As many readers know, this is my third trip to the halls of Harry Potter's stomping grounds, Hogwarts, by way of the big screen. I make this statement because I think is always bears mentioning that I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Potter has forever been immortalised in the minds of everyone by JK Rowling. Be it Hermoine Granger, Harry Potter or Ron Weasley, these characters are still remebered today. Even after years ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's the height of Spooky Season, which makes it the perfect time to rewatch some classic haunting films. While you might not ...

When I first saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban my reaction wasn't so bright and cheery. I had just powered through the series in a Harry Potter-centric college course (a surprisingly great ...

But it turns out there's one little detail in the third movie that even the most devoted of Potterheads might have missed. A great number of people have only just discovered that there's a rather ...

Prisoner of Azkaban takes most of what we’ve learned about Harry’s history and starts putting it all together. This story is where the major arc of Harry’s tale really switches into high gear, ...

Bisma strongly believes pop culture shapes human lives. She is particularly concerned about the media portrayals of gender, class, race, and sexuality on television, their intersectionality, and ...

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 ...