Entertainment reporter Sandro Monetti’s business take on this weekend’s new movie releases.

SPECTRE – In a strategy aimed at greater efficiency and cost cutting, British intelligence decides to replace its 00-branch of secret agents with drones. James Bond and his colleagues race against the clock to save their jobs and prove they are more resourceful than robots. Along the way, they find out the mysterious benefactor who paid for their spy agency’s flashy new surveillance center may not have the best motives.

SPOTLIGHT – When a new editor takes over the Boston Globe newspaper, he decides to make his mark with an explosive story. But his choice to investigate suspected local pedophile priests in the Roman Catholic Church upsets some powerful people in the city and part of the readership too. Will the paper bow to civic pressure?

TRUMBO – When Hollywood’s leading scriptwriter is blacklisted for Communist sympathies, he carries on by writing screenplays under a false name – even winning an Oscar in the process. But after the government and press discover his secret, business gets even harder than before and old loyalties are tested.

THE PEANUTS MOVIE – Charlie’s Brown’s shrink, Lucy, remains the cheapest psychiatrist in the world, charging 5 cents for counselling sessions in this reboot just as she did in the first Peanuts film released way back in 1969. Despite that nostalgic touch, there are 21st century flourishes too, such as blue recycling bins dotting Charlie’s neighborhood.