"The Big Short" is a sly film. Based on a Michael Lewis’s novel of the same title, "Short" interweaves a bushel of megawatt-charged pop cultural devices to explain the driving forces behind the ...

On Saturday night, in the latest twist of a most unpredictable Oscar season, “The Big Short,” a dramedy about America’s recent financial crisis (that topped my most recent Feinberg Forecast ...

Adapted from Michael Lewis’ bestselling book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” McKay’s film traces the roots of the global market collapse through the eyes of those who saw it ...

Michael Burry made $100 million by predicting the housing market crash in The Big Short. Mark Baum, based on Steve Eisman, earned $1 billion from the market crash depicted in the film. Jared ...

If there's a single word to describe the hiring of Adam McKay as director of "The Big Short," it would have to be "unexpected." After all, here's a guy who got his not-ready-for-prime-time start ...

Adam McKay lampoons the financiers who contributed to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in his new film, The Big Short. Critic David Edelstein calls it "one of the best films of the year.

Initially, ”The Big Short” reads as a documentary narrated by Ryan Gosling’s (“Drive”) character Jared Vennett (which begs the question: why doesn’t Ryan Gosling narrate documentaries?). While the ...

Given that Sorkin was apparently given access to a large trove of documents allowing him to make the case that Goldman didn’t have that “Big Short” on, I thought it would be instructive for ...