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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-23130394942712630742017-11-15T13:58:00.001-05:002017-11-15T13:58:07.078-05:00I just can't! WTF DC?!?!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, now comes <strong>Wonder Woman</strong>, the Wonder Woman film I have been waiting for since I was a child running around my neighbourhood, spinning around in paper bracelets and headband. I am genuinely proud of this film. Not because it's fun, because it is a blast. It was not because the incomparable Patty Jenkins directed and wrote it. It was because of the respect and care they took in knowing the audience and respecting the source material. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now comes <strong>Justice League</strong>, the tent pole of the series. I HATE Aquaman, but this movie made me excited for damn Aquaman. Today, I have been faced with two news stories that I have not been able to avoid, because Hera knows I have been running from information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first one is the news that </span><a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rotten Tomatoes</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is not posting a score until Friday. Why? It has debuted in other countries, but you choose to wait. Do you really need clicks this bad, especially since there are dozens of reviews already out and most people have decided if they are going to "See It/Skip It. I know, first world problem.</span><br />
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-14059908979140851942017-11-10T16:16:00.001-05:002017-11-10T16:16:26.539-05:00The life of the frustrated mouthbreather!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How's that for a snapped title?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sitting at the day job, reflecting on my lousy day, wondering about my life choices and trying not to be grumpy. I admit it. Some of it is very first world problems based...some of it concerns my own mental issues with money and the struggles I have been through earlier in my life with security.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Life is good, don't get me wrong. I have a house. I have a kick-ass family. I have love. However, my soul yearns for happiness. I strive everyday with that goal in mind. I want to tell stories. I want to share the things I love. I WANT TO RULE THE WORLD!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Maybe, ignore that last part. The voices in my head are loud today;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is why I am focusing my energies on two projects: Flaming Accordions, Maeghan Kimball and my always mutating love child, and Bitch Goddesses, a new lifestyle site focusing on ALL of the things I love, from my Witchly, CRAZY point of view. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would love your feedback. I would love your perspective. I would love your ad revenue!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you to all of my Witchlings and see you on the flip side,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK, my lovely readers, or my spoiler curious idiots (you know which one you are), this will be one of my final posts on this blog format. I have loved every second and I will be archiving my articles here, but you will be happy to know that I am expanding. Stay tuned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love writing about trashy fun stuff not having to do with Cheetolini and his band of merry idiots. Well, with this season, it's all about the election of 2016. Yay?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The episode started off beautifully with audiences on both sides of the aisle getting what they want out of the election of Donald J. Trump; craziness, mayhem, and the complete destruction of the concept of D.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) TWISTY the Clown is back!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is now a pop culture and dark web icon in <i>AHS: Cult</i>. Twitter went mental at this point. The amazing return of the <i>AHS: Freak Show</i> gem John Carroll Lynch as audience favourite Twisty. He is back to his murdering ways. I will not go into super detail, however the character is now seen as a pop culture icon with a comic book and footage shown to him by new addition Billie Lourd's Winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only have we gone back to <i>AHS: Freak Show</i>, but we got a small reference to <i>AHS: Coven</i> also. At the end of Twisty's scene, we see the woman's severed tongue fall to the ground, just like a particularly fun scene from <i>AHS: Coven </i>where we saw the coven's butler, Spalding (Denis O'Hare), cut off his own tongue with a razor in order to prove his love to Fiona (Jessica Lange). Yum...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3) Yes, THAT Billie Lourd!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4) OMG, the Piggy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the grocery store scene, there were many loooonnnnggggg shots of the pig shouts on the grocer shelves. Will we see the Pigman from <i>AHS: Roanoke</i> after his unmasking in that season? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So far, there are A LOT of them. Most of them are because those damn clowns are everywhere. I saw a clown mask that is eerily close to the klowns who appear in <i>Killer Klowns From Outer Space</i>. PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE SEEN THIS FILM!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, there is a very subtle reference to the twins in <i>The Shining</i>. The opening has Pennywise's red balloon from <i>IT</i>. I was told, but I really don't see the Michael Myers mask (not close enough for me) and Freddie Kruger on the carousel? Let me know if you have good shots of these. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the grocery store, there is a clown assaulting <span style="color: #111111;">Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) that looks, to me, like a homage to a lead Droog Alex from <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>. I was told I was nuts on Twitter, but I have seen that movie a million times. Prove me wrong, BITCH! Bwhahaha! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lastly, and my absolute favourite, the house from John Carpenter's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Halloween</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is behind the Ice Cream </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">truck. I screamed at the television.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6) <i>War for Sale, No Thank You</i> Poster</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know very little about this poster, except for seeing it in books. I am a HUGE political nerd. However the great site <a href="https://moviepilot.com/">MoviePlot.com</a> had some information. "While <a class="article-content__hashtag" href="https://moviepilot.com/hashtags/SarahPaulson" rel="tag" title="Sarah paulson">#SarahPaulson</a>'s character breaks down in her home upstairs, eagle-eyed fans may have spotted a poster by Shepard Fairey in the background that perfectly encapsulates Ally's political views in one image. Given that American politics form the backbone of this season's narrative, it should come as no surprise that the artist best known for creating the famous 'Hope' poster during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign would feature here in some form."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK, kids and Witchlings, you now know as much as I do. If you saw something I didn't, share in the comments section or on my social media. Hopefully, even though I seriously doubt it this early, we'll get some burning answers to our burning questions like....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Night, my Witchlings,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">People in Texas are hurting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will make a $10.00 donation to the American Red Cross. </span></div>
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-2983844264670847122017-07-30T22:49:00.002-04:002017-07-30T22:49:24.288-04:00How Witchcraft Became A Brand <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/corinfaife/how-witchcraft-became-a-brand?utm_term=.xevoMBB83#.fidmPWWNV" target="_blank">Buzzfeed</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many simple rituals practiced in the house that Katie Karpetz shares with her husband in Edmonton, Alberta, from yoga to herbalism to candle magic. In the morning, she often waits for inspiration to strike before posting a photo or found image to her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/WitcheryWay/" target="_blank">Instagram feed</a>, and the mood captured will go on to determine her activities for the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Running her online store, <a href="https://www.thewitchery.ca/" target="_blank">The Witchery</a>, from her home is a mixture of mundane, structured tasks, and more spontaneous and esoteric work. Sometimes she’s tracking, packing, and sending orders for the many hundreds of items she ships out to her customers in twice-weekly mail batches. Other times, she’s tapping into her own experiences and the knowledge contained in her many books on magic to create new blends of oil or incense with mystical properties ("bring luck in a hurry," "use to draw love to you"), or to cast spells on behalf of clients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karpetz is one of many entrepreneurs blending a passion for the occult with an understanding of e-commerce to capture a share of the new economic activity surrounding witchcraft. “What I sell is basically what I’m interested in,” she says. “My business plan was always just, <i>If I like it and no one else wants to buy it, well then I get to keep it</i>!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a project that has been years in the making, starting as a hobby and slowly developing into a steady source of income. But it’s also something that taps into a trend, which may seem hidden or ubiquitous depending on the circles you frequent: Witchcraft has undeniably become cool again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last quarter of 2013, the trend forecasting agency K-Hole published a report that came to define the overriding fashion trend of 2014: normcore. The document argued that young millennials were bored of the advertising industry's doctrine of individualism through brand consumption, and were instead adopting a kind of radical conformity that favored unadorned clothing and knowingly mainstream tastes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a movement, “normcore” came and went — apparently there is only so long that the fashion world will entertain the idea of no style being a viable style — and two years later, the tastemakers at K-Hole published <a href="http://khole.net/issues/05/" target="_blank">another report</a> identifying the new cultural trends they had observed: Conformity was out. In its place?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once again K-Hole was right on the zeitgeist. Individuality was back in, magic was cool, youth brands were making <a href="https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/girl-gangs-under-coven-with-the-witches-of-bushwick/55f9b1c1f09ce707596f5c64" target="_blank">documentaries about covens in Bushwick</a>, and seemingly everyone was carrying crystals. But belief in magic and witchcraft is old, far older than Christianity or any of the Abrahamic religions; it wasn't summoned into being by trend forecasters and it won't die out when the hype is over. So what does it mean in this cultural moment for witchcraft to be be both a spiritual practice and a brand aesthetic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The range of products now marketed as having some connection to witchcraft and the occult is truly vast, and while physical stores selling occult items have had a modest presence in small towns and big cities across North America for decades, online retail has really allowed the trade in all things witchy to take off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s now possible to sign up for monthly subscription boxes to deliver spiritual items to your door: The owner of one such business, <a href="http://goddessprovisions.com/" target="_blank">Goddess Provisions</a>, said her customer base has grown from 300 subscribers to almost 6,000 in the last year and a half. But the real gravitational centre of the online witchcraft economy is Etsy, the marketplace that has revolutionized the way handcraft makers of all kinds list and sell their products online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A search on Etsy returns just over 28,000 results for the query "witchcraft," ranging from laurel wands to animal bones, leather-bound grimoires to tie-dye sigils. Data provided by the company confirmed that interest in witchcraft-related items has grown significantly, with searches up nearly 30% and purchases increasing by nearly 60% based on figures from 2015 to 2017. (In the past Etsy was involved in <a href="https://qz.com/430543/etsy-infuriates-the-witch-community-with-its-ban-on-selling-spells/" target="_blank">a small controversy</a> over banning "metaphysical services" from making claims of efficacy, but the company permits the sale of a range of esoteric goods provided no concrete outcome is promised.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One popular seller in the occult category is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/BurkeHareCo" target="_blank">Burke & Hare Co.</a>, a store selling “darkly inspired” candles and home decorations from a studio in Providence, Rhode Island. The store is a typical part of what could be called the auxiliary industry of occult products: items that are not claimed to be in themselves magical but draw on the general imagery and, according to owner Erica Molitor, are purchased by customers who may well have deeper ties to the lifestyle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The witchy, occult community is very close-knit, so I have support from a lot of people in the community and other artists who are doing the same thing," Molitor says. “So although half of my candle line is just about the aesthetic, the reason it does so well is because of the community.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In just over five years of operation, Molitor has seen her business grow steadily, a sign that she, like many others, has tapped into a market that is booming, and a potential client base that is larger than you might imagine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In her 2015 book <i>Witches of America</i>, Alex Mar estimates that there are up to 1 million people practising some form of Paganism in the US (which for comparison is only slightly less than the number of Buddhists at 1.2 million). She writes of witches gathering in the deserts of California, the forests of Illinois, apartments in New Orleans, all embodying a wide variety of traditions and lifestyles with deep roots. But Mar's study, which saw her spend time with witches across the country over a number of years, also happened to coincide with a resurgence of interest in witchcraft in popular culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"When I started working on [the book], I would talk to people about the project and be met with blank looks," Mar told BuzzFeed News. "Then by the time the book came out, I was being accused of riding a trend. So much had changed in that few years ... There was much more of an appetite for the occult as being a hip thing."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of this hipness, Mar says, translated into artists or musicians dabbling with the use of occult symbolism in their work (of which the <a href="http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-short-life-weird-death-and-mild-rebirth-of-the-witch-house-genre/" target="_blank">early 2010s musical genre of “witch house”</a> was a precocious but illustrative example), but it has also become an aesthetic that can lend an air of cool to products targeted at consumers with only a passing interest in the lifestyle.<img alt="The number of Americans practicing various religions." class="subbuzz__media-image js-subbuzz__media js-progressive-image js-pinnable xs-col-12 xs-block img--loaded" data-bfa="@o:{ignore:[bfaBinder]};" data-crop="45.76" data-loaded="1" data-mobile-crop="45.73" data-mobile-src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/26/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-26892-1501082250-2.png" data-pin-media="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/26/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-26892-1501082250-2.png?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto" data-span="1" data-src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/26/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-26892-1501082250-2.png" src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/26/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-26892-1501082250-2.png?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto" />The number of Americans practicing various religions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In interviews for this article, buyers, sellers, and practicing witches frequently mentioned a new way they were connecting with one another online: Instagram. Over the past few years the image-sharing app has become a gathering place for younger witches, where tags like <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/witch/" target="_blank">#witch</a> (more than 3.7 million posts), <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/witchy/" target="_blank">#witchy</a> (more than 600,000) and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/witchesofinstagram/" target="_blank">#witchesofinstagram</a> (nearly 700,000) bring a community together around a constellation of imagery, including jewelery, makeup, séance circles, tattoos, astrological charts, herbs, crystals, and lots of vaguely gothic selfies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's on Instagram that witchcraft as a spiritual practice and witchcraft as a lifestyle signifier really start to merge. As in any other Instagram community, certain accounts emerge as “influencers,” usually combining a recognizable visual identity with taste-making content and a distinctive voice that followers can relate to, creating a connection that feels personal even as it's transmitted to a large audience. Perhaps the archetype here is Seattle-based Bri Luna aka <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thehoodwitch/" target="_blank">@thehoodwitch</a>, whose 155,000 followers delight as much in her extravagantly manicured nails as her knowledge of spells and crystals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like many Insta-influencers in other fields, The Hoodwitch's carefully curated content is uploaded for free in order to draw attention to a for-profit venture: an online store selling the products pictured in Luna's elegant hands. Some posts feature items directly for sale — divination cards, occult books, tote bags <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BRdxrDYj4L3/?taken-by=thehoodwitch" target="_blank">printed with the names of goddesses</a>, and of course the ubiquitous crystals — but far more of them are illustrations, found images, and quotes without any apparent marketing push, helping to build loyalty from an audience that will translate into sales further down the line. It's very much a business model of the social media age, and highlights the fact that — for those who can master the elusive combination of branding, content, and product — witchcraft pays. (The Hoodwitch was approached for comment for this piece but declined.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elisabeth Krohn, founder and editor of <a href="http://www.sabatmagazine.com/" target="_blank">Sabat</a> — described by Vice as “<a href="https://www.vice.com/sv/article/ex9bgm/sabat-is-a-magazine-for-the-modern-witch" target="_blank">the magazine for the modern witch</a>” — also knows a thing or two about building a brand around witchcraft. Krohn came up with the idea as a journalism student at the London College of Fashion, inspired by nostalgia for the somewhat kitschy period of pop cultural interest in witchcraft in the ’90s and early ’00s (think <i>Charmed</i> or <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>) and the sense that there was a desire for a more modern take.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Krohn explained that these trendy representations can serve as an entry point for the cultivation of a more serious interest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I realized that a lot of people who are deeper into witchcraft than me first got into it through pop culture references — that's more accepted in the community than I first thought," she said. "In terms of being attracted because of the aesthetic, if someone picks up a pentagram because they think it's a cool symbol, it doesn't mean they won't then learn the meaning behind it, too."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I think for most [young witches] now, it's a combination of the aesthetic and the search for something spiritual," she added.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike other religions, witchcraft is a loosely defined set of practices with no canonical text at its heart. Some witches are followers of disciplines like Wicca, founded by Gerald Gardner in England in the 1950s, but many others choose an eclectic, self-made path drawn from aspects of Paganism, Wicca, chaos magic, herb lore, or other practices. Tess Giberson, an artist and witch based in Ottawa, is passionate about the DIY aspect of witchcraft, and says that energy and intention are more important for casting spells than expensive equipment. ("You don't need a $150 cauldron to burn herbs," Giberson said in a Facebook chat. "You just need a heat proof dish.")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Giberson also says that the increasing appetite for occult items has led to problems of cultural appropriation, where incentives are created for mainstream vendors to market products with little respect for their deeper significance. Urban Outfitters, for example, was selling a smudge kit for $39.99 that mimicked Indigenous practices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I think it's important to note the correlation between a sparked interest in witchcraft and increased oppression against marginalized folks," Giberson said, pointing to Silvia Federici's feminist history <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Caliban-Witch-Women-Primitive-Accumulation/dp/1570270597" target="_blank"><i>Caliban and the Witch</i></a> by way of evidence. It's a sentiment that Gordon White, <a href="https://runesoup.com/" target="_blank">host of the <i>Rune Soup</i> podcast</a>, also echoed in an interview, stating that the current turn towards the occult is unsurprising given the troubled state of the world: Magic has always been a tool of the underdog, less structured than any system of priests and clergy, more resistant to control thanks to its archaic origins and anarchic, individualist spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surges of interest in witchcraft have happened on a roughly 20-year cycle since the mid-20th century, often corresponding to changing perceptions of women in popular consciousness and new strains of feminist thought. In the 1970s, a boom of interest in the occult throughout the cultural underground dovetailed with a growing recognition of female potency in both creative and sexual terms, and a form of spirituality focused on the Goddess(es) and the divine feminine. Then in the 1990s, movies like <i>The Craft</i> and TV shows like <i>Charmed</i>, <i>Buffy</i>, and of course <i>Sabrina the Teenage Witch</i> tapped into another cultural archetype of the time, portraying witches as women who were independent and quietly powerful, not to mention smarter than the mostly oblivious men in their lives.