> When the announcement was made that Warner Bros would split HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS into 2 full-length movies, there was a certain amount of cynicism about studio greed–and, indeed, why not pick up an extra...
Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series. It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. R...
Everything is a little smoother in 2002’s HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. The young actors give more assured performances; Steve Kloves’ script, having gotten so much exposition out of its w...
Whatever one can say about Chris Columbus–and there’ll be plenty of less than glowing words about him below–he’s the man who cast Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the leads in 200...