Days before the 2015 US Open tournament where a win would place Serena Williams at a tie for most Grand Slam wins by a tennis player, the new EPIX original documentary, Serena, captures her trying to sound nonchalant about the feat ahead.
Paris Hilton, whose middle name is “I’m actually really shy,” would like for the world to know more things about her via a documentary about herself that, for the record, will be 100 percent real and 100 percent “unflinching.”
An official Whitney Houston documentary is in the works under the same umbrella as last year’s popular Amy Winehouse film, Amy.
After Anthony Weiner fell dramatically from grace thanks to his “Carlos Danger” shenanigans, he tried his damnedest to mount a comeback via the 2013 New York City mayoral race. That blew up when news broke of still more sexting allegations. And we’ll soon get to see the documentary that promises an intimate, front-row…
“I love a red carpet,” 26-year-old Star giggled excitedly in Chelsea’s Bowtie Cinema last Saturday night. She was wearing a shiny, yellow A-line dress with flowers printed on it, and high-heeled gladiator sandals. In her D.C. accent, she drew out the next sentence so as to luxuriate in it. “I love to be seeeeeeeeeeen.”
Despite our fascination with the lives of people who have been deemed societally “important” because of accomplishments, fame and riches, the nitty-gritty of how and why we know what we know about them often gets swept under the rug. Vanessa Gould’s documentary Obit, which just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival,…
The trailer for an upcoming propaganda film about how misunderstood Chris Brown is entitled Welcome to My Life has been released, and it’s two and a half minutes of carefully edited footage that will probably do wonders convincing you not to see Welcome to My Life.
The filmmaker behind Kurt & Courtney, the conspiratorial 1998 doc about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, is releasing a documentary about Whitney Houston that will likely revolve around her drug battles.
On Sunday night, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. This was notable for several reasons: Obaid-Chinoy already won in 2012 for her movie Saving Face, about Pakistani women who are the victims of acid attacks, becoming the first…
Honestly, if Vogue wants to keep filming documentaries about itself, that is totally fine with me—especially since the trailer for The First Monday in May, a documentary about last year’s Met Ball, portends another juicy, stressful behind-the-scenes saga a la The September Issue.
Real estate heir and unsettlingly-faced man Robert Durst has pleaded guilty in New Orleans to illegal possession of a firearm. He’ll serve 85 months in federal prison, and will be transferred by the summer to Los Angeles to likely stand trial on charges of murdering his friend and confidante Susan Berman.
If your heart belongs to coal miner’s daughter Loretta Lynn, then you’ll want to mark your calendar for March 4, 2016. For on that happy day, PBS premieres Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl — a new installment in its American Masters documentary series.
When Netflix announced in 2014 they were teaming up with Chelsea Handler, newly departed from E! after seven years doing her late-night talk show Chelsea Lately, it was generally assumed her new show would be something that bore a passing resemblance to her old one; the company said that with Handler, they would be…
In 2014, the BBC aired a one-hour documentary on Kate Bush that we failed to report on. For this Kate Bush oversight, we deeply apologize.
In June, Slate columnist Emily Yoffe published a bombshell: an article titled “How The Hunting Ground Blurs the Truth,” in which she claimed that the campus rape documentary, which premiered earlier this year, had presented a misleading picture of one of its central stories. Yoffe wrote that the case perfectly…
The Golden Girls were three widows and one divorcée who shared a home in Miami, Florida from 1985 until 1992, when the divorcée married Leslie Nielsen. But before the wedding of the decade, the girls filled seven years of social calendars with date after date—and this was decades before Tinder.
“There’s a moment when you have to choose whether to be silent or to stand up,” Malala Yousafzai says in the trailer for He Named Me Malala, the upcoming documentary about her life. The Pakistani activist turned 18 just last month, but already counts a Nobel Peace Prize among her accomplishments.
Anyone who even has a cursory interest in Southern hip-hop culture knows that for decades, Atlanta’s Magic City “Adult Entertainment Nightclub” has been its fulcrum—so important in breaking and predicting hit records that superstars would rather service their tracks to its DJs than anyone at radio.
The question at the center of Asif Kapadia’s new documentary Amy is: Can gossip foster compassion? Throughout the sensitive, 128-minute probe into the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, we see footage of (and presumably shot by) the paparazzi that plagued her, the performances that defined part of her career,…
What Happened, Miss Simone?, which premieres on Netflix this Friday, is a masterpiece. Directed by Oscar-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus, whose storytelling skills are uniquely sensitive to the complicated tales of women and men grappling with fame and internal demons, it presents Nina Simone unlike we’ve ever seen…
