Straight Talk Magic reviews

John Graham and Paul Harris Presents deliver a fantastic torn and restored newspaper effect that is different from many predecessor similar effects. Here, there are no magnets or glue and does not require you to palm or ditch anything into a pocket or case. It uses a very different method from what you may have… Continue Reading Paul Harris Presents The Examiner by John Graham

Three Card Routines is a brilliant DVD with routines that will astonish laymen and magicians. The card tricks taught are not for a beginner’s hands and depending upon your skill level, it will require various levels of consistent practice and polishing to get it to the point where it is performance ready. Although the term… Continue Reading Three Card Routines by Asi Wind and Published by Dan and Dave Buck

Danny Orleans and AmazeKids’ book, Kids Show Masterplan (KSM), is a wonderful guide for magicians that want to venture into performing for children and also for already performing magicians who want to learn from a renowned expert in the field. It is a quick and easy read and contains tons of helpful pointers and time-tested… Continue Reading Kids Show Masterplan by Danny Orleans and AmazeKids

The Clover Project, presented by World Magic Shop, is a DVD featuring proud Irish magicians, Brian Kennedy and Carl Campbell (Kennedy twice makes a point that Ireland is not a part of England). The duo presents three card tricks and the DVD comes with some of the necessary supplies that are needed to make gimmicks… Continue Reading The Clover Project

Diception is a deceiving trick by Chris Congreave and Magic Tao that combines playing cards and dice to randomly select an unknown card by the roll of 1, 2, or 3 dice. With Diception, the performer displays a deck of Bicycle cards which is apparently normal. Depending on the handling of the trick (2 are… Continue Reading Diception by Chris Congreave and Magic Tao

When one releases a magic DVD with the word “Awesome” in the title, you better be damn sure that the product you are selling is in fact “Awesome.” With Awesome Self Working Card Tricks, Big Blind Media did just that. This DVD contains 11 easy to perform card tricks, from a range of creators including… Continue Reading Awesome Self Working Card Tricks by Big Blind Media

Houdini on Magic is one of the many excellent books on magic in the Dover Publications catalog. (See http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-magic.html). The book is a paperback that measures 5 3/8 x 8 inches and is 277 pages long. Although the writing style is typical of the day, it is a quick read for magic lovers. Originally published… Continue Reading Houdini on Magic by Walter Gibson and Morris Young – Dover Publications

The Freedom Writer is an excellent mentalism tool that is clever step in product evolution, for those that use a swami or other boon. It is a great improvement on other writers for the reason discussed below. Freedom Writer comes with a black plastic carrying case, a small stack of blank business sized cards, the… Continue Reading Paul Harris Presents Freedom Writer by Mark Allen

Weapons is a gaffed deck of cards that comes with 50 cards half of them with Blue and the other half in Red Bicycle Rider backs. It comes with a link to a downloadable 37 minute password-protected video hosted on Murphy’s Magic website, which explains some, but not all tricks that can be done with… Continue Reading Weapons Deck by Eric Ross

This DVD is a great project by Sans Mind and it contains five excellent tricks. As with all Sans Mind projects, the production value it top-notch. The tricks are each performed by Jason, from Sans Mind, in a live setting and then a studio setting. Then, each trick is then taught in the studio by… Continue Reading Pasteboard: Workers Series by SansMinds Productions