<img alt="" class="subbuzz__media-image js-subbuzz__media js-progressive-image js-pinnable xs-col-12 xs-block img--loaded" data-bfa="@o:{ignore:[bfaBinder]};" data-crop="67.20" data-loaded="1" data-mobile-crop="67.17" data-mobile-src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/25/16/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-21611-1501013747-1.jpg?resize=990:665" data-pin-media="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/25/16/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-21611-1501013747-1.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto" data-span="1" data-src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/25/16/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-21611-1501013747-1.jpg" height="268" src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-07/25/16/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-21611-1501013747-1.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto" width="400" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re now seeing another of those high-water marks, spurred on by the hyperconnected world of social media. It’s no surprise then that another witchcraft renaissance is at hand, and one that makes heavy use of the same media to disseminate text and image representations of the craft in a way that speaks to a new audience of digital natives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same media that connects witches to one another also connects the subculture to the world of business, brands, and profit, and it is hard to say exactly how long the modern incarnation of witchcraft can hold out against capitalism's rapacious desire to commodify the authentic symbols of rebellion, or the tendency of trends (by definition) to come and go. But if the pattern of past cycles holds true for the future, it won't be the last time that pop culture rediscovers witchcraft — and in the meantime, as interest waxes and wanes like the moon, the witches will be there, waiting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corin Faife is a freelance journalist covering technology and social issues, based in Montreal, Canada.</span></div>
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-38283172636549876812017-07-24T12:54:00.004-04:002017-07-24T12:54:53.478-04:00‘Annabelle: Creation’: FREE Advance Screenings Next Wed. in Chicago, Austin, Columbus, and San Antonio!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bloody Disgusting</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <i>Annabelle: Creation</i>, which opens in theaters August 11th:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their h</i><i>ome, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.</i>”</span><br />
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<a href="http://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3439597/set-visit-report-annabelle-creation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Related] We Visited the Gothic Set of <em>Annabelle: Creation</em></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The full cast includes Stephanie Sigman (<i>Spectre</i>), Talitha Bateman (<i>The 5th Wave</i>), Lulu Wilson (<i>Ouija 2</i>), Philippa Anne Coulthard (<i>After the Dark</i>), Grace Fulton (<i>Badland</i>), Lou Lou Safran (<i>The Choice</i>), Samara Lee (<i>The Last Witch Hunter</i>), Tayler Buck, Anthony LaPaglia (TV’s <i>Without a Trace</i>) and Miranda Otto (<i>The Lord of the Rings</i> Trilogy).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sandberg directed from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman, who also wrote <i>Annabelle</i>.</span></div>
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-38869830901256431622017-07-24T12:40:00.004-04:002017-07-24T12:40:59.218-04:00‘Wonder Woman’ Becomes Top-Grossing Summer Film as Warner Bros. Crosses $1 Billion Domestically<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Wrap</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the same day Warner Bros. wowed fans with trailers for “Justice League” and “Ready Player One” at Comic-Con, “Wonder Woman” passed “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” to become the highest domestic-grossing film of the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, the estimated $50.5 million opening for Christopher Nolan’s WWII film “Dunkirk” has pushed WB past the $1 billion domestic mark for the 17th consecutive year, a streak longer than any other in Hollywood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Wonder Woman” grossed an estimated $4.6 million in its eighth weekend in theaters, bringing its domestic total to $389 million. “Wonder Woman” has shown incredible staying power, currently holding a 3.77x multiple after its $103 million opening. With a worldwide total of $779 million, it has already passed the global run of “Suicide Squad” and the domestic run of “Batman v Superman.” When compared to Marvel movies, “Wonder Woman” ranks sixth domestically between the $387.2 million of “GotG Vol. 2” and the $403 million of the original “Spider-Man.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the opening for “Dunkirk” has made WB the third studio in 2017 to cross the $1 billion domestic mark, joining Disney and Universal. According to Box Office Mojo, WB stands in third among all studios this year with a 15.2 percent market share. While the studio suffered a bomb with “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” which grossed $39.1 million stateside against a $175 million budget, its domestic totals have been lifted thanks to three big hits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to “Wonder Woman,” “The Lego Batman Movie” won over comic book fans and family audiences with $175.7 million from its February release, while Legendary’s “Kong: Skull Island” beat expectations with $168 million. “Dunkirk” is likely to continue to boost WB’s stateside numbers, as previous Nolan-directed films like “Interstellar” and “Inception” have posted high multiples.</span><br />
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-54541075092466569212017-07-24T12:35:00.000-04:002017-07-24T12:35:27.074-04:00Little Girl’s Tearful Meeting With Gal Gadot Shows Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Matters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/gal-gadot"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gal Gadot</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a superhero. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viral footage from </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/comic-con"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comic-Con</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in San Diego showed the star comforting a young fan who was wearing a “</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/wonder-woman"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wonder Woman</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">” shirt and cape. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the little girl, named Ashley, began to cry when she reached the front of the line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“</span><a href="https://twitter.com/DanicaDreamer/status/888993264782540801" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was so happy to meet her that she was tearing up</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,” her mother, Christine Keller, wrote on Twitter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the footage, Gadot reaches across the table and takes the girl’s hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“There’s no reason to cry, all right,” Gadot said. “Here we are together.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of Gadot’s “Justice League” co-stars joined in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You’re a warrior,” said Ezra Miller, who plays the Flash in an upcoming film. “Your ability to cry is what makes you such a warrior. Come join the Justice League whenever you get ready.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keller, author of “The Adventures of </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/danicadreamer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Danica Dreamer</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,” said the encounter had a big impact on her little girl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/danicadreamer/posts/2003969499826433" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These characters matter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and can have a huge influence on young people,” Keller wrote on her “Danica Dreamer” Facebook page. “What a great role model and genuine, nice person. My daughter will always remember this moment for the rest of her life.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn’t just Wonder Woman making an impression. The same footage also briefly showed an excited little boy with tears in his eyes as he met </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/ben-affleck"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ben Affleck</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, current star of the “</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/batman"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Batman</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">” franchise as well as “Justice League.”</span> </div>
</span>Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-18783177950147414972017-07-21T11:28:00.004-04:002017-07-21T11:28:50.866-04:00Ryan Murphy reveals title for season seven of American Horror Story which stars Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Billie Lourd and Lena Dunham<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily Mail</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday creator Ryan Murphy tweeted it out when he was attending the San Diego, California, Comic-Con convention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next installment of the FX anthology series will be American Horror Story: Cult. Previous seasons have been titled Murder House (2011), Asylum (2012), Coven (2013), Freak Show (2014), Hotel (2015) and Roanoke (2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next season will star Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Billie Lourd, Billy Eichner, Cheyenne Jackson, Alison Pill and Colton Haynes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Ryan tweeted Cult, Paulson tweeted: 'Here we go: AHS7 CULT. Sh-t goes down. Woof.'</span></div>
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After 12 versions of a male-centric “<a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"Doctor Who","mpid":1,"plid":"http://huffingtonpost.com/news/doctor-who"}}" href="http://huffingtonpost.com/news/doctor-who" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black;">Doctor Who</span></a>,” BBC delivered some franchise-defying news this week: The <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"show’s 13th leading Time Lord is a woman","mpid":2,"plid":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jodie-whittaker-doctor-who_us_596b86c8e4b0d6341fe994a5"}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jodie-whittaker-doctor-who_us_596b86c8e4b0d6341fe994a5"><span style="color: black;">show’s 13th leading Time Lord is a woman</span></a>.<br />
