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The Soloist: Joe Wright

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

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

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

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

Friday, February 6th, 2009

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 the Golden Globe. This year, however, the nominations aren’t even the same. Kate Winslet won Best Actress […]

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The Wrestler: Darren Aronofsky

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

by The Great White Gypsy White people are crazy. I never really got into wrestling.  I know, it’s real, they are like stuntmen, and people have died in the ring.  But it’s scripted, it’s retardedly violent in a white trash kinda way, and they wear tights.  So when I saw the poster for The Wrestler, […]

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