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Movie: Practical Magic

(Trailer) Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Oct 28, 2024 - 15 comments

Book: The Masquerades of Spring

Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young--fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad--as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone--which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows...
posted by soelo on Sep 13, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Riddle of Fire

Three mischievous children embark on a woodland odyssey when their mother sends them on an errand. (Note: this description does not capture the weirdness that ensues.) [more inside]
posted by latkes on Aug 24, 2024 - 2 comments

Book: The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice Book 1)

“The sheet of paper, bright white with the reflected moonlight, was within reach. Just look at it, read it, and go, he told himself. That was all he had to do. He stretched out a hand for it. His fingers touched it. And a hand shot out of nowhere and seized him by the wrist.” [more inside]
posted by CMcG on Aug 13, 2024 - 2 comments

Book: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen's private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after...if only the world would let them. [more inside]
posted by maryellenreads on Aug 12, 2024 - 5 comments

Book: Unraveller

“Five minutes into the conversation, Kellen was grinning so widely his face ached. He could see Nettle trying to catch his eye and very slightly shaking her head. She knew what his grin meant, even if this idiot merchant didn’t.” [more inside]
posted by CMcG on Aug 6, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Magic

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Feb 20, 2024 - 5 comments

Book: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that's been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Jan 19, 2024 - 7 comments

Book: Keeper of Enchanted Rooms - by Charlie N. Holmberg

Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave. Ever. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Dec 7, 2023 - 1 comment

Book: Stone Junction

Charging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love into the darkness of 1980s Manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel Pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the AMO -- the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Jun 12, 2023 - 8 comments

Book: The Steerswoman

Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an order dedicated to discovering and disseminating knowledge. Although they are foremost navigators of the high seas, Steerswomen are also explorers and cartographers upon land as well as sea. With one exception, they are pledged to always answer any question put to them with as truthful a response as is possible within their own limitations. However, they also require anyone of whom they ask questions to respond in the same manner, upon penalty of the Steerswomen's ban; those under the ban do not receive answers from the steerswomen. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Apr 5, 2023 - 13 comments

Carnival Row: Carnival Row (Full Season 2)  Season 2, Ep 0

Lovers Philo and Vignette risk their lives to help the oppressed Faefolk of Carnival Row as international politics are set to undergo upheaval.
posted by porpoise on Mar 3, 2023 - 9 comments

Willow: Children of the Wyrm  Season 1, Ep 8

Finale time! AV Club review here.
posted by jenfullmoon on Jan 11, 2023 - 20 comments

Alchemy of Souls: Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow  Season 2, Ep 0

Jang Uk returns from death, and three years later, the story of the mages unfolds anew. Jang Uk becomes a hunter of the soul-shifters when a young woman, a prisoner in her own home, seeks his help to reclaim her freedom. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jan 9, 2023 - 3 comments

Willow: Beyond the Shattered Sea  Season 1, Ep 7

Time to go on the weird sea that makes you trip balls, or ....something? [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Jan 4, 2023 - 4 comments

Willow: Prisoners of Skellin  Season 1, Ep 6

There's a rescue mission going on, and we meet someone new and interesting. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Dec 28, 2022 - 5 comments

Willow: Wildwood  Season 1, Ep 5

Hanging with the Bone Reavers! [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Dec 21, 2022 - 4 comments

Willow: The Whispers of Nockmaar  Season 1, Ep 4

The requisite bottle episode, or "spending the night in a haunted castle" episode.
posted by jenfullmoon on Dec 14, 2022 - 8 comments

Willow: The Battle of the Slaughtered Lamb  Season 1, Ep 3

Everyone looks for the missing girl, while the missing girl finds some Western lesbians living chill in the woods.
posted by jenfullmoon on Dec 7, 2022 - 15 comments

Willow: The High Aldwin  Season 1, Ep 2

Everyone tries to figure out how to react to the revelation made at the end of the last episode.
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 30, 2022 - 7 comments

