Well, it's been a while, huh? I didn't forget about Letterboxd, I just legitimately have not watched any new MOVIES since I re-watched Harry Potter. I've mainly been watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (which is fantastic so far, by the way) and focusing on school, so movies haven't been a priority of mine. However, this is a film I needed to watch for my film literature class, and I haven't seen it in a hot second, so…

Here's the thing... I don't even really think this movie is perfect. It still falls under a lot of the magical inconsistencies that have plagued this franchise from the start and still has quite a few serendipities that allow characters to escape from deadly situations. Despite all of that, though, this movie had a pretty big task to fill, which was to finish off the story of The Boy Who Lived. This film had to wrap up the arcs of…

The only thing I knew about this movie was the incredibly famous line, "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me." That was it. I thought that the line and the seduction was only a short scene in the film. I didn't know the entire film was going to revolve around that. As such, I had no idea what to expect with this movie. I didn't know whether I would think it was overrated or whether I would like it. I…

My god, I forgot how truly masterful and beautifully helmed this movie is. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban has always felt different from every other Harry Potter film to me. It feels like an outlier amongst all of the other films, and I mean that in the best way possible. Chris Columbus, Mike Newell, and David Yates all brought a similar tone to Harry Potter with their direction. That doesn't mean that their direction was repetitive, but to…