On the surface, what made the Harry Potter film franchise great is present in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. You can see the components clear as day, as if you’ve lined up all the ingredients for a potion next to…
Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Get ready to feel at home with this new adventure set in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. David Yates, director of the last four Harry Potter films, returns for this new five-part film series, written for the screen by Rowling herself.…
7 Thoughts on the New ‘Fantastic Beasts’ 5 Film Franchise
With new information about Fantastic Beasts from its Global IMAX fan event, it inspired me to take a moment to reflect on the fact that we will be revisiting the wizarding world in a matter of weeks – which is…
A Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Harry Potter film franchise is a cinematic achievement in and of itself. No other series I can think of relied so heavily on careful precision and consistency. Over the course of a decade, eight films were made retaining the same…
Movie Review: The Legend of Tarzan
What an underwhelming summer movie season it has been thus far, with so many big blockbusters falling short of expectations. Unfortunately, I have to add The Legend of Tarzan to the bunch, a new spin on the classic story that…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Featurette: ‘A New Hero’
We learn a little more about JK Rowling’s newest protagonist Newt Scamander in the new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them featurette “A New Hero.” The film takes place in New York, 1926, when a self-proclaimed magizoologist Newt Scamander…
First Trailer for The Legend of Tarzan Debuts
Apparently not content with the success of Cinderella alone, Hollywood is now reviving Tarzan, which, if anything else, had one of the best soundtracks of 1999. Being predictably rebooted, the new film stars Alexander Skarsgard as the titular Tarzan, and, more importantly and fittingly,…