‘Harry Potter’ Soars Under the Cosm Spell With Fantastical, Theme-Park-Like Effects

Cosm’s curved screen brings a sense of dimension, and even at times movement, to the film.

The famed “sorting hat” scene at Cosm’s interpretation of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Stefan Silvers/Cosm/TNS

By Todd Martens Los Angeles Times

INGLEWOOD, Calif.—A pivotal moment early in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” arrives when Harry’s suburban house is swarmed and flooded with letters of acceptance for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry’s aunt and uncle have been preventing such dispatches from reaching the young wizard-to-be, but the boarding school’s messenger owls are having none of it.