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Leaving aside the fact this could’ve been edited down a lot tighter (4 hours? Really?) – Yet Another chilling story of abuse of power to facilitate serial sexual assault by a male entertainer in the 60s-90s+. Sickening number of parallels to the Savile story too: including archival footage which seems at best sinister and at…
I think I got a bit confused here, as there’s been loads of media rhetoric about the Steve Coogan-led dramatisation of the Savile story: and that’s what I was interested in. It’s probably no coincidence therefore that Netflix have been pimping out this documentary to capitalise on the story’s current profile. Once started, of course,…
This documentary-of-the-decade was far too good to bother with my usual collection of sentences here. So I wrote a whole post, instead. 👍👍👍
I can’t recall what drew me to this – although my watching history does seem to point to the fact that if left to my own devices, I’ll sniff out odd documentary series. In this case, it was a 6-part investigation of “ordinary people” and the unusual hobbies they get passionate about – narrated by…
I didn’t watch the *entirety* of Horizon – it was more that BBC iPlayer had a handful of episodes up to look at: so it was a total no-brainer to watch 1981’s Richard Feynman episode, “The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out”. Conducted very much in the “question off camera and film the answer” mode, it…
8 part docu-series about spy techniques through recent history, backed with loads of stock footage and factual explanations/recountings of events. I came away feeling like they repeated themselves a bit, although being one of those shows I’d pop on after Liz had gone to bed that recollection’s coloured by my propensity for falling asleep and…
One of the more successful late-night documentary selections I’ve made (and managed to stay awake through this one!) – South African journalist Rian Malan tracks down the daughters of Solomon Linda to see if they’re aware that their father’s song (Mbube – an obvious and documented progenitor of The Lion Sleeps Tonight) is being used…
If there’s something I really don’t need in my life it’s more frigging Monty Python documentary. I’ve been watching/reading Python docos pretty much since I’ve known about the Pythons. While watching this I realised that with the bulk of their work produced between 1969 and 1983, the Python team have been reminiscing about their work…
I suspect I wildly missed the point of this. Lauded as “must see” by some ppl in my circles, I gave this a good solid attempt at watching (3 episodes), but ultimately found it impossible to give much of a fuck about what Fran Lebowitz thinks. Near as I can tell she’s a some-time actress,…
Nobody can Jeff Goldblum like Jeff Goldblum – so I’ve no idea what the pitching process for this National Geographic series was, but it features Jeff doing his inimitable thing on a series of different topics – Ice Cream, Swimming Pools, Bikes, Jewelry, Sneakers… – leading to a wholesome, informative and fun collection of perspectives…