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Can Margin Call Make the Financial Crisis Interesting?

A funny thing about the financial crisis that started in 2008 and continues to affect both Main Street and Wall Street to this day: it doesn’t really translate that well to film. Well, feature films, anyway. The documentaries are great — see Inside Job , for reference — but from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps to the HBO film Too Big to Fail , the biggest news story of the last three years seems all too small and boring when high-priced stars are acting out its machinations onscreen. Into that arena comes Margin Call ; can the star-studded fiscal drama succeed where others failed?

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Can Margin Call Make the Financial Crisis Interesting?

Sir Patrick Stewart On Dorothy of Oz, Captain Picard’s Legacy, and His Favorite Scene

There are few actors who have earned as much geek cred and devoted followings as Sir Patrick Stewart , and certainly none others who were also performing Shakespeare on stage in the U.K. the night before flying across the world to greet fans at Comic-Con . (If only one could achieve warp speed on commercial airlines these days, international travel would be much easier.) So, of course, Movieline jumped at the chance for a few minutes in heaven with the erstwhile Captain Picard; what more perfect a Comic-Con experience could there be?

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Sir Patrick Stewart On Dorothy of Oz, Captain Picard’s Legacy, and His Favorite Scene

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Link: http://io9.com/5430950/you-can-call-h… Rumor has is that Captain Picard is next in line to be knighted! He can rescue me from a dragon any day, if you take my meaning. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment