A Brave Lad—a review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 Written by Steve Kloves Adapted from J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsAdapted from J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Directed by David Yates Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and most of England’s acting community It is always a mistake to think that just because a movie has kids in it, that it is a “kid’s movie”. The Harry Potter movies, like the Harry Potter books, have not been children’s books for a long time, if they ever were. Many children’s movies are…
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The Fountain
The Fountain Written and Directed by Darren Aronofsky Starring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Ellen Burstyn reviewed by Sarah Stegall Some physicists tell us that there is no such thing as time, that it is an illusion produced by our brains. Rather, they say, everything happens at once, and we only perceive it sequentially. Time is merely an artifact of existence and experience. Perhaps this is part of the concept that powered writer/director Darren Aronofsky’s (Requiem for a Dream, Pi) latest effort, The Fountain. Like origami, this film folds in on itself, with three stories spanning a thousand years overlapping like a…