Netflix’s Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal is an odd film. It’s part documentary, part docu-drama, and all absolutely infuriating. Director Chris Smith uses interviews and dramatic recreations to tell the story of the great College Admissions Scandal of 2019 in which elite members of the business, law, and entertainment communities used the “consulting…
It’s not a movie… BUT! It has all the plotting, pathos, twists and turns, backstabbing, and WTH surprises that only a Hollywood motion picture would have! In this seven-part Netflix docu-series, which is sweeping the country and creating quite a stir in its wake, we are witness to some of the worse people who ever…
The Worst Show on the Web enters its second decade of coverage of the SFFILM Festival with our attendance at their 62nd Annual Film Festival. What used to be known as the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) is running now through April 23 at a variety of venues in the Bay Area. My day…
Fresh of the heels of his real-life hero movie, Sully, about Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, Clint Eastwood decided to add another real-life hero tale to his film roster, but this time using the actual people involved in the historical event, not actors. A fantastic idea or sheer lunacy? * * The 15:17 to Paris: The True…
Combine This Is Spinal Tap, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, throw in a some Amy Schumer wild humor, and top it off with a dozen or more SNL actors, and you have this very wrong send-up mockumentary of the rise and fall of a highly successful white rapper named Conner Friel, aka Conner…
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