The teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh of the series, has surfaced online. It appears tacked onto the end of some commentary and behind-the-scenes shots, and it’s fairly short. This is the first major look at what’s to come in the film, so without further ado, enjoy…
I finally got around to watching The Brothers Grimm, and interesting movie that caught my attention when it was released in 2005. I didn’t know it at the time, but it turns out it was directed by Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python fame). The Brothers Grimm is set in France-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic era. […]
Sword and Laser, a podcast that is a fantasy/sci-fi book club of sorts, has published an interview with Brandon Sanderson, the author of the new Wheel of Time book. In the 27 minute-long MP3, Sanderson talks about how he got into writing, some of the books he likes, and how he ended up writing The […]
The Gathering Storm is the much-awaited twelfth installment in the Wheel of Time series. As some of you may be aware of, this latest novel was penned by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson in surrogate for the late Robert Jordan, working off the extensive notes left behind by Jordan. The Gathering Storm is different, but not […]
In Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel, football (not the American kind) comes to the disc. The wizards of Unseen University discover that a large percentage of their funding, in the form of a trust, will soon dry up should they fail to meet their benefactor’s stipulation that they compete in the game “foot-the-ball…”
In celebration of the much-awaited continuation of the Wheel of Time series, penned by fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson in the absence of the late Robert Jordan, Tor Books is offering to let us give away three sets of the books that started it all. Three lucky Fantasy Folder readers will receive, by random drawing, Robert […]
TarValon.net has a spoiler-free advance review of the upcoming Wheel of Time book, The Gathering Storm up in their forum, following the one Dragonmount had published this July. Yes, our narrator has changed. Sanderson’s writing is more focused on plot, and his style seems to put more weight on making things happen rather than world […]
Master satirist Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel, Unseen Academicals is now available, which once again features the wizards of Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University. The wizards at Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University are renowned for many things—wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime—but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city’s benevolent […]
Nicholas Hooper has confirmed that after composing the score for the previous two Harry Potter movies, he will not be coming back for the final two Deathly Hallows films. Warner Brothers is currently in talks with John Williams. If his schedule allows, he very well return after his absence since the third Potter film. “The […]
As you probably know, the much-awaited twelfth installment in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series will be published late this October. With the release drawing near, the title for the next book has been announced. The thirteenth book in the Wheel of Time epic will be called Towers of Midnight. The publication date is estimated […]