When Adam McKay moved away from making stright-up comedies like Step Brothers and The Other Guys, the last thing I was expecting him to start making was more serious biographical comedy-dramas. With The Big Short, he showed he could handle something a little more serious while telling the tale of…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – THE BIG SHORT
The very idea of Adam McKay, director of Anchorman and Step Brothers, making a film about the financial crisis in the mid-2000s brought on by the uncontrolled build-up of the housing market, is one that left me scratching my head. Centred around such a serious subject, I just couldn’t see what McKay would…
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86th Academy Awards – My Predictions
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this Sunday sees the 86th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. With 24 awards available and with such a wonderful array of films over the past 12 months, this could well be the hardest awards show to call in…
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Barton’s Movie Reviews – American Hustle
American Hustle is a film that exudes confidence from start to finish. David O. Russell really impressed me with his previous films The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, but this is easily the most confident of the bunch. That comes as no surprise when he gets to work with what could be regarded as the most…
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