“The public really doesn’t listen when they’re being told straightforward facts,” says the Amazing Randi. The magician, escape artist, and tiny lion of principled skepticism, now north of 80, leans ...

Some of my earliest TV memories are of magician James “The Amazing” Randi on shows like That’s Incredible and In Search Of, where he explained how easy it was to fool the eye with “magical thinking.” ...

James “The Amazing” Randi -- escape artist, magician, skeptic, debunker of psychics and faith healers and, above all, a showman -- is the perfect subject for a documentary. An admitted cheat and ...

We live in the age of alternative facts, a euphemism for falsehoods. The same distinction could be applied to the honest fakery work of James "The Amazing" Randi, whose life and mission are profiled ...

After kicking off with Expanded Cinema Sunday night, Dallas VideoFest 27enters full swing this week with screenings taking over Alamo Drafthouse through October 19. Thursday’s films include 7 p.m.

James “the Amazing” Randi is an icon of skepticism. The man has done more — over a span of several decades — to further the cause of critical thinking and to expose flimflammery of all sorts than ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - James Randi has escaped from a locked coffin submerged in the sea, and from a straitjacket dangling over Niagara Falls. If you chose a word from a 200-page book, he could guess ...