Taylor Swift is bad at this
The latest cinematic offering from the global superstar is slow, shallow and dull
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The insidious cruelty of justice porn
A new documentary explores the moral complexity of To Catch a Predator, a 2000s show based on hunting paedophiles
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Bonnie Blue has no limits
And no one to challenge her either.
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The complicity of Leni Riefenstahl
The late film-maker insisted she was only an observer of the Nazi regime. A new documentary suggests otherwise.
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Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?
The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.
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The women behind Humphrey Bogart
The documentary Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes searches for new insights into the actor’s life in his five closest female…
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The torture of Meet the Rees-Moggs
The last thing Jacob Rees-Mogg needs is to be coddled by reality TV.
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Forty years ago, Band Aid brought mad excitement to my generation
Watching the BBC’s The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, what was once such a big deal dematerialised in…
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Sarah Koenig: “I’ve never been a missionary for true-crime podcasts”
The Serial creator on ten years of the podcast that changed the medium forever.
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Hollywoodgate is a glimpse of the Taliban at work
This revelatory film follows two soldiers in Afghanistan during the country’s regime change.
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Did celebrity ruin David Beckham?
Netflix reveals a footballer betrayed by celebrity.
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Sport is just fodder for documentaries now
High-stakes “sportertainment” puts casual streamers and shareholders above fans and tradition.
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A baffling but brilliant ride through Birmingham’s surrealist scene
Stewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
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Why the “golden age of the documentary” is a myth
More are being released than ever before – but the documentary has entered its corporate era.
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You won’t ever forget Channel 4’s Afghanistan documentary Evacuation
Give this revelatory series your time. Let it rip open your heart.
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A history of the world in circles
Radio 4’s In the Loop explores the secrets of things that are round – from particle accelerators to the 5,000-year-old…
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How the tabloid media turned on Anna Nicole Smith
Smith’s life, death and now – thanks to a new Netflix documentary – after-life was a spectacle.
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How Judy Blume became a lightning rod in the culture wars
The frank explorations of puberty and sexuality that made her books radical in the 1970s are newly controversial in the…
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GB News’s pipeline to Downing Street
Rishi Sunak’s plan to tackle “grooming gangs” closely follows a documentary on the topic.
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The rise of reality star documentaries
Former cast members from Love Island or Made in Chelsea have a new route to relevance – presenting “serious” factual…
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