LEAVING NEVERLAND. (2019) REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©
LEAVING NEVERLAND. (2019) A DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY DAN REED. STARRING WADE ROBSON, JAMES SAFECHUCK AND ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE OF MICHAEL JACKSON. REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. © This is a documentary co-production between Channel 4 and HBO. It comprises two ninety-minute episodes, and it makes for shocking and powerful viewing. It’s made up of interviews with two men, Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, who each claim that they were sexually molested as children by music superstar Michael Jackson, with whom they’d each had a long-standing friendship/relationship. The funny thing for me- not that there’s anything funny in this whole situation, mind you- is that, the week before I’d watched this film, I’d seen Martin Bashir’s interview with Jackson in the ITV 2003 film LIVING WITH MICHAEL JACKSON . Concerns raised in this film led to Jackson’s being criminally charged with several counts of child molestation in 2005, although he was found not guilty on all counts. I’d cried...