DVD Release/Available to stream ***** In 2001, 'Spotlight', a team of investigative journalists at The Boston Globe , uncovered the huge abuse scandal that the Boston Catholic Archdiocese had kept hidden for years. It seems strange to us now, but at one point there was a time when the story of Catholic priests abusing children wasn't part of the public conscience. Based on the Pulitzer-winning investigation, Spotlight reaches back into 2001 and the key work done by journalists to launch the crimes of the Church into the public sphere, and not just in Boston. Today, we have heard a plethora of stories relating to this systemic abuse - so many, in fact, that the articles aren't even front page news anymore. It's to the immense credit of writer/director Tom McCarthy, then, that Spotlight manages to shock us all over again. Spotlight is not an action-packed film. Reminiscent of Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing , it centres on a group of highl
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