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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Harry Potter franchise introduced audiences to the Wizarding World, a universe that's filled to the brim with magical humans, secret communities, and enchanted creatures. Harry Potter is also rich ...

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 ...

Sirius Black may have discovered how to escape from Azkaban, but can you? Project Escape in Conshohocken is challenging muggles and wizards to escape its Harry Potter-inspired room. Black had several ...

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 ...