Andrew McGowan studied at Bowdoin College and the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Hs has served on programming and judicial teams for several film festivals, and has written about cinema ...

We live in a world that sees the Harry Potter films as inevitabilities. Of course the monstrously successful book series that shifted how we thought about the literature of children and young adults ...

The Hufflepuff quest, as part of finding lost pages from a mystical book, is one of four variants that has a different take on this same storyline, only in this one, it sends you to Azkaban, the ...

A powerful dialogue from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban reminds us that even during life’s darkest moments, hope ...

There is no bigger fantasy franchise in the world than Harry Potter. The book series was incredibly successful and the Harry Potter movies managed to pull off a very difficult feat as all eight films ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: WB) Remember the good old days when a new Harry Potter movie or book arrived seemingly every year to provide us ...

2004’s adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban faced some big challenges. Chris Columbus, who had directed the first two films, was moving on. Richard Harris, who had originally played ...

The essence of romanticism, said the German writer E.T.A. Hoffman, is “infinite longing.” With the marvelous “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” J.K. Rowling’s work has finally gotten the ...

1. After Chris Columbus declined to direct a third Harry Potter movie, WB pursued a number of potential replacements before settling on Alfonso Cuarón. That lineup included M. Night Shyamalan, ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

This new Potter picture will cast a spell on its fanbase. But the broomstick’s losing altitude HP3 has a new director on board: Alfonso Cuarón, widely understood to be introducing a darker, more grown ...

It's another year at the Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and you know what that means: Harry, Ron and Hermione are up to no good. The group, which always seems to find trouble, has ...