The Big Short & the Frenzy of Must-See Films in December

As the year comes to a close, there's a frenzy of films coming out in the next few weeks that are required viewing. I caught a screening last week of Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant (we'll be discussing the film in more detail soon), a brutal, simultaneously gorgeous film that I haven't been able to totally shake since. In a way, the outrageous commitment the film required (you can read all about the production process here) reminded me of what it took for director Tom McCarthy and his co-writer Josh Singer to pull off 

Watch Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling & More in The Big Short

The dark knight is coming back… whoa, not Batman (this time), the dark knight of financial scandal – Christian Bale. Bale has jetted forward in time from the ABSCAM financial sting of the late 1970s/early 1980s in American Hustle to the global banking crash of the late 2000s in Paramount’s The Big Short.

The Big Short is based on New York Times non-fiction best-seller “The Big Short –