I skipped this documentary back in 2019… not because of its gay text, but because I saw Nightmare on Elm Street 2 once on video back in 1985 and hated it. Not because I, as a clueless teen, saw some … Continue reading
King on Screen is a documentary about Stephen King film adaptations. I’ve read a lot of King and seen most of the adaptations so I hit play thinking I already knew everything a doc could tell me. And I wasn’t … Continue reading
I never played HQ Trivia back in the day. I was aware of it. I saw the articles and heard podcasters yammer on about it. But I don’t recall it rising and I don’t recall collapsing… it was there one … Continue reading
Sharksploitation is a pretty great deep (ahem) dive into the killer shark movie genre. You want to know about the earliest shark movies? They go back to at least the 1930s. You want to know the shark movies that immediately … Continue reading
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine is a short Netflix documentary about the recently launched (and deployed) James Webb Space Telescope. If I was rating this doc on emotional manipulation alone, it’d get a higher score. But I have to back away … Continue reading
I launched the Netflix documentary Unknown: Killer Robots fully expecting it to be a manipulation. And I would clearly be too well-armored to fall for their editing tricks. Jokes on me though. If the goal of the doc was to … Continue reading
Unknown: Cave of Bones is an interesting Netflix documentary about the discovery of Homo Naledi, a hominid species whose bones were recently discovered deep in a cave system in South Africa. Evidence suggests the bones had been buried which would … Continue reading
Perhaps its due to seeing too many Stan Lee docs already (and reading his book Excelsior) but this latest Disney+ doc did very little for me. About the only thing new it brings to the table of the man’s life … Continue reading
It’s Quieter in the Twilight is a space exploration documentary that would make a nice companion piece to Good Night Oppy. The earlier doc was about the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity that keep on truckin’… this new doc is … Continue reading
I’ve always been a fan of Michael J. Fox since his early days on Family Ties. Back to the Future, Teen Wolf, Doc Hollywood, and even Spin City which I only watched a little (my sitcom watching days were fading). … Continue reading