From the moment the first notes play you know what it is. Before the Warner Bros logo glints quietly past or the first quiet Lumos Maxima is whispered, even before Daniel Radcliffe’s mess of black hair makes an appearance, you recognise what you’re watching. The Harry Potter films have some of the most identifiable soundtracks […]
The music of multi-award winning American composer, John Williams, maintains a special place in the WASO repertoire; and this, the second concert in the WASO 2017 Pops Series, pays tribute to the man who has composed some of the most popular and instantly recognisable film scores in the history of cinema. Winner of five Academy […]
Heart-throb actor Jude Law will play a younger version of Harry Potter wizard Dumbledore in the next Fantastic Beasts film. Law will play a younger version of the character previously played by veteran actors Richard Harris and Michael Gambon. He will star opposite Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald, Dumbledore’s teen friend who turns into one […]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Dir: David Yates | M | In Cinemas Now | ★ ★ ★ ★ If you’ve been missing the spell that the Potterverse has cast over the big screen over the last 15 years the Fantastic Beasts will satisfy your craving. Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne picks up the wand as […]
If Hillary Clinton becomes President it will leads to more children turning gay, according to an outspoken American pastor Kevin Swanson. Pastor Kevin Swanson took to his weekly radio show to complain about what would happen to America should the Democrat candidate end up in the White House. The pastor’s broadcast included warnings about public […]
Miriam Margolyes is many things: a star of stage and screen, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to drama, and as of 2013, an Australian citizen. Many will be familiar with her as Professor Sprout in the ‘Harry Potter’ or Aunt Prudence on ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’. I caught […]
POP! at Connections Nightclub was taken over by Harry Potter and the curious creatures of Hogwarts.
Good news for those who love surreal murder mysteries, boy wizards and Manolo Blahniks. Several popular cultural phenomenons are allegedly poised to make comebacks. First off the bat is iconic 1990s murder mystery thriller/art piece ‘Twin Peaks’, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s tale of murdered schoolgirl Laura Palmer and the small, eery town rattled by […]
An article recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology entitled ‘The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice’, has reported the findings of examining the attitudes of primary, secondary and university students towards particular social groups in relation to their knowledge of J.K. Rowlings’ hugely popular fiction series. The article covered three related studies. […]