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I nspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. “ You can either stand in the corner, or get in the ring ” - Romona Hustlers from Lorene Scafaria ( The Meddler ) explores stripping in New York from a female perspective. Their world is turned on its head by the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) requiring them to shift gears and do what they can to survive. I rather liked 70% of what this film has to offer. Sadly the film ultimately bleeds out to quiet a death via self inflicted wounds (namely writing and a mismanaged framing device). In recent years films such as The Wolf of Wall Street , The Big Short and to some extent Jodie Foster’s hidden gem Money Monster have wrestled with the complicity of Wall Street traders which led to the catastrophic crash. I’ve had enough of the preppy white guy in a suit doing badness for a little while. For m...

2014 has been such a phenomenal year for cinema that my list of top 5 films has blown out to a top 10; there were just too many staggeringly good films this season. I strongly urge you to track down these films if you haven’t seen them. 1. Her directed by Spike Jones 2. Inside Llewyn Davis directed by the Coen Brothers 3. The Grand Budapest Hotel directed by Wes Anderson 4. The Wolf of Wall Street directed by Martin Scorsese 5. My Sweet Pepper Land directed by Hiner Saleem 6. The Raid 2 directed by Gareth Evans 7. Under the Skin directed by Jonathan Glazer 8. Only Lovers Left Alive directed by Jim Jarmusch 9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo 10. Nebraska directed by Alexander Payne What's the best film you've seen this year? - Stu

For his latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese adheres to the old adage: ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. The diminutive maestro has been cranking out epic crime films for the past forty years. The Wolf of Wall Street is draped in debauchery and proudly indulges in oodles of sex, drugs and naughtiness whilst still acting as a searing indictment of what damage Wall Street traders were able to do throughout the late 80s and into the 90s. This is the kind of film which will either make you hate corporate corruption or go out and buy some shares. Based upon Jordan Belfort’s autobiography of the same name, the film tracks his rise to prominence off the back of some ingenious yet shady loopholes within the stock market. On the way up the corporate food chain, Belfort brings along his closest friends Donnie (Jonah Hill), Brad (Jon Bernthal), Chester (Kenneth Choi) and Nicky (P. J Byrne), all good New Jersey boys who blindly follow the charismatic Belfort through thick...