screen |skr_n| |skrin| |skri_n| noun • a blank, typically white or silver surface on which a photographic image is projected : the world's largest movie screen • movies or television; the motion-picture industry : she's a star of the stage as well as the screen. verb [ trans. ] • protect (someone) from something dangerous or unpleasant • evaluate or analyze (something) for its suitability for a particular purpose or application


Monday, July 23, 2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

After my second viewing, I have to restate the tragedy of Imelda Staunton, who gives a perfect, creepy, wicked performance, but because of the weak Rowling plot, her motives remain unclear. It is a performance worthy of a better script. Odd, too, that so many of the ostensibly key gadgets from earlier books, the marauders map, the invisibility cloak, etc. might have come in handy here. But they, like so many plot threads, are ignored and left hanging. The 3-D finale was cool, though.

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