Want to see people get angry?  Talk to them about bailouts and banks and the way we should treat those who tank the entire economy in order to line their own pockets.  

"The Big Short" does just that and it does it well, but Josh isn't entirely sure it does it well enough.  If you ask him (and you do), it comes up short in one very important area...

When did asking people to be humane and do the right thing become political?  When did the notion that we should all help each other out become political?  Why is it that we all too regularly turn on each other when we should be looking out for one another?

"Lass is More" is back after taking last week off and Josh finds himself disheartened with the world.

Earlier this week, "Lass is More" released the first half of our interview with two of the folks involved in a movie looking at Colorado's legalization of marijuana, "Rolling Papers."  That discussion concludes today with Ricardo Baca, an editor at The Denver Post and the man in charge of the marijuana coverage at the paper and affiliated website, The Cannabist (http://www.thecannabist.co).

Today we have the first part of our interview with two of the individuals who took part in the documentary, "Rolling Papers."  The film focuses on the first year marijuana was legal in Colorado.  As for us, we speak to Mitch Dickman, the director of the movie, and Ricardo Baca, who helms The Denver Post's coverage of marijuana and a central figure in the movie.

A long conversation, we at "Lass is More" have opted to split it into two parts, with the second part coming in a couple of days.

The movie "Grandmother" offers us all a look at a very serious issue which Josh does not tackle here as well as the notions of love and family, which he does.  

What does it mean to have someone in our lives like Lily Tomlin's Elle Reid?  She is a woman whom her family can go to when they need help.  She is fiercely protective and while she may be a little exuberant or uncouth, she has her loved ones' best interests at heart.

For years--decades, really--Josh has pined for a larger television, something to help immerse him in whatever sort of nonsense he chooses to watch at home.  A bigger TV, in his mind, would mean less to pull away away from a movie.

This week, Josh explains that desire in depth and wonders whether it would have helped his enjoyment of Guillermo del Toro's latest film, "Crimson Peak."

Soliloquies are lovely, but how many can you really have in a single movie?  People talk to each other, people have conversations, people interact with one another. It's the way it works in real life and it's the way it works in the movies.

So, because February is approaching and because relationships are important, today "Lass is More" looks at the relationships seen in three different movies, "Chi-Raq," "Meet the Patels," and "Burnt."

Have you ever watched a movie and thought "that could never happen to me?"  Sure, we all have.  Why do movies have such trouble identifying those moments?  What makes them so hard to see?  

The otherwise brilliant "Straight Outta Compton" has a big one.  We discuss on today's episode.

Welcome to the new year.  It is a time of change, a time of upheaval.  A time of approaching things different.  

We regularly hear about revolutionary change at this time of year, but that's not how Josh works.  He prefers incremental change; incremental improvements.  Take the movie "Sicario."  It is a fantastic cops vs. drug traffickers story, the exact same kind you've seen before.  But it's also better than the ones you've seen before.  

Why?  Incremental improvements to a proven formula.

When asked for his opinion on movies, the question regularly comes up whether or not a movie Josh is recommending to someone is "worth" seeing on the big screen.  The question, as he sees it, is one of spectacle.  So, to answer it, he has taken another look at "The Walk," which definitely wowed him on the big screen.