“Stand by your word. Make fair rules. Do the right thing.” -Tao Te Ching Chapter 8, Stephen Addis Translation   No Country for Old Men explores the significance of high-civilized society, wherein the complexity of its internal movable parts exposes the contingency of gremlins in the engine, unbeknownst in possibility to the otherwise rough’n’tumble reality […]

The Godfather Part II (1974) Film Review    Can’t a man get a good night’s sleep? Such a thunderous opening of the continuation of a family which has the appearance of love but in actuality lives in deceit contains that precious emerald of The Hebrew Canon:   But the wicked are like the troubled sea; […]

In a brutally stark confrontation with nihilism, Visioneers charmingly adds comedy to what an Albert Camus would define as absurd: the ease of living life without an ounce of suffering causes spontaneous combusting, and a population sensationalized into avoiding even further harm.   The main protagonist George (Zack Galafianakis) is whimsically a custodian at his […]

In Downfall, the inevitability of grandiosity of a nation, and the megalomania of its relentless hell-bent leader, has a lengthy treatment in the observation of an unending belief in the righteousness of German people per se.    The film appropriately lets the viewer into what is only imagined in the constant learning to the downfall […]

Are excellent demands worth the price? Is the jockeying unto prestige all there is in life? Or is this just the life of the city, and its calibers of highness? No doubt Middletown, Ohioville lacks the same gusto of the ambitious striving for more worldly acclaim. Yet they also lack the vocabulary of cerulean. Is […]

What is Pollyanish but the fanciful? And what is Nature but the destroyer of fanciful ideas, towards grounding the self into the more ultimatum of existence? To choose more life not less, then, requires a focused attention on what is right around the corner. Because the beer is that easy to be had and lost. […]

What if being a knowing deceiver for ill-gotten gains turns the World unto a better moral union and therefore serves the Lord’s Ultimate Purpose, in helping the unfortunate in life? Such a hysterical idea is likely something to be glossed over by the lead “Jonas Nightingale”; an exceptionally casted Mr. Steve Martin who unleashes his […]

What comes of the toils of Justice? Of keeping the whole ordered?    Is it worth the price?    That staid time-decay. Because there are powers that be which are vain.   And cannot stand an incorrect record about themselves upon the public’s knowing of their disservice.   The ultimate busybodies appear in the court […]

In what amounts to a bold faced lie, Rogue Trader cleverly crafts a narrative of the actual, factual, destruction of eons-old gentlemanly banking in the desire for smooth winnings in the emerging markets of Asia-Pacifica, where opportunity is favored by he who is willing to peradventure the growth of prestige of success in English Finance […]

In a well-scripted and well-casted film, Owning Mahoney examines the addiction of gambling, with an assiduous detail to the banking world and its clandestine operating procedures to avoid, intuitively, banking fraud.   In a similar vein of Rogue Trader (1999) though with greater storytelling, Owning Mahoney reveals to us a concealed world of high-financing; of […]