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Crazy Heart: Scott Cooper

09Feb10

by The Great White Gypsy How in holy, blazing, snowball devouring hell has Jeff Bridges never won an Oscar??? Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. But the question still stands. How does one of the most well-known actors of the last 50 years create iconic character after iconic character and go completely [...]

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The Best of The Aughts

31Dec09

Finally. It’s over. The 2000s. The 00s. The aughts. Whatever the fuck you want to call it. We’re done. And with the close of the decade, comes the obligatory nostalgic look back. And while we’ve suffered through a lot of bullshit these past ten years, there is also much to be appreciated–especially when it comes [...]

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2009 Oscar Preview

19Feb09

Best Picture Of the five films in this category, only two really have a shot. Frost/Nixon was a great stage adaptation with amazing performances and, while solid, was ultimately compromised by Ron Howard‘s lack of technical abilities. The Reader was boring, poorly constructed, and probably the most overrated film in the last 20 years. And [...]

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The 2009 Golden Globes

16Jan09

Here at sexy gypsy, we’ve never really been into the Golden Globes. Call us pretentious, purists, elitists; but there have always only been two categories: The Oscars, and everything else (Golden Globes, MTV awards, Darwin awards, etc.). This year, however, we decided to pay attention. We stand corrected. It is true that the Globes are [...]

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The Wrestler: Darren Aronofsky

04Jan09

by The Great White Gypsy White people are crazy. I never really got into wrestling. I know, it’s real, they are like stuntmen, and people have died in the ring. But it’s scripted, it’s retardedly violent in a white trash kinda way, and they wear tights. So when I saw the poster for The Wrestler, [...]