Sentences with phrase «stage magician who»

The phrase «blind cut» describes a trick by a stage magician who appears to but does not actually shuffle a deck of cards.

My debut novel THE ROGUE RETRIEVAL, about a Vegas stage magician who takes high - tech illusions of magic into a medieval world that has the real thing, was published by Harper Voyager on March 1st, 2016.

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.

The story charts the rise of Oscar Diggs, a small - time stage magician who's whisked off to the magical land of Oz.

This curtain seemed to be raised by a few inches in the nineteen twenties, in those heroic days when de Broglie and Schroedinger de-materialized matter like the stage magician who makes the lady vanish from the box, while Heisenberg (1969) eased her out of the straitjacket of determinism and proclaimed that the principle of complementarity agreed «very nicely» with the mind - body dualism — the implication being that the particle aspect of the electron was analogous to the body, its wave aspect to the mind.

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Set in early 20th - century Vienna, a stage magician uses his magic to win back the great love of his life from a brutal enemy, her fiancé, who is also the powerful crowned prince of Austria.

Emma Stone and Colin Firth headline director Woody Allen's new comedy «Magic in the Moonlight,» which follows a stage magician, Stanley (Firth), who is determined to expose a psychic named Sophie (Stone) whom he believes to be faking her powers.

The new version of the character is a Vegas stage magician, who gets roped (kind of) into a battle against a vampire (Colin Farrell) by a high school kid, played by Anton Yelchin.

Who: Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde and James Gandolfini What: After magician Burt Wonderstone splits from his longtime stage partner, he sets out to rediscover what made him love magic in the first place.

Based on the long - running British horror stage show created by English magician Andy Nyman, this is about a psychologist and arch-skeptic named Professor Phillip Goodman who investigates three terrifying hauntings.

For this film, it follows the supposed Chinese conjuror Wei Ling Soo, who is the most celebrated magician of his age, but few know that he is the stage persona of Stanley Crawford (Firth), a grouchy Englishman with a sky opinion of himself and an aversion to phony spiritualists» claims that they can perform real magic.

Based on the long - running British horror stage show created by English magician Andy Nyman, the film is about a psychologist and arch-skeptic named Professor Phillip Goodman who investigates three terrifying hauntings.

Though he knows some of the rules, like a vampire can't harm you unless you invite him into your home, he follows through on one of Ed's last pieces of advice and consults celebrity magician Peter Vincent (David Tennant, «Doctor Who»), who is in the midst of mounting an ambitious stage shWho»), who is in the midst of mounting an ambitious stage shwho is in the midst of mounting an ambitious stage show.

WHAT: World - renowned magician Wei Ling Soo has a bag of tricks, but his biggest trick of all is that it's just a ruse — the terribly racist stage persona of grumpy Englishman Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth), who despises charlatans that give his profession a bad name.

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.

Stanley (Mr. Firth), a world - famous magician (who goes by the stage name of Wei Ling Soo, Orientalism being in fashion then) is approached by an acquaintance on a mission.

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.»