Biographical documentaries were big in 2025 with profiles of everyone from Jerry Springer, Sly Stone, Charlie Sheen, Martin Scorsese, Led Zeppelin, Dick Van Dyke and Eddie Murphy also in the mix. The following ten films, with links to longer reviews, are the ones I liked best. Pee-wee as Himself (HBO Max; Crave). What if the
If you want to see two very different documentaries about comedians in their sixties, watch Marc Maron’s Are We Good? right after watching Eddie Murphy in Being Eddie. Maron is the one not living in a 100-room mansion. He’s in a modest house, doing his own laundry, baking a pie, changing a tire, heading out
Mark Maron’s WTF podcast has been essential listening for me ever since the COVID pandemic. He’s been at it since way before that, sixteen years in fact. His peers consider him the O.G. of podcasting. His decision to shut things down come October, podcast wise, has nothing to do with the title of his new
Some advertisers are paying over US$7 million for 30-second spots on Fox’s February 12 broadcast of Super Bowl LVII. That’s a record haul for television’s biggest draw which will once again flirt with the 100 million viewer mark. Not bad considering the top shows in their timeslots most nights in the United States barely draw
Third seasons are often make or break years for a TV series. That’s especially true in this age of bingeing and big gaps between 10-episodes runs. The Netflix comedy Love turned stone cold in Season Three. Amazon‘s Transparent started to drag long before the series became mired in controversy. Showrunners sometimes lose their way or
The latest in the current wave of “female gaze” offerings, GLOW body slams its way onto Netflix June 23. All ten episodes are currently available for streaming. Set in the early ’80s, the series is based on the actual “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” TV series that was a thing back in the mid-’80s when Hulk Hogan was