Archive for April, 2009
The Soloist: Joe Wright
by The Great White Gypsy People who could’ve directed The Soloist better than Joe Wright: Ron Howard Any 2nd year NYU film student A French tourist with a camcorder A retarded monkey The Soloist is the story of Steve Lopez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times who is struggling for new material. After a […]
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Tags: atonement, catch and release, catherine keener, cinema, dario marianelli, erin brockovich, ever after, film, jamie foxx, joe wright, julliard, movie, nathaniel ayers, paul tothill, pride and prejudice, review, robert downey jr., ron howard, sarah greenwood, seamus mcgarvey, sexy gypsy, steve lopez, susannah grant, the soloist
by The Great White Gypsy 1. M. Night Shayamalan The Sixth Sense was freaking awesome, with an eerie atmosphere, and one of the best plot twists up to that point. Everything M. Night has done since then has sucked balls. Unbreakable was the worst superhero film ever (“They call me Mr. Glass.” Are you fucking […]
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Tags: a history of violence, alfred hitchcock, atonement, born on the 5th of july, cinema, crash, david cronenberg, director, eastern promises, existenz, film, high fidelity, jamie foxx, jane austen, jason schwartzman, jfk, joe namath, joe wright, m. night shayamalan, movie, natural born killers, nixon, oliver stone, platoon, pride and prejudice, quentin tarantino, sexy gypsy, signs, the darjeeling limited, the fly, the happening, the lady in the water, the sixth sense, the soloist, the village, top 5, top 5 list, top 5 worst directors of all time, touchstone pictures, unbreakable, videodrome, viggo mortensen, w, wall street, wes anderson, world trade
Mutant Chronicles: Simon Hunter
by The Great White Gypsy The sci-fi horror genre should be renamed. I think a more apt title would be “guilty pleasures”. You know these films are awful, but you just freaking love them. Event Horizon, Doomsday, anything by Sam Raimi or John Carpenter. You’re always slow to admit you watched them, and even slower […]
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Tags: cinema, doomsday, event horizon, film, guilty pleasures, john carpenter, john malkovich, magnolia pictures, movie, mutant chronicles, on-demand, philip eisner, review, ron perlman, sam raimi, sci-fi horror, sexy gyspy, simon hunter, thomas jane, tom cruise, valkyrie
Song of The Day
Ok. I know, I’m kinda late on this one. Jake One’s eclectic album, White Van Music dropped in 2008. And I usually try to keep the music section pretty current. But for some unknown reason, I only heard the album yesterday. And I feel like I have to write about it. So until I get […]
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Tags: brother ali, freeway, hip hop, jake one, music, music recommendation, rhymesayers, rocafella, sexy gypsy, song of the day, the truth, video, white van music