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The best herbs for smudge: from laurel to yerba santa

As I underlined in the previous article (The best herbs for smudge: from mugwort to white sage), smudge is one of the most important ways to purify an environment and ward off negative energies. Today we will therefore talk about other precious herbs suitable for this...
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The portrait of Dorian Gray

Hey, ghouls! Dorian tells us the secret of his confidence
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The King in Yellow

Hey, ghouls! Lucy and Claire enjoy a new play at the local theatre
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Guardian Angel

Hey, ghouls! Do you believe in guardian angels? In this week's episode we meet a very peculiar one
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Spa Day

Hey, ghouls! Lucy and Frankie are enjoying a relaxing Spa day, or at least they try!
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An epidemic in three parts: Train to Busan

An epidemic in three parts: Train to Busan

by | Oct 6, 2020 | ,

Train to Busan is the second movie of the saga in chronological order, but the first to be released in movies on a large scale and the one that most contributed, with its success, to the distribution of its prequel and the creation of its sequel. Plot During a trip to accompany his daughter to his ex-wives house, Seok-Woo (played by Gong Yoo), a Korean businessman, finds himself trapped with the rest of the passengers on the train to Busan in the middle of a zombie outbreak that is quickly...

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An epidemic in three parts: Seoul Station

An epidemic in three parts: Seoul Station

by | Oct 2, 2020 | ,

Right from its release, Train to Busan has gained fame and recognition that were fully deserved. It's cemented itself almost immediately as one of the best movies of the horror renaissance of the last few years and brought with it the possibility of expanding its narrative universe with two more works, one that precedes and one that follows it: Seoul Station and Peninsula. However, Train to Busan's immediate success might not have been enough to guarantee that its prequel and sequel maintained...

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Enola Holmes, a new story for an old character

Enola Holmes, a new story for an old character

by | Sep 29, 2020 | , , , , , , ,

Enola Holmes opens the doors of the mystery genre for a new audience and gives an unexpected twist to an established character that is now part of the world's popular culture. Plot When Enola Holmes (played by Millie Bobby Brown), Sherlock's (Henry Cavill) teenage sister, finds out that her mother has gone missing, she decides to look for her in brand new territory. During her mission, she'll become a super-sleuth, outwitting even her brother and uncovering a dangerous conspiracy that...

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Smoke Signals, on the importance of forgiveness

Smoke Signals, on the importance of forgiveness

by , | Sep 23, 2020 | , ,

Poetic, intimate, ironic, and sharp. Smoke Signals made his debut at Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Even before its release in theathers, the film had won two extremely important prizes. Two awards, the Filmmaker's Trophy and the Audience Award, which announced its upcoming success. It was the first film to talk about a pressing subject: the representation of Native Americans in the US cinematographic industry. Smoke Signals is, after all, the first movie written, directed, co-produced, and...

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The Umbrella Academy – questions after season two

The Umbrella Academy – questions after season two

by | Sep 21, 2020 | , , , , , , , , ,

The second season of The Umbrella Academy left everyone in awe, not only for the avalanche of events depicted, but also for all the possibilities it introduced for future seasons. Breakdown of some questions It's already been over a month since the release of the second season of The Umbrella Academy and we've already done a short, spoiler-free review of the new episodes, but now seems like the right time to finally dive into the plot in more dept and not with few spoilers. In this article,...

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Friends: the most famous friendship in the world

Friends: the most famous friendship in the world

by | Sep 16, 2020 | , ,

In chaotic New York, every afternoon, a group of friends gathers at Central Perk to have a giant cup of coffee. But yeah, you guessed it, I'm talking about them: Monica, Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey and Chandler, those "friends" we all wish we had. The girls The end of Rachel's fairytale dream is the beginning for us of this show full of ups and downs, jokes and laughs. In a period of profound change and experimentation (I'm talking about the period that falls between 1990 and 2000), even the...

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror – Steps in the Dark

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror – Steps in the Dark

by , | Sep 11, 2020 | , , ,

First released in 1922, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is definitely one of the titles that paved the way for the wider horror cinematic genre. There was no way, then, for it not to be the first movie in our new segment: Steps in the Dark. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror - Synopsis Bremen, 1838. Real estate agent Knock invites young Hutter to Transylvania to help finalise a contract with Count Orlok. Before leaving the city, Hutter asks a couple of friends to take care of his wife Ellen. He...

