Sentences with phrase «magician whose»

Haunting and mysterious, «Mind the Time» tells the story of a magician whose time in the

First, he takes a job as an entertainer at an old folks» home, where he happens to meet his childhood hero Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin), the old - school magician whose magic set first set Burt on his path.

The ever - likeable Steve Carell plays Burt Wonderstone, the bewigged and bejeweled Vegas magician whose lost his love of magic just in time for his public to move on to the next big thing — Jim Carrey's extreme magician Steve Grey (think David Blaine with self - mutilation tendencies).

Sterritt **** In place of a conventional plot, this utterly unique Swedish movie offers a series of related episodes about a business tycoon on the skids, a magician whose tricks go wrong, and a motley crew of other characters.

They show us more of Rhodes at work, more backstage of the Horsemen's planning, add to the history of Daniel and Henley, feature Elias Koteas (only photographed in the film) as the legendary magician whose death motivates the plot,

We also meet Doctor Dee (voice of Jim Broadbent), a magician whose practices seem based on the scientific method and whose body is an amalgamation of flesh and mechanical parts.

He's an offensive magician whose incredibly efficient shooting pales in comparison to his savvy passing and guard - like skills.

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This leaves stage magicians, poker players, and other harmless dissemblers off the hook, while illuminating a psychological and social landscape whose general shape is very easy to recognize.

But everything was put to bed by the magician again with his (Ozil's) another provider to Aaron Ramsey, whose quick feet leaves keeper Donnarumma on the ground — and he rolled the ball into the empty net.

When the great - grandson of a warlock (Vincent Price, in both roles) inherits a crumbling palace in Arkham, Massachusetts, bad things are sure to follow for local villagers whose ancestors burnt the magician at the stake.

«The Prestige» From acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.

First off, I was eager to see this movie for no other reason than to poke fun at performers like David Blaine (a talented close - up magician in his own right) whose careers have centered around boring endurance stunts.

All films whose premise features dueling magicians has The Prestige to thank for my time and money.

James Franco («Howl», «Spiderman 1 - 3»,» 127 Hours) plays a sham magician from our own universe whose hot air balloon gets blown wildly off course and ends up in the Land of Oz.

Ditto The Prestige, which has been hounded for most of the Oscar season by the year's other magician movie, The Illusionist, whose score (by Philip Glass) and cinematography (by Dick Pope) has caught the attention of several critics groups in the past few months.

The uniquely suited team of Wallfisch, Williams and Zimmer more than have the right stuff to musically chronicle the below - the - line black women whose math - magician skills truly got the space race off the ground.

One is a street magician played by Jim Carrey, whose character's idea of magic is to engage in various masochistic activities, from hammering a nail into a table with his forehead to scalding his arm over birthday candles so that the blisters spell out «Happy birthday» to drilling a hole in his skull with a power tool.

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.

A series of introductions ensues that finds Chisolm gathering a very integrated group together to help the town: a black lawman / former Union officer (Chisolm); a hard - drinking Irish gambler / magician (Faraday); a fearsome mountain named Jack Horn (Vincent D'Onofrio, Daredevil); an ex-Confederate major with PTSD named Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke, Boyhood)-- and his Asian sidekick / guardian / blade man, Billy Rocks (Byung - Hun Lee, Terminator: Genisys, RED 2); a Comanche warrior called Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier, Salem) whose medicine man told him he must «follow a different path», and a Mexican gunfighter named Vasquez (Manuel Garcia - Rulfo, From Dusk Till Dark: The Series).

Prospero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has been captured and imprisoned in Hell, and time is running out for his daughter Miranda and for the great magician himself.

Readers have been waiting since 2004 for another novel - length glimpse into the magical imagination of Clarke, whose nearly 1,000 - page opus about the titular frenemy magicians» antics in Napoleonic - era England was a dark horse bestseller.

At that time he was captivated by two American magicians called The Davenport Brothers whose claim - to - fame was an illusion - trick in which they would tie themselves up inside a locked wooden cabinet filled with musical instruments.

The Confabulist is a clever, entertaining, and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world - famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a way that will ultimately startle and amaze.

The story follows the adventures of one young boy by the name of Jeremiah Hazelnut, whose great desire is to become a skilled magician.

Together with the help of the Silver Magician, whose own daughter has been taken, hopefully the Brothers Grimm can find a way to stop this evil puppet master before it's too late.

The choice of «Magic Circle» lies, according to some theorists, in its allusion to the secret / not - secret society of magicians founded in 1905, into whose hallowed ranks, rather like the Masons, one has to be invited; the price of entry being purely and simply talent, after which one is inducted into the secrets of sawing a woman in half or pulling a rabbit out of a hat.