When the eminent Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron was brought on to direct the third (and still best) Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, he proved that the franchise would be strongest when it departed from a rote retelling of J.K. Rowling‘s books and charted its own identity and style. As the books progressed, each [...]
Read More action, adventure, blu-ray, Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, DVD, family, Fantasy, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon, PG-, Steve Kloves, willWhile I haven’t read the book by German author Cornelia Funke that inspired this $60 million fantasy starring Brendan Fraser, I can say with some certainty that it’s probably much, much better than the lackluster lump of a movie director Iain Softley makes out of it. The gimmick here is that Fraser can bring characters [...]
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