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Le Rendez-Vous des Arts betweem cinema, arts, and love for the environment

Le Rendez-Vous des Arts betweem cinema, arts, and love for the environment

by , | Sep 8, 2020 |

Le Rendez-Vous des Arts is an animation project from an idea by Walter Rastelli, a young photographer and director from the area surrounding Naples. In his small work, a short movie just a few minutes long, Rastelli tries to realise an ambitious project dedicated to Art in all its shapes. After a long period of planning and creation, the short is ready to launch its crowdfunding campaign to finally be able to start working on the actual movie. Le Rendez-Vous des Arts - Synopsis In the middle...

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The Great Mouse Detective – Forgotten Memories

The Great Mouse Detective – Forgotten Memories

by , | Sep 7, 2020 | , ,

The Great Mouse Detective is an animated film produced by Disney in 1986 and based on the adventures of another famous detective from London: Sherlock Holmes. The movie is probably not one of the most famous to come out of Disney, but it was certainly a pleasant surprise for fans of the mystery genre. Plot - The Great Mouse Detective Journey through the cobbled streets of 1897 London where Olivia, the coreageous daughter of a toy maker, seeks Basil of Baker Street for his help in finding her...

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Call me by your name – a summer night’s review

Call me by your name – a summer night’s review

by | Sep 2, 2020 | , , , , ,

Call me by your name, a cinematic success that received glowing reviews from critics under every aspect but that may have had a different reaction from the wider audience. Synopsis From the novel of the same title by André Aciman, Call me by your name transports us to the summer of 1983. In the north of Italy, Elio Perlman (played by Timothée Chalamet), an American-Italian 17-year-old, spends the days with his family in their seventeenth-century villa, transcribing and playing classical music,...

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Charmed: magic never ends

Charmed: magic never ends

by | Aug 19, 2020 | , , , , ,

"The Power of Three will set us free. The Power of Three will set us free." How many magical moments does this phrase bring to mind as we followed the Halliwell sisters in their struggle against the evil forces? Do not deny it, you too jealously guarded the desire to own a copy of the mysterious Book of Shadows. Who has never wanted to stop time like Piper, perhaps during a school exam or during an important job interview? How many of you hoped to be able to move objects with your mind, a bit...

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Steps in the Dark – An horror movie trip

Steps in the Dark – An horror movie trip

by | Aug 14, 2020 | ,

A new column is coming on our portal and its name is Steps in the Dark and will be dedicated to horror movies of all time. As we have already done with Memories Forgotten, dedicated to animation we will face a path that will lead us to rediscover old cinematic masterpieces that will make your hair stand up. As a great fan of the horror genre, it was probably to be expected that sooner or later, I would bring the theme here too. Literature and cinema, on the other hand, often travel hand in...

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The Umbrella Academy – season two review

The Umbrella Academy – season two review

by | Aug 5, 2020 | , , , , , , , , , ,

The Umbrella Academy season two: a one-year-and-a-half wait, but was it worth it? I swear there are no spoilers this time. Synopsis of season two Five warned his family (more than once) that using his powers to escape the 2019 apocalypse caused by Vanya would be risky. As it turns out, he was right. The time-jump scatters the seven brothers through time and around the city of Dallas, Texas for a period of three years, starting in 1960. Some of them will be stranded in the past for years,...

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Brave New World – TV show review

Brave New World – TV show review

by | Jul 30, 2020 | , , , , ,

Brave New World, spectacular television adaptation or a story that leaves you wanting? This article may contain spoilers. Synopsis Brave New World is a new TV show from Peacock adapted from the book of the same title by Aldous Huxley. It talks about a utopic society that has reached stability through the banning of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself. When two citizens of New London - the main setting of the show -, Bernard and Lenina leave for a vacation on the Savage Lands,...

