IT'S fair to say that not many Hollywood movie stars hail from Blackpool. But the Lancashire seaside resort is the birthplace of actor David Thewlis, who has starred alongside A-Listers including Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio and is best known recently for playing Rumus Lupin in the Harry Potter f...

Filipino blogger and writer Charles Tan has been a quiet but persistent force in the online world, producing quality interviews with some of the western world’s top science fiction and fantasy authors while working to promote speculative fiction in his own country. Tell me a little bit about yours...

The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

I know that I've been posting a lot about the Share a Story - Shape a Future literacy blog tour this week. But there have been lots of other things going on around the Kidlitosphere, too. Here are a few highlights: The latest issue of Notes from the Horn Book (a free email newsletter from the Ho...

1. If you could spend a day with any Harry Potter character who would you choose and why? I'm gonna have to go with Ron. This is simply because I am in love with him. I would get sleazy for Weasley. lol. 2. Which Deathly Hallow would you choose? Well, I have absolutely no desire for the wand. The st...

"QUANTUM SHOT" #544 Link - Article by by Frederik de Graaf and Avi Abrams "Famous Hell Drivers - Racing Lions - Feminine Courage!" Since there was no "Harry Potter" in IMAX 3-D in the 1930s, where would you go to see an ultimate spectacle? You'd go to the amusement park to see motorcycles roaring up...

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters etc... Harry Potter and the Lord of Damascus (Working Title) Chapter One – Solaris “I’d like first to thank our humble guest for granting CWN, with this highly exclusive chat. As most in our business know, and I reckon most in the audience k...

a construction zonebuilding us a new normalwith noise and plastic The equipment is here, the supplies are on their way. Thankfully, the nurses at the hospital helped us stockpile a bunch of stuff to help cut costs. It's all tucked stealthily away in the closet under the stairs; the Harry Potters of ...

1. If you could spend a day with any Harry Potter character who would you choose and why? What an incredibly hard question. Are we allowed to go with dead characters? I hope so. I think I would have to pick Dumbledore. A conversation with Dumbledore would just be way too good to pass up. And I would...

In our continued effort to understand the American moviegoer’s psyche, we uncover a diamond of truth revealed to us this weekend during the Watchmen premiere. At the expense of throwing away originality, we love stories that we already know. Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the greatest graph...