Pharma Bro is a documentary film about Martin Shkreli, the Most Hated Man in America. Shkreli lived the American dream. He hiked the price of a pharmaceutical drug, made millions of dollars, bought the only copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, and got banned from Twitter permanently for being a troll. […]
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The first season of Tiger King was released at the perfect time, right as everyone was stuck at home during the initial COVID lockdown. It brought us into the world of the batsh*t crazy big cat people in the USA. Our Tiger King, Joe Exotic, a gun-toting, gay polygamist, ran an exotic zoo in the
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The Phantom is one of the newest Netflix true-crime documentary films that probably deserved a miniseries instead. The documentary covers the 1983 murder case of a convenience store attendant, Wanda, in Corpus Christie, TX. Carlos DeLuna was found shortly after the fatal stabbing in the area, hiding under a car. DeLuna proclaims his innocence, insisting
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The Lost Leonardo is a documentary film focusing on the last alleged Leonardo work, the Salvator Mundi. It’s a highly debated painting, as the circumstances surrounding the discovery of this Leonardo are suspect, to be kind. The commentary includes Art Historians, Restorationists, Leonardo Experts, Curators, and other people that deal in the art world. Honestly,
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Misha and the Wolves is an innovative documentary film about the book by the same name. I’m rarely impressed by a Netflix documentary, and this one was so good that I watched it twice. The book was based upon the experiences of Misha Defonseca as a hidden Jewish child in Belgium during World War Two.
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Following 3.5 million podcast downloads and sold-out live shows, The ParaPod now has the honour of becoming the first podcast to be turned into a film, thanks to its devoted fans providing crowdfunding financing. Three years in the making, the movie enjoyed a sell-out premiere and fan screenings back in early 2020 and was scheduled
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Dr. Death is based upon the podcast by the same name and features the horrific neurosurgeon, Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson). Duntsch is purportedly a great surgeon, as far as his mentors are concerned. This is quickly found to not be the case by Doctors Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), and Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin), who was
Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime (Elize Matsunaga: Era Uma Vez Um Crime) is a Brazilian true crime documentary miniseries on Netflix. The four-part series focuses on Elize Matsunaga, who was convicted of shooting and dismembering her ultra-rich husband, Marcos Matsunaga. The series features the first and only media interview Elize agreed to, so she
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Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, is one of Netflix’s newest true-crime series offerings. Consisting of three episodes, the series examines the murder case of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French National that was murdered at her rural holiday getaway home in Schull, Ireland in 1996. Du Plantier’s murder was the first in over 100
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Murder by the Coast, or El case Wanninkhof-Carabantes, is a Spanish true-crime documentary, and one of the newest documentary films on Netflix. The film is a little less than an hour and a half and focuses mainly on the murder of Rocio Wanninkhof in 1999 in the small town of La Cala de Mijas, on
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When I first saw the preview for The Sparks Brothers, I was instantly intrigued, and eagerly counted down until the release date, 18 June. Then, when I checked the showtimes, I realized it was not playing at the theaters that had advertised it, and I would have to drive 45 minutes to see it. As
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Across the UK, a micro-revolution is brewing. Changes brought in by the licensing act 2003 meant that any building could apply for a premises licence. So, in 2005, Kent beer enthusiast Martyn Hillier took advantage of this change, turning his struggling off-licence into a micropub, The Butchers Arms. Martyn is credited with kicking off the
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the latest stylised true-crime documentary from Netflix, and it’s a pretty scary watch, but not in the way you’d expect from something that has been advertised as a supernatural murder mystery. The 4 episode documentary series focuses on a notorious hotel in downtown L.A, Hotel Cecil,
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David Attenborough is possibly the most recognised face (and voice) when it comes to nature and our planet, and it’d be safe to say he’s also one of the most respected advisors on the environment. Now 94 years old, A Life on Our Planet is his “witness statement” for the environment and details his 60+
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The Story of Plastic is an enlightening documentary that has been running as part of the Sheffield Doc Fest 2020 line-up. The documentary takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents,
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Considering the Flint water crisis has been in the news for over 5 years now you’d be forgiven to think the situation has been resolved. Anthony Baxter’s new documentary Flint , which has recently aired as part of Sheffield DocFest, shows that not only has the situation not improved, but highlights the complex and nightmarish
