Documentary
The Last Dance episodes 9 & 10 recap – Netflix’s masterpiece bows out
This recap of The Last Dance Episode 9 and The Last Dance Episode 10 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous...
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics review – celebs show off their drug use
Netflix documentary Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics was released on the platform on May 11, 2020. Do drugs? Don’t do drugs? There’s no certified...
The Last Dance episode 7 & 8 recap – the comeback
This recap of The Last Dance Episode 7 and The Last Dance Episode 8 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous...
Trial By Media season 1 review – mixing crime with our unhealthy bond with the media
Netflix documentary series Trial By Media season 1 will be out on the platform on May 11, 2020. Political commentators are alarmingly quick to point...
The Last Dance episode 5 & 6 recap – the birth of a global brand
This recap of The Last Dance Episode 5 and The Last Dance Episode 6 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous...
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story review
Netflix documentary feature Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story was released on Netflix on April 29, 2020. It needs to be made official that...
A Secret Love review – a bittersweet and bluntly emotional love story
This review of A Secret Love (Netflix) is spoiler-free. Chris Bolan’s deeply personal, unashamedly blunt, and memorably bittersweet documentary feature A Secret Love (Netflix) chronicles...
The Last Dance episode 3 & 4 recap – taking the next step
This recap of The Last Dance Episode 3 and The Last Dance Episode 4 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous...
Coronavirus, Explained review – Vox remain at the forefront of current affairs with “This Pandemic”
Coronavirus, Explained (Netflix) debuted on Sunday, April 26. This review is of the first episode, “This Pandemic”. Since (ostensibly) democratically-elected public officials have now resorted...
Beastie Boys Story review – Spike Jonze shows a different way to do a documentary
Apple TV+ documentary Beastie Boys Story will be released on the platform on April 24, 2020. When I saw the 2-hour duration for Beastie Boys...
I Promise review – no child should be left behind
This review of I Promise (Quibi) is spoiler-free. “Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of High School… that doesn’t make sense.” That’s the spark...
Absurd Planet season 1 review – Netflix series is a fun way to look at animals
Netflix series Absurd Planet season 1 was released on Netflix on April 22, 2020. Remember Dancing with the Birds? The reason that was good to watch and...
The Last Dance episodes 1 & 2 recap and review – the sport documentary genre may have a new MVP
This review of The Last Dance (Netflix) is based on The Last Dance Episode 1 and The Last Dance Episode 2 and contains spoilers. Few sportspeople...
Human Nature review – an elegant, delicate, and beautifully structured documentary
Early in the new documentary film Human Nature, Hank Greely, a Bioethicist from Stanford University, said, “The idea of gene therapy is simple — add in...
Amazing Grace review – musical history observed
Amazing Grace is the film of Aretha Franklin recording her landmark gospel album in Los Angeles in 1972. That’s it in simple terms, but that’s...
Home season 1 review – Apple TV+ docuseries reveals conceptual housing
Apple TV+ documentary series Home season 1 will be released on the platform on April 17, 2020. Despite the world in turmoil, it’s no surprise...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 9 Recap and Breakdown – A Shoddy Drawing
There’s a lot of conspiracy in The Innocence Files Episode 9 that seems less dramatic than the previous episodes. It opens in Macomb, Michigan, where...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 8 Recap and Breakdown – Waiting On Death Row
In 2005, Alfred Dewayne Brown was convicted of capital murder for the killing of Houston police officer Charles Clark. Lawyer Brian Stolarz was adamant that...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 6 Recap and Breakdown – Positive Identification
The Innocence Files Episode 6 delves into how eyewitness identification works. The chapter begins with Janet Burke being asked to recall what she can remember...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 5 Recap and Breakdown – No Witnesses
There’s more scandalous information in The Innocence Files Episode 5. First of all, the new jurors were unaware of a mistrial in Franky Carrillo’s first...