Willow: The Gales  Season 1, Ep 1

After one of Sorsha's twins is abducted, his sister and a group of other people go on a quest to find him. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 30, 2022 - 8 comments

Alchemy of Souls: Alchemy of Souls - Season 1  Season 1, Ep 0

A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Aug 28, 2022 - 3 comments

Motherland: Fort Salem: All Of Season 2  Season 2, Ep 0

Conflicts and alliances among the military, civilian oversight, new enemies, and witch society further emerge and roil our characters. Streaming on Hulu and some other services in the US. This season includes an in-universe TV ad, the introduction of nonbinary witch M portrayed by nonbinary performer Ess Hödlmoser, a mystical mycelial network, battles, romance, and the scenery-chewing villain Alban Hearst, portrayed with glee by Bob Frazer. [more inside]
posted by brainwane on Aug 3, 2022 - 4 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: DOCTOR MORDRID  Season 13, Ep 5

"Jeffery Combs is" Doctor Mordrid! Master of the Unknown! Also, landlord of a building in New York! And yet the movie wants to believe he's a force working for good. He was sent to our world by a pair of blue eyes to save all reality from the eeeeevil Kabal! Sadly it seems his mystical abilities provide him no defense against getting arrested. It's the fifth episode of Season 13, and not such a bad movie. The story goes it was originally written as a Doctor Strange movie but they lost the rights, so they renamed some characters and made it anyway. Emily hosts this one; it looks like Joel will be hosting the next! Premiered in the Gizmoplex on June 10th, 2022. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jun 11, 2022 - 4 comments

Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache  Season 2, Ep 13

A very short animated Christmas special, available to watch for free on YouTube, in which Ted loses his mustache.
posted by brainwane on Dec 17, 2021 - 3 comments

Book: Any Way the Wind Blows

Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet.
posted by Literaryhero on Nov 19, 2021 - 5 comments

Book: Wayward Son

Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?
posted by Literaryhero on Nov 8, 2021 - 9 comments

Book: Carry On

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here--it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.
posted by Literaryhero on Nov 2, 2021 - 10 comments

Book: The Last Graduate

A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik's groundbreaking crossover series.
posted by Literaryhero on Sep 30, 2021 - 64 comments

Book: The Golem and the Jinni

Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange old man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Struggling to make their way in this strange new place, the Golem and the Jinni try to fit in with their Jewish and Syrian neighbors while masking their true natures. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Jun 27, 2021 - 6 comments

Book: The Other Wind

The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman. The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world, and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand. (Book 6 of the Earthsea cycle) [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on May 7, 2021 - 2 comments

Book: Tales from Earthsea

The tales of this book explore and extend the world established by the Earthsea novels—yet each stands on its own. It contains the novella “The Finder”, and the short stories “The Bones of the Earth”, “Darkrose and Diamond”, “On the High Marsh”, and “Dragonfly”. (Book 5 of the Earthsea cycle) [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Apr 2, 2021 - 5 comments

Book: Tehanu

Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—Tenar, an isolated young priestess, and Ged, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice. A lifetime ago, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again, to help another—the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed. (Book 4 of the Earthsea cycle) [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Mar 5, 2021 - 15 comments

Book: The Farthest Shore

Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged—powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord—embarks on a sailing journey with the highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it. (Book 3 of the Earthsea cycle) [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Feb 5, 2021 - 6 comments

Movie: In & of Itself

A powerful and magical exploration of identity. Directed by Frank Oz and produced by Steven Colbert. It defies brief explanation. It is a film of an extraordinary stage performance by Derek DelGaudio about how we think about our selves, how others think about us, and how to resolve that difference.
posted by Stanczyk on Jan 23, 2021 - 30 comments

Book: A Wizard of Earthsea

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. (Book 1 of the Earthsea cycle) [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead on Dec 4, 2020 - 23 comments

