Owning Mahoney (2003) Film

by Joseph A. Hazani May 19, 2025

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 million dollar bank lines....

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Reversal of Fortune (1990) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani May 19, 2025

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 Agatha Christie could fictionalize into the....

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‘Indiscrete’ (1958) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani May 13, 2025

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 set her up with a man.   This is escapist fantasy par excellence. The vicarious fulfillment of....

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My Written Works

On the Struggling Artist: An Essay

A philosophical....

On the Christian Business Ethic: An Essay

Analysis of the role that Christian morality has played in the development of commerce and....

On the Necessity of Color in the Fine Arts: An essay

A philosophical exploration of color and its use in Renaissance, abstract and modern fine....

Towards an Understanding of Jesus Christ: An Essay

Nietzsche had incredible disdain for Christianity being "Judaized Rome", of the slave morality of Judaism creeping up and....