Film Chat

This week, a head-to-head between two Oscar-nominated films adapted from books with extremely simple-sounding titles. Danny braved Lenny Abrahamson's Room, an adaptation of Emma Donoghue's novel about a boy whose whole universe is the room in which he and his mother are imprisoned. It's a premise so grim it took Danny days to adjust to normal human life after he escaped the cinema. Sam and Danny also watched The Big Short, a film about the 2008 global financial crisis and the bunch of crazy white guys in bad wigs who saw it coming. Anchorman director Adam McKay tries to balance the technicalities of subprime mortgage-backed securities with a lot of fun montages, fourth-wall breaking, and Selena Gomez playing blackjack. It would be a great educational movie for kids if everyone didn't say fuck all the time. We also go over a lot of bizarre recent film news, including Miley Cyrus joining Woody Allen's TV show (?!), Joseph Fiennes being cast as Michael Jackson in a 9/11 road trip drama (?!?!) and Daniel Radcli