. Talking to EW, showrunner Ryan Murphy tied her crime to the cult of personality around Warhol, and thus to the themes of the season. She felt denied the cult of personality that was Warhol and the Factory at the time, he said. Warhol himself will be played by series regular Evan Peters, who will embody a number of cult leaders throughout the season, including Charles Manson, along with his turn as the famed artist. Im not sure I entirely agree with Murphys read of Solanass actions, but Im fascinated in seeing the results anyway. You can never accuse Murphy of not being ostentatious. What do you think Im torn this is either weird stunt casting, or its brilliant. Either way, American Horror Story Cult hits FX on September 5th. Entertainment Weekly. A Cult Simulator Where You Sacrifice People To A Lovecraftian God. As spring ended in the village, I was left with a tough choice. Which sin made someone more worthy of death embezzlement or kleptomania The Shrouded Isle had turned me into a shrewd cult leader. In The Shrouded Isle, released last Friday on PC, and Mac, you lead a small village whose residents all belong to a cult. The god they worship demands a sacrifice each season. As leader, you appoint a member of each of the villages five major families to be your advisor each season. Each month, you assign three of these advisors to encourage the tenets of the society, such as ignorance, obedience or religious fervor. During the course of the season youll find discover traits that will raise these qualities faster for instance, a particularly violent advisor will boost your obedience. Youll also discover their sins, which is important, because at the end of the season, one of these people have to die. Balancing the sins and virtues of your advisors is challenging, but as I played I found how dark it was compelling. When you sacrifice an advisor, their family reacts to it. You must balance their approval of the way youre running the town, lest they become rebellious. If the sacrificed advisors sins arent bad enough, their family will be angry at you. Sometimes youll be at the end of the month and not have a single advisor with a major sin, and youll ask yourself, Is it worth pissing off this family because their son is a flirt Or should I sacrifice this familys daughter for being too imaginativeThe presentation of the game enhances the mood. The illustrations evoke woodblock prints, and the chilling music is heavy on the foreboding cellos. I especially liked the incidental writing. Each time you mouse over a member of a family, you learn a small fact about them. One character, you learn, lost their tongue as child, while another fell in their youth and never quite recovered. Its difficult to juggle everything you need to win in The Shrouded Isle, but I guess running a cult isnt easy. Over the course of my playthrough, I grew pretty attached to my characters. When I found a particularly fervent or obedient advisor, Id pick them again and again. When I uncovered a rebel, I delighted in sacrificing them. My attachment to these characters also managed to make my losses as satisfying as my wins. Sure, you may not have kept your village ignorant, but that means all the characters youve met over the course of the game have broken free. Im still gunning on meeting our god, Chernobog, and Im weirdly excited to feed him all the sinners he needs.