Review Your Fave/Recent Documentaries

[x Tame Impala]

I'm in the middle of watching this direct cinema, but I want to say it will have been very good @x Tame Impala.

Thanks! I will absolutely check this out. I appreciate the mention.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Darwin (2011)

A depressing look at a decrepit town in Death Valley. A few dozen people out in the desert, even in their physical isolation.. still experiencing the problems of modern America.. drug dependence, loss of traditional religion, etc.
Streamed on Tubi.

 

[Babe Ruth]

9/11: The Pentagon (2020)

Brief doc about the Sept.11 attack on the Pentagon. A little bit of backstory on the Pentagon's history and construction. Followed by a lot of (powerful) firsthand accounts of survivors.
Streamed it on Hulu.

 

[bobbythebrain]

Overnight 8/10

A bartender, Troy Duffy who writes the script to for Boondock Saints and becomes the hottest thing in Hollywood.
Watching him implode because of his ego was very satisfying

 

[kook10]

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) - HULU​

A Questlove bio-doc on Sly Stone

I love his/their music so it was pretty enjoyable. Maybe it had a little bit too much retroactive social commentary for my taste. More of that could have come from his contemporaries, friends, family, bandmates, but they used modern voices to add that on top. Perhaps it was a way to give him his flowers without blaming solely him directly for becoming a crackhead.

 

[kook10]

BRATS -(Hulu)
Andrew McCarthy tracks down the other "Brat Pack"ers and the writer of the original article which dubbed them with the name. They discuss being grouped together by the article and the impact of and their lives.

Blehhhh. Short on substance Fine for Gen X background watching.

 

[the valiant effort]

The Takedown: American Aryans

Went into this thinking it was a high end HBO production that would provide an extensive overview of how these scumbags are operating today, but alas it is more of a by the numbers crime procedural made for DumbAssTV or other such channels owned by Discovery.