The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/culture/film-and-television-reviews)
The Wild Hunt offers reviews of TV and Films that either feature depictions of, or may be of interest to, Pagans, Wiccans, Witches, Heathens, and other polytheists. Whether it’s the latest Netflix or Amazon Prime series, a summer blockbuster, indie film, or network offering, you’ll find it here!
“The 50’s, for all their historical patina, were an age of post-war innovation: the mixer, the slow cooker, the top load dishwasher,” writes Lauren Parker in her review of this favorite of Witch cinema. “And for more than just these appliances: the invention of the nuclear family and its purity.”
Meg Elison turns her ribald and incisive attentions to George Miller’s 1987 classic of sex and magic. “Worse movies than this one have attempted to make a proper dicking down into something that can change a woman’s life; at least this one makes the idea worthwhile.”
Eric O. Scott reviews three classic Disney shorts with mythological themes: “Playful Pan,” “King Neptune,” and “The Goddess of Spring.” Produced between 1930 and 1934, each cartoon represents a different approach to myth and film-making.
“Magic ain’t got nothing to do with organs and glands and busted necks,” says Merlin. “Magic got to do with the soul. Only the soul got destiny. It’s got a way, it’s got to fly.”
Noelle Bowles examines Ryan Coogler’s hit film “Sinners,” speaking with Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and scholar of Hoodoo, about how this story of vampires and the blues in the Jim Crow south faithfully incorporates Hoodoo and rootworking.
“Looking at where the word ‘coven’ comes from, we start with ‘convenire,’ a verb meaning to come together,” writes Meg Elison in this searing reappraisal of the 1968 classic. “When a woman comes together with the devil, we get ‘Rosemary’s Baby.'”
