Documentary
‘American Animals’ | Film Review
Writer-director Bart Layton’s American Animals is a funny, suspenseful heist film wrapped around a true crime documentary. And it’s just brilliant. Evan Peters, Barry Keoughan,...
Inside the Criminal Mind Season 1 Review
Netflix’s Inside the Criminal Mind is a four-part series exploring the answers experts have been seeking for decades – what makes evil criminals tick? Each episode...
‘Zion’ | Netflix Short Film Review
Zion is a short documentary film about one remarkable young man, and most especially his attitude about himself. By “short”, I mean it’s less than...
‘Afflicted’ | Netflix Original Series Review
Afflicted is an extraordinarily bleak seven-part Netflix Original documentary series created by Dan Partland. It follows individuals with severe, chronic illnesses who seek out increasingly...
‘The Most Unknown’ Review – A Fascinating Documentary
The Most Unknown is a fascinating documentary by Ian Cheney that unites nine scientists from a slew of fields in pursuit of intellectual common ground....
The Bleeding Edge Review
The Bleeding Edge is somewhat a human tragedy articulated by Kirby Dick. The Netflix documentary has no balanced approach, clearly blaming the industry, with systematic failures...
100 Days of Solitude (100 días de soledad) Review
In the opening minutes of 100 Days of Solitude, also known as 100 Days of Loneliness (100 días de soledad), Spanish photographer José Díaz sounds like he...
Recovery Boys Review
According to some relevant factoids deployed at the end of Netflix’s new original documentary, 90% of Americans who need help recovering from drug addiction don’t...
Netflix’s Explained Episode 1-3 Review
When I read about Netflix’s Explained, a new documentary series, I was definitely intrigued. It claimed to be a series that was going to shed some...
‘Evil Genius’ Review – Maniacal Laugh
Evil Genius opens with the story of Brian Wells, a pizza delivery guy who attempts to rob a bank with a homemade bomb forcibly locked...
End Game (2018) Documentary Review – Embracing Hope in the Final Hours
I often lie about what I do for a living, as I haven’t yet found a way to say, “I write about movies and video...
“The Rachel Divide Review – A Documentary on Identity and Media Scrutiny
A lot of thoughts came to my mind whilst watching The Rachel Divide. The first was that I found it incredible how Rachel Dolezal had managed to...
‘Ram Dass, Going Home’ Review – Insightful Netflix Documentary on Spirituality and Life
Ram Dass, Going Home is a Netflix short documentary that follows spiritualist and author Ram Dass at his home in Maui, Hawaii. The film gives...
Trump: An American Dream Review
[yasr_overall_rating size=”medium”] Trump: An American Dream is a documentary mini-series of four hourlong episodes, and takes a deep dive into the history of Donald Trump’s...
‘Take Your Pills’ Review: A Fractured Look at America’s ADHD Drug Epidemic
The increasing use of amphetamines, like Ritalin or Adderall, to treat ADHD (amongst other things) is becoming a real cause for concern in certain parts...
Review | Ladies First (2018)
Ladies First is a Netflix Original documentary short that tells the inspirational story of Deepika Kumari, who, after being born on a roadside to abject...
Review | Girls Incarcerated Season 1 (2018)
Netflix Original docuseries Girls Incarcerated, follows the lives of some of America’s youngest female offenders as they adapt to life incarcerated. Set in a female juvenile...
Flint Town Review – Exceptional Documentary Filmmaking
Docuseries Flint Town offers a tantalizing glance into one of the most underfunded yet hardest-working police forces in America. The town of Flint is riddled...
Review | First Team: Juventus Part One (2018)
First Team: Juventus, the latest Netflix Original Docu-series, takes us on a behind the scenes look at one of Europe’s most famous, most loved and...
Review | Seeing Allred
Gloria Allred, one of the most famous American attorneys of all time, most known for taking on high-profile cases for women’s rights, is celebrated and...