Documentary

A Tale of Two Kitchens Review: Same Food, Two Different Cultures

May 22 2019, by Daniel Hart

Netflix documentary A Tale of Two Kitchens documents Chef Gabriela Cámara‘s vision of opening a restaurant in two very different cities with a similar menu;...

‘ReMastered: The Lion’s Share’ Review – The Fascinating Tale Of A Single Song That Tells A Much Bigger Story

May 17 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

You know that song, don’t you? It’s got that really recognizable bass line provided by acapella vocals, that famous verse, ‘in the jungle, the mighty...

Dying To Tell Review: Netflix Documentary Highlights The Most Noble Journalism

May 17 2019, by Daniel Hart

While watching Hernán Zin’s Netflix documentary Dying to Tell (Morir para contar) it suddenly dawned on me that the footage we see of explosions, heavy ammo and...

Jailbirds Review: Netflix Explores Life Inside Sacramento County Jail

May 10 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Netflix’s new six-part documentary series Jailbirds is a fine piece of work, and a useful real-life counterpart to one of the streaming platform’s flagship shows. But obvious...

‘The Spy Who Fell to Earth’ Netflix Film Review

April 30 2019, by M.N. Miller

I have a confession to make: I’m a sucker for a good spy thriller. I love them, not just the James Bond films of the...

‘ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads’ Netflix Documentary Review

April 26 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

What do Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and Robert Johnson all have in common? They are members of the infamous ’27 Club’, a group...

‘Street Food’ Season 1 | Netflix Series

April 26 2019, by Daniel Hart

Often when I watch a documentary about food, it’s usually early morning, when I’m hungry, and a tad moody, and I make my life even...

‘Grass is Greener’ Netflix Film Review

April 20 2019, by M.N. Miller

It is easy to see why Grass is Greener was made today. Early in the documentary film, they tie the migration of cannabis into the...

‘Hostile Planet’ Episode 1 Recap: “Mountains”

April 2 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

This Hostile Planet Episode 1 recap for the episode titled “Mountains” contains spoilers.  NatGeo’s new animal documentary series Hostile Planet boasts a recognizable host in Bear...

‘Apollo 11’ Review – A Straightforward, No-Frills Documentary

March 25 2019, by M.N. Miller

First Man premiered at TIFF to loads of politically slanted criticism that the film blatantly ignored the landing on the moon as an American accomplishment. Of...

Ten Controversial Documentaries

March 23 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

In this article, Bianca Garner looks at ten controversial documentaries. As such, some of the content described here could be deemed unpleasant for some. In...

Selling Sunset Season 1 Review

March 22 2019, by Daniel Hart

I do aspire to have enough money to be considered rich, mostly because of the lifestyle I want, but if it makes me into an...

‘ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre’ Netflix Review

March 22 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

In July 1975, 5 people, including 3 members of the Miami Showband, were ambushed and murdered at what appeared to be a military checkpoint by...

‘Antoine Griezmann: The Making of a Legend’ Netflix Review

March 21 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The against-all-odds sporting documentary is nothing new, much less on streaming platforms, where we’ve had Manchester City: All or Nothing on Amazon Prime, and First Team: Juventus and Sunderland...

‘Rocking the Couch’ | Film Review

March 17 2019, by

Rocking the Couch, directed by Minh Collins, explores the well-known Hollywood phenomenon called the casting couch, where coercion and rape are perpetrated and consistently covered...

‘The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann’ Netflix Series Review

March 15 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the new eight-part Netflix docuseries that debuted globally today, promises to provide new details and theories on why three-year-old Madeleine...

‘BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry’ Documentary Film Review

March 3 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The relatively impressive and vaguely terrifying documentary BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry, courtesy of Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, concerns for the most part the exporting of the Japanese...

Losers Season 1 Review

March 1 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Sport is defined by its successes. To win is to gain everything: fortune, adulation, immortality. To lose, well that does not bear thinking about. Fans...

‘Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy’ Season 1 | Netflix Review

February 15 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The ability to laugh at ourselves and others has long been the sword and shield that humanity wields in the great, merciless colosseum of life....

‘Hellier’ Season 1 | Amazon Prime TV Review

February 9 2019, by Tyler Howat

  In 2012, years before this documentary begins, Cincinnati, Ohio-based paranormal investigators Greg and Dana Newkirk (co-founders of the Traveling Museum of the Paranormal &...