Jonathan Ross of the Mirror has posted his review of Chamber of Secrets (as always, please take note of spoilers), in which he mentions the film is “about as close to being a must-see movie for the young as it’s possible to get.” [We who are not-so-young are looking forward to it, too. 🙂 And …read more!

Slate Magazine. Why isn’t the movie that comes out next week titled Ron Weasley and the Chamber of Secrets? Why isn’t its sequel dubbed Hermione Granger and the Prisoner of Azkaban? Why Harry? What makes him so special? Read the article to find out what Mr Suellentrop thinks about that – and thanks to Amy …read more!

As Ananova has summarised, the first batch of reviews for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets have “given the film the thumbs-up.”

Jeff of the Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator let us know about a blurb in the Washington Post which mentions that site. Good going, Jeff! TLC is pleased to be associated with such a tech-forward concept.

Reuters has published its review of CoS. Spoilers abound!

At Time for Kids there is an article about the film; the magazine also has an interview with Emma Watson here with a bit more info here.

Leighanne let us know that the next South Park (debuting Wednesday, November 13 at 10 pm on Comedy Central in the US) features the mountain town’s kids splitting into two costumed camps: the Lord of the Rings devotees and the Potterphiles. Wonder who’ll win?

All of us from outside the UK hope that those of you with tickets to see the sneak previews of the film this weekend have a really great time.

The Guardian has a piece about the worldwide impact of Harry Potter – the books and the movies.

Michael forwarded a blurb from Yahoo to us, which says that at the end of the credits is a very short filmed coda revealing the humorous fate of one of the principals.