One of the most interesting tributes of the 74th Hunger Games was Thresh of District 11. Unfortunately, he wasn’t featured that much in the film, though he did catch Katniss’ attention many times throughout The Hunger Games. The most interesting thing, however, is wondering how Thresh dies in the Hunger Games, as it’s never really […]
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No fantasy story is really complete without a dragon or two. But if you thought to add a dragon to your fantasy epic is as easy as just plopping in a random giant lizard onto a scene, think again, friend: in fantasy lore, the creatures we know as dragons can actually be separated into different
“The Island of Misfit Toys” is a phrase many people use nowadays to describe a place where they can all be themselves, accepted and free from judgment. It really is an amazing concept, but where exactly did the phrase come from? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer The movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was released in 1964
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America is at the grip of a terrifying disease: ligma cancer. What is ligma cancer? It’s an offshoot of Bofa, and if left untreated can lead to the deadlier sugma and sugondese, maybe even the dreaded Grabahan. But what is ligma? Well if you have to ask Ligma Balls. Haha! Get it?! Ligma sounds like
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Ever since Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out, there’s been a spotlight on the entire series and questions and accusations about how inclusive the original books are to people of color. This started in 2016 when the West End production cast actress Noma Dumezweni – an award-winning black actress – to play the
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One of the darkest magical objects in the Harry Potter series, horcruxes play an important part in the series. Author J.K. Rowling says that the books are about accepting death, so the fact that these Horcruxes are made with the purposes of escaping death make the books more complicated. In the Harry Potter universe, Horcruxes
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While the years the Harry Potter books take place between 1991 to 1998, the lore J.K. Rowling provides us of the wizarding world dates back centuries. Hogwarts, for example, was established around the 10th century by the original four founders that made Hogwart’s four houses, almost a thousand years before Harry Potter was even born.
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In an earlier article, we pit Percy Jackson against Harry Potter in both a magical deathmatch, and a franchise showdown, with both instances seeing Harry and the gang triumph over the Riordan’s demi-gods. But that’s Young Adult Literature stuff; how would The Boy Who Lived live up against the granddaddy of modern fantasy epics: The
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It’s been almost 18 years since the first film of the Wizarding World franchise, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone, if you’re from the United States) first came out. And while the series features plenty of magical creatures civilization has known for centuries, no one ever seems to remember the scene with
With the impending release of the rest of the Fantastic Beasts series (for better or worse), I feel like it’s high-time to relive the original magic of the Wizarding World by having a Harry Potter movie marathon! As one of the very few film series to be Certified Fresh for every one of its movies,
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