I was pretty unfamiliar with the story of Pat Morita. I knew he was Arnold on Happy Days and Miyagi in the Karate Kid films. So I was quite interested when I saw this documentary popup on digital rental. And … Continue reading
The Last Blockbuster is a 2020 documentary that’s finally arrived (somewhat ironically) on Netflix streaming. It’s about twenty minutes of interesting information about Blockbuster, twenty minutes about the literal Last Blockbuster store (in Bend, Oregon), and the rest is just … Continue reading
Gamemaster is a 2002 Amazon Prime documentary about modern board games… not your Monopolies and Clues but more your Settlers of Catans, Pandemics, or Cones of Dunshires. More advanced, more complex, more adult-skewing games that have exploded since, as the … Continue reading
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds is a new Werner Herzog documentary airing on Apple TV+. It is his latest lyrical scientific film, this time about meteorite impacts across the globe and throughout time. In his usual combination of scientific fascination, … Continue reading
Console Wars is the oft-told story of the rivalry between Sega and Nintendo. Oft-told, that is, if you’ve oft-read gaming history books or oft-watched other documentaries. If you have, this film doesn’t really teach any new information, though it does … Continue reading
Horror Noire is a 2019 documentary about black people in horror movies that premiered on the streaming channel Shudder but is, in October 2020, streaming for free on Amazon Prime (where I saw it). It’s one I’ve wanted to see … Continue reading
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a new Netflix documentary released this month. As he states, this is his witness statement. Mr. Attenborough is a famous naturalist who has made many, many informative and beautiful nature documentaries. He’s … Continue reading
Totally Under Control is a new documentary about the response to COVID-19 by the US government that’s available on streaming. It’s not only new, but also radically up-to-date, including a last minute text insertion at the end of the movie … Continue reading
Checked out the new HBO (or possibly HBO Max) documentary Class Action Park. This film is about the notorious New Jersey park that had a very distant concept of safety and responsibility. It was more-or-less turned into a fiction comedy … Continue reading
The documentary Tread came out on Netflix recently (it was released in 2019 and was unwatched in my rental list for ages). I gave it a watch (finally) and was a little disappointed but I can maybe recommend it if … Continue reading