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Movie: Spotlight

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This has been getting a lot of press in Boston this week and everyone is saying it's fantastic.



http://artery.wbur.org/2015/10/29/spotl ... n-premiere
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Really looking forward to this. Love Tom McCarthy (hoping The Cobbler was an inexplicable misstep).
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what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
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Seacrest in
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
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This looks good!
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Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
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i think im going on a star wars only diet from here until December 25
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
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Strat wrote:i think im going on a star wars only diet from here until December 25
that sounds unhealthy
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Im just kidding. My internet is back so tonight im on the horror train again.

Also, on topic: Im going to see this film at some point in the future.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
I just meant, ah, nevermind.
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Spoiler: show
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
I just meant, ah, nevermind.
rank the things you like to diddle
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Strat wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:what is it about? I don't feel like watching that.
Journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
ugh. OUT.
Hit a little too close to home, Ruddy?
No, I'm not Catholic.
the implications of this post are unsettling
I just meant, ah, nevermind.
rank the things you like to diddle
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This was good. Fantastic, subtle performance by Schreiber. Ruffalo was also great (as always), even if he just reprised his role from The Normal Heart. I do think the movie never quite found the appropriate tone; I like McCarthy a lot, but I think this material needed someone to elevate it to a level of existential dread, closer to something like All the President's Men. Not sure who that would be, though. Howard Shore's lightweight score also felt out of place and distracting. But, still, overall, very good. Some excellent stretches of dialogue.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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