Is the fifth Potter film as good as the book?

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix has opened to rave reviews, with fans calling it the best of the series so far. Purists, however, will always prefer J K Rowling's books to the movies.

There's magic, and then there's magic.


The real charm of the Harry Potter books, as any Pottermaniac will vouch for, is not so much in the fantastic spells the boy wizard and his friends learn at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but the magic of human emotions.


You don't have to be a fantasy fan to like Harry Potter; the core of the books is closer to P G Wodehouse school stories than Tolkien. That's what the four films before Order Of The Phoenix failed to grasp.


There were special effects galore, but you didn't feel Harry's emptiness every time a school year ended. You didn't feel his goodness, and you didn't grow with him

Beckhams Arrive in Los Angeles

England football ace David Beckham and his wife, Victoria, arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday night to begin their new lives in the United States.
Football fans, dozens of reporters and photographers pushed and shoved behind barriers set up at the terminal to get a glimpse of the duo.
The British couple was all smiles as they held hands and walked out of a Los Angeles International Airport terminal in the evening after arriving aboard a British Airways flight from London.

Hrithik: I am not doing a sequel to Metro

When you're away shooting in remote places for long schedules, you suddenly find a lot of stories about yourself doing the rounds when you manage to resurface. And that's exactly what Hrithik Roshan found out recently when he took time off from shooting for Ashutosh Gowarikar's Jodhaa Akbar in Karjat. The perfectionist actor, understandably, is totally immersed in his character in the period film and has stayed away from the media as far as possible. In fact, it is no secret that Ashutosh himself is very keen on keeping the media away from the sets in order to ensure nothing about the film is leaked out. When we met the actor at an event recently, he was quite surprised at being asked whether he was doing the sequel to Metro as reported recently. "I can't believe people are asking me whether I am doing the sequel to Metro ," he told us, not at all amused. "I mean why would I want to do that? I am not doing the sequel to Metro ." Unable to resist the urge, we decided to ask him about the rumoured item number he was supposed to be doing in Rakesh Roshan's next film Krrazy 4. Was that also the working of an over-worked imagination, we enquired. "That at least is my dad's film and I can understand the association," says Hrithik, evading an answer for now, "But I still don't understand where the news of me doing Metro 2 originated. There is absolutely no connection." Well, we hope this dude decides to clear more controversies once he's finished with Jodhaa Akbar . God knows, he's got plenty of them to shoot down by now!