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Shawn Mendes: In Wonder (2020)
He’s an international popstar with a crazy life, but he’s still just a normal guy with normal problems. Shawn Mendes’ new documentary film shows exactly this, and not much more. If you are an avid fan of Shawn then the extra content will be welcomed, and as a precursor to his upcoming album ‘Wonder’ (out…
Blackpink: Light Up The Sky (2020)
Blackpink is South Korea’s biggest girl group and this documentary takes a look behind the curtain of sparkling outfits and perfect dance routines to the members themselves and their rise to stardom. They are preparing to record their debut album and they meet with their producer/songwriter Teddy Parks, a former K-pop group member himself. They…
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020)
Delayed by the very pandemic that the nation’s grandfather warned about in his last documentary programme Extinction: The Facts, David Attenborough’s self-professed ‘witness statement’ is an essential watch. Using the familiar beautiful sights of Blue Planet and Planet Earth, along with archive footage of Mr Attenborough’s adventures through the years, he uses his life as a case study for…
I Am Greta (2020)
There from the very beginning, I Am Greta documents climate activist Greta Thunberg’s journey from a lone protest outside of Swedish parliament every Friday to a global movement of school strikes attended by hundreds of thousands of people. In her own words (and native language of Swedish), she tells the story of what drove her to first…
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Cleverly titled to reference the 2010 film The Social Network, this new Netfilx documentary delivers some hard truths 10 years on from the award-winning film. It is an essential watch in this age of disinformation and fake news, and is fantastically timed to all relevant issues of today. It argues that social media is not…
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