BOOM BUST BOOM  Directed by Terry Jones, Bill Jones, Ben Timlett, and the Monty Python graphics loons Here is a suitable companion piece to the exceptional film The Big Short, which should have won Best Picture from many points of view.  Not only did Big Short illuminate the precursor rumblings of the housing crash of 2008, using quirky characters and mounting excitement as the viewer realized he was sympathizing with these boiler-room guys who were riding the crescendo of disaster to clean up, but it was a fast-moving, appropriately clever script that kept you glued, and it was all a story most people did not know – unlike the well-bruited tale told in the otherwise excellent Spotlight. After all, everyone knew of the Boston priest sexual abuses of children.  As opposed to the fact that few people – even now – understand what went down with the burst bubble of unsecured mortgages-a-go-go...(Read Full Post)