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The Next Best Picture Podcast

"Spotlight"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture We have now come to the point in our 2015 retrospective review series where we are talking about the Best Picture winner "Spotlight," which also went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. With a celebrated ensemble cast which includes Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and more, "Spotlight" follows the Boston Globe's investigative reporter division as they uncovered the Catholic Church priest sex scandal of the early 2000s. Joining me for this 2015 retrospective review I have Josh Parham and Daniel Bayer, and Patreon supporters Jeffrey Kare and Charles Bright. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Spotlight.

0:05.1

I know there's things you cannot tell me.

0:08.3

But I also know there's a story here, and I think everybody will hear about it.

0:12.8

Do you think your paper has the resources to take that on?

0:17.4

They do. Do you?

0:25.6

The Boston priest molested kids in six different parishes over the last 30 years. The church found out about it and did nothing.

0:27.6

We haven't committed any long-term investigative resources to the case.

0:30.6

No, we haven't.

0:31.6

And that's the kind of thing you're a team with you.

0:33.6

Spotlight.

0:34.6

Guys, listen, everybody's going to be interested in this.

0:39.3

Obviously, the church will fight us very hard.

0:44.3

Trying to get some background information.

0:46.3

I don't want you recording this in any way, shape, or form.

0:48.3

Nothing.

0:49.3

We understand you've settled several cases against the church.

0:51.3

I can't discuss that.

0:52.3

There aren't any records of any of these settlements. Nope. When you're a poor kid from a poor family, I'm when a priest pays attention to you, it's a big deal. How do you say no to God? Spotlight. Just the tip line. You think you've got something? I want to keep digging. We need to focus on the institution. Show me that it came from the top down.

1:11.6

They'll try to silence anyone who speaks out.

1:15.6

You leave me alone, you hear me, god damn it?

1:17.6

Six percent act out sexually.

1:19.6

Six percent is 90.

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