‘Leap of Faith’ (1992) Film Review
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
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‘The Winslow Boy’ (1999) Film Review
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
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‘Rogue Trader’ (1999) Film Review
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
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Owning Mahoney (2003) Film
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
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Reversal of Fortune (1990) Film Review
What an incredibly insightful portrayal of the “top out of sight” community. Those privately secluded American families with no interest in media exposure. Who have comfortable luxury and seek no attention, only when their private affairs turn sordid. In which case, it is typical media fare for journalists to extend what only, say, an
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‘Indiscrete’ (1958) Film Review
What is a spoiled woman to do? The one that has it all, even by today’s opulent standards. That pied-a-terre in London – far removed from the hastiness of New York City (why smudge a wrinkle over that old hag?), onto that polite society of a good older sister caring for her, in trying to
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