A giant sprawling novel that jumps between times and locations with multiple characters that don’t intersect often remains on the page as filmmakers decide that it’s too much for a cinema screen. How is an audience supposed to follow the film without constantly asking each other, “What’s going on now?” or “Where are we?” Filmmakers … Read more
For the movie adaptations of JK Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter novels, the character of Peeves the Poltergeist was to be played by the late, great Rik Mayall. The character was eventually cut from the first movie by director Chris Columbus, so did not appear in any subsequent films either. For
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