The Witching Hour: 13 Spellbinding Films & Series for Your October Watchlist
From ancient forest folklore to modern covens, a watchlist for the season of sorcery
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
We're positively spoiled for witches on screen this season. With Practical Magic 2 bringing the Owens sisters back and YAGA set to cast its spell later this month, there's never been a better excuse to indulge in a little cinematic sorcery.
We've revisited a few cult favourites and dug up some lesser-known gems for a watchlist that takes witchcraft in all its fascinating forms.
Scene Stealers: 10 Underrated On-Screen Dark Feminine Badasses
The formidable actresses we should all be talking about
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
There is something compelling about watching an actress disappear into a character we’re not entirely sure we should root for. These are the disrupters: actresses willing to inhabit characters who are damaged without making them helpless; dangerous without stripping away their humanity. They find beauty inside ugly stories without sanding down the edges that made them uncomfortable in the first place.
Their work makes space for women to be contradictory and occasionally difficult to love—and infinitely more interesting because of it.
From established actresses whose range deserves greater recognition to emerging talent already pushing at the boundaries, these are 10 dark feminine badasses we cannot shut up about.
Southern Gothic: 38 Films & Series for Lovers of Beautiful Ruin
Religious fervour and oppressive summer heat shape some of the most compelling stories ever put to screen
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
There is a particular kind of story that could only emerge from the American South. The air feels impossibly heavy while the landscape seems suspended between beauty and neglect. Family histories stretch across generations, gathering secrets, scandals and old grievances along the way. Even the grandest homes appear to be in conversation with their own decline.
Southern Gothic thrives in that uneasy space; it’s a genre preoccupied with the complicated relationship between people and place. The characters who inhabit these stories are often haunted long before anything supernatural enters the frame. Sometimes the ghost is a family legacy. Sometimes it is a community unwilling to change. Sometimes it is history itself.
From literary dramas and doomed romances to psychological thrillers, crime sagas and folk horror, Southern Gothic has produced some of the most atmospheric works in film and television. These selections explore the genre in all its forms, revealing why audiences remain drawn to stories where beauty and ruin are so often found living side by side.