The years between puberty and adulthood can be exciting and difficult,” wrote Silver RavenWolf in 1998. No one would have agreed with her more vociferously than Louise Miller, protagonist of 1989’s most tubular film: Dorian Walker’s Teen Witch.
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Practical Magic
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Meg Elison reviews a film that she argues is tonally dissonant, incoherent, and rambling – and also perfect. It’s 1998’s “Practical Magic,” starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, in today’s Classics of Pagan Cinema!
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Chocolat
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Meg Elison combines the folk magic of Lasse Hallström’s 2000 romance “Chocolat” with her own memories of coming to Witchcraft – and coming to terms with her mother.
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Calamities in Pagan Cinema: “The Covenant” (2006)
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“The Covenant” seemed like it was made to be the boys’ own answer to “The Craft.” But the film is too caught up in its own broken masculinity to begin to offer a coherent vision of magic – much less a coherent film.
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The Best of the Weekend Section, 2023
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the best of the weekend section from 2023’s offerings in The Wild Hunt, including the most popular article of the year, Meg Elison’s “Barbie is the new Inanna.”
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The Pagan King: a Latvian medieval epic loaded with Pagan imagery
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This is not a subtle film. This is like Game of Thrones without a hint of subtlety and stranger accents.