A feature film documentary about the life of Jimi Hendrix is on the way. On Friday, the film’s producers announced that Bao Nguyen, the director behind The Greatest Night in Pop, will direct the upcoming film, Jimi. “Telling the story of Jimi Hendrix during his pivotal years in London is …
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will take fans behind-the-scenes of their recent tour in the upcoming documentary Road Diary, arriving on Hulu and Disney+ this fall. “Our new film Road Diary will take you on a journey through behind-the-scenes and rehearsals, to shows that we performed all around …
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A new documentary series on the controversial former WWE head Vince McMahon is coming to Netflix in September, the streaming service announced Thursday. Mr. McMahon, set to release on Sept. 25, focuses on McMahon’s rise and fall as the founder of the WWE, and features interviews with him from before …
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A documentary about the pioneering garage rock band the Sonics is finally set for wide release next month, over five years after Boom burst onto the film festival circuit. Later name-checked by artists like Kurt Cobain and LCD Soundsystem (who immortalized the Sonics on “Losing My Edge”), the core members …
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At a TED talk in 2012, Angela Patton, the CEO of the nonprofit organization Girls for Change, told a story. She was running a summer immersion program in Richmond, Virginia, called Camp Diva. Patton asked the dozen or so attendees if there was something the camp could do to foster …
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Demi Lovato is looking back at the trauma associated with her time on screen as a child. Ahead of the release of her documentary Child Star, Lovato appeared on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter to talk about her experience in the public eye and said she felt a heavy …
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Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., Jamila Wignot’s four-part HBO documentary about the legendary Memphis record label that produced Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and others, offers incredible first-person stories. At one point, Booker T. Jones sits at a piano and shows exactly how he stumbled on the chords that became the 1962 chart-topper …
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Rivaling docu-series about the 2002 murder of Laci Peterson hopes to tell the complete story of the much-discussed case. Just a week after Peacock announced it will interview Scott Peterson for Face to Face, Netflix announced Tuesday that it will release a docu-series of its own, American Murder: Laci Peterson, …
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The man standing at the podium has the steady, stentorian voice of an authority figure, someone who issues orders and expects them to be heeded without question, and the look of a zealot in his eyes. “My fellow Americans,” he intones, betraying a slightly Southern lilt gilded by fire and …
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Martin Scorsese is recognized as a champion of cinema, a man who’s dedicated his life to preserving the seventh art, the former model for the single most 1970s beard ever and our greatest living American filmmaker. What folks usually forget to mention is that the 81-year-old director is also our …
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