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The response to Jodie Whittaker’s casting has been overwhelming. For a series that regularly switches out its central, quasi-immortal character for a new leading actor every few years or so, a certain amount of fandom ferocity was expected. But Whittaker’s announcement was different, because come December, she will be the 50-year-old franchise’s first female lead.</div>
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As expected, a certain amount of “<a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"furious sexist backlash","mpid":3,"plid":"http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-reaction-10811248"}}" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-reaction-10811248" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">furious sexist backlash</span></a>” greeted Whittaker’s casting, as some uneasy fans balked at the prospect of a long-running male hero suddenly becoming a female one. (Never mind that the Doctor protagonist has switched physical identities a dozen times before this, or that the show itself reflects a fantasy, alien world with far more unbelievable scenarios.) Louder than the detractors, though, was a flood of genuinely ecstatic fans overjoyed by the series’ decision to shunt the usual casting type in favor of a bolder, history-defining decision. Videos of <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"young girls screaming with joy","mpid":4,"plid":"https://twitter.com/Jenny_Trout/status/886615696062459908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk%2Fentry%2Fdoctor-who-jodie-whittaker-female-time-lord-reaction-video_uk_596c6918e4b03389bb1884ea"}}" href="https://twitter.com/Jenny_Trout/status/886615696062459908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk%2Fentry%2Fdoctor-who-jodie-whittaker-female-time-lord-reaction-video_uk_596c6918e4b03389bb1884ea" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black;">young girls screaming with joy</span></a> upon seeing Whittaker’s face in BBC promos quickly went viral.<br />
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And it wasn’t just young girls who seemed genuinely enlivened by the announcement. Overall, “Doctor Who” <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"ratings had been slipping","mpid":5,"plid":"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/falling-ratings-typecasting-bbc-woes-did-peter-capaldi-quit/"}}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/falling-ratings-typecasting-bbc-woes-did-peter-capaldi-quit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">ratings had been slipping</span></a> under star Peter Capaldi, the 12th white man to take on the decades-old hero. A jolt of electricity had seemed necessary for some time. The best way to create one was to introduce something new into the “Who” series ― something guaranteed to satisfy a horde of followers waiting on the edge of their seats for a new <em>anything </em>to complicate their vastly interconnected sci-fi universe. But those young girls’ reactions bottled up the purest kind of response to Whittaker’s casting: After over 800 episodes filled with a male Doctor saving the world, we’re finally going to see a woman ― hailed as more clever than any being in existence, heretofore undefeated against all adversaries, infused with a kind of confidence that only comes with lifetimes of experience ― reigning supreme on the BBC.</div>
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When Rey (Daisy Ridley) first grabbed a lightsaber in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” unabashedly charging at Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) with a weapon viewers had seen only in the hands of men for years, fans watching felt similarly. When Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) catapulted herself through a glass window having just finished cleaning up an entire fight scene on her own, superhero fans used to seeing men commanding battles felt similarly. <br />
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For decades, it’s been easier for straight, white men to find those characters, as Lukes and Captain Americas and Peter Venkmans stood at the center of profound scenes. When Whittaker brought down her hood to reveal the new face of “Doctor Who,” some women experienced that connection, too. Sci-fi and fantasy have surely had their fair shares of female characters before them (from “Alien” to “X-Files” to “Star Trek” to “Buffy”), but TV shows and movies like “Doctor Who,” “Star Wars,” “Wonder Women” and “Ghostbusters” are lately giving us something relatively new, if not under-explored until now: women-<em>led</em> sci-fi franchises.<br />
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When the trailer for Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time” debuted ― the same weekend as Whittaker’s casting announcement ― women, particularly women of color, had another reason to scream for joy. DuVernay took a familiar story, Madeleine L’Engle’s 1960s book about a young girl on an interplanetary adventure, and cast characters coded white in the source material as women of color ― Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, Storm Reid. “My whole process with this film was, what if?” the <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"director told EW","mpid":7,"plid":"http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/disney-s-wrinkle-time-sparkles-black-girl-magic-n783851"}}" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/disney-s-wrinkle-time-sparkles-black-girl-magic-n783851" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">director told EW</span></a>. “With these women, I wondered, could we make them women of different ages, body types, races? Could we bring in culture, bring in history in their costumes? And in the women themselves, could we just reflect a fuller breadth of femininity?” She has, if the movie turns into a franchise, four more adaptable L’Engle books in the series to explore this goal.DuVernay’s focus on “what if” embraces so perfectly the potential for innovation built right into fantasy. It’s one of the elements that drives fans back to the genre, this idea that a boundless universe can help us explore questions reality has yet to answer. (One need only look at how effective Hulu’s women-led “<a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"Handmaid’s Tale","mpid":8,"plid":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elisabeth-moss-absolutely-knows-the-handmaids-tale-is-a-feminist-story_us_58ffb42de4b0073d3e7a1d0c?3ah&section=us_arts"}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elisabeth-moss-absolutely-knows-the-handmaids-tale-is-a-feminist-story_us_58ffb42de4b0073d3e7a1d0c?3ah&section=us_arts"><span style="color: black;">Handmaid’s Tale</span></a>” has been at driving the concept “what if” closer to the concept of “what now.”) But beyond that, DuVernay recognizes the power of humanity. She recognizes that <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"representation","mpid":9,"plid":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-on-screen-representation-matters_us_58aeae96e4b01406012fe49d"}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-on-screen-representation-matters_us_58aeae96e4b01406012fe49d"><span style="color: black;">representation</span></a> ― the simple idea that every fan deserves to see themselves in characters on screen ― only deepens the connections people form with stories, which make up the very foundation upon which fandom is built.</div>
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Calls for expanded representation (including those for queer, trans, disabled people) are, in the end, just appeals to the boundaries of fandom: Let us in. We’ve been watching from the edges for a while now, but we’d like to fall into a world, headfirst and headstrong, the way you can. What you see as a continuity error, a divergence from canon that quakes your understanding of a fictional world, we see as a doorway in, something that you’ve had access to for years.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warner Bros. revealed the plot Monday, in conjunction with the start of production. The still-untitled “Harry Potter” spinoff will revolve around a young Dumbledore (Jude Law) recruiting his former student Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to stop onetime </span><a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"BFF/crush","mpid":2,"plid":"http://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/news/a48884/jk-rowling-dumbledore-in-love-with-grindelwald/"}}" href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/news/a48884/jk-rowling-dumbledore-in-love-with-grindelwald/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BFF/crush</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) from “gathering more followers to his cause — elevating wizards above all non-magical beings.” In a loyalty-testing mission surrounded by “an increasingly dangerous and divided wizarding world,” Newt reunites with Tina (Katherine Waterston), her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) and the non-magical baker Jacob (Dan Fogler).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving the action from New York to Paris, the 1920s-set sequel will also feature Credence Barebone, the brooding teenager played by Ezra Miller, whose fate is unknown. Zoë Kravitz, seen briefly in a photo in “Fantastic Beasts,” is joining the cast as Leta Lestrange, who had a close relationship with Newt during their time together at Hogwarts. (Her relationship to Bellatrix Lestrange is unclear.) “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “The Dark Tower” actress Claudia Kim will play a circus performer, while Callum Turner joins the spell-casting as Newt’s brother. Kevin Guthrie is reprising his role as Magical Congress honcho Abernathy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Yates, who directed “Fantastic Beasts” and the final four “Harry Potter” movies, is at the reins again, working off a screenplay written by J.K. Rowling. (Yates is slated to helm all five installments in the “Beasts” franchise.) Filming is taking place at Leavesden, the Warner Bros. studio complex outside London where all the “Potter” movies were shot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s time to protect your movie-buying funds from those sneaky Nifflers: The next chapter of “Fantastic Beasts” will open in theaters Nov. 16, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s no denying that the most popular genre around these days is the superhero movie. