In the first official trailer for the forthcoming documentary Our Father, a routine Ancestry.com DNA test uncovers the misdeeds of Dr. Donald Cline. The film, which premieres on Netflix on May 11, follows the biological children of the disgraced fertility doctor who covertly inseminated dozens of patients with his own …
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During the early days of the QAnon movement — before the Capitol Riot insurrection, before the #StoptheSteal movement, and before believers like Marjorie Taylor Greene transitioned from the annals of Conspiracy YouTube to the halls of Congress — there was a longstanding debate within the media whether it was worth …
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Questlove will direct a new documentary about the career and legacy of Sly Stone. Per a release, the as-yet-untitled project will follow “the story of the influential artist, king of funk, and fashion icon Sly Stone, a musician who was breaking all the rules at a time when doing so …
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Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash and other rock architects reflect on the creative explosion of mid-Sixties Los Angeles in a new trailer for upcoming documentary Echo in the Canyon. Andrew Slater — a former music journalist, record producer and label executive — helmed the film, …
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(This piece originally ran on January 25th, as part of our 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage.) There was no gaggle of protestors outside the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah early Friday morning, despite news reports that the Sundance Film Festival had been told to brace for a massive disruption …
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This June has no shortage of potential summer-movie crowd-pleasers, from the return of Pixar‘s unstoppable super-family to a heist packed with famous faces to a cataclysmic meltdown featuring gigantic, genetically-altered dinosaurs. Thankfully, if blockbusters aren’t your bag, you’re also getting a cavalcade of Sundance favorites heading your way, including a …
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On November 28th, 1953, a military scientist named Frank Olson died after falling out the window of his New York hotel room. Did he jump … or was he pushed? That question has consumed the life of his son, Eric. And it’s now the focus of Wormwood, the new four-hour-plus …
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Streaming services like Netflix often tend to work on a model which favors hype following instead of leading – for every Marvel property or proven commodity like Black Mirrorthat’s preceded by a blitz of hype, there are dozens of series that get released with little fanfare, banking on big leaps …
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