Harry ran an article last week linking to the trailer for this one, and I think he’s fairly excited about it. I like the idea of Guy Pearce as Houdini, and I’m certainly curious. Sounds like it’s already open in Australia, though, and one reader sent in this reaction...

It’s sort of amazing to me that there’s still no great definitive film about Harry Houdini. He’s been that great white whale to a lot of directing Ahabs over the years as they’ve developed script after script after script, trying to figure out just how to crack the life story of one of the great American celebrities. Personally, I wish Zemeckis had figured it out. I know it’s something he wanted to do for many years.

I’m curious about DEATH-DEFYING ACTS, although it sounds to me like it’s a story about a single piece of Houdini’s life. Our frequent contributor Bobo_Vision got a chance to see an early screening of the film, and here’s his take on how it turned out: