#Christian McKay

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Must Watch if you are curious about Stephen Hawking. It’s a good, emotional story. I am super curious about the polyamorous relationship but I think it is in service to the story not to make it play a bigger part.

The Theory of Everything is a 2014 biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh. It was adapted by Anthony McCarten from the 2007 memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking. It stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd, and David Thewlis.

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226 - The Leisure Seeker

When the 2017 Golden Globe nominations were announce, the question on everyone’s mind was “What the hell is The Leisure Seeker?!” Starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as an aging couple having one last getaway in their eponymous Winnebago, the film debuted in competition at Venice before also playing a TIFF gala and went entirely under the radar. Sony Classics quietly gave the film a qualifying release, successfully netting Mirren a Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe nomination despite so few seeing the film. The nomination was a head-scratcher to most, but was predicted by none other than our Joe Reid.

This episode, we discuss Helen Mirren’s vast history with the Golden Globes and assess the current diagnosis on the Globes and their often amusing nomination history. We also talk about Sutherland’s famously surprising lack of an acting Oscar nomination, other possible comedy leading actress contenders from 2017, and another round of Alter Egos.

Topics also include what famous festival jurors think of the movies they have to watch, the film’s half-baked look at the 2016 election, and surprise Danielle Deadwyler.

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The 2017 Oscar nominations

Vulture Movies Fantasy League

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Time 05-Oct-2022 16:10 Day Wednesday Where Cineworld - Rushden Lakes Screen 3 Seat F8 Price £1.84

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) Review

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) Review

In London in the 1950s a war widowed cleaning lady Ada Harris falls in love with a Dior dress that belongs to one of the women she works for and sets out to buy her very own! Doing all she can to save up the £500! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)

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Κριτική Ταινίας :Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Κριτική Ταινίας :Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Η Κυρία Χάρις Πάει στο Παρίσι) του Anthony Fabian #review Με τους Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Ellen Thomas, Lucas Bravo, Jason Isaacs

Το Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Η Κυρία Χάρις Πάει στο Παρίσι) του Anthony Fabian είναι μια γοητευτική και, αδιαμφισβήτητα, πολύ βρετανική ταινία. Στο Λονδίνο, μετά τον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο, η Άντα Χάρις κερδίζει τα προς το ζην καθαρίζοντας σπίτια. Η ίδια ζει μια μοναχική ζωή από τότε που ο αγαπημένος της σύζυγος, Έντι, χάθηκε στη μάχη, αλλά δεν είναι ο τύπος που μελαγχολεί ή παραπονιέται για…

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Christian Cage Was In Love With Luke Perry

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Christian Bale behind the scenes of The Big Short in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Re: Christian Bale as Michael Burry in The Big Short (2015) dir. Adam McKay

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The Big Short (2015)

Adam McKay 2h 10m [Day 10, 2024 - "The" Saturday]

"I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people." - Mark Baum

Adam McKay's style reminds me of the Tarantino maxim that if you need to feed detailed information to the audience, call it out in a splashy way. That technique is used to maximum effect in The Big Short, a comedic take on the 2008 mortgage crisis.

Amongst the "weirdos and outsiders" who saw the crash coming, we spend most of our time with Michael Burry (Christian Bale), Mark Baum (Steve Carrell) and Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling).

Burry is a numbers obsessive and goes completely against all known strategies to call out the inevitable demise of mortgage backed securities. Baum learns about it through Vennett and each man bets against the market, in the sick hope of the corrupt bond system disintegrating.

Corrupt bond grading system you say? What the hell is that? Using flashy cut away scenes laced with humour we learn about the levers used in financial and political systems that lead to predatory practices in mortgage backed securities.

The film is funny and the performances are solid. The ensemble cast is note perfect and the pacing is great. Recommended...

AND YET...

Let us remember, that these wealthy white men, were not saints. It is a strange story where these captains of capital with enough access to create a financial instrument to bet on a crash can be seen as real "weirdos and outsiders". Let me tell you something that people in finance are unequivocally interested in: making lots of money. If you make them money, there is nothing off-putting about you at all. Even the suggestion of making millions from people being put on the street. What is an outsider after all in this context but a rugged individualist?

They become the centre of the story.

Pair with: The Other Guys, Magic Mike (on my future list is 99 Homes)

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And I've got another episode of The Biggest Night in Podcasting up. This time I'm joined by my good friends Liz and Bradley to discuss Adam McKay's 2018 film Vice.

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Title: Thieves of Weirdwood | Author: Christian McKay Heidicker | Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (2020)

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Stargate S6: E 1&2 Redemption brings Rodney back. I can see why everyone hated him. He's arrogant and wildly inappropriate, and yet, even here, he gets his pride knocked back and grows. I love that about Rodney. Every time he's forced to face his own worst character traits, he doesn't double down on them. He grows. May we all face the worst of ourselves and strive to be better.

Also, kudos to Daniel Jackson for having a great death at the end of Season 5. I cried quite a bit. The problem is, I know he's not gone for good, so as much as I like Jonas Quinn, I'd really like Daniel back, please.

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Christian Bale in The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015)

Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei. Screenplay: Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, based on a book by Michael Lewis. Cinematography:  Barry Ackroyd. Production design: Clayton Hartley. Film editing: Hank Corwin. Music: Nicholas Britell. 

I will never come closer to understanding Wall Street than I do after watching The Big Short -- but that's about as close as I am to understanding particle physics. It's a remarkable portrayal of what the kind of manipulations that led to the crash of 2008 can do to people, and in this case to the people who helped bring it about. I have seen what that crash -- and the manipulations -- can do to ordinary folk:  A few years before the crash, the condo unit next to mine was bought by a man as a starter home for him and family. It was soon evident that he was having trouble making the payments on the mortgage -- at one point, the family moved out and rented it to someone else. Eventually, the bank foreclosed. I wondered at the time how he had managed to secure a mortgage in the first place. After the crash, I found out why -- a process that is at the heart of what takes place in The Big Short. There are no heroes or villains in this movie: Even the protagonists with whom we are asked to identify, such as Michael Burry (Christian Bale) and Mark Baum (Steve Carell), are out to milk a system they know is corrupt. And when they fail, they still manage to make a billion dollars, mostly by using other people's money. But the characters are so shrewdly drawn, first by Michael Lewis in his book and then by Adam McKay and Charles Randolph in their Oscar-winning screenplay, and so deftly acted that we can't help feeling for them. Burry and Baum and Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt in one of his best performances) are qualitatively different from flamboyant greed-heads like Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) and Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013). The Big Short shows us something even more disturbing: the moral corruption of exceptionally intelligent men whose lives could have been put to something more useful than playing with money as if it were a board game with no real consequences to other people.