Sentences with phrase «as a magician who»

Woody Allen steps in front of the camera as a magician who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer in Scoop.

Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist — but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.

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Although many Christians seem to treat God as a behind - the - scenes magician who will do whatever we want when we want it, I hold rather to the Serenity Prayer:

This characterization is further enhanced by the activity of the magician, illegitimate priest as he was, who is commonly recognized to have been in some way ancestor of the modern scientist.

Remember Simon the magician who saw what miracles the disciples were doing, also started using the name of Jesus as part of his stock and trade, Jesus said «let it be».

I hope he does, I really do as I love our little magician who pulls the strings from the middle but being realistic, I do not know if he will be the same player when he is fit again.

And he just had a way of coaxing creativity out of people and inspiring people; and when I say people, I mean they ranged from those who are simply lovers of mathematics without necessarily having world class talent to world class mathematicians such as Don Knuth and John Conway and Ron Graham, who was the president of the American Mathematical Society, and a great juggler incidentally; and also I think Ron may be a magician although I am not positive of that.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

Colin Firth stars as Stanley, a magician out to debunk a «fake» psychic who has fooled a rich family in the south of France.

James Hong is good fun as the Chinese magician trying to help our distraught heroine who only wants to have fun dancing in her bedroom despite the intrusions of seemingly demonic forces attached to ninja weaponry.

And the cast now includes Morgan Freeman as a former magician who now exposes the secrets of magic to the public.

Also in attendance at the party were Westworld «s James Marsden, Thor: Ragnarok «s Karl Urban, Star Trek: Discovery «s Sonequa Martin - Green, The Gifted «Jamie Chung and Stephen Moyer, The Orville «s Seth MacFarlane and Halston Sage, actor Zachary Levi, Once Upon a Time «s Lana Parrilla, Colin O'Donoghue, and Dania Ramirez, Black Panther «s Chadwick Boseman, Sharknado «s Cassie Scerbo and Tara Reid, Supergirl «s Odette Annable, The Magicians «Olivia Taylor Dudley, Game of Thrones «Iwan Rheon and John Bradley - West, Power Rangers «Dacre Montgomery, American Gods «Ricky Whittle and Orlando Jones, Stranger Things «David Harbour, Spider - Man: Homecoming «s Tony Revolori, Doctor Who «s Peter Capaldi, Gotham «s Cory Michael Smith, Robin Lord Taylor, and Camren Bicondova, Midnight Texas «Arielle Kebbel, Jason Lewis, Sarah Ramos, and Francois Arnaud, The Last Ship «s Bridget Regan, comedian Ana Gasteyer, Planet of the Apes «Andy Serkis, Lucifer «s Tricia Helfer and Aimee Garcia, SNL «s Aidy Bryant, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency «s Hannah Marks, former Hawaii Five - 0 star Grace Park, Prison Break: Resurrection «s Sarah Wayne Callies, as well as David Arquette, and Lydia Hearst and Chris Hardwick.

Wilde plays magician's assistant Jane, while actor Alan Arkin co-stars as Rance Holloway, the magician who convinced Wonderstone to pursue the same career.

The 2013 thriller Now You See Me was all about a team of varyingly intolerable street magicians who discovered that a mysterious figure was grooming them to join a secret society of supposedly «real» magicians — as in actual magic, not illusions.

In that audience is Morgan Freeman, as Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who makes his living exposing the tricks of other magicians, and soon to involved are Michael Cain, as Arthur Tressler a multimillionaire and team benefactor, Mark Ruffalo as FBI agent Dylan Rhodes and Mélanie Laurent, as Alma Dray, an agent from Interpol sent in to assist the FBI.

This is a film about cinema, specifically an early proponent, magician - turned - filmmaker, Georges Méliès, who made films such as A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), and The Impossible Voyage / Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904).

The movie is still trapped in expanding where there needn't be expansion, like a cosmic journey with a magician, and softening the message, unless it happens to be the identity of mystical lion Aslan (voice of Liam Neeson), who, like in the book, quite unnecessarily spells it out as though there's any doubt.

There's choral singing, Jep's across - the - street view of the Coliseum, a Botox clinic that serves clients as quickly as a fast food joint, an old magician who intends to make a giraffe disappear, and a Cardinal rumored to be Europe's top exorcist who can't stop talking about dishes he prepares.

Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley (who also co-wrote the script for the underrated 2013 Steve Carell magician comedy «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone») clearly used «National Lampoon's Vacation» as a road map, but mix - in some fresh elements for this wacky reboot.

Burt's bad luck and obstinance leads him to a nursing home gig where he rediscovers the magician who made him into what he is today, Rance Holloway (Arkin), and rediscovers the passion he had as a child.

Magic in the Moonlight stars Colin Firth as a stage magician who sets out to prove that a young medium, played by Emma Stone, is a fake.

