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Film review: ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore After the zeitgeist-shaping triumph of the Harry Potter films, the Fantastic Beasts movies, which are essentially Potter prequels, have been a major disappointment. Whereas the Potter films brimmed with invention and the youthful energy of their extremely likeable teen cast, the Beast movies have been flat, dull, grey-brown CGI–drenched slabs with confusing plots and

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Film review: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Following the utterly enchanting Harry Potter film adaptations, the purported prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which focused on Ministry of Magic Zoologist and beast wrangler Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) was a disappointment. With a meandering plot, over-use of cgi and characters who ranged from unengaging to outright annoying, the film was confusing and dull. The sequel Fantastic Beasts:

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Film review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, from ‘Built For Speed’

Set in the 1920’s JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a prequel (of sorts) to the phenomenally successful Harry Potter films. Prequels to blockbuster film franchises have a dubious history, the horrible Star Wars prequels and erratic Hobbit films being an example. One of the problems is that the prequels are tantalisingly close but just out

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