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The Umbrella Academy – season one & a look to the future

The Umbrella Academy – season one & a look to the future

by | Jul 29, 2020 | , , , , , , , ,

The Umbrella Academy, a streaming event that many hope will be a repeated success. The following article might contain spoilers. Synopsis On the same day of 1989, forty-three children are born from random women who weren’t showing any signs of pregnancy the previous day. Seven of them are adopted by Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a billionaire industrialist who founds The Umbrella Academy to prepare his “children” to save the world. But things don’t go quite as expected. During their adolescence,...

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Lola – The right to love

Lola – The right to love

by , | Jul 27, 2020 | , , , , , ,

Lola is a short movie by Francesca Tasini (Artaia-la dolce Berlin) and an Anie Gombos, Mauro Paglialonga and Luigi de Vecchi production. It boasts a versatile, enthusiastic cast full of talents, most notable of which are Christina Andrea Rosamilia in the titular role of Lola, Klaus Salminen (Johnathan), and Giovanni Morassutti as Damian, a character we won't spoil you the particulars of, but that we're sure you'll end up loving. A wonderful example of teamwork that managed to make a little...

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Warrior Nun: review of the first season

Warrior Nun: review of the first season

by | Jul 22, 2020 | , ,

Warrior Nun, a TV series that goes beyond the laws of science and surpasses the most unconditional faith in the Church, appears on Netflix. Plot Ava Silva is quadriplegic. Stuck in bed in a Catholic orphanage in Spain, she doesn't seem to have any prospects. But on a night perhaps more unfortunate than the others, during a battle against the powers of Evil, she receives an unexpected gift. It is from here that her life starts again, in a continuous discovery of herself. But who gave her this...

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The Old Guard

The Old Guard

by | Jul 16, 2020 | , , , , , ,

The Old Guard, just another action movie about superheroes or a story with a lot of potential? Synopsis Based on the graphic novel by Greg Rucka and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Old Guard tells the story of a warrior called Andy (played by Charlize Theron), leader of a mercenary group with the mysterious inability to die that has been protecting the mortal world for centuries. When the group is hired for an emergency mission, their abilities will be exposed and Andry will find...

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Old But Gold: the tv series of our heart

Old But Gold: the tv series of our heart

by | Jul 15, 2020 | ,

Why often remember we the past with melancholy? Why would we want those years to come back? What dark mystery draws us back rather than forward? There is no correct or wrong answer to these questions. But, for those of you who suffer from chronic nostalgia like myself, we have good news. Today a column is born. Like a time machine, it will lead us to retrace the years in which technologies took the first step towards what they are today. The years of pop music and low-rise jeans; the years...

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Kirikou and the Sorceress – Forgotten Memories

Kirikou and the Sorceress – Forgotten Memories

by | Jul 6, 2020 | ,

Kirikou and the Sorceress is an animation movie released in 1998 directed by the French Michel Ocelot. In our column Forgotten Memories, we'll start a new trip with the little Kirikou to a small African village plagued by drought end a terrifying witch eats the men and ask tolls to women. Plot In a little village somewhere in Africa, a boy named Kirikou is born. But he's not a normal boy, because he knows what he wants very well. Also, he already can speak and walk. His mother tells him how an...

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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – First Season

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – First Season

by | Jun 29, 2020 | , , , , ,

City of Angels is the new Penny Dreadful spin-off. This name recalls about Los Angeles, so we can easily imagine that this season will be completely different from the others one. Plot 1938 Los Angeles is a time and place deeply infused with social and political tension. When a grisly murder shocks the city, Detective Tiago Vega and his partner Lewis Michener become embroiled in an epic story that reflects the rich history of Los Angeles: from the building of the city's first freeways and its...

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The Incredible Hulk – Superhero’s Myth

The Incredible Hulk – Superhero’s Myth

by | Jun 11, 2020 | , ,

The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 film, the second of phase 1 of the MCU that we are going to discuss in our column The Myth of the Superhero. The film is directed by Louis Letterier. There was a first Ang Lee film called The Hulk and the protagonist is played by Edward Norton, who also contributed to the writing of the screenplay with Zak Penn. In this reboot, Bruce Banner undergoes the experiment on purpose and is not accidentally hit by Gamma rays to save another scientist. The giant is not an...

