Checked out the 2015 film Being Evel, a documentary (co-produced by Johnny Knoxville) about famed 70s daredevil Evel Knievel. I had his toy crank bike as a kid but I had no real idea his story and this flick covers … Continue reading
Also caught the documentary Back in Time which is a making-of the Back to the Future movies, released in time for the 30th anniversary and the Back to the Future Day. It’s available on iTunes and on Netflix. So save … Continue reading
The Lego documentary cleverly called A Lego Brickumentary is good. Not great, but good. It has a bunch of stories about Lego and some are far more interesting than others. Like the scientist responsible for the NSAS Pathfinder robot on … Continue reading
To all the 80s action movie fans out there, I rented a movie (via iTunes) called Electric Boogaloo… no, not Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo but a documentary about Cannon Pictures/Golun Globus which, among many other movies, made Breakin’ 2. Basically … Continue reading
Caught the new film about Steve Jobs – which’d be about the third one with yet another on the way. This one is Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and it’s a documentary. Kind of schizophrenic documentary that’s half … Continue reading
An Honest Liar is a new streaming digital documentary about the life of magician, escape artist, and professional skeptic James “The Amazing” Randi. It’s a fairly good documentary that is really only interesting in some of the vintage film clips … Continue reading
The Nightmare is a new documentary film about sleep paralysis, the sleep disorder where you are just falling asleep or just waking up and you are completely conscious but your body is paralyzed (due to sleep chemicals) and your mind … Continue reading
I re-upped on the old HBO in prep for Game of Thrones next week and one of the first things I watched was a new doc from them called Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It’s, no surprise … Continue reading
The Microsoft-produced documentary Atari: Game Over provides a brief history of Atari, the video game crash of the early 80s, and the “worst video game of all time” that supposedly caused that crash: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial on 2600. But … Continue reading