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There's no need to persuade people that it's worth a look. The Red Planet has fired the human imagination ever since Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli thought he saw artificial canals on its surface in 1877. (The canals were debunked as an illusion in the early 1900s.)
It's rare--these days damn near impossible--to see a big-bucks, big-studio production take the kind of chances Ross unselfconsciously takes here. What eventually steals over you as Seabiscuit unfolds is that its New Deal America is a lot better than the one we inhabit--more generous...
The crucial embrace of the two nations--it is telling that neither side could agree on when, precisely, it was over--is all the more astonishing for having been based on mutual illusion. What was for France a revenge and a romance was for America a solemn matter of principles...
Throughout her career Riley has used her famous optical illusions to make the viewer see things that aren't there. "It's not just to do with what's on the surface but what's inside your head," says Moorhouse. One of her earliest black-and-white works is White...
So was it all an illusion then, the mind-blowing promise of the original Matrix? The answer is no, and the proof is The Animatrix. A collection of nine anim? film shorts supervised by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski and directed by a team of anim? all-stars, The...