TV & Movies

Put on your Best Magic Show

July 15, 2011 TV & Movies
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“How does she do it?” If you love the thrill of creating amazement in incredulous onlookers, consider putting together your very own magic show! With the wide variety of commercial magic kits, props, and instructional materials available today, this can be a lot easier than it sounds. There are many types of magical illusions to [...]

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A Glimpse of Midnight Magic

July 11, 2011 TV & Movies

Long-time fans of the series have been waiting for this. Everything that Harry, Ron and Hermione have done boils down to this final two-part movie finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. And being one of those long-time fans of the series, it had long-since been planned that I would be attending the [...]

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Movie Ticket Weekly “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”

July 6, 2011 Staff Corner
Transformers 3 Review

Considering the fact that this is a movie trilogy franchise based on a line of toys from the 1980s, I didn’t expect much out of this third installment save for loud explosions and giant alien robots fighting it out in some major iconic city in the United States. And that is exactly what I got [...]

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Movie Ticket Weekly “Cars 2″

June 29, 2011 Staff Corner
Cas 2 Movie

Cars 2 is another example of a movie where you’re better off ignoring the big-time critics and go by what the audience themselves are rating it. At the time of this review being written, the top critics rate this film at 34% while the actual audiences give it a 67%, which I find to be [...]

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Movie Ticket Weekly “Green Lantern”

June 22, 2011 Staff Corner
Green Lantern

Because I am a big fan of the DC Universe I made an effort to attend the midnight release of the Green Lantern film on Friday morning. The fun thing about midnight showings is that some theaters will have events going on prior to the movie starting. I attended the showing at the Alamo Drafthouse [...]

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Movie Ticket Weekly “Super 8″

June 13, 2011 Staff Corner
Super 8 Movie

Opening this past weekend was the science-fiction/thriller movie Super 8, a film directed by JJ Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. Considering the two big minds behind this movie, I walked into the theater expecting a fairly decent film involving kids and aliens with some cliché moments on top that Saturday afternoon. And just under [...]

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Movie Ticket Weekly “X-Men: First Class”

June 6, 2011 Staff Corner
X-Men First Class Review

This is the start of a new weekly blog installment here for Frankel’s Costumes! My name is Maegen and throughout the summer I will be attending the movies every weekend, checking out the newest summer films to review not only the movie but the costumes too. So without further ado, welcome to the first review [...]

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Quidditch

May 20, 2011 Books
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Taking a sport that is supported by the concept of magic and flying brooms from a book series and turning it into playable activity outside those pages takes the dedication that only devoted fans can provide. It may sound silly to others, but then again, people in general can be pretty silly about the hobbies [...]

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Sucker Punch

March 31, 2011 Store Announcements
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This action packed film comes from the mind of Zack Snyder,  the director behind the Watchmen, and the beautifully shot 300 movie that had men everywhere scrambling to the gym to get the same chiseled abs modeled throughout the film. Mr. Snyder has returned with a vengeance and has brought forth a visually stunning, fantastically [...]

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An Artist’s View

March 18, 2011 Makeup

There’s nothing more fascinating to me than a behind the scenes look into the creation of film. Makeup Artist magazine has graciously posted narrated video clips from three of the 2011 Oscar nominees for Best Makeup ( including the winners, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey for their great work on The Wolfman). The videos provide [...]

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