Orson Welles, an amateur magician himself, once said that it was very hard to make a compelling movie about a stage magician because the audience is so aware of how the camera can trick the eye that ...

This ain’t your average birthday party magician. “”The Illusionist”” hopes to mess with your head with its special effects, but sadly that’s pretty much all it’s got going for it. A period piece set ...

With "The Illusionist," fans of the late, great and generally silent French comic Jacques Tati have what is, in essence, his final film. It's an animated farce in the Tati style, based on a Tati ("Mon ...

One of the most successful movie franchises about magicians released its third movie with Now You See Me: Now You Don't. The new release brings back the Four Horsemen from the original film, as well ...

Here's something you don't see every day: Edward Norton in period garb, with the trace of a middle-European accent, no less. "There is something mysterious about Edward, in all his roles," says Neil ...