'The Lord of the Rings,' 'Harry Potter' and more classic fantasy series beloved by readers Many major storylines throughout the "Harry Potter" series take place at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where witches and wizards learn about the power they possess. The main ... 03/15/2024 - 1:37 pm | View Link
77 Magical Harry Potter Quotes for Wizards and Muggles Alike "We must unite inside ... not harm Harry Potter!" —Dobby, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. "Dobby is free!" might be the most remembered of all the Dobby quotes, but it's equally satisfying to ... 03/14/2024 - 2:14 pm | View Link
Harry Potter Actress 'Worried' About Adult Fans: 'They Should Be Over That By Now' Class is dismissed for Harry Potter fans, according to Miriam Margolyes, the actress who played Professor Sprout in the series. Margolyes’ character taught students at Hogwarts School of ... 03/8/2024 - 1:21 pm | View Link
Harry Potter: 7 Best Healing Spells Episkey is useful for minor injuries like broken noses, commonly used by many wizards, including Luna Lovegood. In Harry Potter, spells are an essential piece of magic used by wizards all over the ... 03/1/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Very 1st print version of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sold at auction for more than $13,000 The "very first appearance in print" of the first book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series was bought for less than a dollar more than a quarter-century ago. This week, it was sold in an auction ... 02/27/2024 - 1:39 am | View Link
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
ASIAN CINEMA CELEBRATION Veteran Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming edition of the Festival of Far East Film in Italy’s Udine (April 24 – May 2). The lineup will include three films by Zhang: his 2023 political thriller “Under the Light” in its competition section; as […]
The Busan International Film Festival has postponed the appointment of a permanent festival director. A new leader may be appointed after this year’s edition in October. Pak Dosin, a former senior programmer, has been appointed as co-deputy director in a dual-leadership structure, alongside co-deputy director Kang Seung-ah. That means that this year’s festival will be […]
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a retrospective featuring classic titles spawned by the Hollywood studio between the dawn of sound and the late 1950s. The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director […]
Just 48 hours after a show in San Diego and less than 24 hours before he is set to perform at San Francisco’s Chase Center, Bruce Springsteen logged some serious (private) air miles for a surprise performance at country superstar Zach Bryan’s concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night.