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy proved that comic book adaptations could be just as dramatic and heavy as non-genre films, Marvel Studios jumpstarted a massive interconnected series of superhero movies that were significantly more colorful and humorous, and audiences have been turning out to both kinds of superhero films in droves. With nearly every major studio now working to turn its own comic book properties into the next big thing, and with Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. plotting out half a decade’s worth of material, it’s sometimes tough to keep track of what’s coming out when, who’s in it, and how it fits into the overall picture. Not to worry, though, because we here at Collider have you covered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below, you’ll find a comprehensive guide of superhero movie release dates for every major comic book adaptation on the calendar, going all the way up to the year 2020. Moreover, we’ll be updating this guide regularly with the most current information, so if you’re ever at a loss for when exactly <em>Captain Marvel</em> is supposed to be in theaters, you can come right back here for a quick refresher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Release Date</em>: July 7, 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Director</em>: Jon Watts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Cast</em>: Tom Holland, Marisa Tomei, Zendaya, Tony Revolori, Robert Downey Jr., Logan Marshall Green, Angourie Rice, and Michael Keaton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: Few thought it would ever happen, but Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios came to an agreement in which they will be sharing the character of Spider-Man, with the webslinger first appearing in an MCU movie (<em>Civil War</em>) before getting his own rebooted film. Marvel is taking point creative on the picture, which will bring forth a younger Spidey who is still in high school. <em>The Cabin in the Woods </em>co-writer/director Drew Goddard was <a href="http://collider.com/spider-man-reboot-director-drew-goddard/" target="_blank">first rumored to take the helm</a>, but Marvel eventually settled on <em>Cop Car</em> helmer Watts with Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (<i>Vacation</i>) writing the script. Michael Keaton is playing the film’s villain, Vulture, and Robert Downey Jr.‘s Tony Stark <a href="http://collider.com/spider-man-reboot-robert-downey-jr-iron-man/" target="_blank">will further his relationship</a> with the young webslinger after first appearing together in <em>Captain America: Civil War</em>. The film will have <a href="http://collider.com/spider-man-homecoming-vulture-jon-watts-interview/" target="_blank">a tech-bent</a> when it comes to the powers of Vulture and Spider-Man, and no, there <a href="http://collider.com/spider-man-reboot-no-origin-story-writers-talk-high-school-peter-parker/" target="_blank"><em>will not</em> be another origin story</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Release Date</em>: November 3, 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Cast</em>: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Idris Elba, and Anthony Hopkins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: The title most likely refers to the event from Nordic mythology in which catastrophic destruction comes to Asgard, submerging the entire world underwater and killing nearly every god. Marvel says the “Norse End of Days” is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They’ve tapped <em>What We Do in the Shadows</em> director Taika Waititi <a href="http://collider.com/thor-3-director-taika-waititi/" target="_blank">to take the helm</a>, making for a very curious hire given his background in comedy. Cate Blanchett will be leading the villain charge as Hela, Tessa Thompson is Valkyrie, and Karl Urban is the villainous muscle Skurge, while <a href="http://collider.com/thor-ragnarok-cast-jeff-goldblum-marvel/" target="_blank">the MCU is about to get <em>a lot</em> weirder</a> with Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster, one of the Elders of the Universe. <a href="http://collider.com/thor-ragnarok-trailer/" target="_blank">The tone of the film</a> is radically different from the previous <em>Thor</em> movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Release Date</em>: November 17, 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated <em>Justice League</em> unites Affleck as Batman, and Adams as Lois Lane, along with Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, Ezra Miller’s The Flash, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, and Ray Fisher’s Cyborg. The villain of <i>Justice League</i> is Steppenwolf, who we saw Lex Luthor summoning in a deleted scene from <em>Batman v Superman</em>. As evidenced by <a href="http://collider.com/justice-league-trailer/" target="_blank">the first footage</a>, there certainly appears to be a lighter tone, and the film will broaden the DCEU so far with J.K. Simmons as the new Commissioner Gordon and Amber Heard as <em>Aquaman</em> character Mera. And Cavill’s Superman is in the mix here somewhere/somehow. The film also marks a curious collaboration, as <a href="http://collider.com/justice-league-joss-whedon-zack-snyder/" target="_blank">Snyder left the film during post-production</a> to tend to a personal tragedy while Joss Whedon came in to oversee the final editing and direct reshoots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Cast</em>: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Sterling K. Brown, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, Letitia Wright, and John Kani.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: The comics character made quite the impression with his first appearance in <a href="http://collider.com/tag/captain-america-civil-war" target="_blank"><em>Captain America: Civil War</em></a>, and he gets his own feature film not long after. <em>42</em> star Chadwick Boseman is filling the role of the powerful native of Wakanda, an African nation that is isolated from the rest of the world. Marvel says the crux of the film will be how this isolationist nation meets the world, so expect some friction. <em>Selma </em>director Ava DuVernay came close to signing on, but ultimately <a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-ava-duvernay-explains-why-she-passed/" target="_blank">opted not to helm the film</a> over concerns her artistic voice would be lost in the final product. Subsequently, Marvel hired Joe Robert Cole—who came up through the Marvel Studios writing program—<a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-movie-f-gary-gray-sought-to-direct-by-marvel/" target="_blank">to pen the script</a>, and finally nabbed <em>Creed</em> and <em>Fruitvale Station</em> helmer Ryan Coogler to fill the director’s chair and co-write. He’s forging ahead with quite possibly the <a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-captain-america-civil-war-marvel/" target="_blank">most exciting MCU film to date</a>, and he announced his intention to fill out the cast with <a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-cast-michael-b-jordan-chadwick-boseman-lupita-nyongo/" target="_blank">90% African and African-American actors</a>, establishing a fantastic ensemble with the addition of Oscar-winner <a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-lupita-nyongo/" target="_blank">Lupita Nyong’o</a> as Nakia, <a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-cast-logo-marvel/" target="_blank">Danai Gurira</a> as Oyoke, and his <em>Creed</em> and <em>Fruitvale</em> star <a href="http://collider.com/black-panther-michael-b-jordan-marvel/" target="_blank">Michael B. Jordan</a> as villain Erik Killmonger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The story of <em>Black Panther</em> will find T’Challa returning to his technologically advanced homeland of Wakanda after the events of <em>Civil War</em>, only to find himself drawn into a dangerous conflict with an old enemy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Release Date:</em> April 13, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Cast:</em> Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Alice Braga, Charlie Heaton, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: Writer/director Josh Boone (<em>The Fault in Our Stars</em>) has been attached to direct <em>New Mutants</em> for some time now, but 20th Century Fox has finally confirmed the film with a spring 2018 release date. The cast is still coming together, but the film is said to be <a href="http://collider.com/new-mutants-movie-details-horror/" target="_blank">both YA-esque and horror-tinged</a> in tone, revolving around a group of much younger mutants in the X-Men universe than the adults from the proper <em>X-Men</em> movies. The story will also ditch traditional superhero costumes and supervillains in favor of telling a story about these young mutants locked up together in some facility. James McAvoy has been rumored to be reprising his role as Professor X in the film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Release Date</em>: May 4, 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Directors</em>: Joe and Anthony Russo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: Marvel is finally tackling <a href="http://collider.com/tag/the-avengers-3" target="_blank">the Infinity War storyline</a>, and it’ll take two films to tell it. The main antagonist will be Thanos (played by Josh Brolin), and the movie will no doubt unite many, many characters from the MCU. Moreover, Marvel adds that <em>Avengers: Infinity War </em>is the beginning of the culmination of everything that has come before. <em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</em> and <em>Captain America: Civil War</em> directors Joe and Anthony Russo have been tapped <a href="http://collider.com/avengers-3-infinity-war-director-russo-brothers/" target="_blank">to direct both parts of <em>Infinity War</em></a>, which will be shot at the same time during one long production beginning in late 2016. Moreover, they’ll shoot the entire movie <a href="http://collider.com/avengers-infinity-war-entirely-imax-new-cameras/" target="_blank">using IMAX’s brand new digital cameras</a>, meaning the whole film will be shot in IMAX. This two-part epic has been described as <a href="http://collider.com/avengers-infinity-war-ending-changes-team-as-we-know-it/" target="_blank">“the end of the Avengers team as we know it,”</a> acting as a culmination of everything Marvel Studios had done since <em>Iron Man</em>. No pressure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Release Date</em>: June 1, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Cast</em>: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beets</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: While <em>Deadpool</em> director Tim Miller was originally supposed to return to helm <i>Deadpool 2</i><i></i>, he left the sequel in Fall 2016 over creative differences. Reynolds and 20th Century Fox subsequently set <em>John Wick</em> and <em>Atomic Blonde</em> director David Leitch to take over, but then came the long process of casting two major new roles. Domino, the female lead, went to <em>Atlanta</em> breakout Zazie Beets, while the casting of Cable proved as lengthy as it was complex. Names like Michael Shannon and David Harbour surfaced, and Brad Pitt at one point considered the role, but ultimately Josh Brolin is the one who signed on to play Deadpool’s favorite frenemy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Director</em>: Peyton Reed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Cast</em>: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily, and Michael Douglas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: Nothing, beyond a title and release date. But the title suggests that Evangeline Lily’s Wasp will be the co-star of this film and not just the “female lead”, making this Marvel Studios’ first release in which the heroine is in the title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Release Date</em>: December 21, 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>Cast</em>: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, and Willem Dafoe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: This <a href="http://collider.com/green-lantern-reboot/" target="_blank">will be a reboot</a> of the Warner Bros. franchise so Ryan Reynolds is not expected to reprise his role—plus he’s also busy being Deadpool for Fox. Green Lantern is rumored to make his first appearance at the end of either <i>Justice League Part One</i> or <i>Justice League Part Two</i> when he warns the team that Darkseid is on his way to bring destruction