Travellers & Magicians

Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold by Siddhartha, as this Himalayan beauty gently delivers a very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson.

"...and very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson, Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Have Austin's Magicians Vanished for Good?

With the coronavirus shutdown, it's now you see 'em, now you don't

"...shuttering, and gigs being canceled. And we inquired what magicians were doing to pass the time as they shelter..."

April 17, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Legerdemain Man Ray Anderson

The fact that magicians around the world revere the magic man of Esther’s Follies is no illusion

"...confounded his fans. The star-studded audience included top-billed professional magicians and multizwhyphenate stars like David Copperfield, Mark Wilson, David..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Now You See Me

This magicians' caper film has a good cast but very little else hidden up its sleeve.

"...film takes the intriguing premise – a team of magicians who seemingly conduct bank heists during their stage show..."

June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Now You See Me 2

Now you can't un-see the second installment of Jon M. Chu's magical trilogy

"...When we last saw the Four Horsemen magicians from 2013’s Now You See Me, they were going..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

I Like to Watch

Finding the heart in Syfy's The Magicians

"...Syfy Network’s The Magicians, which ends its first season this Monday, April 11,..."

April 8, 2016 Screens Post by Jacob Clifton

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi play squabbling old-school magicians whose reign on the Vegas strip is threatened by a daring stunt magician played by Jim Carrey.

"...The Las Vegas stage act of showbiz magicians, Burt Wonderstone (Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Buscemi), has grown..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Prestige

Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.

"...badgered Tesla is key to this tale of rival magicians falling down the rabbit hole of mutual obsession in..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Turning Tricks With The Amazing Ray

With nothing up his sleeve, Esther's Follies resident magic man Ray Anderson pulls wonder -- and laughter -- out of thin air.

"...few years later that Anderson discovered living, breathing professional magicians through a series of TV specials called The Magic..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Joshua Jay Tells You How They Died Their Tragic Deaths

Magicians, their assistants, audience members: Killed onstage

"...small niche in magic history, which is about the magicians and spectators and magicians' assistants who have been killed..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What the Right Hand Is Doing

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

"...early Eighties, we were Harry the Hat's gang -- magicians, mentalists, pickpockets -- we even had a beautiful exotic..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Features Feature by Turk Pipkin

When Magic is a Real Darling

This popular Austin magician tells it like it appears to be

"...Are you a member of the Society of American Magicians? Or, what is it, IBM?..."

May 11, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Smoking Causes Coughing

Rubber director's sentai spoof is weird, discursive magic

"...not be on the David Blaine/Criss Angel tier of magicians, but those guys are crap filmmakers, so the inverse..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

I Like to Watch

Counter-programming for the Big Game

"...• The Magicians is Syfy's vastly improved take on Lev Grossman's sad,..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

A Little Night Magic

Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus

"...ground for an epic battle of invention between two magicians, Celia and Marco. They're the pawns of two elder..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Gulliver's Travels

In this update of the satiric Jonathan Swift novel, Jack Black plays s travel writer who becomes lost on the island of Lilliput.

"...are animators like Dave Fleischer or optical wizards and magicians like Georges Méliès – filmmakers who look to the..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Doug to Dax

Austin Film Festival announces early lineup

"...a motley crew. You've got a documentary about teen magicians competing for a world title in Make Believe. You've..."

Aug. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Ghost Writer

Polanski is back in the saddle with his new political mystery thriller, which stars Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.

Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Was It Good for You?

The year in books

"...Lev Grossman's The Magicians: A Novel (Viking Press) fell short of the fun..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The General Specific

AFS Essential Cinema: Love on the Largest Continent: Ten Asian Films

"...June 30: Travellers and Magicians..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Asian Film Festival 2

Nov. 3-6

"...Khyentse Norbu's (The Cup) engaging road movie Travellers and Magicians, a Bhuddist quasi-parable sporting breathtaking cinematography (courtesy of Alan..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sharpening the Claw

"...country to thunderous applause, and the rest of the magicians were trying desperately to find something that would outdo..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

"...bananas -- Headley's bonbon-scarfing, Tarot-dealing personal assistant; quarrelsome husband-and-wife magicians Lenny Clarke and Siobhan Fallon (with squawking Braintree accents);..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mystery Men

Inept amateur superheroes must save the day in this comedy.

"...that Jay is indeed one of the country's finest magicians. Too bad he can't salvage Amazing's career. To that..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...SB: We have a lot of magicians in film. The most notable that I have known..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

TV News Revealed

K-EYE's Smoke and Mirrors Approach

"...K-EYE ought to be putting the jobs of already-starving magicians in peril, I simply must raise the question: What..."

May 2, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

SXSW TV Review: Mrs. Davis

Mad nuns, mad AIs, and mad energy from the new Peacock show

"...on the Knight Templar, a few decapitations, hostility towards magicians, lots of strawberry jam, a secret base, nuns on..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Joe Gross

The Party Never Stops with the Uncaged New Year's Eve Bash

Meet the Cheddar Goblin in an 8-Bit Alamo as South Lamar goes virtual

"...of Cheddar Goblin, touches of Mandy, but there's music, magicians, karaoke. It's a party." Electro diabolo marching band across..."

Dec. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 7-13

"...specialists who spoke the language of trees. These patient magicians developed intimate relationships with individual trees, learning their moods..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...the art of magic with a private club for magicians - the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood. (World..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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