Jamie Foxx

What Do the Papers Say?

source: jmmnewaov2 (WordPress)

To begin, let’s take a look at The Soloist which stars Robert Downey Jr as LA Times columnist Steve Lopez, and Jamie Foxx, as the schizophrenic and homeless street musician, Nathaniel Ayers. In a few words, the plot can be summarized as the story of a newspaper journalist who befriends a hom...

Published Mon, Oct 26

Review: The Soloist (2009)

source: rufflesack (WordPress)

The Soloist is the story about a reporter (Robert Downey Jr.) who meets an extraordinary street musician (Jamie Foxx) and procedes to write a column on said musician and why he is homeless despite his potential. As the movie progresses, a sort of relationship grows, and the movie manages to...

Published Sun, Oct 18

Midday Musings

source: eastcoastpaperboy.com

Syracuse, NY — In my advanced reporting class today, Professor Gingerich showed us a clip from “The Soloist,” featuring Jamie Foxx as the schizophrenic violinist Nathanil Ayers. His tongue danced across his teeth like fingers on piano keys.

Published Fri, Oct 16

[movie review] the soloist

source: stephaniecheng (WordPress)

Recently my boyfriend and I watched The Soloist featuring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. Downey plays Steve Lopez, a columnist  for the Los Angeles Times, who meets Nathaniel Ayers played by Foxx, a homeless paranoid schizophrenic who also happens to be a music prodigy.

Published Wed, Oct 14

The Soloist - A Review

source: moviewaffle (WordPress)

The difficulty in playing “mad” is that it’s easy to overdo it. Madness, like alcohol, offers actors an awful temptation to grandstand. Think of Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys, Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, or Nicolas Cage in anything (including his “sane” roles). Playing an actual living mad person doesn’t tend to sway actors one way or the other (they’re mostly focused on the Oscars), but thankfully, Jamie Foxx is reasonably restrained. Give the man credit, he’s playing a homeless (read: Oscar-worthy), schizophrenic (read: Oscar-worthy) music prodigy (read: And the winner is…), so the urge to break-dance through his scenes must have been crippling. But Foxx is admirably free of extraneous ticks and finger twirls, and even when he g...

Published Sun, Oct 4

Not all homeless like the "Soloist"......

source: 20somethingrl (WordPress)

I recently watched a movie that put my moral compass on trial.  Well, maybe not my morality, but certainly my humanity.  Bf and I decide to watch “The Solosist,” you know, the true story about a man whose homeless, but is this amazingly gifted musician and the reporter who found him, wrote a st...

Published Tue, Sep 29

Film Review: The Soloist

source: londonbill (WordPress)

A story about a musician who develops schizophrenia which makes him homeless. I was waiting for something to happen, but not a bad film all in all. With and by: Joe Wright, Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Susannah Grant, Steve Lopez, Nathaniel Ayers

Published Tue, Sep 29

#34. Supporting Stupid Black People

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On February 8th of this year musician Chris Brown, Black Person, physically abused his girlfriend Rihanna, but some of his fans (who just so happened to be Black) have continued to support him despite his terrible actions. On February 8th of this year musician Chris Brown, Black Person, p...

Published Thu, Sep 10