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...verbal dexterity that he brings to his major label releases—and his new release, “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living,” is certainly no exception. Characterized, as ever, by moments of razor-sharp wit amidst a sea of mock-cockney diatribes and a blend of beats and influences that is sometimes too much to take, the new album does find Skinner in a new place, lyrically-speaking: the establishment. Having reached a new level of success after the release of his second album, the conceptual “A Grand Don?...
...harmonic sophistication, and fantastically nihilistic lyrics? Remember how both the Libertines’ albums—first “Up the Bracket” and then their eponymous “The Libertines”—offered Americans a raw, exciting view into a drug-addled cockney underground where Sid Vicious still swaggered? If you do, you better not to listen to Babyshambles’ “Down In Albion.” It’s not that it’s a terrible album. It’s more that every song from Doherty?...
...BOOK WAS BETTER: Director Andrew Adamson Hollywoodizes Lion with a dreary, rote chase scene and "punches up" C.S. Lewis' dialogue with a pair of tiresome beavers with Cockney accents who engage in sitcom-style banter...
...your Cockney roots prepare you to wait on Bruce Wayne...
Cheadle's roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...