Book: Magic for Liars

Ivy Gamble has never wanted to be magical. She is perfectly happy with her life. She has an almost-sustainable career as a private investigator, and an empty apartment, and a slight drinking problem. It's a great life and she doesn't wish she was like her estranged sister, the magically gifted professor Tabitha. [more inside]
posted by soelo on Oct 28, 2020 - 4 comments

The Order: Season Two  Season 2, Ep 0

The Knights debate whether they are war-wolves or were-locks while trying to take down the Order from the inside.
posted by Literaryhero on Jul 12, 2020 - 8 comments

Motherland: Fort Salem: Full Season  Season 1, Ep 0

Motherland: Fort Salem posits an alternative history where magic is real and witches sided with the early American colonists after the Salem witch trials. As a result, witches have become a central force in modern society, working alongside and within conventional culture. With magic as a weapon, young women are bound by law to serve in the armed forces, creating militarised matriarchal cultures. [more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul on May 22, 2020 - 12 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Lee  Season 1, Ep 8

"Lee is you if you ever had a regret so big you just couldn't shake it, no matter how hard you tried." [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 16, 2020 - 5 comments

The Magicians: Fillory and Further  Season 5, Ep 13

Christmas comes early. "Unicorn baby time. Let's do this." [Season and series finale] [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 2, 2020 - 15 comments

The Magicians: The Balls  Season 5, Ep 12

Margo sees a purse she hates. Alice writes a letter. We couldn't get Prince. [It's Heist Episode: The Musical!] [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Mar 26, 2020 - 3 comments

The Magicians: Be the Hyman  Season 5, Ep 11

Slap fight! Josh eats a pickle. Dreams are weird. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Mar 20, 2020 - 6 comments

The Magicians: Purgatory  Season 5, Ep 10

Margo gets ocular augmentation, while Josh goes on an interesting adventure with a new friend. Eliot looks back through an herbal haze to recall past lessons on magical babies, while Penny and Plum consider their own bind. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Mar 13, 2020 - 8 comments

The Magicians: Cello Squirrel Daffodil  Season 5, Ep 9

It's a timey-wimey episode, with a bit of do-no-harm problem. Plus the return of two feared men, each with their own problems and solutions. Meanwhile, Alice and Kady try to set magic right, again. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Mar 5, 2020 - 4 comments

The Magicians: Garden Variety Homicide  Season 5, Ep 8

The gang hatches a plan to save Fillory, again, involving some Freaky Friday shit, while a bunny gives troubling advice to Julia, then Fen offers some advice. Meanwhile, there's a fungus among us at Brakebills, and the other gang find out the importance of Quentin's unfinished plant drawing. Dean Fog talks about his lobster plans. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 28, 2020 - 7 comments

The Magicians: Acting Dean  Season 5, Ep 7

Crisis averted! But wait, there's more! ♫♪♪ Something, something, Fillory, a most amazing land. [Messed up] by catastrophe, and way before we planned. ♫♪♪ La, la, blah, blah, Fillory, a land without a god. Needs a brand-new hero, a strapping lad named Todd. ♫♪♪ Oh, and there's a new boss at Brakebills.
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 20, 2020 - 8 comments

Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Mewberty / Pixtopia  Season 1, Ep 6

Star becomes boy-crazy. Marco works in the Shard Mines. [more inside]
posted by jsnlxndrlv on Dec 18, 2019 - 1 comment

Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Diaz Family Vacation / Brittney's Party  Season 1, Ep 5

The Diazes visit Mewni and Star crashes a party. [more inside]
posted by jsnlxndrlv on Dec 16, 2019 - 1 comment

Star vs. The Forces of Evil: Cheer Up, Star / Quest Buy  Season 1, Ep 4

Marco cheers up Star and the wand needs a new charger. [more inside]
posted by jsnlxndrlv on Dec 16, 2019 - 1 comment

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