Documentary… Movie #136 2021: My Octopus Teacher (2020) 23 May 202123 May 2021 Can you tell that I was cramming in a few Oscar nominated films before the awards this year? I'll be honest, I watched My Octopus Teacher over every other film…
crime… Movie #130 2021: Why Did You Kill Me? (2021) 17 May 202113 May 2021 Watched this on a whim, wish I watched an actual film instead. Go figure. Yes, I got sucked in by the Netflix true crime schtick that the streaming giant seems…
Cerebral… Movie #128 2021: Room 237 (2012) 15 May 202111 May 2021 Everyone knows Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining into a movie. Many people know that the author of the original book (Stephen King) despised that movie. I'm one of those people…
crime… Movie #116 2021: Assassins (2020) 3 May 202124 Apr 2021 Good. God. I can’t recall the last time I was so shocked by a documentary. This is a story that you have to see to really believe. And even then,…
Documentary… Movie #96 2021: The Reagan Show (2017) 13 Apr 202128 Mar 2021 Right, listen. I watched this purely because I’m a nerd. No other reason. Alas, I vowed to review every first watch I undertake, and this is no difference. Not interested…
crime… Movie #94 2021: Time (2020) 11 Apr 202126 Mar 2021 Phew. When I watched this, I had no idea that it would become part of the Oscars conversation or that it would indeed be nominated. Rather, I was simply looking…
Coming of Age… Movie #76 2021: Beyond Clueless (2014) 24 Mar 20212 Mar 2021 Well this was... different. Beyond Clueless is pretty much an analysis of teen and coming-of-age movies in the form of a documentary. Well, it’s more of a dramatic reading of…
Documentary… Movie #60 2021: Framing Britney Spears (2021) 8 Mar 202122 Feb 2021 Here it is: the documentary that everyone’s been talking about. Whether you’re a fan of Britney Spears or not, this is something you should take note of. Framing Britney Spears…
Documentary… Movie #38 2021: The Final Year (2017) 13 Feb 20213 Feb 2021 Documentary time! (Documentaries are lowkey one of my favourite genres because I’m a slut for non-fiction both in movies and in books. It just so happens that US Politics is…
Documentary… Movie #7 2021: Get Me Roger Stone (2017) 13 Jan 20217 Jan 2021 This is terrifying. Get Me Roger Stone is a political documentary that was commissioned by Netflix in 2017, shortly after the election of a certain Donald. Rather than focusing on…
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