As part of Focus Features’ presentation recently at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, the DGA Theater crowd packed with Academy and key guild voters felt a collective chill down its spine as the plot of Dark Waters was explained not only by producer and star Mark Ruffalo and director Todd Haynes, but also by the…
“Whistleblower” has become the hot word of the moment; I probably hear it uttered in one way or another 15 times a day in these times. But what it really means comes home in a big way when you see a single heroic whistleblower in action — someone like Robert Bilott, the lone lawyer who has waged a David-vs.-Goliath…