*Review: A+* Yes, we attended last night's showing of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban":http://azkaban.warnerbros.com/, at 12:01am. And, despite some suggestions from my work mates, I did not play "dress-up":http://www.freep.com/news/metro/dicker5_20030505.htm. My reactions and excitement after seeing the 3rd installment on the big screen, directly parallels what I felt a few years ago when I dug into the "3rd Potter book":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0439136350/suckahs-20 -- _Azkaban_ is where the series takes a much darker turn. The Dementors are frightening in the film, though the new director "Alfonso Cuar?n":http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/ devotes far more energy to stoking fear of "Sirius Black":http://galleries.mugglenet.com/af/2004/sirius.black.escape.cfm, than of the prison and it's soul-sucking guards. Overall, Cuar?n's vision is a breath of fresh air -- the film is scarier than Chris Columbus's two films, (it's a mystery to me how films like this manage to receive a PG-rating), but it's balanced with a few whimsical moments courtesy the _Whomping Willow_, and by "Michael Gambon's":http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002091/ quirky take on Dumbledore. How long do I have to wait for "the Goblet of Fire":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/? UPDATE: "Capn saw it last night too":http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2004/06/harry_potter_at_midnight.php