The Big Short: The Street, The Book, The Movie
There are no good guys in Adam McKay’s new movie, The Big Short, nor in the book of the same name …
Category Archives: Corruption
A Most Violent Year: A Man Without Guns Prevails
One of the season’s offerings tries a point of view not often found in American movies — a guy who …
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War
From my daily reading of the news coming from Washington D.C. and around the world I had thought it would …
Wolf of Wall Street — Glorifying Psychopaths
In an open letter to Martin Scorsese and Leonard DiCaprio the daughter of the man DiCaprio plays in the film …
An Enemy of the People — Where Was He in the Drug Compounding Scandal?
I watched Henrik Ibsen’s 1888 blockbuster play, Enemy of the People, last night in the 1971 BBC version, having been …
Inside Job: A Must See Movie
One of the most dispriting things about Inside Job, the new documentary/advocacy film by Charles Ferguson who made No End …
Only In The Movies
In George Stevens’ 1942 “Talk of the Town” law professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman) holds off a lynch mob going …