Lisa Cerezo

magic

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 […]

A Local Exploration of the Magic of Movies

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Recently I was invited to appear with Jason Pankoke and Luke Boyce on UPTV’s series, Art Now!, to discuss preparations for an upcoming annual film festival, the New Art Film Festival. There is such a flourishing culture of locally-produced cinema in my area, and it was only natural that I wanted to help spread 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, […]

Finding Neverland…Again

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Last night I had the privilege of rediscovering an old favorite of mine, and afterwards came to my blog, found that I had somehow never written about this beautiful film, and decided today to remedy this oversight. On the surface, Finding Neverland could have played out as any romantic drama, period or otherwise. There’s the […]