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Dead Asleep: Murder victim’s sister asks Hulu to remove documentary and ‘choose human decency over profit’

Brooke Preston’s sister is calling out Hulu once again to remove the documentary Dead Asleep, about her sister’s murder.In 2017, 21-year-old Brooke Preston was stabbed to death by her roommate and childhood friend, Randy Herman Jr, in their West Palm Beach, Florida home. Soon after the murder, Herman called 911 and confessed to murdering his friend. It was later debated whether he killed his friend while he was sleepwalking.Ever since the documentary was released in December 2021, Brooke’s sister Jordan has repeatedly…

There’s a GoldenEye 64 documentary coming out really soon – Destructoid

The trailer is out now, the full thing arrives on June 27 In case you’ve been wondering why there’s been some GoldenEye 64 news this year, note that it’s the 25th anniversary of the series (amid rumors that it could be coming back in some capacity). That’s partially why it’s getting a whole GoldenEye 64 documentary! Directed by documentarian Drew Roller, it’ll bring us through the journey of the game “developer in a farmhouse in Warwickshire by a small ragtag team of university graduates, most of whom had never…

‘It’s such a horrible thing’: devastating film examines sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts | Documentary films

For John Humphrey, childhood used to mean having fun in the backyard of his home in New Jersey. “We had a rule that we couldn’t go any farther than the bell or the sound of my mother’s whistle,” he recalls. “I was always digging and playing.”Then Humphrey went to a school that offered a Boy Scout programme. “I just loved the outdoors and this particular troop camped 12 months a year. It didn’t matter – winter, snow, ice, hot – I loved that part of it.”Between the ages of 11 and 13, Humphrey was sexually abused by a Scout…

‘There’s always something to be done’: how the Janes provided illegal abortions before Roe | Documentary films

Regardless of whether the supreme court fully overturns Roe v Wade later this month, as indicated by the majority draft opinion leaked in May, or merely allows it to be gutted at the state level, the US will continue its years-long march backwards on reproductive rights. Abortion access in the US in 2022 mirrors 1972, the year before the supreme court ensured a woman’s right to an abortion with Roe v Wade, and a time when a sparse patchwork of legalization in a few states forced many women to seek care from dubious…

How XXXTentacion’s ‘Look At Me’ Documentary Was Made: Director Interview

It’s been nearly four years since XXXTentacion was fatally shot in Deerfield Beach, Florida on June 18, 2018, and his name still evokes polarizing responses from the music world. His devoted fans are still moved by his genre-bending music and emotional lyrics, which helped them through difficult times. Others grapple with the serious allegations of sexual and domestic violence, including charges of false imprisonment, witness tampering, and aggravated battery.During his life, XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, rarely spoke…

‘Every day was an ethical quandary’: telling the difficult story of XXXTentacion | Documentary films

In one of many chilling scenes in the XXXTentacion documentary Look at Me, the young musical artist whose real name was Jahseh Onfrey leaves a Florida jail and Googles himself. It’s March 2017. At the top of the search results is Onfrey’s bio, accompanied with a mugshot from his 2016 arrest for brutally imprisoning and assaulting Geneva Ayala – his girlfriend at the time. The detailed bio, evidence that he made it, has him squealing.While Onfrey was inside for nearly six months without a data plan, a 2015 song he uploaded…

David Bowie Documentary Filmmaker Says His Heart Flatlined ‘For A Couple Of Minutes’ While Working On Moonage Daydream

Making a movie tends to require an entire team of people. You've got your director, producer, writer, editor, on-screen talent, and more. Now imagine taking on the task of making a documentary entirely on your own. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck filmmaker Brett Morgen took on that challenge for the David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream, but he flatlined during the making of it.Moonage Daydream explores the creative and musical journey of musical legend, David Bowie. In an interview at Deadline’s Cannes Studio, Brett…

Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet looks so good it feels like a real nature documentary

From the moment the first Tyrannosaurus swam onto the screen in Prehistoric Planet I was a lost cause — I giggled in delight. My thoughts instantly devolved from “I’m a science editor taking a serious look at this nature show” to “Holy crap, that’s a dinosaur.” Prehistoric Planet is Apple’s attempt at answering the question: what if we made Planet Earth but 66 million years ago? The result is shockingly good-looking, especially since the producers have not, in fact, managed to invent time travel, nor have they pulled…

A video documentary on the iconic Rajdoot 175 motorcycle

India is currently on of the largest market for two-wheeler manufacturers. There are a variety of models available in the market. There are simple commuter motorcycle to a high end super sports bike. Motorcycling culture has grown in India over the decades. If we look back 50 years, the number of motorcycle manufacturers present in India were limited and even they offered limited number of products only. One of the famous motorcycle that we used have at that time was the Rajdoot 175. But have you ever wondered about how…

‘The birthplace of hostage negotiation’: inside a groundbreaking 1973 standoff | Documentary films

Films about hostage situations rarely play out like Hold Your Fire, where both the captives and captors don’t die.Stefan Forbes’s riveting documentary revisits a real life 47-hour standoff in Brooklyn following a botched sporting goods store robbery; the kind that makes you wonder why they never made a movie about that before. In January 1973, four Black men led by Shu’aib Raheem were planning to steal guns from John and Al’s Sporting Goods in Bed-Stuy and were pitted into a loaded and intense confrontation with an…