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DESERT ONE MOVIE REVIEW This latest documentary from two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple sheds light on the aborted military operation designated Operation Eagle Claw. For over a year Iranian revolutionaries held 52 Americans hostage inside the US Embassy. While publicly endorsing a diplomatic solution, President Jimmy Carter secretly ordered Delta Force to storm the embassy […]

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY MOVIE REVIEW How do you revisit the things you loved if you found out the person who created them was absolutely awful? The crazed-sensation (for adults and kids) Ren & Stimpy was one of those things that stopped the world for a moment, as everyone went, “Have you seen this crazy […]

I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK MINISERIES REVIEW You guys have no idea how hard it is to be funny when you’re reviewing something like this. Adapted from the late Michelle McNamara’s book, the HBO documentary miniseries “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” recently finished, detailing McNamara’s life and her obsession with solving the case […]

PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN: THE TONY HAWK VIDEO GAME STORY MOVIE REVIEW The remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 kickflip onto consoles September 4, 2020. What made these games such major hits that even all these years (and consoles) later are held up as so good as to be worthy of a […]

IMMIGRATION NATION MINISERIES REVIEW This Netflix documentary series consists of six episodes that take a front line look at the immigration issues under the Trump administration. Directed by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz, it’s the Netflix hit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t want you to see. Torn apart families, deported veterans, overworked agents, and […]

MORGANA MOVIE REVIEW The decidedly NSFW documentary “Morgana” chronicles one woman’s journey from repressed housewife to feminist pornographer. After years in a loveless marriage, Morgana Muses gets a divorce but the thought of starting over as a lonely, overweight, fifty year old woman is just too daunting. She decides to treat herself to one last […]

RED PENGUINS MOVIE REVIEW After the collapse of the Soviet Union, their legendary Red Army hockey team was out of money, out of luck, and out of favor. Along comes the Pittsburgh Penguins to invest in the team and transition them from state property to capitalist success story. Things didn’t quite go the way they […]

FEAR CITY: NEW YORK VS THE MAFIA MINISERIES REVIEW By the 1980s, five mafia groups ruled New York City with an iron fist: the Gambino, Colombo, Bonanno, Lucchese, and Genovese families. Together they formed the powerhouse known as the Commission, with fingers in everything from sanitation to the garment district, construction to labor unions. This […]

INMATE #1: THE RISE OF DANNY TREJO MOVIE REVIEW F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote “there are no second acts in American lives”, but he might have changed his mind had he lived long enough to watch the new documentary, “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo”. A drug addict and violent career criminal, Trejo spent […]

TIME WARP: THE GREATEST CULT FILMS OF ALL TIME – COMEDY AND CAMP The Time Warp documentary series comes to its conclusion (for now) with this entry that celebrates comedies, making this probably the most accessible of the entries in the series, campy films, which is essentially just films that got left out of part […]