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It’s Just Movies
– by ELI COLON –
Last year, we heard about the drama “Spotlight,” the upcoming film from “Win Win” and “The Station Agent” director Tom McCarthy.
Co-written by McCarthy and “The West Wing” writer Josh Singer, the film focuses on the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bost Globe journalists who exposed the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover-up of child molestation in Massaschusetts. And based on its stellar cast alone, “Spotlight” should be on everyone’s radar, as it includes Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James and Billy Crudup.
We really don’t get enough investigative journalism movies, and as the film’s press release notes, the film “points to the necessity of good, local journalism, the type of journalism that has been decimated over the past 15 years by the decline of the newspaper industry. ‘Spotlight’ explores the larger themes of complicity and deference, attempting to grapple with the question of how an evil so widespread could go undetected for so long.”
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