Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
For reasons that are immediately obvious, it’s hard to name the greatest band that never made it, but this 2010 rockumentary makes a strong case that it’s Fishbone. Everyday Sunshine: […]
Tag Archives: documentary
LFF: The Final Year
This documentary, showing at the London Film Festival, follows Obama’s foreign policy team in the final year of his presidency. For any young people reading, “foreign policy” is something that […]
Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
John Scheinfeld’s documentary combines John Coltrane’s own words (read by Denzel Washington) with insight and praise from his fans; everyone from Carlos Santana to President Bill Clinton. Can you imagine Trump […]
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Bird on a Wire documents Leonard Cohen’s 1974 20-date tour of European cities, from Dublin to Tel Aviv. The story of this documentary’s path to cinema screens is a remarkable […]
My Scientology Movie
Documentarian and falsetto singer Louis Theroux takes to the big screen with this investigation into the Church of Scientology. We’re reviewing this documentary between us in order to confuse the squirrel-busters. An […]
Waking Life
Waking Life is a psychedelic documentary by the inimitable Richard Linklater. It follows a dreaming, nameless protagonist (Wiley Wiggins) through variously trippy encounters, including numerous conversations about the nature of dreams. Made in 2001 […]
Scratch
Scratch is a 2001 documentary about hip-hop, DJing and turntablism, which you can and should watch on YouTube. Like skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys or drag doc Paris is Burning, […]
Janis: Little Girl Blue
With the BAFTA-winning Amy poised to (hopefully) pick up the Academy Award for best documentary, along comes another doc about a woman with an incredible voice, who died at 27: Janis Joplin. […]
He Named Me Malala
In case you don’t already know, Malala Yousafzai is the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for publicly arguing for girls’ education. Unfortunately for the […]
Nothing Can Hurt Me
As a fan of rockumentaries and That ’70s Show, I had to seek out this doc about Big Star – “the greatest band that never made it.” Big Star’s story is almost […]
Screen Goblin 