November 17, 2016
Director: David Yates; Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol; Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy; Age: +12; Time: 133min
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” takes us to a new era in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, decades before Harry Potter. There are growing dangers in the wizarding world of 1926 New York, something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community. Unaware of the rising tensions, Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures. But potential disaster strikes when unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of Newt’s beasts loose in a city already on edge.