Curiocity: The Magician Behind Mickey's Magic Show
All it took was the magic of Siegfried and Roy and just like that, another magician-in-the-making saw his calling.
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All it took was the magic of Siegfried and Roy and just like that, another magician-in-the-making saw his calling.
Welcome to the 1980s. A time when the "fist pump" was a more horizontal motion than a vertical one, big hair had nothing to do with volume injections but plenty to do with the brushstrokes of a comb and the men wore more makeup than the women.
Since her journey through "The Hills" of Los Angeles, Lauren Conrad has come a long way.
With their new movie Howl, based on Allen Ginsberg's celebrated (and demonized) epic beat poem of the same title, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have taken their cinema to a previously unexplored territory.
Inside Job is the scariest movie you'll see this October. There are no vampires or zombies, just a portrait of the 2008 financial crisis: something we've just lived through, which makes the events, ideas and explanations in the film all the more unbelievable, ridiculous and harder to stomach.
Zombies are the slowest and paradoxically most modern of the main movie monsters. Here are my picks for ten of the best zombie movies ever.
Almost as long as there have been movie pictures, there have been the walking undead, stealing through the shadows and seeking their next AB-negative fix. Here are my picks for ten of the best vampire movies ever.
The element of surprise is vital to good storytelling, but seems harder and harder to come by in the cinema of the early 21st century. We've become accustomed to movie trailers and commercials that consistently and shamelessly divulge all the good bits, and even major plot twists before we even buy a ticket, throw it on our Netflix queue, or illegally download it.
"I just wish that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive", laments Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tough cookies.
This evening marks the opening of the first annual Twin Cities Film Fest, not to be confused with the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs each spring. (If this new fest really gets off the ground, the two will make for a great set of seasonal bookends.)
"All you need for a movie is a girl and gun," Jean-Luc Godard once wrote. Perhaps this is true, but it's been a long time since he said this. Personally, I expect more from cinema, especially from directors I respect, like Zhang Yimou.
The rantings of Jack Rebney drove filmmaker Ben Steinbauer first to paroxysms of laughter and second, years later, on a quest to find out whatever happened to the man YouTube helped dub "The Angriest Man in the World."
Melissa McCarthy created a pretty small window for what it would take to get her back on TV after becoming pregnant with her second daughter.
