The Holiday Season is just around the corner, next week begins the Thanksgiving week and families can get together and enjoy a scrumptous meal around the dinner table. The table full of food, with turkey, salad, pumpkin pies, and all the happy feelings that everyone brought to the table. Everyone gathers and gives thanks for what it is they have in life that they are thankful for.

But before we can be thankful for the Indians allowing the Pilgrims to dock on the shores and take over the country, Harry Potter fans can be thankful for the years and years of seeing Harry Potter and Co. take on Voldemort’s army only to the final chapters of the novels. The beginning of the end is here, literally! Being that the final installment to the Haryy Potter series is made in two parts. Fans can truly be thankful for this joyous occasion, and people who are annoyed can celebrate to since it will be the end of the whole series. Not to say that the name will live on for a long long time, the only thing those annoyed people will be hearing about after this is the DVD releases, the themed parties, the book signings, and every movie these actors do after the series ends. It’s not that much they have to worry about, so I bet they’re thankful for that too.

Looking for something to watch this weekend? Here’s a few movies released this Friday:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Director: David Yates
Screenwriter: Steve Kloves
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, John Hurt, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Imelda Staunton, Jason Isaacs, Miranda Richardson, Warwick Davis, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Brendan Gleeson, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Julie Walters, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Jamie Campbell Bower, Richard Griffiths, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Fiona Shaw, Helen McCrory, David O’Hara, Natalia Tena
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images)
Official Website: HarryPotter.com

Meanwhile, the wizarding world has become a dangerous place for all enemies of the Dark Lord. The long-feared war has begun and Voldemort’s Death Eaters seize control of the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts, terrorizing and arresting anyone who might oppose them. But the one prize they still seek is the one most valuable to Voldemort: Harry Potter. The Chosen One has become the hunted one as the Death Eaters search for Harry with orders to bring him to Voldemort… alive.

Harry’s only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale—the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And if the legend turns out to be true, it could give Voldemort the ultimate power he seeks.

Little does Harry know that his future has already been decided by his past when, on that fateful day, he became “the Boy Who Lived.” No longer just a boy, Harry Potter is drawing ever closer to the task for which he has been preparing since the day he first stepped into Hogwarts: the ultimate battle with Voldemort.

The Next Three Days

Director: Paul Haggis
Screenwriter: Paul Haggis
Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, RZA, Moran Atias, Lennie James, Allan Steele, Ty Simpkins, Leslie McCombs, Jason Bseghe, Aisha Hinds, Kathy Fitzgerald, Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Tucker, Remy Nozik, Daniel Stern
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements)
Official Website: TheNextThreeDaysmovie.com

Plot Summary: Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.