Arts & Culture
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.
Arts & Culture
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.
Arts & Culture
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.”
Arts & Culture
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.
Arts & Culture
The Diary of A Queer Timelord
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As a child, I imagined myself in these stories with the funny, out-of-place man. I identified with him because I also felt out of place, and his not-typically masculine demeanor felt safe and somehow familiar to me. As a queer adult, I can now see myself represented in these stories even more clearly, a validation that I didn’t know was needed.