This is a thread to report/recommend a good film that you have seen lately, say why and something about it.

Please don't just list some off.
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I will kick off with Spotlight 2015. a drama about the Boston Globe’s investigation of clergy sexual abuse and the cover-up by the Roman Catholic Church.
Ever since “Spotlight” made its debut at a handful of international film festivals at the beginning of September, it has been praised by many people, since the film chronicles the reporting of The Boston Globe’s investigative Spotlight team as it uncovered the Roman Catholic Church’s decades-long coverup of pedophile priests.

One of the reasons that “Spotlight” is so deeply satisfying and to most of those I’ve spoken with, is that Tom McCarthy’s movie doesn’t turn its journalists into heroes. It just lets them do their jobs, as tedious and critical as those are, with a realism that grips an audience almost in spite of itself.

McCarthy (“The Visitor,” “Win Win”) and his co-writer Josh Singer (“The West Wing,” “The Fifth Estate”) understand that the reporters aren’t the story in “Spotlight.” The story is the story. That, and the people whose stories the reporters want to tell: the men (and women) who were damaged unthinkably and twice — first, in childhood, by men of God and, later, by an institution that protected the abusers and enabled their abuse.

So “Spotlight” is about process — about the inherent drama of news gathering — even more so than that benchmark newsroom classic, “All the President’s Men,” which the new movie resembles. (The office furniture seems unchanged since the 1970s, for one thing), Covering a half-year period from mid-2001 through to the beginning of 2002, the movie follows the reporters and their editors with a minimum of melodramatic window dressing.

If you like true stories about cover-up, cronyism, and organisations that don't act in the public interest then you may well enjoy this one, one other thing is that the two hours twenty minutes went like and hour for me.

One that I saw recently through the Times+ free ticket deal and can strongly NOT recommend is Bone Tomahawk.

Can you elaborate Skinny?

Gone with the wind ?

Probably my own fault, but I read it a Western with Kurt Russell - can't be that bad!

But in reality it was a weak story with a level of blood and gore that added absolutely nothing to the story.

Thanks both, again JB can you elaborate.

Good film .

Yes but "why" do you think it is a good film, you know the reasons.

I was joking Stan ,it's an old film .
However The Big Short was good ,i read the book a couple of years ago by Michael Lewis (worth reading) the film went along the lines of the book ,the true story.

The Big Short was/is going to be my next effort on here when I get time, saw it the other day and another very good film, especially for us lot on here and the general public come to that if they only new it.