On January 6, 2002, the Boston Globe published a front-page story that exposed the scandal of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Massachusetts and around the world. You can read that story here. Spotlight is both the name of the Globe’s investigative reporting unit and the title of this outstanding film.
Read more‘Spotlight’ shines brilliantly across the big screen
[rating=4]Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Tom Hollander and Margot Robbie
Writer(s): Richard Curtis
Director(s): Richard Curtis
“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
There are few phrases that will make me cringe as badly as the words “Inspired by True Events” do when I see them on a movie screen before a film begins. The fear that liberties taken by those who adapted the true story for the screen will harm rather than enhance the presentation of the tale is a fear born of long experience. Those fears come home to roost in The Vow.