Documentary… Movie #358 2020: Icarus (2017) 23 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 What could be more Christmassy than a documentary about a Russian athletics doping scandal? To be fair, I needed a break from incessant twinkling lights and Mariah Carey, and there…
Documentary… Movie #342 2020: Three Identical Strangers (2018) 7 Dec 20203 Dec 2020 Wild. That's the only possible word to describe this documentary. When Three Identical Strangers was first released, there was so much hype around it... and I completely missed it. So…
Documentary… Movie #309 2020: American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) 15 Nov 202012 Nov 2020 Since Making a Murderer hit Netflix in 2016, true crime documentaries have been selling like hot potatoes. And I'm not mad about it. American Murder: The Family Next Door is…
Cerebral… Movie #296 2020: The Social Dilemma (2020) 7 Nov 20206 Nov 2020 It seems like an age since I've reviewed a documentary here at The Quayside Review. A quick fact check shows it was actually 64 movies - and almost 4 months…
Documentary Movie #232 2020: Disclosure (2020) 7 Jul 20201 Jul 2020 Though Pride Month was slightly muted this year - and rightly so - by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, I felt as though I should educate…
Documentary… Movie #196 2020: Fittest On Earth (The Story of the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games) (2016) 7 Jun 20205 Jun 2020 In this day and age - especially with gyms being closed and people being stuck inside their own houses baking cakes for hours every day - we all need a…
Documentary… Movie #195 2020: Knock Down the House (2019) 6 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 Now for something that isn't explicitly linked to the Black Lives Matter protests, but something that is absolutely relevant when you connect the dots. Knock Down the House is the…
Documentary… Movie #194 2020: 13th (2016) 6 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 Black Lives Matter. It's the phrase on everyone's lips, on everyone's Twitter feed, in everyone's protest. But how many of you are actively trying to educate yourself on the history…
Biographical… Movie #193 2020: Becoming (2020) 5 Jun 20203 Jun 2020 In the wake of the life of George Floyd being unjustly taken in the USA, it is time to inform and educate. Though I'd planned on a week of documentaries…
Documentary… Movie #150 2020: Apollo 11 (2019) 14 May 202011 May 2020 I've never been super into anything space-related. Except for Buzz Lightyear. But I love a good documentary, and I'd heard some great stuff about this one. Simply, I was not…