Guest Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)

It’s going to be hard for me not to turn this into a fifty-page essay, because I am an enormous Harry Potter fan. I have been since I was ten years old. I’ve re-read all the books more times than I can remember, I wrote so much embarrassingly bad fan-fiction as a preteen, and I’ve …

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Remembering Alan Rickman – Seven favorite roles of the iconic British thespian

It's with a heavy heart that I write this post… I had planned on highlighting his career on his birthday later next month, as I had written this piece six years ago as a tribute. I have always loved British actors and Alan Rickman is certainly at the top of the list of those iconic …

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Thursday Movie Picks #36: Movies adapted from a Young Adult Novel

Happy Thursday everyone! This is another entry to the weekly Thursday Movie Picks that's spearheaded by Wandering Through the Shelves Blog. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to …

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British Acting Royalty on Harry Potter Movies: My Top Ten Favorites

Last week, Roger Ebert tweeted 'Why haven't Helen Mirren and Judi Dench ever made a Harry Potter film?' Hmmm, good question, Mr. Ebert... why haven't they? I certainly would LOVE to see both of them in at least one or two installments. Then a few days later, I read a piece of news report about …

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