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Midlake - The Courage of Others
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Ok. I know I’m late on this one. There are probably eight million reviews of this album on the interwebs at this point. But I’ve been meaning to talk about Midlake’s latest release, The Courage of Others ever since their appearance on NPR’s All Songs Considered back in January. They were previewing the album, which […]
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Crazy Heart: Scott Cooper
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010by The Great White Gypsy
How in holy, blazing, snowball devouring hell has Jeff Bridges never won an Oscar??? Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. But the question still stands. How does one of the most well-known actors of the last 50 years create iconic character after iconic character and go completely […]
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The Lionshare: Joshua Bernhard
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010by The Great White Gypsy
You can get anything online these days. It started out as pictures. Then music became available. Then movies. Now you can get food, entertainment, conversation, and sex without even leaving your house. The Irony is not lost on me, then, as I am reviewing a film […]
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The Vicious Kind: Lee Toland Krieger
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010by The Great White Gypsy
We all want to protect the people we care about. From pain, from loss, from someone else hurting them. From ourselves. But sometimes our pride gets the better of us, and causes us to lose more than we would otherwise because of our mistakes. These are the […]
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Nights and Weekends: Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg
Monday, February 1st, 2010by The Great White Gypsy
While looking through the nominees for this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, I came across a familiar title: Nights and Weekends. It had been in my Netflix Instant Queue (God bless Netflix) for a while, and I figured now was a good time to check it out. I had heard […]
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: From Page to Screen
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010by The Great White Gypsy
I am a David Foster Wallace groupie.
There, I said it. The man has a fairly small body of work; aside from magazine articles, he only wrote two novels and four short story/essay collections before committing suicide in 2008. Even so, he had already established himself as a genius of our time.
I […]
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