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You: review of the first and the second season

You: review of the first and the second season

by | Jun 3, 2020 | ,

You, a word that means everything. Three letters that contain within them a world of meanings, when it comes to love ... and vice versa when it comes to obsession. You - Plot of the first season Joe is charming and brilliant, a different, unique guy, maybe the right one, if only he wasn't a narcissist and a murderer. But Guinevere Beck does not know this and lets herself be ensnared by the security of his presence, he who pushes her to devote herself to following the wave of inspiration to...

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Aida of the Trees – Forgotten Memories

Aida of the Trees – Forgotten Memories

by | Jun 1, 2020 | ,

Aida of the Trees is an animation movie released in 2001 by Medusa film and Lanterna Magica. We will talk about this movie in the new article of our column Forgotten Memories. Plot Arborea and Petra are two neighbouring countries perpetually at war with one another. Only the romantic relationship between Aida, the daughter of the Arborean king, and Radames, the brave son of the high general of Petra, will change the situation. The couple's worst enemy is Ramfis, the high priest of the evil god...

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Iron Man – Superhero’s Myth

Iron Man – Superhero’s Myth

by | May 28, 2020 | , , ,

I am Iron Man With this we start the new section called Superhero's Myth in which we will write about the successes and the flops of the Marvel Studios. n 2008 has started a new era for the cinematic industry with the advent of the cinecomics. It was not the first to come but it is the one we all remember. Who are we talking about? Nobody but the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist known like Iron man. Written by Marcus Fergus, Hawk Osby, Art Marcum and Mart Holloway. Produced by...

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NOS4A2: review of the first season

NOS4A2: review of the first season

by | May 16, 2020 | ,

A few months ago, I found this show on Amazon Prime. NOS4A2 is a horror series that will enchant you with its originality, with the great potential to become something truly unique. Plot Victoria McQueen discovers she has an amazing power: she can find lost things. Onboard her motorcycle, she just has to cross an imaginary bridge immersed in the woods, to arrive where she wants to be, in the place where the object of her research is located. But Charlie Manx also has a power; aboard his Rolls...

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Superhero’s Myth

Superhero’s Myth

by | May 14, 2020 | ,

The new section of our blog will be “Superhero's Myth” and it will focus on all the heroes seen in the Marvel movies. To date  there are about 23 films to enjoy. If your are fan like me you will have seen them all. Or not? In conclusion I will recommend you two of them, which for me are masterpieces: Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame. In the next article we will focus on the first movie that went out in 2008: Iron Man. In the meantime, I will order the titles following the official...

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Momo – Forgotten Memories

Momo – Forgotten Memories

by | May 4, 2020 | , ,

Momo is an animation movie released in 2001. It's an Italian and German production by Checchi Gori Entertainment. It's a little masterpiece even it seems it's not famous as it deserves. So, I'd like to talk about it in this column Forgotten Memories. Plot Momo, a little orphan girl, lives in the ruins of an old amphitheatre in a small town. Her extraordinary ability to listen draws people to her and she has many wonderful friends. One day she becomes aware that something has changed. Looking...

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Forgotten Memories

Forgotten Memories

by | Apr 30, 2020 | ,

Forgotten Memories is the first column in our English version of our website. Here we'll discuss old animation movies. Some days ago, we talk about Momo on our Instagram ad we found out a lot of people are interested in.  So as the response of the poll, we create this column. We have a lot of columns in our Italian version of the website, most of them about books like "Orrori dagli Abissi" and "Quarantena col Vampiro". But we'll try a new method. First of all, we won't make a premade list for...

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Freud: review of the first season

Freud: review of the first season

by | Apr 25, 2020 | ,

Sigmund Freud is a character who never particularly fascinated me; but, for his historic and scientific importance, he caught soon my attention with a new Netflix series. Plot Struggling with career and cocaine, Freud is involved in a gruesome crime and then in an exclusive spirit session led by a charming medium. But nothing is as it seems in von Szápáry's mansion, and soon young Sigmund will face the most striking case of hypnosis of his life. Preview Sigmund Freud was a neurologist,...

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