76 % The Prestige (2006) Full of twists and turns, this film is a dazzling period piece that never stops challenging the audience, and Johansson is alluring as the lovely magician's assistant who earns the affections of rival illusionists.

Raimi has assembled his own band of technical wizards and movie magicians on the project, which includes cinematographer Peter Deming («Mulholland Dr.,» «Drag Me to Hell»), two - time Academy Award ® — winning production designer Robert Stromberg («Alice in Wonderland,» «Avatar»), Oscar ® - winning film editor Bob Murawski («The Hurt Locker,» the «Spider - Man» trilogy), veteran Oscar ® - nominated costume designer Gary Jones («Spider - Man 2,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley»), visual effects Oscar ® winner Scott Stokdyk («Spider - Man 2,» «Spider - Man») and Academy Award ® — winning special makeup artist Howard Berger («The Chronicles of Narnia» series), who will create the looks of several of the unique denizens of Oz, including creatures such as the Whimsies, the Tinkers and the Winkies, as well as the ghastly look of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Then there's Guinevere (Astrid Bergès - Frisbey, «I Origins»), who, as a Mage (or magician), goes into unintentionally hilarious trances, but can control crows or something like that.

Knowing that magicians often use twins as assistants in their acts, I was second guessing the whole time as to who was good, who was bad, and how all the events would lead up to the grand finale.

Screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley clearly fall into the «old - school» magician's club and even work in a cameo for David Copperfield, who served as a consultant.

That last title, along with the fact that Now You See Me is about magicians who moonlight as bank robbers, suggests that he might be just the man for this job.

The DreamWorks film stars Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster, an excitable teenager who becomes convinced that new neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell) is a vampire, and turns to Las Vegas magician Peter Vincent (David Tennant) for help.

The answers lead the duo to a film historian (Michael Stuhlbarg), who has yet another sad story to tell — that of the filmmaker Georges Méliès, who sold everything after seeing a demonstration of Auguste and Louis Lumière's revolutionary invention of the motion picture camera for the chance to transfer his experience as a stage magician to create visionary films.

When the union had to defend policies that protected teachers who spelled magician as «magition» and truth as «thruth,» the editorial pages of the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times all came out for reform.

Decades later, another young boy goes in search of a magician known as the Great Zabbatini, who he believes can cast a love spell that will prevent his parents from divorcing.

Described as «offbeat,» the project will follow «a motley group of conmen and magicians who use their skills at deception to battle Hitler and his forces during WWII.»

Each performing magician, going in order from Thursday to Sunday, gets to pick one playbill and performs every trick on it, including any of the opponent's, who are then classed as a supporting act within the show.

does look really cool, but since those music games were never my thing, its good to know ya don't have to play it using the guitars... you'd probably limit sales that way as well, since a shooter game is a far cry from a music game... im happy there are still devs who are thinking outside the box as well as willing to still do side - scrolling 2d work... i'd like to see more adventure 2d side - scrolling games tho... like Magician Lord was to the NEO-GEO or the Ghosts N Goblins series or Wizards & Warriors... those were fun games...

Packing in his law degree (and a part - time job as a magician) to pursue game design, he was offered 2 jobs; one was for Lucasarts designing a Star Wars game and another for Apogee Software (who later renamed themselves as 3D Realms).

In a 2005 review for artnet.com, Jerry Saltz described Burdin as a «sort of traveling magician - maniac - minstrel, [who] lives, makes art, and stages performances in his van.»

Butler, who has communed and consulted with occultists and magicians from Europe to South America, believes that magick is conducive to and complements all manner of creativity, helping practitioners access different parts of the mind as well as spiritual realms.

Alongside names that will be familiar to most followers of contemporary art, the show features the work of many outsider artists and historical figures who might not even consider themselves artists per se, such as Austrian theorist and educator Rudolf Steiner, black magician Aleister Crowley, and pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

As masters of deception, magicians fall into two categories, those who admit it's all mirrors and sleight - of - hand, and those who insist the magic is real so as not to undermine the illusioAs masters of deception, magicians fall into two categories, those who admit it's all mirrors and sleight - of - hand, and those who insist the magic is real so as not to undermine the illusioas not to undermine the illusion.

They will not be portrayed as white coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

«scientists... will not be portrayed as white coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

They will not be portrayed as white - coated magicians who should be left to work in their ivory towers — their failings will be dealt with in detail.»

There are a handful of other battle enhancements, including some unusual new playable characters: Juno, a magician who can travel around the battlefield as a ghost if she dies; and a member of the antagonistic Dredge, who joins your party in opposition to their race.

If Penn & Teller can not figure out how a trick was done, the magician or magicians who performed it win a five - star trip to Las Vegas to perform as the opening act in Penn & Teller's world - famous show, also at the Rio Hotel & Casino.