The Big Short

Seven Rocky pictures. Which Stallone is pretty much solely responsible for. Which made Hollywood exactly $1,285,192,797. Just so we’re clear, that’s 1.3 billion U.S. dollars. In the words of John Malkovich’s Russian character in “Rounders,” “Give dat man his Mah-neee!” No, wait—that’s what Stallone gave Hollywood. So—“Give dat man his Oscar!” Enough said.

What’s New at the 2016 Oscars? Rather than having winners recite long thank-you lists, those names will now scroll at the bottom of your TV screen.

Is it responsible storytelling, to sugarcoat the bitter pill of the housing crisis that harmed a vast number of American families? This is ultimately a story about how unregulated, rotten-to-the-core capitalism allowed our banks, in cahoots with the government, to eat it’s own children. That’s just not funny, no how, no way.