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Research suggests magicians lack magical thinking.
Mystic Meg in a promotional image.
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Critics of superstition have often painted openness to magical interpretations as weakness or moral failing.
Hugh Jackman in The Prestige.
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Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction when it comes to the magicians of the Victorian era.
Drive-in screen seen at Windsor International Film Festival Under the Stars 2020.
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There are signs that home movie viewing could meet a resurgence of local movie-going that draws on entertainment conventions that preceded Hollywood’s rise.