by Jim Stitzel | Jul 20, 2007 | General
Not surprisingly, there are folks at various bookstores around the country who are already standing in line for the seventh and final Harry Potter novel. Personally, I think this is kind of ridiculous. I know I’ve been as eager to find out how it ends as the...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 1, 2007 | General
The final installment of the Harry Potter series, _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_, is “set to be released on July 21st”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/01/new.potter.date.ap/index.html. This is music to my ears, especially considering that...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 27, 2006 | General
“Comingsoon.net”:http://www.comingsoon.net has posted up “5 pictures”:http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16645 from the upcoming fifth film in the “Harry Potter”:http://www.harrypotter.com series, due to hit theatres on...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 1, 2005 | General
bq. Now is the time that we must choose between what is right, and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore This quote from the movie _Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_ is a variation on a quote from the book itself, and it carries a valuable lesson that can be applied to...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 28, 2005 | Technology
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire How do you condense a 734 page book into a 2.5-hour movie? The answer is that you don’t. _Goblet_ was an exercise in thumbnail moviemaking. Each scene was little more than a visual sketch of each chapter in the book, jerking...
