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!
“Nearly everyone in this film is obsessed with the Rome that was, where the emperor was a scholar instead of a syphilitic club kid in a toga,” writes Meg Elison in her review of Ridley Scott’s new film. “It is much easier to complain about a bad government than to build one that works. See Virgil for more on this. See Hannah Arendt. See Marija Gimbutas. See all of human history. See the news.”
Meg Elison reviews 2009’s animated film The Secret of Kells, which draws inspiration from the recently-digitized Book of Kells, a fabulously illuminated edition of the gospels. But while the film is set at a Christian monastery, it is full of encounters with Paganism, and these encounters are what will draw viewers back to the film again and again.
“When I was a teenage zealot, I used to imagine what television might be like in a world that was primarily Pagan,” writes Meg Elison. “I’ll never see that world, but this year a small window opened on it. Over the last week, I got acquainted with two Netflix shows about the Pagan world as it might have been: KAOS and Twilight of the Gods.”
“Well-written, superbly acted, and satisfyingly paced,” writes Storm Faerywolf, “Kaos is a funny, intelligent, witty, and thought-provoking tale of conflict, love, death, and what it means to be a human in a world full of gods. Definitely binge-worthy.”
Starve Acre is domestic horror only in the sense that Britain itself is the domicile. Dig just a few inches into the soil and a riot of irrational myth and impossible happenings is always just below this family’s feet.
Much like ceremonial magic, where ritual tools such as swords embody the practitioner’s control over the mind and spirit, He-Man’s sword does more than grant him physical power — it bestows wisdom and responsibility.
