The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed shortlists of semifinalists in nine categories for the 2019 Oscars race and composer James Newton Howard’s spellbinding soundtrack for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is included on the list for Best Original Score. This is the first time in 40 years that shortlists have …read more!

Harry Potter series alums have been remarkably busy over the last year, putting out an enviable body of work that could easily fill the docket of one film festival alone. However, this awards season will see this list of intriguing, dramatic, hilarious, and mysterious films featured at a variety of prominent festivals, drawing both accolades …read more!

This week has seen an exclusive debut of BBC One’s Strike, a ‘fantastic’ surprise guest coming to LeakyCon at the end of this month and our coverage of July’s Potter-filled London Film and Comic-Con. In our latest round-up, we catch up with Brendan Gleeson’s Mr Mercedes, new movies from Jason Isaacs, Holliday Grainger and Helen McCrory, and a new interview …read more!

Jason Isaacs is most well known in the Harry Potter fandom for his chilling portrayal of the pureblood patriarch, Lucius Malfoy. He played Malfoy over the course of five films, seeing the character through highs and lows, a power player and a pariah. In Chamber of Secrets, his disgust for muggles and muggle-friendly wizarding families, particularly the …read more!