Howl’s Moving Castle
A young hatter called Sophie encounters a witch who turns her into an old woman; she finds an ally in a wizard called Howl. Hayao Miyazaki found inspiration in both…
Kiki’s Delivery Service
13-year-old witch Kiki takes her cat Jiji and flies away on her broomstick, leaving her family to find an independent new life in a city. Hayao Miyazaki followed up on…
Wicked: For Good
One year after the events in the first part of Wicked, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now known as a Wicked Witch, is trying to make the people of Oz rise up…
Weapons: Luring the Youth
Photo: New Line Cinema We deal with grief and pain in different ways. One of the best paths to healing, at least for a creative person, is writing. Taking real-life…
Wicked: Defying Disbelief
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Photo: Universal As the closing credits started rolling, the teenage girl next to me had to be comforted by her dad. The powerful finale of…
True Fear
Nour and Linn (Ava Nikodell, Rebecka Enholm) take their YouTube audience to a small town in northern Sweden where, 350 years ago, 71 people accused of witchcraft were executed. A…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
During the London Blitz, three children are evacuated to a small village where they’re staying with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a woman who turns out to be a…
Fear Street: 1666
Deena (Kiana Madeira) reunites the corpse of the witch Sarah Fier with her severed hand and suddenly has a vision from Sarah’s perspective of what happened in 1666, when the…
Suspiria
In 1977, American ballet dancer Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) arrives in Berlin to study at a famous dance academy, but it harbors dark secrets… A truly imaginative way to remake…
Suspiria: The Witches of Freiburg
Jessica Harper. Photo: International Classics When Dario Argento came up with the idea for his most famous film, he was traveling through Europe. The journey reinforced his interest in the…