If you're not hot for Harry onscreen, watch out for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth of the seven Potter books to be filmed to date. It will hook you good and keep you riveted. The candyass aspect of the first two films -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a year later -- was replaced by heat and resonance with 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Mexican master Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) took over the directing reigns from the prosaic Chris Columbus. Director Mike Newell held the line in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has more suspense than the other films in the series -- we're very much aware that Voldemort is out there hatching horrible plans for Harry and in fact the entire wizarding world, and that he could strike at any moment. We're fascinated by Umbridge's gradual increase in power and want to see what she'll come up with next.

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