I'm a little shocked right now to say that for the second
week running the notoriously fickle machine some refer to as
"Hollywood" is pumping out something of quality. I'm
actually going to the movies twice in the next weekend (once
for a certain flick about a child wizard and his daffy
friends and again for an over-due screening of Drag Me To
Hell at the amazing Castro Theatre) and this, this is a
rare thing indeed. Two evenings of popcorn shoveled in to
my yam, feet knocking against the seat in front of me, my
eyes glued to the celluloid before me.
Hah, I'm shaking my head just thinking about it. Lets
dig in!
As always, thanks for reading.
Hitting Theaters This Weekend:
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
Director:
David Yates
Cast:
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Summary:
The sixth film in the now eight-part Harry Potter
series, in which our young wizard like friend jumps the
whiny years of pre-adolescent directly in to the dangerous
waters of young adulthood. Wizards are involved.
Thoughts:
Can't fucking wait. I fought my love for Harry Potter
and all things related for a long time, but thanks to a good
friend named marijuana and a dangerously hungover Sunday
morning, I found myself deeply immersed. I've read all the
books (aside from number two - please blame the drugs) and
seen all the films, and with the wide world hailing this as
the best of the series and one of the better films of the
year, I've already sent my cape to the cleaner, polished the
varnish on my wand, and can hardly wait to settle on in to
this one.
Rotten Tomatoes Score:
84%
Final Thoughts:
That's all I got this week. This film is such a behemoth it
scared every studio to their dark caves, where they've spent
the weeks writing proposals for remakes of terrible 80s
shows.
Noah Sanders is the blog/news editor at Light In The
Attic and a contributor at Sound On The Sound and
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