Below is an account of my first-ever Harry Potter midnight release. I wrote it shortly afterwards, but it has been sitting in my drafts for several months, unpublished, because I never actually finished my review of the story itself. Until now. Date: July 30th, 2016. Time: 11 p.m. It’s my first Harry Potter midnight book/story/script…
I feel a bit like Charlie Brown around Christmastime. Not feeling the same Christmas spirit that everyone else is feeling. I open Facebook and every post is “Cursed Child” this and “Cursed Child” that, and my reaction isn’t to open each article to devour the latest news. My reaction is a very Charlie Brown-ish reaction: that it’s…
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…
July 21, 2007—seven years ago last Monday—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in our beloved series, hit bookstore shelves. It seems that everyone and their brother wrote a “where I was for the release” article on Monday, because seven years after the seventh book is not an anniversary to take lightly.…
Two sides are at war. Battles are televised. Interviews with each side are televised. You watch them. You hang on to every word. But you don’t really know, deep down, who to trust. You don’t know who the real enemy is. You only know what your parents tell you, and what their parents told them.…
From start to finish: I understand that I’m writing these last few reviews of the Harry Potter video game franchise out-of-order. I vastly preferred this game to its predecessor, Deathly Hallows Part 1, in part because this game features Hogwarts, where the previous one did not. Of course, the story for the Deathly Hallows Part…
Updated on July 22nd, 2011, after I saw the movie a second time, which I felt the need to do, because I missed so much the first time. A few points about the music were added, plus more about Dumbledore’s “turning a line” in King’s Cross Station, as well as a paragraph (the second) about…