The recent Netflix true crime documentary “What Jennifer Did” is mediocre in almost every way, but nefariously unethical in another. The 90-minute streaming doc concerns the tragic story of the Pan family. In 2010, Jennifer Pan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese Canadian woman living with her family near Toronto, arranged to have her parents killed. An orchestrated home invasion was carried out by three acquaintances after Jennifer signaled for them to enter the home with her bedroom light and unlocked...
It was back in 2021 when Disney+ released Peter Jackson’s docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, and now Disney is ready to put the spotlight on a band that was considered the rival of the Beatles at around the same time—and no, they’re not the Rolling Stones. Here’s the first trailer
NEWS BRIEF: Netflix is set to debut a new documentary series this summer, America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, produced by One Potato Productions and Boardwalk Pictures in association with Campfire Studios.
In light of Manchester United's present difficulties, supporters may take solace in nostalgia thanks to a new documentary series. It will examine the club's most successful season in their club's history. The 1998-99 season was historic for Alex Ferguson's squad, as they swept the domestic leagues and the cup. For over 20 years, this achievement In light of Manchester United’s present difficulties, supporters may take solace in nostalgia thanks to a new documentary series. It will examine the...
Fans of documentaries and The Beach Boys are about to get the best of both worlds. On May 24th Disney+ will bring us Frank Marshall and Thom Zimny’s The Beach Boys.The...
It has been hard to find physical copies of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be in the years since its theatrical release, but Disney Plus is getting ready to debut a remastered version of the film. Disney Plus announced today that Let It Be — a chronicle of the Beatles recording their Let It Be album in 1969 before breaking up the following year — will stream on May 8th. Like the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, Let It Be will feature original film footage...
Many of the food industry’s problems can perhaps be summed up by the humble buttered-popcorn jelly bean. Love or hate this sweet treat, its 1989 introduction was a chewy harbinger of food scientists’ ability to make any food taste like any other food. If a sugary candy could send savory signals to the brain, what else was possible? A lot, it turns out. Flavor technology has evolved rapidly in recent years. Forget about candy that smacks of toasty popcorn; lab-grown meat is now practically...
Steve Martin has had one of those careers that would make many a flash-in-the-pan entertainer jealous. Stand-up comedy, film stardom, music success, literary acclaim, and television fame — you name it, and Martin has probably done it. His eclectic career turned into a recipe for longevity.
Over 5 years, more than 60 interviews were conducted, with prominent local figures including Joel "Baldy" Abuakehau, Cy Bridges, Wally Camp, Henry Kapono, Brook Lee, Victor Foniomoana, and Gen. Kenneth Hara.
Influential documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, who used her art as social activism to illuminate the struggles of the working class, has died. The Mexico native, who made "The Devil Never Sleeps" in 1994, and received an Oscar-nomination for her 1985 film, "The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo," died Saturday morning at her home in San Francisco, according to her friend and fellow filmmaker Soco Aguilar. Portillo, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer several months ago, was 80. "She...
Netflix using generative AI images in a true crime doc is extremely irresponsible and exactly what archivists are telling documentaries not to do https://t.co/tC3L8tX0qE— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg) April 18, 2024 Netflix has used what appears to be AI-generated or manipulated images in a recent documentary about a 2010 murder-for-hire plot involving a woman named Jennifer Pan.According to the source, "the images that appear around the 28-minute mark of Netflix's "What Jennifer Did," have...
This revelation poses significant questions about the ethical boundaries of using such visuals in documentaries, particularly given the depicted individual's ongoing imprisonment awaiting retrial.