I avoided Beyond Utopia last year because I was suspicious of the movie. It’s a documentary about escaping North Korea and I figured it’d be pretty one-sided, maybe even faked… so watching a 2 hour anti-Korean propaganda piece was concerning. … Continue reading
Nuclear Now is a documentary that does something that just isn’t done: it’s a pro-nuclear energy doc made by a confirmed lefty who never saw a conspiracy about the right he disagreed with (*this statement may be hyperbole). I was … Continue reading
As a Star Wars fan who never actually watched the Star Wars Holiday Special until last year, I was very curious about this documentary. And it did a good job explaining a lot about how this one-time-only tv variety show … Continue reading
I figured there were good odds that this Disney+ documentary on Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford would be a corporate puff piece to sell Dial of Destiny, new to the streaming service. And I was partly right… but before this … Continue reading
Pencils vs. Pixels is a pretty surface level look at the history of traditional 2d hand-drawn animation and the rise of CGI/3D. It doesn’t take too much of a adversarial tone (given the “vs” in the title) but it does … Continue reading
I loved Arnold Schwarzenegger films in the ’80s. He was my guy for big dumb action films. I was less into Sylvester Stallone… First Blood was great but the later Rambo sequels were not the big, dumb action flicks for … Continue reading
I recall the Milli Vanilli saga from back in the day… and my indifference and skepticism when the news broke. In my naivete, I wondered what the big deal was… the catchy tunes remained catchy tunes. Someone else sang them… … Continue reading
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