Spotlight

Jean, This is a simple straight-forward telling of the Boston Globe's 2002 newspaper story of multiple priest sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.There are no side stories or romances but an almost documentary telling. The facts carry the story in an unblinking manner. You are drawn in and almost mesmerized by the events. It starts with ore case and one priest and escalates to 87 priests and on and on. This has to be one of the best movies of the year.   Dad

The previews are:

Snowden
Hail, Caesar
Concussion
Triple 9

Brooklyn

Jean, This is a touching and romantic movie.It starts with the suburb performance of the lead character played by Saoires Ronan. She is a young Irish girl who leaves her Irish home for a new job and life in Brooklyn U.S.A. She will certainly receive many  award nominations for this performance. Just to see her change from the innocent one on the boat to America to the self-assured woman before your eyes is worth seeing by itself. This leads up to a momentous decision she has to make between her new life and the ties to her old life.  Dad

The previews were:

Youth
Carol
The Danish Girl
Demolition

In The Heart of the Sea

Jean, This has to be the "Moby Dick "movie to end all "Moby Dick" movies. This  is  based on the best-selling book  about the actual events that Melville used to write his fictional novel. (I read then-fiction book entitled " In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex." ). This is one real life action film with all the ingredients of all the actual events. You have the enlistment of the real crew, the voyage to the South Atlantic and then to the South Pacific, the encounter with the mammoth rogue whale, and the hardships endured by the crew that survived the numerous attacks of the whale. Ron Howard gives you your money's worth in everything here, from the gruesome details of the adrift crew to one World-Class Whale. The critics find faults with the film but I saw an exciting and  an amazing true-life adventure. The actual facts of the story are more interesting than the fictional novel of Herman Melville.  Dad

P.S.  The previews were worth the price of admission. They were:

The Choice
The Huntsman:Winter's War
Concussion
Eye in the Sky
The Legend of Tarzan
Batman vs. Superman