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The Soloist: Joe Wright

30Apr09

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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2009 Oscar Recap

24Feb09

First and foremost, we would like to thank all of you who supported us on Sunday and followed the live blog. It was a big day for Sexy Gypsy, and it really set the bar high. Unfortunately, the Academy set the bar pretty low for hosting this year. Hugh Jackman, while slightly entertaining and charismatic […]

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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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Frost/Nixon: Ron Howard

10Feb09

by The Great White Gypsy For the past eight years, Washington has been rocked by the biggest scandal in history. It wasn’t an isolated event (like Clinton’s Monica-gate, or Whitewater-gate…or Lie-to-Ken Star-while-playing-the-saxophone-gate.); it was an ongoing disservice to the American people that I will now dub “Dyslexia-gate”. It has made us forget that we ever […]

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2009 Academy Award Nominations

06Feb09

So now that we’ve all had a chance to absorb the Oscar nominations, it’s time to start placing bets. We already mentioned that, in the last three years, every Oscar winner for Best Actor and Actress also won […]