Conjuring up a character is one thing, but turning yourself into Harry Houdini, now that’s a trick. Johnathon Schaech (“That Thing You Do!”) manages to pull it off, however, in TNT’s “Houdini,” a made ...

THERE IS NO shortage of flaws in “Houdini,” a new made-for-TV movie premiering this weekend on TNT. But the story of America’s greatest illusionist and one of the world’s very first superstars is told ...

THE performer is bound. He is suspended from a rope. An evil fire crackles beneath him. His assistants have not seen this trick before, and mutter that it might even prove impossible. There seems no ...

Johnathon Schaech has it all: A starring role in TNT’s new film “Houdini,” a beautiful actress girlfriend, and all the buzz in Hollywood as the next “it” actor. But what the Maryland native wants may ...

In the 16th century, a British country gentleman named Reginold Scot published a book on magic tricks, hoping it would stem the tide of witch-hangings, a popular pastime just then in the English ...