Today is an event. It’s the premiere(ish) of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I say “ish” because there were some sneaks showing around town last night. My girl Connie Lane was supposed to have gone. Keep watching her site for the inevitable write up.
MuggleNet is all over the premiere coverage
For blog coverage:
A Review For the Fans By the Fans
It is truer to the book, although many subplots have been left out for expediency’s sake.
Barry Brake
[W]hen JKR gives you something so startlingly cinematic to begin with, why not just cut and paste? The change here actually dulls the thing, makes it boring where it shouldn’t be, and misses the point in the bargain.
And of course my write-up will be at Just Another Pretty Farce tonight.
I’m giddy like a schoolgirl. I’m going to be IMPOSSIBLE a week from Friday.
I really want to go see it but now that I am reading the books I feel compelled to have read this one first, but, as I am on the fourth one now, that seems … unlikely, at this point