TV & Satellite Week – 13 July 2019

Eddie Redmayne as

Newt, and (below) Johnny

Depp as Grindelwald

Fantastic

Beasts:

The Crimes of

Grindelwald

AUGUSTSKY CINEMA

Eddie Redmayne’s bashful hero

Newt Scamander is back for a

sequel to 2016’s blockbuster hit

Fantastic Beasts and Where to

Find Them, JK Rowling’s giddily

enjoyable big-screen prequel

to her Harry Potter tales. The

second in a projected five-film

series of fantasy adventures,

The Crimes of Grindelwald

finds endearingly enthusiastic

‘magizoologist’ Newt reluctantly

drawn into the brewing

conflict between good and

evil after dark wizard Gellert

Grindelwald (Johnny Depp)

escapes from custody.

Also drawn into the fray is

a young Albus Dumbledore,

played by Jude Law, as well as

a number of familiar figures

from the first film, including

Katherine Waterston’s auror

Tina Goldstein and her bubbly

mind-reading sister Queenie

(singer Alison Sudol), plus Dan

Fogler’s bumbling non-magical

Jacob. There is, of course, an

abundance of wonderfully

curious magical beasts, plus

an abiding message of open-

mindedness and tolerance.

As Newt puts it, ‘There are

no strange creatures, only

blinkered people.’

WORDS: JASON BEST. PHOTOS: ALAMY, GETT Y, NETFLIX, SK Y

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