For those of you who haven’t kept up with the backstory to the Wizarding World stories, which encompasses Harry Potter and indeed Fantastic Beasts, you may not be familiar with Grindelwald, bar for the name. You may have heard the name crop up once or twice, so this film helps to solidify who the wizard is and what sorts of crimes he committed – As well as what sort of relationship he had to some of the more prolific characters of Harry Potter.
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November 18, 2018 | Categories: Film, Reviews | Tags: Bowtruckle, Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts, film, Grindelwald, Harry Potter, J. k. Rowling, Johnny Depp, Niffler, Review, Spoiler-Free, Wizarding World, Zouwu | Leave a comment

If I were to tell you that films aren’t always a completely unique script, you’d not be surprised. Book-to-film is quite common these days, where we see plenty of movies being made from literature that should have just stayed that way. Hey, sometimes the movies are actually alright, but we just have to accept the original prose was just better. So, as subjective as this list will be, these are our Top 10 Films That Were Better As Books.
As a warning for this list, when we say books, we are not discounting Graphic Novels, including Manga. You have been warned. (more…)
May 12, 2018 | Categories: Film, Literature, Top 10 | Tags: Alan Moore, Annihilation, Books, Bram Stoker, Dr. Seuss, dracula, Films, films that were better as books, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gene Brewer, Going Postal, Harry Potter, Homer, I Robot, Isaac Asimov, J. k. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jeff VanderMeer, K-Pax, Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, The Golden Compass, The Hobbit, The Iliad, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Lorax, Top 10, Troy | 5 Comments
At this time of the year, people like to take time off work. They like to spend time with their family and to enjoy a nice glass of warm mulled wine. They like to play games, they like to catch up on a spot of reading. It’s precisely the right season to be jolly and to fill the mind with a lot of wondrous text – And that’s why you’re here, right audience?! Oh dear, I’ve lost you again haven’t I? Nevermind, for those of you who stuck around, here’s my favourite 10 books to read through the Christmas season.
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December 19, 2016 | Categories: GeekOut discussion, Literature, Short Stories | Tags: A Christmas Carol, Best Christmas Books, C.S Lewis, Charles Dickens, Dr. Seuss, George R. R. Martin, Great Christmas Reads, Greatest Christmas Books, Harry Potter, J. k. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Raymond Briggs, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, The Father Christmas Letters, the Grinch, The Hogfather, The Ice Dragon, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Pet Sematary, The Polar Express, The Snowman book, Top 10 Christmas Books | 1 Comment
If magic is your thing, then Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them definitely is the film for you. Whether or not you want to believe magic is real, or if you just love the wonderfully creative world that J.K. Rowling has created, then this adventrous film feels like the complete package. It’s got memorable characters, plenty of interaction between the wizarding and non-wizarding communities and deals with some relatively interesting topics within their world. Just what would happen if a Muggle, or a No-Maj, were to find out about the wizarding world? Read on to find out more!
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November 25, 2016 | Categories: Entertainment, Film, Reviews | Tags: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Review, film, Film Reviews, Harry Potter, J. k. Rowling, No-Maj, Pottermore, Review, Tina Goldstein | Leave a comment
Harry Potter fans rejoice, as today marks the return of JK Rowlings wizarding world in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. If you don’t know the basic premise of the film, this is just a short post to explain what it’s about, the main characters you can expect and what we expect to see in this brand new storyline. Is this a prequel to Harry Potter, is this a sequel, or is this a completely separate story? Hopefully, we’ll have the answers for you here!

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November 18, 2016 | Categories: GeekOut discussion | Tags: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Release Date, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Release Date UK, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Trailer, Harry Potter, J. k. Rowling, Magic films in America, Magic films set in New York, Magic Films Set in the United States, Muggle, Newt Scalamander, No-Maj | Leave a comment
Literature, novels and stories can be a wonderful fantasy, allowing you to escape into a world which entrances and captivates you. But the process of building a world isn’t a quick and easy one. Join Timlah as we look through a few examples of well known worlds that can be summed up easily in just one word.
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May 8, 2016 | Categories: GeekOut discussion, Literature, Short Stories | Tags: discworld, Harry Potter, J. k. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, story telling, Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic, World Building, Writing, writing skills | 3 Comments
Trees! Trees by the dozen, by the hundred! You can’t see how many trees we have because there’s a forest in the way, it’s ten!
It’s ten trees, it’s a top ten of trees, and it’s alliterative. You may have already twigged there’ll be a couple more at the end in our honourable mentions, we’re not quite ready to branch from that formula yet. So let us take a leaf out of our own book and get logging our opinions, ranking our trees, being deciduous about it. I swear I had better tree puns than this around Christmas…
Oak-Kay, let’s get this kicked off.
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August 8, 2015 | Categories: Comics, Entertainment, Film, Gaming posts, Literature, Top 10, Traditional Gaming, Video Games | Tags: Eldergleam, Ents, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy IX, Gildergleam, Goldsun, green mana, Harry Potter, Iifa Tree, J. k. Rowling, Larry Niven, Magic, Magic: The Gathering, Myst, One Piece, Pokemon, real world connections, Riven, Skyrim, Sudowoodo, The Hive, The integral trees, The Whomping Willow, Top 10, Top 10 Trees, Treants, Treasure Tree, Treasure Tree Adam, Treefolk, Trees, Trent, Warcraft, world tree, Yggdrasil | 14 Comments