Two years ago in December, J.K. Rowling announced via her Facebook page that she would be producing a play featuring Harry Potter in the West End (theatre district) of London. Since then, we have a few more details about it, but not much. Firstly, we have the title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. I’m also…
This fall’s most anticipated movie is obvious: Mockingjay, Part 2. The movie producers certainly have a way of hyping fans up before the release. As with the previous film, there have been staged social media “hacks”. I think it’s really clever when this “life imitating art” strategy is used to promote movies. The same strategy was used…
Yesterday, I posted an article theorizing the answers to these questions: “Where is the American Wizarding school located? What is it called?” While writing that article, so many more questions floated to my mind’s surface, too many to include in the article I write yesterday. I therefore decided that an additional article to house these questions…
Congratulations! You are only about 440 days away from seeing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! While we have so many more answers than we had two years ago when Fantastic Beasts was first announced (I can’t believe it’s already been two years), there are still so many questions. Let’s start with what we know: David Yates is…
So many TV shows reach a peak season, then after a while, they become stale. Viewers stop watching and producers are forced to cancel the show. This certainly happened with Glee. This certainly is not happening with Downton. Downton Abbey‘s viewership is as high as it has ever been. The story has not become remotely…
My 12th grade English class studies Macbeth. My favorite production to show them has always been the filmed minimalist stage production with Sir Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. Granted, it can be a little boring for some students who are used to flashy and colorful video games and movies,…
On August 25th, Pottermore released this announcement: Duel bravely, brew well and help lead your house to glory in the last House Cup, which will be awarded on September 9. Soon after the final House Cup is awarded, prepare for a new journey to begin. As J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World expands, so too will Pottermore. We’ll…
It’s September 1st, and I don’t know about you, but my social media feeds were pretty well saturated with posts about missing the train to Hogwarts for the Nth year in a row, or some who claimed that they had boarded the Hogwarts Express (“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why…
James Sirius Potter (or James Potter II), Harry and Ginny Potter’s firstborn son, boarded the Hogwarts Express at King’s Cross station today. This makes James two years older than his younger brother, Albus Severus Potter, who we know from the Deathly Hallows epilogue, “Nineteen Years Later”, will board the Express to Hogwarts in 2017. We know this,…
Even though I need another dinosaur movie in my life, like, yesterday, I (or we) have to wait another three years to see another one, at least one from the Jurassic franchise. That’s right—Jurassic World 2 (which has no official title yet) will hit theaters on June 22nd, 2018. Sigh. That’s a long wait. But why announce…