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The First Omen (2024) Director: Arkasha Robertson Recently, I heard about a mysterious case of a missing teenager in Rome, Italy. She was 16 in 1983 when she was allegedly abducted. Her father was an administrative staff member in Vatican City. 40 years into her disappearance, the Italian Police never found her. Along the way, there were allegations of abduction by international terrorists, murder by serial killers and many more. Pope John Paul II was also heard to have appealed to the perpetrators to no avail. The Holy See was not spared of accusations. Conspiracy Theorists accused a convoluted union of the mob and the Papacy, a collusion between the Italian Police and the Vatican, as well as the possibility of an unmarked grave in the Vatican. It is not the best of times for the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). At a time when many from the developed world had strayed away from Catholicism, stories of deviance and malfeasance spread quickly like wildflowers.  This movie is set at a ti...

Spotlight (2015) When you detect something nasty happening in a system that seems to do a lot of good work, do you tell yourselves to look at the bigger picture and turn a blind eye or do you expose it no matter how trivial? Do you want to be a whistleblower and meet all its challenges to proof your words? Is it personal glory you are looking for? Is it your God sent duty to ensure justice is done on Earth? If truth is so strong, why does it not always prevail? Or is it proving itself through you? Are you that special? How far would you go to right the wrong which appears only in your eyes? Like the Watergate expose of Nixon’s wrongdoings, this film is based on the work of the team of Boston Global journalists who embarked on a journey of investigative journalism to proof the sexual mischief of many Catholic priests in the Massachusetts and the plot to sweep these misdeeds under the carpet. As the work may potentially tarnish the image of something dear to many people’s hearts,...