Documentary

This review of Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel does not contain any spoilers.  If you’ve never heard of Cecil...

Netflix’s We Are: The Brooklyn Saints season 1 was released on the streaming service on January 29, 2021.  With Last Chance U relieving their football duties and...

Everyone knows these days that Netflix is the place to be for solid if unremarkable documentary series’. Whatever you’re into, there’s surely one for you,...

Netflix short film What Would Sophia Loren Do? was released on the streaming service on January 15, 2020. As we get older, we soon realise...

Netflix series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer was released on the platform on January 13, 2020. With Discovery+ around the corner, you...

Matthew Heineman and Matthew Hamachek (and executive producer Alex Gibney) would evidently like Tiger, a two-part, four-hour documentary streaming on HBO, to be the latest...

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy debuted on Netflix on January 11, 2021. With all the talk of pandemics these days, it’s easy to forget about...

If you have followed the basketball world in the 21st century, you know Tony Parker’s name. You know he’s a great player that became a...

Nobody from New York has ever been shy about telling people they’re from New York, which is probably just as well for the purposes of...

Raphael Rowe is an interesting guy, and Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons is interesting largely because of him. You’d think doing 12 years’ hard time after a...

Netflix’s Surviving Death season 1 will be released on the streaming service on January 6, 2020. A concern of mine present in Western culture is...

There are so many David Attenborough documentaries that keeping track of them is almost impossible – but it’s impossible to get sick of them. That’s...

The word of the day is “stuff”. We all have too much of it. And how much stuff do we really need? This is the...

Netflix’s Headspace: Guide to Meditation season 1 was released on the streaming service on January 1, 2021. After saying goodbye to the wretched 2020 that...

Concert films are another genre that is basically immune to critical analysis, making my role here somewhat redundant. Ariana Grande: Excuse Me, I Love You, like...

The Ripper debuted on Netflix on December 16, 2020. With a general audience’s enthusiasm for the absolute worst humanity has to offer not waning even...

Netflix’s The Surgeon’s Cut season 1 was released on the streaming service on October 9, 2020. While Netflix’s The Surgeon’s Cut is evidently scientific, it’s...

I must confess that I know next to nothing about Brazilian rapper, singer-songwriter, and activist Emicida, which I suppose is good news for Emicida: AmarElo...

Despite it being the holiday season and thus a chance for Netflix to stuff the streaming stockings full of seasonal content, there’s always room on...

Apple TV+ series Earth at Night in Color season 1 will be released on the platform on December 4, 2020. Earth at Night in Color uses...