Documentaries

[Eoin McLove]

Books I read as a tween:

The series chronicles the adventures of the anthropomorphic animals inhabiting Redwall Abbey and the surrounding countryside of Mossflower Wood, including mice, moles, hares, badgers, and other woodland species. Frequently the peace-loving creatures of Mossflower are called upon to become warriors to defend themselves from marauding bands of "vermin" such as rats, weasels, and foxes.

Sounds like fun!

[Mooncat]

Watched Trainwreck: Astroworld, and Twister: Caught in the Storm.

Astroworld was nowhere near as good as the Trainwreck: Woodstock one, and despite being much shorter still feels way more padded. Travis Scott comes across as a douche, though probably not as much to blame as was originally made out.
Twister starts off a bit slow but once it gets to the actual event some of the footage and descriptions are genuinely harrowing. Was a good Saturday morning hangover watch.


ALso, mentioned in the Tube thread by mistake, but the Oceangate doc was really good. Genuinely lots of interesting stuff to get your teeth into, and a little bit less "American Netflix" style of doc than they usually go for. The tale of one rich guy's absolutely unchecked hubris and his comeuppance. Similar to the Titanic itself. It's some hook!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

About halfway through the new Adam Curtis series Shifty. If you know and dig his formula, you'll dig this too. Certainly the parallels to today, despite not being pointed out at all (like with TraumaZone, there's no narration), couldn't be any clearer. Very enjoyable watching experience anyway, even just the nostalgia factor alone. Also, plenty of stuff about the North so far too.

[OpenSores]

About halfway through the new Adam Curtis series Shifty. If you know and dig his formula, you'll dig this too. Certainly the parallels to today, despite not being pointed out at all (like with TraumaZone, there's no narration), couldn't be any clearer. Very enjoyable watching experience anyway, even just the nostalgia factor alone. Also, plenty of stuff about the North so far too.

Pretty decent watch, I enjoy his format. The wee dude shredding is cool, the air guitar to The Jesus and Mary Chain though 🤨 😁

[John Kimble]

Watched Trainwreck: Astroworld, and Twister: Caught in the Storm.

Astroworld was nowhere near as good as the Trainwreck: Woodstock one, and despite being much shorter still feels way more padded. Travis Scott comes across as a douche, though probably not as much to blame as was originally made out.
Twister starts off a bit slow but once it gets to the actual event some of the footage and descriptions are genuinely harrowing. Was a good Saturday morning hangover watch.


ALso, mentioned in the Tube thread by mistake, but the Oceangate doc was really good. Genuinely lots of interesting stuff to get your teeth into, and a little bit less "American Netflix" style of doc than they usually go for. The tale of one rich guy's absolutely unchecked hubris and his comeuppance. Similar to the Titanic itself. It's some hook!

Yeah, the Astroworld doc wasn't great. Scott didn't come across well, and I suppose it's his name on the event, but there was plenty of others working behind the scene who didn't do their job and were culpable to a greater degree.
Loved the Oceangate doc and it's a classic case of how one person's vision was pursued at all costs. Fascinating stuff. Very little on the actual disaster itself, more on the build up. I have no scientific or engineering background so my opinion counts for nothing here, but it's mad in hindsight how a carbon fibre hull could have been considered suitable for those depths...well, I suppose it wasn't and that was flagged, extensively, but mad the way it fell on deaf ears. Pursue at all costs as I said.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

About halfway through the new Adam Curtis series Shifty. If you know and dig his formula, you'll dig this too. Certainly the parallels to today, despite not being pointed out at all (like with TraumaZone, there's no narration), couldn't be any clearer. Very enjoyable watching experience anyway, even just the nostalgia factor alone. Also, plenty of stuff about the North so far too.

Pretty decent watch, I enjoy his format. The wee dude shredding is cool, the air guitar to The Jesus and Mary Chain though 🤨 😁

Haha, yeah, there was some absolutely classic archive footage in there alright.

[Carnage]

Watched the Titan submarine one on Netflix yesterday. Yer man was a right prick by all accounts, hubris and arrogance was what killed him and his passengers.

Also watch the three-parter on Fred & Rose West. No new information really but it was fascinating hearing him talk about it all, and going from protecting and then turning on her after she snubbed him.

[Carnage]

About halfway through the new Adam Curtis series Shifty. If you know and dig his formula, you'll dig this too. Certainly the parallels to today, despite not being pointed out at all (like with TraumaZone, there's no narration), couldn't be any clearer. Very enjoyable watching experience anyway, even just the nostalgia factor alone. Also, plenty of stuff about the North so far too.

Curtis talking about it here on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast:

I have it lined up, I really enjoyed Traumazone.

[Emphyrio]

Also watch the three-parter on Fred & Rose West. No new information really but it was fascinating hearing him talk about it all, and going from protecting and then turning on her after she snubbed him.

Ya, enjoyed that too.

[open face surgery]

Watched both the Titan one and the Fred and Rose West ones as well. Enjoyed both. Titan fella was a psycho.
Fred and Rose West were misunderstood  The kill count is no doubt a hell of a lot more than documented.

Watched the Myra Hindley and Ian Bailey docuseries, See No Evil, on Netflix as well. Grand watch as well. Didn't realise that the video of Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly, that I've seen a few times, was footage taken from it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

This won the News Emmy Award for Outstanding Video Journalism this week. Video embedded in article, originally published in April 2024.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/the-hidden-war-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank/