Karl E.H. Seigfried invites you to get your Halloween weekend started right with one of these horrific films, including THE DEVILS (1971), MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974), MARTIN (1977), and THE CHURCH (1989).
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Review: Nolan’s “The Odyssey” burns the world entire
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Christopher Nolan’s new film “The Odyssey,” which portrays the Homeric hero as haunted by war, loss, and a sense that he has betrayed the law of the gods.
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The Ink Has Always Been There: the Grammar of Exclusion in “Witch Hat Atelier”
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Beatrix Kondo examines Witch Hat Atelier, a manga and anime set in a world where magic is a craft that can be learned by anyone but has been carefully suppressed as “something you have to be born with” – and what that premise might say to modern Witches.
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: I Married a Witch
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“The witch in this story does not try to make it look natural,” writes Meg Elison of this 1942 classic. “She doesn’t play fair, split the difference, or win graciously for the sake of appearances. She wins utterly.”
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Tarot at My Table and in Popular Culture
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“As I dig deeper into cartomancy,” writes Meg Elison, “I remember all the times that the dread revelations of the cards have shown up in stories I’ve loved. Tarot is often misused, represented not only inaccurately, but incorrectly.”