Posts tagged Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
GUEST CRITIC #18: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
GUEST CRITIC #18: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Give a warm, Show-Me-State welcome to Mr. Shane Bowen.  Shane is a fourth grade teacher in the St Louis area.  Like so many educators (myself included), Shane flexes a creative muscle outside of the textbooks and paper-grading.  Mr. Bowen also writes novels as a hobby.  Shane recently started his own publishing company, Out the Window Books at www.outthewindowbooks.com.  This man has talent and knows the power of a good beer and a good movie.  Enjoy this review of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

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2016, CAPSULE REVIEW, GUEST CRITIC, SPECIAL, Social MediaDon ShanahanShane Bowen, St. Louis, Missouri, Guest Critic series, guest critic, guest review, Guest Critic, Out of the Window Books, The Lake, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, school teachers, educators, movie review, film review, film commentary, movie commentary, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, 2016, 2016 Holiday MoviesComment
GUEST CRITIC #17: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
GUEST CRITIC #17: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

I'm calling in the big guns for this latest "Guest Critic" entry.  The man you will read tonight is full-fledged fellow film critic with his own podcast.  Fancy pants!  Meet Blaine Grimes, a new Oklahoma resident by way of Texas.  I became social media acquaintances through another Texan, friend of the page and all-round critic himself, Tim Day of "Day at the Movies."  We have enjoyed following each other's work and pestering Tim Day every since.

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2016, GUEST CRITIC, MOVIE REVIEW, Social Media, SPECIALDon Shanahan2016, Blaine Grimes, Guest Critic series, Guest Critic, guest critic, guest review, film review, Reel World Theology, Reel World: Rewind, Day at the Movies, Tim Day, social media, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Harry Potter, David Yates, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Carmen Ejogo, J.K. Rowling, film commentary, movie commentary, film critics, movie critics, movie review, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, Don ShanahanComment
GUEST CRITIC #16: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
GUEST CRITIC #16: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

As busy I get from time to time, I find that I can't see every movie under the sun, leaving my friends and colleagues to fill in the blanks for me.  As poetically as I think I wax about movies on this website as a wannabe critic, there are other experts out there.  Sometimes, it inspires me to see the movie too and get back to being my circle's go-to movie guy.  Sometimes, they save me $9 and you 800+ words of blathering.  My latest "Guest Critic" is a high school classmate of mine, Kelly Meents.

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2016, CAPSULE REVIEW, GUEST CRITIC, SPECIALDon Shanahan2016, Guest Critic, Guest Critic series, Kelly Meents, Meents Illustrated, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Eddie Redmayne, David Yates, J.K. Rowling, Dan Fogler, Harry Potter, film review, guest review, guest critic, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, Peotone, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, Don ShanahanComment