Archive for the ‘Corruption’ Category
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The Big Short: The Street, The Book, The Movie
22 Jan 2016There are no good guys in Adam McKay’s new movie, The Big Short, nor in the book of the same name…
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A Most Violent Year: A Man Without Guns Prevails
11 Feb 2015One of the season’s offerings tries a point of view not often found in American movies — a guy who…
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Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War
17 Dec 2014From my daily reading of the news coming from Washington D.C. and around the world I had thought it would…
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Wolf of Wall Street — Glorifying Psychopaths
29 Dec 2013In an open letter to Martin Scorsese and Leonard DiCaprio the daughter of the man DiCaprio plays in the film…
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An Enemy of the People — Where Was He in the Drug Compounding Scandal?
27 Oct 2012I watched Henrik Ibsen’s 1888 blockbuster play, Enemy of the People, last night in the 1971 BBC version, having been…
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Inside Job: A Must See Movie
30 Oct 2010One of the most dispriting things about Inside Job, the new documentary/advocacy film by Charles Ferguson who made No End…
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Only In The Movies
04 Oct 2007In George Stevens’ 1942 “Talk of the Town” law professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman) holds off a lynch mob going…
