The Big Short is the new film from director Adam McKay (Anchorman, The Other Guys), and is set in Wall Street in the build up to the 2007 collapse of the US housing market and subsequent economic issues, and based on the book by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blind Side. The film opens is 2005 with Mark Burry (Christian Bale) runs
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Out in cinemas now, ‘Joy’ sees David O’Russell reunited with a number of cast members that he has worked with before, to tell the story of Joy Margano, the inventor of the Magic Mop. Joy, played by Jennifer Lawrence (or J-Law to the paparazzo), sees the telling of a true story of Margano on her rags to riches story, in
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Foxcatcher is a 2014 film that recounts the true story of wrestling brothers Dave and Mark Schultz and their involvement with John DuPont (of the wealthy American family DuPont). Having both taken a gold medal from the 1984 Los Angeles olympics in different weight categories within the field of Wrestling, both brothers went on to join du Pont’s ‘Foxcatcher’ wrestling
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