Archive for May, 2009

by The Great White Gypsy Whether you don’t watch movies very often, or you’re a cinema fanatic, we all have a soft spot for con game films. We are always willing to see one, we are much more forgiving of them, and Rian Johnson knows this. So he watched The Sting, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. […]


by The Great White Gypsy Away We Go – Directed by Sam Mendes, Written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida About a couple expecting a child that travels around the country looking for a place to start their family. I’m still reeling from Mendes’s snubbing at the Oscars last year, and this comes out too […]


by The Great White Gypsy I need to start reading more. The Informers is the latest adaptation of one of Bret Easton Ellis’ novels (he wrote Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho), and it’s on par with its predecessors. The story has been done in every sub culture in every decade since […]


by The Great White Gypsy Comic book movies confuse me. Not conceptually, or as a legitimate genre, I’m just confused why they continue to get things wrong. Now, granted, comic books are modern mythology, not based in any serious reality. But there is still a mythology there that demands a certain level of accuracy when […]


W.H.O.ville USA

03May09

by Ryan Macdonald It was a great day in W.H.O.ville, the sun was shining bright And it looked like the Who were going to be alright The market was up, and the president was “down”, Every Who walked around without a single Who-frown. But there was one soul that didn’t feel happy, it seemed, That […]