Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Olivia Wenscombe (Scarlett Johansson) in The Prestige. Warner Bros. “The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of ...

The film was co-written and directed by "Batman Begins" director Christopher Nolan. I have to admit I am a Nolan fan. His first film, "Memento," is a spectacular feat of editing, and he is responsible ...

It must have been an interesting moment in Christopher Nolan's career when he landed the job to direct the next iteration of Batman so soon after his career had really gotten going. What started with ...

Legendary magician Penn Jillette reviews some of the most iconic magic tricks in cinema, from the dramatic illusions in The Prestige and The Illusionist to the comedic tricks in Ant-Man and The Wasp ...

Longtime Movieweb contributor that was uploading 1-minute movie reviews to the world wide web via AOL before Youtube or social media existed. I make tons of straight-to-video movies you can find at ...

All magic tricks have three parts — and so do most movies, for that matter. No wonder writer-director Christopher Nolan (“Memento”) performs such marvelous sleight-of-hand in “The Prestige,” a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Whenever I revisit Nolan's 2006 film about rival 19th-century magicians ...

In "The Prestige," Cutter (Michael Caine) says that a great magic trick is composed of three parts: The "Pledge" is where the audience is shown something ordinary, followed by the "Turn," during which ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Prestige. Christoper Nolan’s 2006 period thriller The Prestige tells the tale of two rival, Victorian-era stage magicians — Alfred Borden (Christian ...

Longtime Movieweb contributor that was uploading 1-minute movie reviews to the world wide web via AOL before Youtube or social media existed. I make tons of straight-to-video movies you can find at ...

Magic trumped the battlefield at the national boxoffice Friday as Buena Vista's "The Prestige" took the top spot for the day, while Paramount Pictures' "Flags of Our Fathers" entered the list in the ...