Harry Potter

The latest entry to the Wizarding World franchise has arrived to a muted fanfare. With its predecessor muddying the critical waters, The Secrets of Dumbledore carries a considerable weight on its shoulders. Does it recapture the magic that…

Lights, Camera, Action Button! is a series exploring film-to-game adaptations in regard to their faithfulness, quality and value long after the original film may have passed into nostalgia. For its first edition Jack Ford looks at Harry…

Darach, Peadar and Gearóidín look at translating Harry Potter agus an Órchloch as translated by Máire Nic Mhaoláin on this Motherfoclóir. We consider the many challenges and opportunities that a translator tackling such a well-kown text has…

Your favourite fake DJ Michael Fry joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the obscure fantasy series Harry Potter. Michael read the first Harry Potter book when he was seven and the last film came out when he was eighteen. (If your Juvenalia…

What happens when a children’s story is no longer for or about children? That’s the gaping hole at the heart of The Crimes of Grindelwald, the first Fantastic Beasts sequel and the latest outing from J.K Rowling's Wizarding World.…

The House with a Clock in Its Walls is the story of an orphaned boy accidentally finding himself immersed in a world of supernatural hocus pocus. Haven’t we seen all this before? Following the death of his parents, dictionary-loving…

Welcome back. It’s still January. Somehow. I’m not sure what the exact date is, but I could swear it was the 38th some day last week. Of course, being named after the two-faced Roman god Janus, there’s another side to January and I, for…

There is a certain well-known secret that is whispered in the Harry Potter Universe somewhere between the general failure of Daniel Radcliffe’s recent acting career and the strange charisma that exudes from Michael Gambon’s creepy…

*Some Spoilers* Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has a sense of magic about it that has absolutely nothing to do with CGI or mystical creatures. David Yates seems to be catering to the audience that grew up with the Harry Potter…

"The eighth story. Nineteen years later." reads the back cover of the play script, in lieu of a more detailed blurb. Nor are there endorsing quotations from other acclaimed authors and playwrights. Such is the hype surrounding the release…