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Review: 🎬 The Philosopher’s Stone brings imagination to life 🎬

When a mysterious giant reveals to him that he’s a magical wizard on his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter enters a world he never could’ve imagined in his wildest dreams. Fantastical and frightening, navigating the class politics will be the least of his concerns when darkness and conspiracy descend on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Trolls, three-headed dogs, and a dragon stand in Harry’s way to finding out about his dead parents and the events that left him dubbed The Boy Who Lived. Continue reading Review: 🎬 The Philosopher’s Stone brings imagination to life 🎬

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Book Reviews

Review: 📚 The Philosopher’s Stone is a millennial’s nostalgic kryptonite 📚

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! Continue reading Review: 📚 The Philosopher’s Stone is a millennial’s nostalgic kryptonite 📚

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TV Reviews

Review: 📺 Reacher finally brings the titular character to life 📺

Fresh off the bus in the idyllic little town of Margrave, Reacher is exploring his newfound freedom from the Army when he’s arrested for a murder he never committed. Forced to battle with his want to leave and his need to do the right thing, Reacher goes to war with a town with an incredibly dark secret under its sunny veneer. Continue reading Review: 📺 Reacher finally brings the titular character to life 📺

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Book Reviews

Review: 📚 Killing Floor introduces us to one of the best characters in crime fiction 📚

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret.
Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure:
They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Continue reading Review: 📚 Killing Floor introduces us to one of the best characters in crime fiction 📚

Unknown's avatarMatthew Robert Bell1 Comment