After the success of Y Tu Mama Tambien, director Alfonso Cuaron moved to a very different project: a franchise film for kids, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Or was it so different? Themes of adolescence and identity, a darker tone for the series, and typically skilled direction make this an interesting entry in Cuaron’s body of work, and among the best Harry Potter films of the entire series.
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Next week on the show, we are changing course, and signing off. We will be recording our final show and going out with a bang. Our final episode of the Stake Podcast will not be Children of Men. It will be Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.
It’ll be a fun, fond, farewell.
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