Mind the gap! Between the train and the platform? No, between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy. While George Lucas may have bridged the three-year gap between Episode II and Episode III with two Clone Wars TV shows and a Clone Wars movie, the eighteen-year gap between Episodes III and IV remains relatively untouched. That’s where…
Disappointment hit me hard in October. I found out then that a game I was expecting to be delivered in 2015 wouldn’t be delivered until 2016. That game is called Obduction. That game is produced by Cyan and is the “spiritual successor” to Myst. Riven, the sequel to Myst, was one of my all-time favorite…
The Wizarding World you thought you knew is much larger than you imagined. History has many secrets. The official story is never the whole story. In classic myths and legends, we try to explain the unexplainable. In Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, Greeks explain how Prometheus disobeyed Zeus and gave the human race a way to light…
Severus Snape and the Marauders is the prequel fan film that Harry Potter fans needed. I had always thought, if we were ever to get an official prequel, that it would feature the marauders. But no, instead, we live in a world where the next official prequel features the author of a Hogwarts textbook. Don’t get…
The naysayers said it couldn’t be done. But then again, Peter Jackson has proven everyone wrong before. Remember The Hobbit? Three movies from nineteen chapters. I mean, Jackson really is the expert at making a Misty Mountain from a Hobbit Hole. “I really just make it up as I go along,” Jackson has stated, “I can turn two paragraphs…
Happy New Year! What a year 2015 was. During 2015, we saw Pottermore’s complete overhaul (for good or for worse). We went to the very first GeekyCon. We saw the film adaptation of John Green’s novel Paper Towns. We saw the last Hunger Games movie. We saw season five of Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey. We read yet another Cormoran Strike novel. We saw…
As December marches nearer, every week we see more and more clips from The Force Awakens. From the trailers that we have seen so far, I feel as though I can definitively say that this is the reboot that Star Wars deserves. I don’t know any actual data for this question, but if I were to post a…
If this is your first time hearing about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, you might be a “no-maj”. Fantastic Beasts is, of course, one of two schoolbooks of Harry’s that J.K. Rowling published in 2001 during the unbearably long wait between Goblet of Fire (published in 2000) and Order of the Phoenix (published in 2003). It’s…
Raking in $652 million in the United States alone, Jurassic World was by far the highest grossing movie this year. It also currently holds the title of the third highest grossing of all time, though I expect the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, out December 13th, to beat Jurassic World handily, but let’s save that for…
About two months ago, I wrote an article titled “Magic in American Culture” where I discussed the possible differences between the American Wizarding World and the British Wizarding World. Within that article, I pointed out that Wizarding culture is very rooted in history and that it doesn’t seem to like change. In that article, I…