Magicians

Magician Danny Orleans found himself in a tricky situation during his United Airlines trip from Chicago to Newark, where his bag mysteriously disappeared. However, thanks to his quick thinking and the help of an Apple AirTag, he managed to solve the mystery and recover his valuable belongings. This trick was something that has definitely not been seen before.As reported by Insider, Danny had inserted an AirTag in his bag. It is a nifty little device that helps track items using the Find My app on his phone. Upon landing…

‘Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it”: this is the blah-blah-bland message of this family movie, adapted from Kate DiCamillo’s popular kids’ novel. It’s heartfelt and sweetly earnest, but humdrum and disappointingly unmagical. The animation doesn’t help: characters speak with blank paralysed faces as if they’ve had botched Botox.The setting is a war-weary town called Baltese where Peter (Noah Jupe) is a young orphan being raised in the school of hard knocks by a gruff retired soldier (Mandy Patinkin), who has…

A good thriller has the ability to surprise the reader. Viewed in that context, Ashwin Sanghi’s The Magicians of Mazda is a gripping success story. The latest novel in Sanghi’s Bharat series that began with The Rozabal Line in 2008, The Magicians of Mazda seamlessly merges facts with fiction. The author’s extensive research allows him to create a wide range of characters from different parts of the world, who contribute to the turning points in the novel.Complex and entertaining, informative and intelligently crafted,…

Okay, I know that we’re really pushing the definition of magician here, as both of these boys (and most of the character in wuxia) are not technically magicians and instead cultivate qi within themselves in order to be like... superpowered martial artists, but! It’s a sort of magic, in its own way, and Wei Wuxian is the most disaster of all disaster queers, and I will not apologize for the truth. (You might be more familiar with this property in its current live-action adaption form, The Untamed.) Okay, I know that…