to help out. All three of these groups work on the premise that the banks are stupid and don't know what's going on, while for them to win, the general economy has to lose, which means the suffering of the general investor who trusts the financial institutions. That latter aspect may...
there isn’t a sense of winning or losing – merely weathering the periods of time when the villainy of banks and the government are at their most extreme. To its credit, “The Big Short” is able to use humor to bring levity to the horrors of financial ruin. But even the exposed tru...
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quickly coming to the realization that the big banks have built themselves a house of cards that’s going to tumble down into pieces sooner rather than later. Much to the shock of his investors, he decides to bet the entire value of the hedge fund he runs...
Once you get over the icky feeling that making a movie about Brexit in early 2019 is kind of like making a movie about a raging wildfire before it’s been put out, HBO’s Brexit is an interesting examination of how we got here.
"Vice," about VP Dick Cheney (it's not a biopic, it's a Dick-pic), was written and directed by Adam McKay, who made the similarly themed "The Big Short." McKay is better known, though, as an "SNL" wri... On the Basis of Sex B | PG-13 | December 25, 2018 Movie Revie...
I'll say this much for "The Big Short": it's a very entertainingmovie. It is devilishly...Simon, Jeff
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Carry-On (2024) Movie Review December 20, 2024 Carry-Onis the dumb-as-rocks holiday crowd pleaser of the year, and many involved in its execution are game for embracing the buffoonery. Director Jaume Collet-Serra had graduated from low-budget horror and slick low-budget action films to the...
This documentary uses footage from their shared gaming sessions to explore the production's evolution, from concept to auditions to the big night. It also charts how Sam and Mark's friendship fared in an extraordinary time of being physically apart. In his SXSW review for Mashable, Siddhant Adl...