Sentences with phrase «like illusionist»

This is one of the 4 cancelled devices when Microsoft acquired Nokia's phone division like Illusionist, Mercury, Pine and Vega / Atlas.

Like the illusionist's apparition, works by Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel resemble gigantic totemic necklaces or quasi-ceremonial findings, their precious ceramic and wood forms twisting the building blocks of contemporary culture.

Presented on a double - sided, single - layer disc and packaged in a regular Amray case, Haven comes with animated menus and a small paper insert touting other Yari Film Group home video releases, like The Illusionist.

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

Not exact matches

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

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

Philip Glass (The Illusionist, Undertow) coats the film with his usual whimsical style, and though the film might be deemed as too slight in its subject matter to merit such heavy - handed compositions, the music is actually completely in keeping with the tragic allusions underneath, with motifs based on magic (wizard hats, old cats, strands of hair, and gold stars tie in to the coven - like relationship of the women) as well as Biblical references (Sheba is short for Bathsheba, the Old Testament woman seduced; Barbara's last name is Covett, and covet she most certainly does).

Magic movies seldom come in as either bio-pics like Houdini or romances such as The Illusionist.

Meanwhile, Gargamel — who is now a big - time David Blaine - type illusionist in the world of humans — is hatching a plot wherein he uses his two gray Smurf - like minions, the tomboyish Vexy (voice of Christina Ricci, «Black Snake Moan «-RRB- and the idiotic Hackus (voice of J.B. Smoove, «Hall Pass «-RRB-, to kidnap Smurfette so he can extract her essence, or something like that.

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.

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.

I remember last year I saw Rabbit Hole, White Material, and The Illusionist in the midst of all the other heavy hitting Oscar films and now I hardly remember anything about those movies (although I generally liked all of them.)

Films like «The Illusionist» and «Limitless» showed that Neil Burger could excel in building complex characters and depicting mind - altering scenarios, but Schwentke has nothing of the sorts.

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.

After her surprising turn in The Illusionist, it's hard to watch her play a shallow ditz in films like Next and this.

Like Houdini (a name not mentioned here), Stanley is not just a popular illusionist but a great debunker of fake spiritualists.

Films like The Hurt Locker, The Illusionist, Mesrine, Third Star, Get Low and Winter's Bone, have all made their UK premieres at the festival.

«For a modest fee, the Illusionist will transform your gear to look like any other item of the same category,» says Crate.

This image of a «cloud» by Vik Muniz — a self - described «low - tech illusionist» — is actually a photograph of cotton balls fixed to a surface made to look like the sky.

Pretty as it is, it also made me wish for a real illusionist in paint, like James Nares or Mark Sheinkman.

Most commonly seen in «performances» by artists like Marina Abramovic, or in contemporary body painting, as exemplified by Joanne Gair's illusionist nude painting of Demi Moore (Vanity Fair August 1992).