A Completely Pagan View
I’m sure you will all get sick of me rattling on about “Pan’s Labyrinth” soon (if not already), but this recent interview with writer/director Guillermo Del Toro bears mentioning. In it Del Toro talks...
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My semi-regular round-up of articles, essays, and opinions of note for discerning Pagans and Heathens. A group of Pagans and other well-wishers gather in the UC Berkeley campus to celebrate the one...
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Movie Review: Pan’s Labyrinth
When a film gains as much critical acclaim as Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth has you go in with high hopes. Was the film worth the hype, or will I leave disappointed? I felt a little nervous,...
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The Very Best and Worst of Pagan Film
This weekend the very best, and worst, in film will be celebrated. On Sunday, the 79th Academy Awards (The Oscars) will be handed out to those films thought to be the very best of the past year, and...
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The Academy Awards
Last night was the 79th annual Academy Awards. While others were grousing about their Oscar burn-out (which tells me they are paying too much attention to the Hollywood promotional machine), I found...
View ArticleAccepting Monsters Into Our Hearts
Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, takes a look at the broad religious appeal of the film “Pan’s Labyrinth”. “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which won three Oscars, is not explicit...
View ArticleA Few Quick News Notes
If you are looking for more religious commentary on the passing of Jerry Falwell, I urge you to check out the On Faith blog panelists, where you can hear opinions ranging from fawning to critical (no...
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Guillermo del Toro’s Fairy War
Life has been good for director Guillermo del Toro lately. His 2006 film “Pan’s Labyrinth” was widely acclaimed by critics (winning three Academy Awards), and he was recently tapped to direct the two...
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Movie Review: Hellboy II
“Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has started to look like a legitimate successor to Ovid. Del Toro is not so much a creator of myths as a collector of them, a transhistorical myth nerd whose...
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Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)
There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to...
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