• April 13, 2022
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Starting off on a (very) dark note, the third film in the Fantastic Beasts series, The Secrets of Dumbledore, finds magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) going into the forest...

• April 11, 2017
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Whether you’ve read all the Harry Potter books, seen all the Harry Potter movies, or, like many people (except, uhhh… me) done both, you have to admit that plopping...

• November 19, 2010
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Fantasy

The earliest moments of what I’ll just call HP7 (like the posters) set the level of emotion that manages to carry relentlessly through the whole first half of this...

• July 15, 2009
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

As I’ve admitted in past Harry Potter movie reviews, I still have (at this point) not read the books. It still holds true that I’ve only finished the first...

• July 22, 2007
• Moviepie Musings

How could you not be caught up in the frenzy of Harry Potter-mania in this last week? Now, I, for one, have only read the first book, but I...

• July 11, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Now that a solid handful of Harry Potter adaptations have made it to the big screen, I’m going to offer a theory. Any Trekkie knows that until, say movie...

• November 18, 2005
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

The first two Harry Potter films, directed by Chris Columbus (of Home Alone infamy) left me restless and glassy-eyed. The films sure looked great, but they were missing a...

• November 14, 2002
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Before I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I had asked several people what they had thought of the film, as I tried to decide whether or...