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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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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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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