“People are frequently infuriated by me because I’m filled with opinions,” Fran Lebowitz says in the trailer for Pretend It’s a City, the new documentary from Martin Scorsese that will begin streaming on Netflix on January 8th, 2021. The film focuses on her frustrations with how people navigate her beloved …
Read More »'TFW No GF' Is a Deeply Uncomfortable Portrayal of Incel Culture
Pity the poor young white man. They are unemployed. They’re living at home in record numbers. They’re not having sex (or at least, they’re not having particularly good sex). And they are unhappy — sometimes miserably, aggressively so — with a portion of them turning to the darkest abysses of …
Read More »Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin Engineer Eddie Kramer Will Be Featured in New Documentary
Rock engineer Eddie Kramer — who worked with the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and more — will be the subject of a new documentary, From the Other Side of the Glass. Rolling Stone will team up with Paradise Lost documentarian Joe Berlinger and Spencer Proffer to …
Read More »Justin Bieber's 'Seasons': How Director Michael Ratner Made 'Real-Time' Docuseries
Today, YouTube premiered the first episode of Justin Bieber’s 10-part documentary Seasons, which mostly charts the creation of his forthcoming fifth album. For Bieber and his team, returning to YouTube is the perfect metaphor for his career: the video platform was how manager and confidant Scooter Braun accidentally discovered a …
Read More »Aaron Hernandez Docuseries 'Killer Inside' Adds New Depth to a Well-Told Story
At the time of his death, Aaron Hernandez was only 27, but he’d already lived many lives. Born to a middle-class Puerto Rican household in Bristol, Connecticut, Hernandez had been a star in athletics basically as long as he could hold a ball. And by the time he started playing …
Read More »'Fahrenheit 11/9' Review: Michael Moore is Mad as Hell and Won't Take It Anymore
You’ll cry laughing at Michael Moore‘s new doc Fahrenheit 11/9, an unmissable provocation about the rise and rise of Donald J. Trump that should help get out the vote in November better than any limp recruitment outreach. One of Moore’s best and most incisively funny films — right up there …
Read More »'McQueen' Review: Portrait of a Fashion Shock Artist As a Genius
Lee Alexander McQueen was just 40 when he hanged himself at his London home in 2010, on the eve of his mother’s funeral. His suicide made headlines. But it was the revolution he started in fashion that is still being felt and fiercely debated – you don’t escape censure when …
Read More »'Won't You Be My Neighbor?': Vital Doc Shares TV Icon Mr. Roger's Vision
With cynicism running like a toxic streak through mainstream media, a documentary on sweet, soothing TV host Fred Rogers may strike you as hopelessly naïve – or just the pep talk we need. We’re with the latter camp. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? traces how this ordained minister – one …
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