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Documentary Reviews x2/ Score: A Film Music Documentary, and Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Score: A Film Music Documentary(currently available on Amazon) This is a fantastic documentary that gives us a peek behind the scenes at how film scores are created and recorded. I watched this several years ago but there are a few bits that have really stuck with me: Definitely worth a watch, even if you know…
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Documentary Reviews…?
I am trying to figure out how I want to handle documentaries on this blog. My intention had been to write a very short, generally positive review every time I watched a documentary. Eventually someone looking for a documentary to watch could click on the “documentary review” tag and find a list of documentaries I…
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Documentary Review/ Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche
Disclaimer: I went into this documentary with no prior knowledge of the topic. If you are similarly clueless and would like to watch this film with fresh eyes, I suggest you do the same and stop reading after this paragraph. Although…I would rate this documentary as just okay. You might enjoy reading this post just…
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Documentary Review/ McMillion$
A six-episode deep dive into human greed. This documentary series follows the FBI’s investigation into the McDonald’s Monopoly fraud. The fraud took place starting way back in the 1990s (when I remember collecting Monopoly pieces!), but the investigation didn’t get started until the very early 2000s, when a young, hungry agent named Doug Mathews decided…
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Documentary Review/ Harley & Katya
Heartbreaking. I somehow missed this story in the news when it happened, so went in without expectations. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out where this headed when one key character’s present-day interview tape is missing. Harley Windsor, from Australia, and Katya Alexandrovskaya, fromRussia, were a pairs figure skating phenomenon for a few…
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Documentary Review/ Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
This is not a documentary about the attack on the twin towers on September 11, 2001. You would be forgiven for thinking it might be. It opens with American 11 taking off from Boston on the morning of September 11, 2001. We all know where this is headed. I’ve watched a lot of documentaries about…
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Documentary Review/ Arnold
An engrossing biopic about a guy I didn’t think was particularly interesting. This three-part series covers Arnold Schwarzenegger’s whole life: from a boy growing up in Austria, through his bodybuilding career, to Hollywood, and finally to the governor’s office in Sacramento. I had a lot more respect for Arnold Schwarzenegger after watching this documentary. He…
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Documentary Review/ Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All
Not-to-be-missed if you’re an Ed Sheeran fan, this was a fun documentary series for my whole family. My youngest kid (8yo) is a big Ed Sheeran fan so I knew we needed to watch this one together. There’s quite a bit that he didn’t enjoy: particularly the peek into Ed and Cheery’s relationship and marriage.…
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Documentary Review/ Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
New and different enough to fascinate me even though I’m pretty neutral on Michael J. Fox. I was in eighth grade and my family was going through our big People Magazine phase when Michael J. Fox went public with his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, so I was already familiar with his story. Twenty-five years of disease…
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Documentary Review/ P!nk: All I Know So Far
I usually enjoy a good behind-the-scenes tour of a celebrity’s life, but this one just stressed me out. This documentary follows Pink and her family during the European leg of her tour. Pink has chosen to bring her husband, her two-year-old son, and eight-year-old daughter with her and they are together all the time. When…