to Earth. But the title of the reboot tells us this will be a team-up film featuring two Green Lanterns. Tyrese Gibson has been <a href="http://collider.com/green-lantern-reboot-tyrese-gibson-confirms-he-met-with-warner-bros/" target="_blank">openly campaigning for one of the roles</a>, as the film will find Hal Jordan and John Stewart in a <em>Lethal Weapon</em>-type situation. Warner Bros. recently kicked the tires on this one, hiring David S. Goyer (<em>Batman Begins</em>, <em>Man of Steel</em>) to co-write the script with Justin Rhodes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><em>What We Know So Far</em>: Miller made his brief debut in <i>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</i><i></i>, but he’s a fully fledge star of the <i>Justice League</i>. After tasking Phil Lord and Chris Miller with penning a treatment only to see them head off to direct the Han Solo<em> Star Wars</em> film, the studio subsequently tapped <a href="http://collider.com/the-flash-movie-sets-seth-grahame-smith-to-write-direct/" target="_blank">Seth Grahame-Smith to make his directorial debut</a> on the superhero picture. Alas, after the disappointing reception to <em>Batman v Superman</em>, Warner Bros. opted to change course and <a href="http://collider.com/the-flash-movie-loses-director-seth-grahame-smith/" target="_blank">parted ways with Grahame-Smith</a>, seeking to find a more established filmmaker in his stead. They settled on <em>Dope</em> filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa, working from Grahame-Smith’s script that will be a buddy film of sorts between Flash and Cyborg, but after months of developing the project and with casting underway (<em>D</em><em>ope</em> standout Kiersey Clemons landed the role of Iris West), <a href="http://collider.com/the-flash-rick-famuyiwa-leaves/" target="_blank">Famuyiwa exited the project in late October</a>.</span><br />
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-60382435756799886642017-06-11T14:32:00.002-04:002017-06-11T14:35:00.396-04:00Ben Affleck, DC Comics, 'Family Guy' Remember Adam West<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank Miller, Mark Hamill and more remember actor whose Batman portrayal "exemplified heroism"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/topic/ben-affleck" target="_blank">Ben Affleck</a>, who currently portrays <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/topic/batman" target="_blank">Batman</a> in films, paid tribute to the man who first brought Bruce Wayne to the screen following <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/adam-west-tvs-batman-dead-at-88-w487180">Adam West's death</a> at the age of 88.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Adam West exemplified heroism," Affleck <a href="https://twitter.com/BenAffleck/status/873639055971328000" target="_blank">said on Twitter</a>. "Kind, funny and an all around great guy. Thank you for showing us all how it's done."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">West was an early supporter of Affleck's Batman casting after the <i>Argo</i> star took over the role following Christian Bale's <i>Dark Knight</i> tenure. "Ben, you're going to be very good," West told Affleck. "Shave the beard, make that costume work for you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Val Kilmer, another big screen "Caped Crusader" in <i>Batman Forever</i>, <a href="https://twitter.com/valkilmer/status/873589166512029696">wrote</a>, "Ah dear Adam West. He was always so kind when we met. A real gent. Once when I was a kid we found ourselves in front the Batmobile. I got in."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">West's <i>Batman</i> cohort Burt Ward, who played Robin on the original TV series, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/hollywood-reacts-adam-wests-death-a-sweet-nutty-guy-1012217" target="_blank">told the <i>Hollywood Reporter</i></a><i></i>, "I am devastated at the loss of one of my very dearest friends. Adam and I had a special friendship for more than 50 years. We shared some of the most fun times of our lives together; our families have deep love and respect for each other. This is a terribly unexpected loss of my lifelong friend, I will forever miss him. There are several fine actors who have portrayed Batman in films, in my eyes there was only one real Batman and that is and always will be Adam West; He was truly the Bright Knight."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Like many others, Adam West as Batman was part of my childhood," said DC Entertainment president Geoff Johns said in a statement. "Watching those reruns every day after school, Batman made reading comics that much more real for me growing up."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Comic book legend Frank Miller, whose graphic novels reimagined the classic Batman as the grittier Dark Knight, <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankMillerInk/status/873616295811567621" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, "Adam West kept Batman alive and thrilled my generation. It's a sad day."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the past decade, West has played a caricatured version of himself as Mayor West on <i>Family Guy</i>. On Twitter, that cartoon's creator Seth Macfarlane penned a remembrance to the actor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<em>Family Guy</em> has lost its mayor, and I have lost a friend," MacFarlane said in <a href="https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/873595796720975872" target="_blank">a statement</a>. "Adam West was a joy to rk with, and the kind of guy you always wanted to be around. His positivity, good nature, and sense of fun were undeniable, and it was always a big jolt of the best kind of energy when he walked in to record the show. He knew comedy, and he knew humanity."</span><br />
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-88891991558699388072017-06-11T14:16:00.001-04:002017-06-11T14:16:15.650-04:00ChristianAnswers.Net Reviews Pagan Films! Wonder Woman Addition!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Positive Messages - "...For the most part, Diana represents a true, honest hero. She looks out for others ahead of herself, and only desires to protect the world. She cares for everyone who comes to know her. We see her devastated and nearly moved to tears by observing all the injured in the war. In many ways, she looks at the world with a naiveté similar to Giselle from “<a href="http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2007/enchanted2007.html">Enchanted</a>.” Ultimately, her selflessness and love for humanity is very inspiring and brings to mind <a href="http://christiananswers.net/bible/1cor13.html">1 Corinthians 13</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<a href="http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/love.html">Love</a> suffers long and is kind;<br /> love does not envy;<br /> love does not parade itself, is not <a href="http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/humility.html">puffed up</a>;<br /> does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;<br /> does not rejoice in <a href="http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/sin.html">iniquity</a>, but rejoices in the <a href="http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/truth.html">truth</a>;<br /> bears all things, believes all things, <a href="http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/hope.html">hopes</a> all things, endures all things.”<br /> —<a href="http://christiananswers.net/bible/1cor13.html#4">1 Corinthians 13:4-7</a> NKJV</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Characters repeatedly sacrifice their lives to save others. The movie goes into a surprisingly thoughtful discussion about how honest love makes a real difference in the world. ..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Amazons all wear tight, leotard-like outfits that are meant to help them in a similar way a leotard helps a gymnast. Wonder Woman dons a similar battle outfit that is somewhat low-cut. The camera resists the temptation to ogle Diana and the Amazons, but men do clearly ogle Diana, at times. One man says, “I’m both frightened and aroused.” One piece of art shows Amazons crawling out of the water unclothed, though their sensitive areas are obscured by water or their arms. ..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...Other: Being a spy, Captain Trevor does deceive others as a part of his job (though Diana clearly isn’t thrilled with this). The film discusses Zeus and other Greek gods, and Ares plays a role. According to a friend who attended the movie with me, the overall mythology presented here isn’t in line with real Greek pagan idolatry. ..."</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“FREE LOVE” without restriction—Marston had a mistress (Olive Byrne—a staff writer for <i>Family Circle</i> magazine under the pseudonym Olive Richard—and formerly Dr. Martson’s student in psychology class. She lived with him and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston in a long-term polyamorous sexual relationship. (There was at least one other woman in this relationship—Marjorie W. Huntley.) Byrne is credited as being his inspiration for the character’s appearance and the bracelets. Dr. Marston gave the bracelets to Olive as a symbol of their love.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Marston was a fan of PARAPSYCHOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, EROTICISM, BONDAGE AND SUBMISSION, and he worked these into his Wonder Woman stories. Her appearance was similar to Esquire’s Varga pin-up girls (centerfolds) at that time (1940s).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanger claimed that promoting sexual abstinence was ridiculous and “is injurious—often highly so.” Her book directly opposed Biblical teachings and attempted to create “a new sex morality,” as well as promoting population control and eugenics to eliminate groups of people she called “defectives” “…to raise the human race on to a higher level.” Sanger insisted that a woman’s “mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit… not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.” Out of her work grew a militant Feminist political movement and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years later, Mrs. Marston “boasted about how well she had known Sanger.” “I spent a lot of time with M.S., both at her home and mine.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FEMINIST ICON—“Wonder Woman evolved as a frontrunner of emancipation for the suffragettes who fought for the rights of women in the early 20th century.” In 1971, self-described “radical Feminist” and well known atheist, abortion activist, and Liberal political activist Gloria Steinem placed the character on the cover of <i>Ms.</i> magazine and said,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wonder Woman was named a “Symbol of Feminist Revolt.” In 1972, Dr. Marston’s wife walked into the offices of <i>Ms.</i> and said, “Hello, I’m Elizabeth Marston, and I know all about Wonder Woman.” She told the staff that she was “100% with them in what they are trying to do and to ‘charge ahead!’” (The following year, abortion was legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wonder Woman Researcher Jill Lepore reports that the character owes a debt not only to Feminism, but also “to Greenwich Village bohemianism, socialism, free love, androgyny, sex radicalism…,” etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, the film gives us a hot Amazon supermodel secretary with super powers—a woman who has no idea how attractive she is, and has the strength to defeat any man and can toss a tank.