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RIP Michael Gambon

It’s easy to roll one’s eyes at popular culture, especially something as overwhelming as the eight-film Harry Potter series, which parked itself in cinemas worldwide for a full decade back when the millennium still had that new-car smell. Whether a supporter or disparager of the films (truth be told I side with the former, beginning with the Alfonso Cuarón-helmed Prisoner of Azkaban), one has to admit the series introduced a generation of young movie goers to a murderers’ row of British acting legends, many of whom they otherwise probably Continue reading

Greatest Book-to-Film Adaptation Ever! (Pt. 1)

It’s no easy thing to successfully adapt a beloved piece of literature into an equally satisfying movie. Whereas a book can meander, a movie depends on a certain tightness of structure to keep its running time and budget manageable. Which is why audiences familiar with a particular book often leave the theater grumpy that certain scenes, plot lines and characters have been discarded. On the flip side, a movie adaptation can be too slavish to its

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