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Who Doesn’t Love A Good Magic Trick?

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There’s a reason I call this blog “Exploring the Magic of Movies”, and I suppose it has more to do with how I watch movies than the movies themselves, at least these days. In the early days of cinema, moving pictures truly looked like some kind of wizardry, and if you saw Martin Scorsese’s Hugo […]

An Epiphany About Bambi’s Mother (and Other Notable Deaths by Disney)

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I think I’ve finally answered that nagging question that runs through my brain from time to time, namely: why is it that so many Disney characters have dead family members? If these are fairy tales created for children, why is there so darned much death? I suppose the first and most obvious answer to the […]

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comedy About Magic

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I love magic. Let’s just establish this from the start. I love seeing something amazing and feeling that tremendous sense of wonder that comes with it, when your rational brain can’t really “sync” with the information it’s getting from your senses. You know you’ve seen something truly unbelievable, and yet, you did just see it, […]

The Illusionist, Revisited

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I spent a good portion of yesterday going through and cleaning up old and forgotten blogs, removing what I no longer wanted to keep, and reposting items I felt were worth keeping. Among the old posts was my review of one of my favorite movies, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. At the end of that review, […]

Rise of the Intelligent Movies

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Okay, it’s been a few months since I last stopped by here to write. Anybody who follows me even a little bit knows that this is standard procedure. It’s not that I haven’t seen more movies worth writing about–far from it. Life just seems to have its own way of taking over your time. Kids […]