Posts Tagged ‘dave eggers’
Away We Go: Sam Mendes
by The Great White Gypsy I wish you could’ve seen my expression last November, when I first read the Oscar nominees for 2008. I was appalled. Not only were certain films on the docket that didn’t deserve so much as an original song award, but what was almost completely absent was Sam Mendes’ gut wrenching […]
Filed under: film, reviews | Leave a Comment
Tags: a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, alex murdoch, alexi murdoch, allison janney, american beauty, away we go, blow, burn after reading, catherine o'hara, cinema, dave eggers, ellen kuras, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, film, george harrison, jeff daniels, jess gonchor, jim gaffigan, john krasinski, juno, lost in translation, maggie gyllenhaal, marie antoinette, maya rudolph, movie, nick and norah, nick and norah's infinite playlist, no country for old men, orange sky, review, revolutionary road, sam mendes, sarah flack, sexy gypsy, the velvet underground, thomas newman, toni collette, vendela vida
by The Great White Gypsy This is a short book about the older of two identical twins. William is just as intelligent as his brother, Clive, but doesn’t apply himself, or go through the standard Freudian stages of childhood with the same speed and grace as his twin. His parents are pop-developmental psychology followers, and […]
Filed under: what we've been reading, words | Leave a Comment
Tags: a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, an underachiever's diary, benjamin anastas, book, dave eggers, diary, frederick exley, literature, memoir, reading, review, run-on sentence, sexy gypsy, the faithful narrative of a pastor's disappearance
Coming Soon: June
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 […]
Filed under: coming soon, film | 1 Comment
Tags: $9.99, 2 days in paris, 2001: a space odyssey, 30 days of night, alan arkin, alessandro gassman, allison janney, amy brenneman, anamaria marinca, Anthony lapaglia, antonio luigi grimaldi, antony mackie, autobots, away we go, before sunrise, betsy griffin nowrasteh, bill plympton, bill pullman, black hawk down, blake lively, blue steel, brandon routh, brian geraghty, brian helgeland, buddy giovinazzo, buffalo 66, byung-hun lee, cannes, caos calmo, carrie-anne moss, catherine o'hara, cinema, claudia karvan, coming attractions, coming soon, countess bathory, crash, cyrus nowrasteh, daniel bruhl, dave eggers, david lynch, david morse, decepticons, deja vu, dennis lee, denzel washington, domino, downloading nancy, duncan jones, ehren kruger, elias koteas, emily watson, etgar keret, evangeline lilly, film, fireflies in the garden, francis ford coppola, french stewart, frost, geoffrey rush, goodfellas, guy pearce, hayden panettiere, house of sand and fog, hugo weaving, i come with the rain, illeana douglas, in the valley of elah, ioan gruffudd, james caviezel, james gandolfini, jason behr, jason patrick, jeff daniels, jennifer chambers lynch, jeremy renner, jim gaffigan, joel edgerton, johan renck, john krasinski, john Travolta, john turturro, josh duhamel, josh hartnett, julia ormond, julia roberts, julianne moore, julie delpy, june 2009, k19: the widowmaker, kathryn bigelow, keanu reeves, kent harper, kerry washington, Kevin spacey, lara flynn boyle, lee ross, life is hot in cracktown, lucky # slevin, luis Guzman, maggie gyllenhaal, man on fire, maria bello, mark boal, maya rudolph, megan fox, michael bay, mission to mars, monica bellucci, moon, movie, mozhan marno, mtv, nanni moretti, nathan parker, nine ninety-nine, pamela cuming, passion of the christ, pell james, point break, proof, quiet chaos, Ralph fiennes, rashomon, rebecca miller, release date, robert frost, robert shaw, roberto orci, robin wright penn, roswell, rufus sewell, ryan reynolds, ryan simpkins, rza, s.w.a.t., sam mendes, sam rockwell, sandro veronesi, sexy gypsy, shannyn sossamon, shia labeouf, shohreh aghdashloo, solaris, spy game, steve clark, stoploss, sunshine, surveillance, swordfish, tatia rosenthal, tetro, the air i breathe, the ballad of jack and rose, the conversation, the countess, the hurt locker, the kingdom, the last international playboy, the life before her eyes, the private lives of pippa lee, the stoning of soraya m., the taking of pelham 1 2 3, thomas ian nicholas, thomas moffett, tony scott, tran anh hung, transformers, transformers 2, transformers: revenge of the fallen, tyrese, valeria golino, vendela vida, vincent gallo, wallace and gromit, walter matthau, wild hogs, willem dafoe, william hurt, winona ryder
by The Great White Gypsy Yeah, I know, you can’t hear that title without singing Tenacious D’s catchy song. It’s all I heard in my head for the week I was reading this book, though I tried not to let it detract from the story. As with most of his novels, Michael Chabon’s story in […]
Filed under: literature, words | Leave a Comment
Tags: a model world, author, book, chuck klosterman, curtis hanson, dave eggers, frances mcdormand, gentlemen of the road, gentlemen of the road: a tale of adventure, grady tripp, james leer, katie holmes, kavalier and clay, literature, marilyn monroe, michael chabon, michael douglas, novel, prose, review, robert downey jr., sarah gaskell, sexy gypsy, summerland, terry crabtree, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, the final solution, the final solution: a story of detection, the mysteries of pittsburgh, the yiddish policemen's union, tobey maguire, werewolves in their youth, wonder boys, words, writer, writing
Watchmen: Alan Moore
by The Great White Gypsy I never really got into comic books. I’ve always loved superheroes, I know most of the back-stories and storylines, but I only actually read them for a few years, and I stopped when I was 11. I’ve seen all of the big comic movies the last few years, and most […]
Filed under: literature | 2 Comments
Tags: alan moore, ang lee, armageddon, authors, ayn rand, batman, behind the hood, books, bystander effect, comic books, crimefighting, dave eggers, dr. manhattan, frank miller, from hell, gerard butler, good vs evil, graphic novel, hollis mason, idealism, joel schumacher, jon osterman, kitty genovese, literature, man as god, morality, night owl, night owl II, nina simone, ozymandias, richard nixon, rorschach, sexy gypsy, silk spectre, silk spectre II, super hero, super villain, superman, the black freighter, the comedian, the league of extraordinary gentlemen, v for vendetta, vigilante, watchmen, writers, writing, zack snyder