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2016, the United Nations named Wonder Woman a <i>UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls</i>. Later, due to controversy, she was dropped.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PAGAN RELIGION—The character is a demigoddess. “A distinctive trait of her characterization is a group of signature mythological exclamations, such as ‘Great Aphrodite!’… ‘Great Hera!’, ‘Merciful Minerva!’, and ‘Suffering Sappho!’” (Sappho is a symbol of female homosexuality or bisexuality.) Some of these exclamations “were contributed by Elizabeth Holloway Marston.” Eventually, Wonder Woman rises to full godhood as the Goddess of <a href="http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/truth.html">Truth</a>.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="overall">Negative</span>—The heroine murders countless people in this film, but because it is WWI, and she’s fighting Germans (more like proto-Nazis), it’s “okay.” Very well-made film with extremely high production values, good acting, and good story (with a few very good moments), but <span class="pullquote">the agenda and “moral” of the picture are crystal clear: believe in yourself, rise to your own “godhood”</span>, we’re all to blame for the problems in the world, but we can choose to be a part of the solution, we all have light and darkness within us, and only love conquers the darkness.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sounds good, eh? (only if you don’t know your Bible and haven’t been born again, perhaps). However… Jesus is not the Son of God in this film, and the Father isn’t even God. It’s Zeus and the Greek pantheon.<br /><br />I have no problem with a fantasy film, but to put this “theology” into a more contemporary setting, and even have the heroine blow up a church steeple and bell tower (where a sniper was hiding), then to stand upon it in triumph is a not-so-subtle message of what “works” and what doesn’t. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">more »</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> Lots of cheesy moments in the midst of the CG which looked like video game material, even freeze framing Wonder Woman in the midst of high speed action (several times) for no reason at all, except to visually say, “Look at this cool pose,” which, of course, takes you right out of the story.<br /><br /> I would not take an impressionable child to see this film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="overall">Negative</span>—<span class="pullquote">I was looking forward to seeing this, but I am disappointed</span> how much they went into this mythological story of where she came from. They talked about it a lot, through the whole movie, too. They talked about how this mythological creature created man. Then they called her the god killer, that she was to kill this god with this sword. Not what I thought the movie was going to be about.<br /><br /> It was very slow the first hour and much didn’t happen after the beginning, lots of talking, which was surprising. The real action didn’t happen until the end, and the movie was 2 hours and 20 minutes. I was surprised this was such a huge hit, but, also, it’s sad because there are so many confused people out there with spirituality and that will only confuse them more. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">more »</a><div id="more-stephanie43" style="display: none;">
<br />Sure, it was nice to see her be so strong and not take no for an answer and save lots of people, and her acting was very good. But, overall, it was nothing like I expected. Then, at the end, when she found the one she was supposed to kill, of course, they turned him into a demon-looking creature with horns. They both were floating around and destroying things, and I know usually super heroes do fly, but it was just odd. And I like other superhero movies like this, just for the imagination side, but this is going to influence so many young impressionable people.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="overall">Negative</span>—I agree with the negative comments here. I enjoyed the initial fantasy world—the beautiful island scenery, the unusual setting and the super strong women, but then the movie changed into a grim and violent war film that was too hard for me to handle, and I left about ⅔ of the way through. I was also a little thrown by the fantasy concepts of the birth of the main character and the “gods” of the story. Theologically, this is a very peculiar movie. <br /><br /> In retrospect, I did not like the juxtaposition of fantasy and reality and the very odd presence of humor that had no place in such a serious movie about people and nations killing each other. <span class="pullquote">PG-13 is not an adequate rating</span>.<br /><span class="myratings">My Ratings:</span> Moral rating: Very Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 4<br /><span class="nameage">—<a href="http://christiananswers.net/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi?zoom_query=Halyna&x=0&y=0&zoom_per_page=100&zoom_cat[]=1&zoom_and=1&zoom_sort=0">Halyna Barannik</a>, age 71 (USA)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="overall">Negative</span>—Reading the reviews on this movie, the history of “Wonder Woman,” and the pervasive anti-male message of the movie, which ultimately is anti-family, it’s a no brainer to me. I won’t be supporting this with my hard earned dollars. Usually, if I’m not sure about content, I reserve some movies for the dollar theatre, but I won’t be viewing this one anywhere (i.e., boycotting “Wonder Woman”). <br /><br /> If so many of us “Christians,” weren’t more or less unscrupulous about the entertainment we purchase (Christianity is still the majority religion), then Hollywood wouldn’t be able to afford constantly indoctrinating our youth with these propaganda films. We get what we’re paying for. When mainstream Christians realize that we’re being assaulted in a culture war, and that we are losing, maybe people will begin putting their money where it counts, and we’ll start making a difference. It’s time for “deplorables” to boycott Hollywood!<br /><span class="nameage">—Harry, age 45 (USA)</span></span></div>
Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-67314344227907672792017-06-11T13:44:00.000-04:002017-06-11T13:44:44.853-04:00The 'witch' who inspired The Handmaid's Tale<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Week</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Margaret Atwood wrote</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038549081X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thehuffingtop-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=038549081X&linkId=232d512165b652185a0032d8ed947050" style="color: #5788aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">published in 1985, she took inspiration from the rise of the Christian right in America during the 1970s and early '80s and the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But another, much older source of inspiration for Atwood was the story of a real-life woman in 17th-century New England named Mary Webster, who may or may not have been related to Atwood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Some days, my grandmother would say we were related to her and on other days, she would deny the whole thing because it wasn't very respectable," Atwood says. "I was actually trying to write a novel about her, but, unfortunately, I didn't know enough about the late 17th century to be able to do it. But I did write a long, narrative poem called <em><a href="http://www.emerycsd.org/webpages/dcarter/salem.cfm?subpage=1143672" style="color: #5788aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Half-Hanged Mary</a></em>, because she only got half hanged."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bridget Marshall, an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, has researched witchcraft cases that preceded the infamous <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/" style="color: #5788aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Salem witch trials</a> and one of those cases was Mary Webster's, of Hadley, Massachusetts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marshall tells Webster's story this way: "Hadley is a small, small community of Puritans. Church is pretty central to their lives. There's also a baseline level of absolute acceptance of, and belief in, witchcraft — that it's happening, that witches are talking to the devil and that the devil is active and walking around in New England causing trouble for the Puritans."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In January of 1685, Philip Smith, a leading light of the community of Hadley, falls very ill, Marshall continues. "He is very involved in the government, very involved in the church, a very well-respected man. The community says, 'Wait a minute, why is Phillip Smith suffering these torments?' In the <nobr><a class="pxInta" href="http://theweek.com/articles/703547/witch-who-inspired-handmaids-tale#" id="PXLINK_5_0_4" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: initial !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important; color: #5788aa; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">Puritan</a></nobr> mind, they don't know what's happening [so] they think it must be a witch. If someone who is so good and so pious could be in such pain and such torment, there must be a witch involved. They very quickly draw a line to Mary Webster."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Local farmers claim that their cart horses sometimes refuse to go past Webster's home, which is on one of the main roads. But, if the man goes inside and beats Mary, then the horse will go past. "So, the idea developed that her <nobr><a class="pxInta" href="http://theweek.com/articles/703547/witch-who-inspired-handmaids-tale#" id="PXLINK_3_0_2" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: initial !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important; color: #5788aa; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">supernatural powers</a></nobr> could be stopped if they somehow <nobr><a class="pxInta" href="http://theweek.com/articles/703547/witch-who-inspired-handmaids-tale#" id="PXLINK_2_0_1" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: initial !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important; color: #5788aa; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">physically assaulted</a></nobr> her," Marshall says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Based on this, Marshall says, the community decides that to help Smith, they will "do something to Mary."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years later, in 1689, Cotton Mather, a minister, and author, publishes <em>Memorable Providences</em>, which includes a detailed account of Mary Webster and "an even more detailed [account] about Philip Smith, her supposed victim," says Marshall. <em>Memorable Providences</em> helps set the stage for the Salem witch hysteria that begins in 1692, when the community murders 20 people and puts 150 more in jail over accusations of witchcraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mather's book fed into the idea that, "Witches are among us. Look at the terrible things they're doing. Men like Philip Smith, good Christian men, are being killed by witches, quite literally," Marshall says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not until 1767 does anyone mention Mary Webster's hanging. "A later historian gives us that detail," Marshall says. "Cotton Mather says that they 'gave <nobr><a class="pxInta" href="http://theweek.com/articles/703547/witch-who-inspired-handmaids-tale#" id="PXLINK_4_0_3" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: initial !