“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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Review: “Wake Up Dead Man” is Rian Johnson’s caper of redemption and religious leadership
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Luke Babb reviews the new Benoit Blanc film and discovers that, in the midst of a murder mystery steeped in Catholic imagery, there is a lot to consider about the role of clergy in modern Paganism.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Magic, Paganism, and the Witch Who Refuses to Break
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“‘No good deed goes unpunished,'” writes Erick DuPree after seeing the new film Wicked: For Good. “The song had always been powerful, but in Erivo’s hands it felt like something older than Oz, older than Broadway, older even than the myth itself.”
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Review: The Carpenter’s Son
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“The premise, a Biblical horror film exploring Jesus’s adolescence, is apparently treated by some as shocking,” writes Manny Tejeda Moreno. “To me, that simply confirms they’ve never read the Bible.”
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Pagan Hauntology
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As we officially enter the Season of the Witch, The Wild Hunt welcomes Gavin Fox, who examines the ways Witches, Pagans, and other occult communities were depicted in documentaries of the 1970s through 90s.
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Pagan Cinema Classics: The Witches of Eastwick
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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.”