All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

Posted on December 15, 2011 by newworldwitchery

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, directed by Tim Rutili (IndiePix Films, 2010) The supernatural has never seemed so…natural. In this outstanding independent film from director (and bit player/musician) Tim Rutili, a lonely fortune-teller and magical worker named Zel (played by the radiant Angela Bettis) lives in an old country house inhabited by a wide [...]

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American Mystic

Posted on December 15, 2011 by newworldwitchery

American Mystic, directed by Alex Mar (Empire 8 Productions, 2010) Spiritual documentaries are tricky things. They can come across as editorializing and biased; shallow puff-pieces; or overly-detached and sterile. When fringe spirituality enters the picture, the tendency is to become sensational and turn the entire film into a circus sideshow where the audience is just [...]

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Magical Fall TV Preview

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Sarah Lawless

Fall is just around the corner and with it comes the usual slew of new tv series. Let’s take a look at what magic you can find inside your television set once the wheel of the year has turned to the coolness and falling leaves of autumn. Will they be worth getting your hopes up [...]

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Nanny McPhee

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Sarah Lawless

Directed by Kirk Jones based on the books by Christianna Brand (2005). Nanny McPhee is a silly and entertaining children’s movie about a widowed father of seven children who must marry within a month or lose the allowance from his deceased wife’s aunt that keeps he and the children out of the poor house. The [...]

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Ten Scary Movies for Samhain

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Sarah Lawless

Still from “Trick ‘r Treat” (2009) If you are a lover of gory slashers and torture porn like the Saw movies, the films on this list may not be so scary to you. But, if you like a good story, a good thrill, a good chill down your spine, and a little necromancy and witchcraft [...]

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The Secret of Kells

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Sarah Lawless

Directed by: Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey Written by: Tomm Moore & Fabrice Ziolkowski North American Release Date: Oct 2010 Website: www.thesecretofkells.com This Oscar-nominated multiple award-winning animated film is set in a remote medieval monastery in Ireland. The story is a fictional account of the creation of The Book of Kells – the book that [...]

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Eastwick

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Sarah Lawless

Eastwick is a new TV series based on The Witches of Eastwick novel by John Updike and the subsequent movie with Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pheiffer, and Susan Sarandon. The season premiere was on last night (Sept. 23rd) at 10pm on ABC. The new cast has Rebecca Romijn, Lindsey Price, and Jaime Ray Newman as [...]

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True Blood

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Sarah Lawless

Based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, the True Blood TV series is sexy wild ride into a world where vampires and humans coexist, vampires having won legal rights to be accepted members of society after a Japanese scientist invents synthetic blood. Despite their status as fellow citizens, vampires are still persecuted and [...]

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The Real Witch Project

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Sarah Lawless

Are you a dabbler? Are you a seeker? Do you want to know what it would be like to move beyond these phases and dive into practicing witchcraft? If you’ve ever been curious whether magic really works or not or if it can be beneficial to our normal mundane lives as well as spiritual, this [...]

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Rome

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Sarah Lawless

Rome ~ The Complete First Two Seasons HBO Home Video, 2006-2007 If you are a pagan and have not heard of or watched Rome yet, you must – it is soooooo good, even better than you can possibly imagine. HBO gave the producers free reign and a lot of money to reconstruct the Roman world [...]

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