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Dennis Hopper: Keep On Riding

Monday, May 31st, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy It’s only been two days since the world lost one of it’s biggest stars, and cinephiles everywhere are still processing. If you were anything like me, you had three clear thoughts when you heard the news of Dennis Hopper’s passing, in this order: “Wow, I didn’t even know he was […]

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Stanley Kubrick: Checkmate in 11 Moves

Friday, May 21st, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy There was a time when milestones in cinema involved actual art. A director’s technique, an editor’s style, a writer’s testicular fortitude. A time when groundbreaking films were more than just the sum of their parts. Nowadays, a milestone in cinema is when a director rips off Dances with Wolves to […]

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Top 5 Films Your Daddy Should’ve Made You Watch

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Parents are a crafty bunch. For the first five or ten years of your life, culturally, they own your ass. As soon as you’re done with your sing-a-long cassettes, and Sesame Street has been brought to you by every letter in the alphabet (and by the number 3), it begins. Before you know it you’re […]

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Coming Soon: March 2010

Monday, March 1st, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy Alice in Wonderland - Directed by Tim Burton, Written by Linda Woolverton If Tim Burton spent the rest of his career warping Disney classics, I would still love the guy. There have been numerous remakes and interpretations, but Burton’s tale of Alice coming back to Wonderland when she’s 19 to […]

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2010 Academy Award Nominations

Friday, February 5th, 2010

If you’re anything like us, one of the first things you did when you woke up Tuesday morning was check out the announcement of the 2010 Academy Award nominations. And if you’re really like us, you were a bit disappointed with the list. We’ve known for a while that the Academy planned to nominate ten […]

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The Best of The Aughts

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

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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