it's a must-see for any Henson Heads. It's also a fantastic, over-the-top performance by Houston, so it's a must-see for any Houston Heads. A film that's probably more enjoyable for adults than children, it's still a gleefully nasty classic that leans into some great witch tropes...
Witchcraft, that most spectacular of spiritual pursuits, has become mere spectacle, devoid of ritual, devoid of magic, devoid of spiritual intent. And while I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with adopting some of witchcraft’s imagery or tropes to try and enhance whatever you’r...
Departing from the typical narrative, Tintera casts women as the “villains” instead of men, disrupting traditional roles, expectations, and tropes with a magical flourish. Her entertaining prickly narrative crackles with energy, punctuated by sharp comebacks, and commentary with a hint of satire. ...
Soon after, Maximoff became overwhelmed by immense grief from her recent personal losses, unwittingly unleashing her Chaos Magic powers to enthrall the citizens of Westview into creating an alternate idyllic paradise of classical sitcom tropes. With a recreated Vision as her husband, Maximoff lived her...
Given the nature of the tropes that are dealt with, it is argued that the series revisits the Female Gothic, hence updating its transgressive potential and its subversive features.Lopes, ElisabeteAt the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Fort Salem,and the teasedHBO MaxHarry Potterlive-action series, television has been teeming with magical plotlines. Many of these series pull from various influences and employ similar tropes as the films listed below, but these movies are guaranteed to send shivers down your spine well before Oc...
But following her work onWandaVision, theAgatha All Alongopportunity enabled her to take a deeper look at witches and witchy tropes both positive and negative. “We wanted to get into the villainy of witches, but also the beauty and the tribalism ended up being everything I wanted to discuss...
A little-seen Aussie found footage feature that deserves closer examination and deeper respect, Joel Anderson’s first (and still only) film combines classic horror tropes (a haunted house!) with some wrenching family drama (what if it was your dead sister haunting said house?) and adds in ...
More soap opera like goings on, someone up to no good and the usual Hallmark channel tropes.Certainly better than the 6th film but not reaching the heights of it's origin movie I'm glad that this is it.Well, when I say this is it they merely changed format and moved from movies to...
One of Wanda's most prevalent tropes in the early days featured her losing control, and needing to be taken out/fixed by her brother and/or the rest of the Avengers. The second of these stories came in a combined tale called "Darker Than Scarlet" in the pages of Avengers We...