{"id":19045,"date":"2016-01-25T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T10:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19045"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T10:22:43","slug":"a-review-of-the-oscar-contending-film-the-big-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19045","title":{"rendered":"A review of the Oscar-contending film &#8220;The Big Short&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some really good films portraying the madness that is the financial market. I think particularly of <em>&#8220;Margin Call&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:M#MC\">here<\/a>] and <em>&#8220;The Wolf Of Wall Street&#8221;<\/em> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:W#TWOWS\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s nominations for the Academy Awards (popularly known as the Oscars) have been released and a candidate for Best Film is a movie showing how the collapse sub-prime housing market rocked the American (and world) economy in 2007\/08.<\/p>\n<p>We saw the film, <em>&#8220;The Big Short&#8221;<\/em>, this weekend and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:B#Short\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been some really good films portraying the madness that is the financial market. I think particularly of &#8220;Margin Call&#8221; [my review here] and &#8220;The Wolf Of Wall Street&#8221; [my review here]. This year&#8217;s nominations for the Academy Awards (popularly known as the Oscars) have been released and a candidate for Best Film is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19045"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19051,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions\/19051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}