Sentences with word «illusionist»

Think The Prestige meets The Town as a team of FBI agents hunts down a group of illusionists who perform miracle heists during their shows and shower the booty on their audiences.

Screenwriters Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt have come up with a story about The Four Horsemen, a team of master illusionists who pull bank heists during their stage performances and then distributes the takings to each audience, as an FBI team attempts to take them down.

Stealing the show are the Four Horsemen themselves Jesse Eisenberg as illusionist Daniel Atlas, Woody Harrelson as hypnotist Merritt McKinney, Dave Franco as sleight of hand expert Jack Wilder, and newest member Lizzy Caplan as Lula who replaces Isla Fisher from the first movie.

(A master illusionist in more ways than one, Tarr told me in Toronto that all the rain in the film comes from a rain machine; real rain, he noted, isn't adequately photogenic.)

Reportedly, they worked like gangbusters in the original production, thanks to ingenious staging (Nyman has worked extensively with illusionist Derren Brown), but cinema's comparative concreteness does them few favors.

She's also a great illusionist by how she uses the real to create something ethereal and imaginary.

Oscar winner Adrien Brody is in talks to play master illusionist Harry Houdini in a new Tv mini-series.

Chicago, Illinois, USA About Youtuber Hey YouTube, It's Keelan Wendorf, I'm a professional magician and illusionist from the Chicagoland area.

That garbage does make decent entertainment, so do the great illusionist like David Copperfield.

I was able to secure some high - profile Christian guests to feature in conversation with atheist opponents such as the renowned British illusionist Derren Brown and the atheist - in - chief, Richard Dawkins himself.

The other stand - out is David Tennant as Peter Vincent, a Criss Angel - like illusionist who's perfect for Vegas.

The film follows a group of illusionists called the Four Horsemen, who pull off bank heists during their stage shows and then shower their oblivious audiences with the stolen cash.

Perhaps Britton plays his hand in titling one of his compendia of modern painting techniques and illusionist tricks Throw me the idol, I'll give you the whip (2014).

Musha Cay is a private resort on the otherwise uninhabited Islands of Copperfield Bay, owned by famed illusionist David Copperfield.

The shirtless Tupac Hologram that was beamed onto the stage was created by digitally piecing together using an old parlor trick, most commonly used by stage illusionists «pepper's ghost» which dates back to the 16th century.

Stella made emphatically flat paintings, which sought to excise illusionist space from the picture.

Oscar winner Adrien Brody does his best with this dreary look at who and what motivated illusionist Harry Houdini, but that isn't enough to propel the mini serie's mediocre writing and overall structure.

In Now You See Me, a quartet of illusionists known as «The Four Horsemen» band together to pull off a string of heists for a reason greater than any individual gain.

The comedy about Las Vegas illusionists on the rocks is thin, weak and sour.

Things also heat up at the hotel in the evenings with the «Magic of Polynesia Night Show» dinner performance featuring dancers and illusionists at the onsite art theater.

In this issue of Scientific American Mind, discover the neuroscience behind infamous tricks performed by some of the world's best illusionists [see «Mind over Magic?»].

J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are talented illusionists with varying degrees of success — a couple of them are actually cons — when they receive a mysterious invitation to meet in an abandoned building.

101 Great Goals notes that on South African television, illusionist Ilan Smith not only correctly predicted that Germany would beat Argentina 1 - 0 in the World Cup final, but that Mario Gotze would score the game - winning goal in 113rd minute.

I like a lot the idea of the old illusionist trying to survive in a modern world of images and sounds.

But now there is a new kid on the block, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey, pictured right), a badass street illusionist who doesn't so much do sleight of hand as slicing his face to entertain the crowds.

The story is anchored in believable human emotion by strong performances from Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival illusionists obsessed with beating each other, and while part of the joy of watching the movie is following its wild narrative, their recognizable human conflict is its heart.

A photographer and self - described «low - tech illusionist» Muniz has created images in a wide - range of materials — from chocolate and sugar to junk and toys to creating images, often art - historical, that he records with a camera.

By using subtle illusionist methods, he appears to print reliefs, depressions and protrusions on the surface of the paper, whose real formal flatness can only be assessed after careful inspection.

That's the wisdom from — and what I gather is the driving force behind — James «The Amazing» Randi, the renowned illusionist, escape artist and debunker of psychics, spoon benders, faith healers and other charlatans willing to prey on others.

The first film offered some wisecracking between street illusionist Daniel (Jesse Eisenberg) and hypnotist Merritt (Woody Harrelson), but in the new installment, they barely talk to each other.

Set in 1928, Colin Firth (The Railway Man, The King's Speech) plays Stanley Crawford, a world - famous British illusionist working in disguise as master Chinese magician Wei Ling Soo, whose knowledge that there's no such thing as magic has him take up a side career as a debunker of fraudulent psychics claiming to possess the power to link into the spiritual world.

According to him, pastors under the influence of these substances become illusionists giving false prophecies to the unsuspecting congregants who have overly become gullible.

The celebrity illusionist duo Penn and Teller discovered, for example, that even when they explained a trick to an audience, people were still fooled — and all the more impressed at the feat.

I also tried Illusionist Concealer.

Oscar winner Adrien Brody does his best with this dreary look at who and what motivated illusionist Harry Houdini, but that isn't enough to

Four of the world's most popular illusionists — slight - of - hand trickster J. Daniel Atlas (Eisenberg, To Rome with Love), escape artist Henley Reeves (Fisher, Definitely Maybe), hypnotist / mentalist Merritt McKinney (Harrelson, Game Change), and sneak - thief Jack Wilder (Franco, Warm Bodies)-- put on huge Vegas - caliber shows as the «Four Horsemen» after they've been called together by a mysterious, unseen organization.

The main cast truly has the time of their lives playing four wunderkind illusionists: J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are given terrific parts and are without a doubt collectively a good enough reason to give Now You See Me a try.

The title comes from the old illusionist saying, «Now you see it, now you don't,» and like the object that is there one moment and gone the next, so is the fleeting memory of Now You See Me.

Oscar winner Adrien Brody will be making magic on the small screen in a new mini-series about legendary illusionist Harry Houdini.The Piano star will...

Smokin» Aces: Slick Las Vegas illusionist Buddy «Aces» Israel tries to pull his greatest...

I'm not sure if Ruello considers himself a latter - day abstract illusionist — he seems to prefer the more technical term «big fat liar» to describe his penchant for visual fake - outs — but it's safe to say that Frank Stella's dictum that «what you see is what you see» does not apply to Ruello's Unknown Adventures in Unknown Spaces series.

Nokia Illusionist came up in the buzzes as the next Windows RT tablet by the Finnish manufacturer.

West Hollywood, California, Chicago, Illinois About Youtuber Chicago 20 year old Jibrizy Taylor the Hip - Hop Illusionist, Magician, Director.

«Using proprietary Illusionist mind - meld technology, any item you discover will automatically have its appearance stored.

Like the Las Vegas stage - show illusionist acts that inspired this film, it's more about the spectacle and pageantry than the trick itself, entertaining with an arrogant, smirk - fueled panache meant solely to keep you staring at smoke and sparkly things just enough to keep you misdirected from thinking too long about its intricacies, or lack thereof.