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Good Christian Fun

Spotlight (with Film Crit Hulk)

Good Christian Fun

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Caroline Ely, Media, Religion, Christianity, Pop, Good, Fun, Christian, Kevin Porter, Culture, Comedy, Religion & Spirituality

4.63.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Film Crit Hulk (Screenwriting 101! @filmcrithulk!) joins Kevin and Caroline to talk all about the 2015 film Spotlight.


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0:00.0

This is a headgun podcast.

0:06.5

If you watch it on mute, Spotlight is a movie that follows Batman, the Hulk, Regina

0:12.0

George, Roger Sterling, Ray Donovan, Caesar Flickerman, and Shrek.

0:16.5

As they go up against a corrupt pre-sweeny Todd, have removed his barbershop business

0:21.4

to Boston.

0:23.4

In truth though, if you turn the sound on, the movie is a sobering film based on true

0:27.3

events about small squad of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe, the Spotlight

0:31.8

team who uncovered systemic sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Boston in the

0:36.6

year 2002.

0:38.5

Spotlight is a slight detour for our show, where used to chatting about faith-based cinema

0:43.1

by Christian filmmakers often only made for the purposes of easy evangelism or acquired

0:49.3

preaching cash grab.

0:51.3

This is our comfort zone.

0:53.1

It's not silly drivel, espousing problematic nonsense.

0:56.9

Spotlight is measured, careful storytelling, probing humanity's complicity in our

1:01.9

undestruction.

1:03.7

And I know the last few intros have been a streak of very dumb songs, but there's some

1:08.3

things I just aren't fun.

1:10.3

So I guess I just have one question.

1:12.5

I'm sorry.

1:15.5

Do you like good movies?

1:22.3

Oscar-winning movies, based on real life movies?

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