Like the boy that shares its name, the Harry Potter series stumbled from the gate, saddled not entirely unexpectedly with inexperience and immaturity. But then, as with the boy, something truly wonderful—even magical—happened. It grew into something to be immensely, colossally, button-poppingly proud of. Unlike nearly every adaptation Hollywood produces, the Harry Potter films, taken [...]

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Colin Firth, who should have won a Best Actor Oscar last year for A Single Man, will very likely claim the prize this year for The King’s Speech, a beautifully crafted, sturdily constructed, sublimely written story shimmering with robust humanity and impish wit.

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According to Newtonian physics, the universe is ruled by entropy, an unfortunate principle that states that, given enough time, any system will advance from order to disorder. Obviously no one informed the folks behind the Harry Potter [...]

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