A little over a year after its premiere on Apple TV+, the Todd Haynes-directed Velvet Underground documentary has received a physical release. The documentary, simply entitled The Velvet Underground, is an … Read More
Review: “MLK/FBI” explores the US government’s grudge against the iconic leader
This Friday, January 15, on the 92nd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth, a new documentary about the iconic civil rights leader will hit select theaters and video-on-demand. MLK/FBI is … Read More
Review: Remembering Timothy Leary in “My Psychedelic Love Story”
The new documentary from groundbreaking filmmaker Errol Morris (The B-Side, The Fog of War), My Psychedelic Love Story, premieres Sunday night on Showtime. It profiles Joanna Harcourt-Smith, who was in a … Read More
Review: New doc “Belushi” seeks to find the man behind the comedy
The 1970s were a momentous time for American comedy. Thanks to now-hallowed institutions like the magazine National Lampoon, the sketch TV show Saturday Night Live, and the movie Animal House, the hippie-influenced counterculture … Read More
Movie Review: “The Booksellers” is a charming doc about print culture
The battle between physical and digital media rages on in The Booksellers. In general, I think we here at Pop Culture Beast are big fans of real objects: discs, action … Read More
Movie Review: “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project” profiles a VHS idealist
Technology merges with political idealism into a mad obsession in the new documentary, Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project. Driven by the desire to capture and catalogue the way that the … Read More
The Best Science and Nature Documentaries on Netflix
Netflix is one of the most popular online channels. There are many beautiful and informative well-made documentary films you can watch on Netflix. One of the best things about Netflix … Read More