Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Pagan Pride Day

Zilker Park, Sunday, September 19, 2010

"...best for you. This Sunday you can check out paganism at Pagan Pride Day at Zilker Park, a chance..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Summer Fun: It's a Pagan Thing, We Might Just Understand

Celebrating the solstice with some of that old-time religion

"...Tell you what: Pagans do...."

May 15, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pastoral Nights & Pagan Rites

Two film series lie back and think of England

"...the dark legacy of the island nation's fascination with pagan horror...."

May 29, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

May You Have a Joyous Pagan Ritual!!!

"...Christmas tree is actually and originally a dear old pagan ritual tree. I hope, for the sake of the..."

Dec. 14, 2005 Postmarks

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

"...Starring: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Pagan. Blessed is the romantic comedy that doesn't take the..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

King Knight

Gentle pagan comedy lets the outsiders find their place

"...After all, in pagan identity-crisis comedy King Knight, even being able to call..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Wicker Man

Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.

"...missing child. Once there, he runs afoul of the pagan locals, overseen by a sublimely witty, preening Christopher Lee,..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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Pagan Cheer

"...whatsoever to do with Christ. Yule is an ancient Pagan holiday having to do with the Winter solstice (the..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Column

Anchoress

"...homesteads) to illustrate visually the struggle between Christianity and paganism. Shot in black-and-white, the film's beauty is magnificent. The..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Luv Doc: Trojan Rain

The Catholics sure do know how to ruin a pagan fertility ritual

"...the Catholics sure do know how to ruin a pagan fertility ritual...."

April 22, 2022 Column by The Luv Doc

The Well Take Down “One Nation”

War drums for this political season in the abyss

"...Sophomore full-length from the doomy psychedelic trio, Pagan Science – out Friday on SoCal indie RidingEasy Records..."

Oct. 12, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Pagan Babies: a Novel

"...Pagan Babies: A Novelby Elmore Leonard..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Review by Mike Shea

Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art

In this new book, the iconoclastic art critic gets the respect he deserves

"...had been working on a collection of essays titled Pagan America – not in a robed, Druidic sense, but..."

May 28, 2021 Arts Feature by Barbara Purcell

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Our readers talk back.

"...of knucklehead would blaspheme to think it was a pagan ritual adopted by the church? It was probably around..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Column

Men

Alex Garland's mix of gender and myth is saved by its villain

"...exercise in body horror. With neither the grandiosity of pagan vision that illuminated The Green Knight nor the subversive..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

So Many Easter Dining Options!

And we’ve rounded up a tasty bunch for you

"...We won’t even bring up the wonderful wealth of pagan origins that could be explored in this context, we’ll..."

April 11, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In the Earth

Ben Wheatley's unexpected eco-horror is sinister and hilarious

"...melds aspects of his earlier work here: the understated pagan horror of Kill List, the pleasant rural settings of..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Amulet

Supernatural thriller is more mood than meaning

"...most meaningful here; at the same time, the slow-burn pagan gruesomeness and metaphysical horror never feels fully realized, like..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Pagan Peak VR (Germany) D: Ioulia Isserlis, Max Sacker In..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: Richard Stanley Sees the Color Out of Space

How his mother's love and death shaped his Lovecraft adaptation

"...Stanley's last completed narrative film, the subversive and deeply pagan Dust Devil. His career capsized by the Hollywood interference..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hagazussa

Witchcraft and oppression in late-medieval Austria

"...witchcraft as much as they do Perchta, the old pagan goddess of the mountains and a sinful kin to..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Field Guide to Evil

Folk horror anthology has intriguing international scares

"...• "Whatever Happened to Panagas the Pagan?" is based in Greek folklore, but the story by..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Heavy Trip

Scandinavian black metal comedy plays a familiar tune well

"...vocalist with Finnish symphonic postapocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandic metal act Impaled Rektum, who manage to get..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hold the Dark

Humanity's animal instincts exposed in the Alaskan wilderness

"...of the genre, electing to mythologize Alaska through the pagan spiritualism of several of the film’s secondary characters...."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...Corin Hardy, known previously for his intriguing debut, 2016 pagan eco-horror The Hallow. Within the laid-out confines of the..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Where Did Valentine’s Day Come From?

The beginning was, as for most of us, totally erotic

"...married. This is what passed for reality programming in pagan times ......"

Feb. 2, 2018 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wonder Woman

The origin story of Diana, princess of the Amazons

"...open to all nations, colors, creeds, and religions (including pagan, obviously). The various heroes, immortal or otherwise, band together..."

June 2, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timbuktu

Jihad in Mali goes from comic to horrific in the blink of an eye.

"...of gunfire and the sight of cultural antiquities and pagan statuary being blown to bits by young jihadists, Timbuktu..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Project Almanac

Teens discover plans for a time machine within found footage, but things go awry when they begin to construct it.

"...a documented life), but writers Andrew Stark and Jason Pagan settle into a decent if formulaic cautionary tale about..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Borgman

This Dutch film is a darkly nuanced fable that keeps us consistently off-balance.

"...you have it figured out. It is dense with pagan and Christian symbols, allusions to art and folklore, implications..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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