Tag: The Big Short

What’s on ‘Built For Speed’ Friday 22nd January 2016

This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we review the film that caused a sensation in Melbourne this week when its director Quentin Tarantino and its stars Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell made an appearance at a screening, The Hateful Eight.  We also take a look at a star-studded film that explores the origins of the GFC, The Big Short.  There’ll

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Film review: THE BIG SHORT, from ‘Built For Speed’

The Big Short sounds like the title of a caper comedy and in a sense it is although the caper is a particularly dubious one, the multi-billion dollar exploitation of a dysfunctional and seemingly corrupt financial system by greedy unscrupulous bond traders that led to the GFC and the financial devastation of millions of working people in 2008. Directed by

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