Documentary
The Big Conn review – another docuseries that overstays its welcome
Apple TV+ docuseries The Big Conn will be released on the streaming service on May 6, 2022. Any time you have a documentary that exposes...
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes review – a look at the rise and fall of an icon
Netflix documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes will be released on the streaming service on April 26, 2022. Marilyn Monroe was one...
They Call Me Magic review – a look at the highs and lows of a sport icon
Apple TV+ Docuseries They Call Me Magic will be released on the streaming service on April 22, 2022. Over the life of his career Magic...
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes review – 60 hours of conversations, never heard until now.
This review of Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes is spoiler-free. Netflix’s latest serial killer docuseries, Conversations with a Killer: The John...
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch review – Exclusionary U: A School for Exclusivity
This Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch review does not contain spoilers. “It wasn’t not racist,” a former Abercrombie...
Our Great National Parks Season 1 Review – discovering why we need to protect our wilderness and wildlife
Netflix docuseries Our Great National Parks Season 1 was released on the streaming service on April 13, 2022. Netflix has released a wonderful five-part docuseries...
Return to Space review – documenting the new space age of commercial space travel
Netflix documentary Return to Space was released on Netflix on April 7, 2022. When I first heard about the documentary Return to Space, I anticipated this...
Senzo: Murder of a Soccer Star review – an intoxicating mystery
This review of the Netflix docuseries Senzo: Murder of a Soccer Star contains spoilers. Senzo Meyiwa was South Africa’s biggest soccer star and the center...
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story review – home-grown horror no one could make up
Netflix docuseries Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story was released on the streaming service on April 6, 2022. Netflix has released Jimmy Savile: A British...
Celeb Five: Behind the Curtain review – behind the scenes of a comedy troupe!
This review of Celeb Five: Behind the Curtain is spoiler-free. Netflix has released something I have not seen in a while, a mockumentary. This play...
Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King review – the Bitcoin boom makes for another riveting con
This review of the Netflix documentary film Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King contains spoilers. Netflix is in the con artist business....
Broken Idol: The Undoing of Diomedes Díaz review – crowds, basuco and cocaine
Netflix documentary Broken Idol: The Undoing of Diomedes Díaz was released on the streaming service on March 30, 2022. Netflix has released a documentary about...
The Principles of Pleasure season 1 review – informative and important series exploring female pleasure
This review of the Netflix docuseries The Principles of Pleasure season 1 does not contain spoilers. Having worked in the education sector for many years,...
The Great Robbery of Brazil’s Central Bank review – real life Money Heist without the drama
This review of the Netflix true crime series The Great Robbery of Brazil’s Central Bank contains spoilers. As Netflix grew so did its need for...
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. review – the latest con artist doc everyone will be talking about
This review of the Netflix true crime series Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. contains spoilers. Netflix has moved on from an obsession with true crime murderers...
Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 4 – what the ending says about the Abu Dhabi finale
I don’t think I’ll ever forget what happened in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 12, 2021. I remember being in a state...
Dear… Season 2 review – more of the same sanitized back-patting
This review of Dear… Season 2 is spoiler-free. Dear… is a show that absolutely should not work as well as it does, but also one...
Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale review – love, care, togetherness and climate change
Netflix documentary film Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale was released on the streaming service on March 4, 2022. Climate change is one of the important...
Lucy and Desi review – fixing what Being the Ricardos got wrong
Amazon Original Documentary film Lucy and Desi will be released on the streaming service on March 4, 2022. After watching Being the Ricardos and being...
Wasteland (2022) review – the “sh**ness” problem in America
Paramount+ docuseries Wasteland (2022) was released on the streaming service on February 24, 2022. The four-part docuseries Wasteland (2022), now streaming on Paramount +, is...