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Celebrate Pet Sounds’ 60th with a DIY Beach Boys Film Fest

May 13, 2026May 13, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1960s music, ABC television, Al Jardine, American dream, American pop culture, artistic genius, Beach Boys legacy, Brian Wilson, California music, Carl Wilson, celebrity biopics, Charles Manson, classic rock, contemporary documentaries, cultural criticism, David Leaf, David Marks, Dennis Wilson, Disney documentaries, documentary films, Don Was, dysfunctional families, Elizabeth Banks, entertainment journalism, Eugene Landy, film criticism, God Only Knows, harmony vocals, Hawthorne California, iconic albums, John Cusack, Love and Mercy, mental illness and creativity, Mike Love, music biopics, music documentaries, music fandom, music journalism, music streaming, nostalgia, old Hollywood, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Pet Sounds, pop music history, Psychological Drama, rock and roll history, rock history, rock music, singer songwriters, Sloop John B, Smile album, streaming movies, surf rock, television miniseries, The Beach Boys, Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Here are the docs and biopics that will bring you ‘Good Vibrations’

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Was ‘Ronaldinho: The One and Only’?

April 27, 2026May 13, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 2002 World Cup, ac milan, atletico mineiro, barcelona fc, brazil national team, brazilian football, club football politics, cristiano ronaldo, david seaman goal, el clasico, flamengo vs santos 2011, football culture, football documentaries, football history, football legacy, goat debate, joao mendes, jogo bonito, lionel messi, luis ara series, neymar jr, paraguay prison scandal, paris saint germain, player lifestyle controversy, porto alegre, real madrid, roberto de assis moreira, ronaldinho, ronaldo de assis moreira, ronaldo nazario, skill and flair, soccer biography

Mini-series about the Brazilian soccer star is designed to whet our World Cup whistle

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‘The New Yorker at 100’ Is a Love Letter — and a Gentle Evasion

December 18, 2025January 2, 2026 Samuel Porteous 2 Comments Condé Nast, David Remnick, E B White, Eustace Tilley, fact checking, Harold Ross, Judd Apatow, longform journalism, Marshall Curry, media history, Netflix documentaries, Pauline Kael, Ronan Farrow, Roz Chast, The New Yorker, The New Yorker at 100, Tina Brown, William Shawn

Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow enjoy the periodical without too much rigor

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How Replaceable Are We, Really?

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 Matt Hanson 0 Comments biotechnology, body modification, Mary Roach, medical ethics, nonfiction books, Replaceable You, science and humor, science journalism, W.W. Norton

In her new book, Mary Roach explores the future of the human body

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A Voice Not Silenced

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1990s alternative rock, Andy Kessler, documentary film, Enter The Conquering Chicken, feminist punk, grunge era, Home Alive, independent film, Jessy Bender, Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna, Kerri O’Kane, Matt Dresdner, Mia Zapata, music history, Seattle music scene, Steve Moriarty, The Gits, women in music

Revisiting The Gits 30 years after tragedy ended the band’s shot at fame

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Cameron Crowe Shows the Power of Connection

December 11, 2025December 15, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1970s rock, Almost Famous, Avid Reader Press, Cameron Crowe, Cathy Crowe, David Bowie, Gregg Allman, Led Zeppelin, music journalism, rock memoir, Rolling Stone era, The Uncool, Thin White Duke

In his new memoir ‘The Uncool’ the filmmaker blends family grief, rock-journalism, and a lifelong faith in music.

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Strong on the Rideouts, Weak on the Revolution

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1970s America, feminism, marital rape law, Oregon v. Rideout, rape law reform, Sarah Weinman, true crime, Without Consent

Sarah Weinman’s ‘Without Consent’ wants to chart the fight to outlaw marital rape

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The Counterfactual Adulation of Amanda Knox

November 5, 2025November 11, 2025 Michael Washburn 110 Comments Amanda Knox, European Court of Human Rights, Free: My Search for Meaning, Giuliano Mignini, Jessica Olin, John Kercher, London Review of Books, Meredith Kercher, Patrick Lumumba, Rudy Guede, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, true crime, Valerie Stivers

The claim there is ‘no evidence’ against Knox in the 2007 death of her housemate rears its head yet again

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The Jussie Smollett Story Explained But Not Concluded

August 22, 2025 William Schwartz 0 Comments Abel Osundairo, Jussie Smollett, Ola Osundairo

Doc tells bizarre story of ‘Empire’ actor, an ‘attack,’ and Chicago PD

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Eat This Doc

August 18, 2025August 18, 2025 Jon Hart 0 Comments Biggest Loser, Bob Harper, Danny Cahill, David Broome, JD Roth, Jillian Michaels, Joelle Gwynn, Robert Huizenga, Tracey Yukich

Tell all mini-series blows open the structured cruelty of reality TV

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Unfortunately He Was Available For Mrs Maisel

July 24, 2025July 29, 2025 Jon Hart 0 Comments Rachel Brosnahan, Rufus Sewell, The Joker, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Zachary Levi

For this, he held in his pee?

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Larry Charles Dishes on ‘Curb,’ ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Borat’ and Life

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 Ken Kurson 2 Comments Ari Emanuel, Borat, Bruno, Comedy Samurai, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage and Mad About You, Fridays, JB Smoove, John C. Reilly, Larry Charles, Larry David, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seinfeld

‘Comedy Samurai’ catalogs a stunning career but skimps on introspection

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Why Do Puppets Matter?

July 17, 2025 William Schwartz 0 Comments Ken Levine, Lamb Chop, LeVar Burton, Shari Lewis

‘Shari & Lamb Chop’ looks back at the television of a different era

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Advance Retreats From Entertainment

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Advance, Anna Wintour, Comcast, David Zaslav, NBC, Universal, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Discovery

Is this $1.1-billion sale of Warner, a canary in a coal mine?

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Who Are the Killers in ‘Murderland’?

July 1, 2025July 3, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Caroline Fraser, Dracula, Frankenstein, Gary Ridgway, Jekyll, Serial Killer, Ted Bundy, Truman Capote

A Pulitzer Prize-winner doesn’t bury the lead

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