Sentences with phrase «stage illusionists»

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.

But the belief in using magical words to create reality continues to this day, and not just among cheesy stage illusionists.

So we now have a movie set in Vegas, with a douchebag stage illusionist vampire hunter, a lonely nerd ditched by his cool best friend, and very little gore.

Not exact matches

In the 16 years since his breakthrough TV series Mind Control launched, Brown has established himself as a dazzlingly brilliant, and often controversial, illusionist of stage and screen.

A sinister illusionist gets away with ghastly murders on - stage in this unique horror story.

The Illusionist is one of a dying breed of stage entertainers.

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco play The Four Horsemen, a group of illusionists that perform big business heists even as they're on stage doing their magic act.

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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.

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.

Several oil paintings are props assisting the development of an action or stage in a story, sculptures are designed as stage sets, with an illusionist facade and visibly constructed backgrounds.