In (Quick) Defense of Completing Fantastic Beasts

The Secrets of Dumbledore was a great 3/5 movie. It hoisted up the previous two, and I find myself watching them in order to watch Secrets. But it’s a terrible 3/3. If they let it be as a trilogy, the whole thing is crap and entirely undermined. The best thing Warner Bros. can do is…

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Hi, my name is Taylor Vandenberg. I was born and raised Midwestern, mainly small-town Iowa, and moved to New York in July of 2014. I am a selective bookworm, a teacher’s pet, an emo kid, wedding enthusiast, procrastinator, serial non-applicator of the self, amateur bartender.

Forever waiting for the third installment of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust. Where are you, number 3?

You’re HERE! October 23, 2025, The Rose Field. (I’ll take this as a personal gift, October is my HDM month.)

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