Savages (2012)
Savages (2012) – So Oliver Stone is known primarily for political films like JFK, Nixon, and W. Or films with a message like Platoon or Wall Street. But sometimes Stone just goes wild and crazy and that’s when he gives us movies like U-Turn or, more to the point, Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers was … Continue reading
Margin Call (2011)
Margin Call (2011) – I think Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is overrated and its 2010 sequel is deservedly forgotten two short years later. So what is the great Wall Street movie? Not strictly speaking a true story but very much based on the events that unfolded at Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crises, Margin … Continue reading
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) — So this movie ends up falling into the “decent” category, which is a shame because the material obviously has the potential to be the defining film of this whole economic crisis. Instead Oliver Stone pisses a lot of that away. I was with this movie most of the … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 