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: initial !important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px !important; color: #5788aa; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">disturbance</a></nobr> to her.' What exactly the disturbance was is not quite clear, but we do know that she lives 11 years after the Philip Smith incident. So, no matter how much she was disturbed, whether it was by hanging or something else, she still survived him."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You do think about these things off and on for a long time because you think about things to which you don't have the answers," Atwood says. "And the thing that we'll never know is, how did she make it through the night? What was she doing all night when she was dangling from a tree? What was she thinking about?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> is dedicated to Mary Webster because she is an example of a female person wrongly accused," Atwood adds. "But she is slightly a symbol of hope because they didn't actually manage to kill her. She made it through."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>This article is based on a <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/inspiration-behind-handmaids-tale/" style="color: #5788aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">story</a> that aired on PRI's </em><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/studio" style="color: #5788aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Studio 360</a> <em>with Kurt Andersen.</em></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-05-13/17th-century-alleged-witch-inspired-margaret-atwoods-handmaids-tale?utm_source=theweek&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=partnership" style="color: #5788aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><i>This article originally appeared at PRI</i><em>'</em></strong><em><strong><i>s </i></strong></em><strong>The World</strong><em><strong><i>.</i></strong></em></span></a></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Where does the famous giggling ghost of Mystic visit dining<br />guests? What practice in the 1800’s kept spirits out of people’s homes effectively? What local ghost left footprints on the floor of a well known establishment? </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><em>What historic artifacts and gravestone engravings have been found in Mystic's antiquated burial grounds? What famous soldiers, doctors, and ministers visit their scenic resting place? How can I capture a ghost on camera?</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Find out all this and more legends and spooks when you take a Seaside Shadows Downtown Mystic tour or Mystic Moonlit Graveyard Tour. Connecticut native, and sensitive to the other side, Courtney McInvale Reardon, takes you by lantern light on the tour of your choice where she will answer these questions and more<strong style="line-height: 1.6;">.</strong></span>Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-23617548165361520812017-06-04T16:26:00.001-04:002017-06-04T16:30:35.779-04:00Lorde: "I'm basically a witch"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sky News Australia</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 20-year-old singer has said she isn't 'weirded out' by supernatural beings such as ghosts and spirits because of her love for all things magical, and even claims to have a 'connection' with the late David Bowie, who passed away last year after suffering from liver cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'I hate it and every time it happens to me, I feel unsafe. I still find it very jarring. I feel very lucky that I don't draw attention. I love the fact that I can go play before the headliner at Coachella and then I can be, like, 'Bye-bye! I am going to New Zealand.''</span>Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-64842727909938984282017-06-04T16:14:00.004-04:002017-06-04T16:14:31.859-04:00**Spoilers** Wonder Woman Easter Eggs<div style="text-align: center;">
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Wendy, the NOT so good Witchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03240688185099257907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223254308206547758.post-45357246426772283562017-06-04T16:02:00.002-04:002017-06-04T16:02:19.999-04:00Terry Gilliam Wraps Production on ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ After 17 Years<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IndieWire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Sorry for the long silence. I’ve been busy packing the truck and am now heading home,” he wrote. “After 17 years, we have completed the shoot of THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE. Muchas gracias to all the team and believers. QUIXOTE VIVE!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wonderwoman.htm"><b>Wonder Woman</b></a> exceeded all expectations this weekend, delivering an impressive <b>$100 million</b> opening, the largest opening for a female-directed feature, vastly out-performing the previous record holder <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fiftyshadesofgrey.htm"><b>Fifty Shades of Grey</b></a>, which debuted with $85.1 million back in 2015. Meanwhile, Fox's release of the DreamWorks Animation feature <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=captainunderpants.htm"><b>Captain Underpants</b></a> came up a little short of Mojo's forecast while mildly outperforming the studio's modest expectations. Overall, the weekend dramatically outperformed the post-holiday weekend from 2016 by a massive 38% as the top twelve delivered a combined $176 million. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the top, <b>Wonder Woman</b>, directed by <b>Patty Jenkins</b> and starring <b>Gal Gadot</b> in the title role, went into the weekend boasting the best reviews out of the four films that have been released in the <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dc.htm"><b>DC Extended Universe</b></a> so far and the critical opinion definitely aided the film's awareness as the buzz only continued to grow throughout the week. Following an impressive <b>$38.76 million</b> Friday that buzz was no longer due to critics as audiences gave the film an "A" <a href="http://www.cinemascore.com/">CinemaScore</a>, pushing the film over <b>$100 million</b> for its opening weekend, the first female directed feature to achieve such an opening. And as far as female-led comic book adaptations are concerned, it's by far the largest opening as the second closest is Paramount's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ghostintheshell2017.htm"><b>Ghost in the Shell</b></a>, which debuted with $18.6 million earlier this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, <b>Wonder Woman</b> delivered the <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=comicbookadaptation.htm&sort=opengross&order=DESC&p=.htm">16th largest opening weekend for a comic book adaptation all-time</a>. It's the sixth largest opening among that group if you don't count sequels and, based on estimates, the <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/month/?mo=06&p=.htm">sixth largest June opening</a> all-time. Looking ahead, given the strong word of mouth, it would be no shock to see it deliver $300 million domestically or at least very close to that figure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beyond the <a href="http://www.cinemascore.com/">CinemaScore</a>, the film played to an audience that was 52% female vs. 48% male, 14% of the audience was under the age of 18 and 47% was over the age of 35. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disney also claimed the fourth spot this weekend with <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel17a.htm"><b>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2</b></a>, which delivered an estimated <b>$9.7 million</b> as its domestic cume now climbs over $355 million. Internationally it added another $4.4 million as its global gross now stands at $816.6 million, making it the fifth highest grossing worldwide release among the films in the <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=avengers.htm"><b>Marvel Cinematic Universe</b></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rounding out the top five is Paramount's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=baywatch.htm"><b>Baywatch</b></a>, which dipped 54.1% in its second weekend for a domestic cume of $41.7 million. The film did roll-out to 31 international markets this weekend where it brought in <b>$23.8 million</b> including openings in the UK (<b>$5.8m</b>), Germany (<b>$3.9m</b>), Australia (<b>$2.7m</b>), Russia (<b>$1.8m</b>), India (<b>$1.6m</b>), Italy (<b>$729k</b>) and Hong Kong (<b>$701k</b>). The film's global cume now stands over $67 million with openings in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and France coming in the next few weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elsewhere, in moderate release Lionsgate released Pantelion's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=3idiotas.htm"><b>3 Idiotas</b></a> into 349 theaters where it grossed an estimated <b>$600k</b> and Cohen Media's release of <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=churchill.htm"><b>Churchill</b></a> starring <b>Brian Cox</b> opened with <b>$426k</b> from 215 theaters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In limited release CBS Films' <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dean.htm"><b>Dean</b></a> brought in an estimated <b>$60,366</b> from 15 theaters ($4,024 PTA); IFC's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bandaid.htm"><b>Band Aid</b></a> brought in an estimated <b>$31,500</b> from three theaters ($10,500 PTA); China Lion released <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beautifulaccident.htm"><b>Beautiful Accident</b></a> into 15 theaters where it grossed an estimated <b>$25,000</b> ($1,667 PTA); A24's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=theexception.htm"><b>The Exception</b></a> debuted in just two locations with an estimated <b>$23,337</b> ($11,669 PTA); Vitagraph's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lettersfrombaghdad.htm"><b>Letters from Baghdad</b></a> debuted with <b>$18,250</b> from two locations ($9,125 PTA); Samuel Goldwyn's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pastlife.htm"><b>Past Life</b></a> brought in an estimated <b>$16,215</b> from four locations ($4,054 PTA); and finally, Matson's <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=radiodreams.htm"><b>Radio Dreams</b></a> opened in one location with an estimated <b>$2,053</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next weekend Universal will kick off their <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=darkuniverse.htm"><b>Dark Universe</b></a> with <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mummy2016.htm"><b>The Mummy</b></a> starring <b>Tom Cruise</b> and <b>Sofia Boutella</b> in 4,000 theaters while Bleecker Street releases <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=meganleavey.htm"><b>Megan Leavey</b></a> starring <b>Rooney Mara</b>; A24 will debut the horror feature <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=itcomesatnight.htm"><b>It Comes at Night</b></a>; and Fox Searchlight will release <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=mycousinrachel.htm"><b>My Cousin Rachel</b></a> into ~500 theaters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can check out all of this weekend's estimated results <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2017&wknd=22&p=.htm"><b>right here</b></a> and we'll be updating our charts with weekend actuals on Monday afternoon. </span></div>
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