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Starsight (Skyward, #2)
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All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She...
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The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria
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This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary...
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The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
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How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong...
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Granta 124: Travel
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Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster...
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Who Needs Books?: Reading in the Digital Age
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"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one...
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Samantha Reece (16 KP) rated Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) in Movies
Nov 20, 2018 (Updated Nov 20, 2018)
Personally, I loved it! Yes, there is the whole McGonagall not being born yet situation, but I can look past that to all the depth put into the movie. It provided the audience with an overload of information to prepare the viewer for future movies. Newt has become my favorite character! Also, the baby Nifflers are adorable. Let’s not forget to mention that huge twist in the end! I’m still slightly confused over THAT, but there are lots of theories and ideas going through my brain. So, if you are a Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts fan, go watch it!
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Africa's Bowhunter: Magazine for Hunters
Sports and Magazines & Newspapers
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AFRICA's BOWHUNTER is the magazine for the bowhunter, archery enthusiast and game farmer. We mainly...
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Christmas at Tiffany's
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Christmas at Tiffany's is an exciting, globetrotting story of friendship and romance from Karen...
Science, Technology and Society in the Third World: An Annotated Bibliography
D. Stephen Voss, Carl L. Bankston and Wesley Shrum
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This reference source lists and summarizes nearly one thousand English-language articles and books...
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Gareth von Kallenbach (971 KP) rated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) in Movies
Aug 8, 2019
Like returning to your childhood home, it all looks familiar, but everything feels different. Gone are the school preparations, the train ride to Hogwarts, uniformed students jostling about, the easygoing camaraderie between our favorite trio, all the whimsical elements we’ve come to expect in a Harry Potter movie. Instead we have unease, sorrow and anger taking turns in the form of Hermione, Harry and Ron.
The Deathly Hallows Part I is the first of a two-part adaptation of the final book of J.K. Rowling’s popular series. Just like the anticipation of getting the seventh and final book, my excitement at screening this movie was tempered with the dread of seeing the series end. I actually did not have high expectations for this installment as the first part of the book was slow-paced and, not unlike another movie about wizards and elves, had a lot of walking and searching. But instead of one elusive ring, Harry, Hermione and Ron are searching for three Horcruxes, objects in which Harry’s nemesis, Lord Voldemort has implanted a part of his soul in his quest to achieve immortality. While they seek clues to the remaining Horcruxes, they learn that Voldemort seeks one of three Deathly Hallows, three sacred objects, the stories of which are revealed in a beautifully mesmerizing shadow-puppet sequence.
Director David Yates balances dark action with solid storytelling and arresting cinematography. Daniel Radcliffe is in turn sympathetic and charming as the heavily burdened hero. Rupert Grint’s Ron Weasley brings most of the movie’s humor again, but he’s most impressive when he becomes believably tortured and resentful when the dark magic of Voldemort’s Horcrux takes over. Emma Watson gracefully infuses the normally astute and self-assured Hermione with weary resolve and poignant anguish. The most charged moments are of course when the trio share the screen with the dark wizards, the most notable played with relish by Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort and Helena Bonham Carter as his most ardent minion, Bellatrix.
Having waited what felt like an eternity for this installment, it seems almost cruel to be made to wait until next summer for the conclusion. But that’s the only real complaint I can make about this movie. Widely and wildly anticipated, Deathly Hallows Part I will not disappoint.