Culture
James Hood’s Mesmerica XL and Audiovisual Meditations
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Alan U. Dalul reviews his experience with James Hood’s Mesmerica XL, an audiovisual guided meditation experience, and finds that while the concept is brilliant, the execution falters.
Arts & Culture
James Hood’s Mesmerica XL y las meditaciones audiovisuales
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Alan U. Dalul revisa su experiencia con una experiencia audiovisual de meditación guiada llamada la Mesmerica XL de James Hood, y descubre que si bien el concepto es brillante, la ejecución falla.
Arts & Culture
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.