Subprime loans, the housing market, and credit defaults are the subject of director Adam McKay’s The Big Short. Somehow, McKay takes a complicated economic issue and turns it into any moviegoers dream. Based...

On Feb. 2, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose. At age 46, the actor was found in his Manhattan apartment with an empty syringe protruding from his arm. Hoffman was known...