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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Practical Magic

By Meg Elison | March 3, 2024

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!

Arts & Culture

Calamities in Pagan Cinema: “The Covenant” (2006)

By Meg Elison | January 28, 2024

“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.