Documentary
‘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...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 4 Recap and Breakdown – A Star Witness
Franky Carrillo was charged with the murder of Donald Sarpy. Episode 4 gives us a scenario: a young kid who lived in an area of...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 3 Recap and Breakdown – Careless Science
There’s a lot riding on bite mark analysis in The Innocence Files Episode 3. It opens up with Dr West harping on how they shouldn’t remove Confederate...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 2 Recap and Breakdown – Introduction of DNA
Episode 2 is really the downfall of bite mark analysis, with Dr Michael West blabbering on about how his work is effective, while his opposite...
‘The Innocence Files’ Episode 1 Recap and Breakdown – Teeth Marks
On September 15, 1990, in Mississippi, 3-year-old Courtney Smith was announced missing. The Innocence Files Episode 1 details how Courtney Smith was found in a...
Money Heist: The Phenomenon review – how a Spanish crime-drama became a global mega-hit
Today, the fourth season of the indescribably popular Spanish crime-drama Money Heist debuts on Netflix, and it’s accompanied by an hour-long documentary feature, Money Heist: The Phenomenon, which...
Dolphin Reef review – an impressive undersea adventure on Disney+
Dolphin Reef is one of two Disneynature documentaries to drop on Disney+ today, the other being Elephant, an ever so slightly lesser production that felt...
Sunderland ‘Til I Die season 2 review – a curious docuseries of a recovering football club
Netflix’s Sunderland ‘Til I Die season 2 was released on the platform on April 1, 2020 – add it to your list now. If I’m...
How to Fix a Drug Scandal series review – Netflix unveils a judicial collapse
Netflix documentary series How to Fix a Drug Scandal will be out on the platform on April 1st, 2020. When crime drug lab chemist Sonja...
A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story review – a feat that will never be repeated
A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story will be released on Netflix on March 20th, 2020 – Add it to your list now. ...
Tiger King review – a true-crime story so weird it must be true
Is now the best time ever for a Netflix true-crime series to grip the entire world at once? These things, as we have established time...
Dirty Money season 2 review – a damning exploration of corporate greed
This review of Dirty Money Season 2 contains some minor spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words....
Our Godfather review – a polarizing documentary feature
Our Godfather is an interesting case study — fascinating really, in taking away the Hollywood lore of most gangster films for a clean, no-nonsense, but arm’s-length...
Babies season 1 review – time to feel scientifically broody with Netflix’s new docuseries
Netflix series Babies season 1 will be released on the platform on February 21, 2020 – add it to your list now. “I never want...
Visible: Out on Television review – LGBTQ history through the lens of TV
Apple TV+ series Visible: Out on Television will be released on the platform on February 14, 2020. For Apple TV+, Visible: Out on Television is a...
All or Nothing: Philadelphia Eagles Season 1 Review – high expectations after glorious Super Bowl 2018 win
Amazon Prime’s All or Nothing: Philadelphia Eagles is now on the platform. For the first time in 8 years, I did not watch Super Bowl...
#cats_The_Mewvie review – a feature-length advert and an insufferable documentary
If #cats_The_Mewvie (hereafter just Cats The Mewvie, since I cannot physically bring myself to type that awful formatting more than once) were better, I might...
They’ve Gotta Have Us Season 1 Review – an important, timely docuseries
One has to imagine that the release today of Simon Frederick’s three-part docuseries They’ve Gotta Have Us (Netflix) is in no small part a reminder...
Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer review – a novel approach to a familiar story
There are some stories that are told and retold in various forms, and perhaps will continue to be told forever. The story of Ted Bundy...