Could the Bulls Have Won a 7th Championship?
What time is it?! It is the finale of The Last Dance 30 for 30 documentary. While the previous 4 episodes focused more on Michael Jordan, the final episodes concluded the 1997 and 1998 championship...
View ArticleWhat to Expect From Long Gone Summer 30 for 30 Documentary
Another ESPN 30 for 30 documentary covering Chicago sports from 1998? Count me in. The Last Dance was a ratings hit during a time with no sports. You can check out my thoughts on The Last Dance here....
View ArticleLong Gone Summer Glorifies the Return of Baseball
Baseball was back in business baby! Long Gone Summer, directed by AJ Schnack, relives the magic of the 1998 MLB season. As current day baseball can relate, fans had turned their back on the league...
View ArticleNetflix Documentary Rising Phoenix: The Power Of The Paralympics
Rising Phoenix is a new Netflix documentary, available now, from directors Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui, and chronicles the rising popularity of the Paralympic movement. They deliver insight into the...
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Are Our Hearts Still Touched by Fire?: A Reevaluation of Ken Burns’s The...
I have always been obsessive about history. I love the feeling I get when I learn about how people lived in the past—the stories, the lives and loves, the political intrigues. Despite this love, I was...
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Little Molded Figures, Big Dreams, and Bigger Grudges: Netflix’s The Toys...
‘Little Molded Figures, Big Dreams, and Bigger Grudges: Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us’ is also available in audio-visual format on the 25YL YouTube channel In late December of 2017 a little series...
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Bad Faith — Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults (and Me)
It’s like something out of a science fiction story, but it’s cold, brutal truth. The Heaven’s Gate cult came to an abrupt, quiet stop in late March of 1997 with a uniformed, well-documented mass...
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Netflix’s Naomi Osaka: A Partial Look at an Enigmatic Champion
Naomi Osaka, the three-part Garrett Bradley-directed docuseries recently released on Netflix, should offer a compelling study. After all, its subject is a four-time Grand Slam champion, a lock for the...
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From Let It Be to The Beatles: Get Back
More than fifty years after their breakup, The Beatles can still entice and enthrall. Peter Jackson’s new documentary project, a minor miracle of restorative editing, proves just that, presenting the...
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George’s Winter of Discontent in The Beatles: Get Back
As Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back opens, a bit of nondiegetic text reminds viewers of the scope of his project before addressing that of the Beatles’. “The ‘Get Back’ project in January 1969,”...
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