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Voldemort Missing in Action - By Jeffrey Chen I usually don't like comparing movies to their source books because the two are very different media and use different tools to interpret a story. And generally I find it a fault when a movie seems slavishly devoted to telling the story of the book it's adapting; the movie ought... MORE >>
Magic, Intrigue and Romance - By Diana Saenger Warner Bros. must love this summer season, for it’s the time to unleash another exciting movie in the Harry Potter franchise. Ever since the first film was adapted from J.K. Rowling's arsenal of imaginative novels about wizards, the books and movies have been red hot. Harry Potter... MORE >>
Cinematic Wizardry - By Betty Jo Tucker Producer David Heyman summed up Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview.“What I love about the movie is that it has many different parts -- comedy, romance, suspense, good versus evil -- but it also... MORE >>
Puppy Love Plus a Little Magic - By John P. McCarthy When last we saw the Chosen Wizard in 2007's enervating Order of the Phoenix, he stood on the cusp of manhood as an awkwardly hormonal adolescent. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he finally looks comfortable in his own skin, having grown into a confident... MORE >>
The Trouble with Harry - By Donald Levit My never ever having read a word or seen a frame of this phenomenal franchise afforded a rather rare perspective for a “special awards screening” of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. What follows is, thus, no comment on this or any of the J.K. Rowling fantasy volumes... MORE >>
