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In honor of Beltane: a new podcast!

Hello! Yes, it’s been a while! Happy Beltane to you all.

May 3

In honor of Beltane: a new podcast!

May 3

Satanic Panic Redux

Hello folks!

Mar 7, 2023

Satanic Panic Redux

Mar 7, 2023

The Craft: Legacy is a featherlight reboot to a dark cult addiction

The cultural impact of the 1996 horror-thriller The Craft goes far beyond its status as a cool femme-goth paean to mid-1990s fashion and…

Oct 28, 2020

The Craft: Legacy is a featherlight reboot to a dark cult addiction

Oct 28, 2020

Watching The Witch with Two Actual Witches

(originally published on the A24 Film blog!)

Oct 27, 2020

Watching The Witch with Two Actual Witches

Oct 27, 2020

TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s…

Sep 18, 2020

TV Review: “Ratched” — A Sensational Sartorial Folly

Sep 18, 2020

The Awakening of Spring

Easter is a day of seasonal splendor for me. Raised Catholic as many witches were, Easter has always held a special magic of memory, in…

Apr 12, 2020

The Awakening of Spring

Apr 12, 2020

WATCH CLOSELY: Peg’s Pandemic Picks — Medieval Plague Edition

This new series will offer ideas for movies and series that have stories or themes at least marginally related to the pandemic we’re all…

Mar 19, 2020

WATCH CLOSELY: Peg’s Pandemic Picks — Medieval Plague Edition

Mar 19, 2020

The Latest “Dracula” is Bold and Bloody

This BBC/Netflix production is an audacious rekindling of the undying appeal of literature’s most famous vampire.

Jan 17, 2020

The Latest “Dracula” is Bold and Bloody

Jan 17, 2020

Actually…Witchcraft is Hard

My coven has a little framed bit of calligraphy hanging by the entrance door to our temple, hung there back in the 1970s I believe, that…

Jan 14, 2020

Actually…Witchcraft is Hard

Jan 14, 2020

WATCH CLOSELY: Stephen King is My Boyfriend — Hanging out at “Castle Rock”

If Castle Rock is intended to be a commentary on Trump’s not-so-great America, well, what better genre than horror to spread the angst?

Oct 21, 2019

Oct 21, 2019

Peg Aloi

Peg Aloi

The Media Witch is a multi-faceted writer, mainly a film/TV critic. She’s also a tree-hugging weirdo and badass bitch with a nice head o' hair.

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