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Smokin’ Aces [Blu-ray] SMOKIN ACES – Blu-Ray MovieA frantic and frequently amusing cocktail of Tarantino cool and Hong Kong bullet ballet, Joe (Narc) Carnahan’s Smokin’ Aces delivers some inspired moments of action and dark comedy in its dizzying-comic book plot about a rogue’s gallery of killers on the hunt for a mob informer. At the [...]

The Magician (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] THE MAGICIAN (Ansiktet), directed by Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander), is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists. Max von Sydow (The Virgin Spring, The Exorcist) stars as Dr. Vogler, a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic [...]

The Illusionist [Blu-ray] A magician falls in love with the crown prince’s fiancee leading to obsession and crime.The Illusionist offers welcome proof that “arthouse” quality needn’t be limited to the arthouses. Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, this stately, elegant period film benefited from a crossover release in mainstream cinemas, and showed considerable box-office staying power–granted, teenage [...]

Houdini Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini, the struggling circus performer who emerged as the world s most captivating magician and escape artist. From his beginnings as a wild man carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, Houdini effectively captures the [...]

Next [HD DVD] Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret: he can see two minutes into the future. Sick of the government and scientific interest in his gift, he lies low in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling “winnings.” But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device [...]