“I could die today. Technically. I feel sick.” These words by white independent film-maker Rob Bliss summed up the danger around him when he decided to walk through America’s most racist states wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt in memory of the 5th Anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. This Storyville documentary…
NETFLIX have released a three-part in-depth documentary that examines the life and crimes of Britain’s most notorious and sordid husband and wife serial killers. It is a harrowing and disturbing story, with no crimes of passion or desire for status and wealth. Just a husband and his younger wife killing for sexual pleasure and their…
Some true crime stories will never be satisfactorily solved. At heart this tragedy is a story of two children called Jack and Sarah Corbett and how they lost their dad. It is also the story of the ‘truths’ we tell ourselves and inflict, sometimes unknowingly on others. Especially children and in this case Jack and…
There are a lot of WW2 documentaries out there that seem to be airing every day on multiple channels, so there is an audience out there. The question is, is there anything new to be said about WW2 and the Blitz in particular? With this new NETFLIX documentary that uses testimony from those who were…
“When you have 1000 people, and you can hear a pin drop that is the best sound of all because that’s when you know you have absolutely got them,” Producer Sonia Freidman says of this Stranger Things theatre production. Director Jon Halperin had made a fascinating, insightful and brilliant documentary. He uses a timeline to…
For a long while now on YouTube there has been a problem with “kid influencers” being exploited by their parents for money, and many don’t have a voice or a choice. Bad Influence: The dark side of Kidfluencing documentary examines the many issues with this part of YouTube and uses the case study of Piper…
I want to start by writing this review with the second episode of APPLE TV’s talking heads show as it was the most powerful. This two-part documentary, which focuses on the struggles and hard-fought gains of black performers in Hollywood was inspirational and educational. An impressive roll call of Oscar winners and superstars told their…
“Are we the sum of our worst actions”, is the moral question that this riveting and thought-provoking documentary series examines. Series 4 follows three crimes where the events and disturbing details are very different, except for the “Sword of Damocles” like threat of the death sentence hanging in the air like a dark ominous cloud….
As a Gen Z and born in 2000’s I grew up and loved Nickelodeon and Disney. I didn’t realise until watching this docuseries the abuses of power against children were behind the scenes. In the documentary you are warned that if you were a child in the 90’s this is going to ruin that for…
3.5/5 “This could be my last World Cup. My entire career has led to this one moment. Every Match won. Every Defeat. Every Goal.” “I never imagined that my career would turn out the way it did and it would end like this. After all I’m just a kid who loves to play ball”. There…
