‘Game of Thrones’ announces behind-the-scenes doc to air week after finale

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Those tight-lipped Game of Thrones creators are finally ready to spill their secrets.

Announced today by HBO, Game of Thrones: The Last Watch is an upcoming documentary that aims to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Season 8, produced by the people behind it — and the rest of the monumentally successful series.

Set to air on May 26, a week after Thrones‘ final episode, The Last Watch will capture in just two hours what it was like for the cast and crew of the series to bring the 8-year franchise (and all of on-screen Westeros) to an end.

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‘The Inventor’ is a monster movie. Elizabeth Holmes is its star.

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“She didn’t blink.” 

It’s a peculiar observation, but when ex-Theranos receptionist Cheryl Gafner makes it, it’s hard to shake — Elizabeth Holmes, the fraudster behind the now defunct blood testing company Theranos, doesn’t blink. 

Or at least when she does blink, it is done with purpose, a cool and calculating gesture that accompanies a specific word or phrase. To Holmes, blinks are seemingly for conveying sincerity and establishing trust, not an involuntary response to, y’know, having eyeballs.

It’s an unsettling behavior to witness, particularly when put in the context of Holmes’ dangerous multi-million dollar fraud. But gaining awareness of creepy details like this one is an essential part of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley viewing experience.  Read more…

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Unnerving ‘Leaving Neverland’ trailer looks at the darkest allegations against Michael Jackson

The trailer for Leaving Neverland has arrived, giving a dramatic glimpse at the documentary about two men who allege that they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were children.
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Netflix’s ‘Ted Bundy Tapes’ makes you sit with the man behind the monster

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Modern celebrity serial killer culture arguably started with Ted Bundy, a man known for his normcore good looks, charisma, and brutal rape and murder of at least thirty women in the 70s.

In the new four-part Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, true-crime aficionados get to hear excerpts from never-before-released interviews with Bundy while he was on death row. 

Ted Bundy is known as the mild-mannered guy you could easily find yourself enjoying a beer with — before realizing he’s describing the location of his victims’ decapitated bodies. In the upcoming Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile film, the notorious murderer will be played by none other than Zac Effron. That’s not playing against type, either, since Effron easily fits Bundy’s persona as the nice guy with an aw schucks kind of handsomeness.  Read more…

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Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary is even more disturbing than we had imagined

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“Desperate people do desperate things.”

Whether you witnessed that flood of orange tiles on Instagram or saw the toast and cheese pic that lit up Twitter, most social media users remember the infamous fail that was the 2017 Fyre Festival. Netflix’s new documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, is clueing everyone else in on the drama—and giving those of us who thought we knew all of the debacle’s hairy details even more to gasp over. 

Directed by Chris Smith of Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Fyre unpacks the disastrous behind-the-scenes realities of the scam orchestrated by entrepreneur-turned-felon Billy McFarland. What was initially promoted by supermodels, influencers, and rapper Ja Rule as a luxury concert experience in the Bahamas was soon revealed to be a multi-million dollar swindle that left numerous investors defrauded and hundreds of wannabe attendees stranded in a bleak wreckage site thousands of miles from home.  Read more…

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Their house in London broke them up. So they bought a boat and brought up two kids on it. — Mashable Originals

Katy and Tom bought a boat 12 years ago. Today, they still live on that boat, which is fit with a secret bookcase passage and a large garden overlooking a field of wild horses. Oh, and they have two kids who have lived on the boat all their lives.&#1…

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‘The Cleaners’ shows the terrors human content moderators face at work

“Out of sight, out of mind” doesn’t work when cleaning out the darkest corners of social media platforms. 
That’s what the documentary The Cleaners, which airs Monday night on PBS, reveals about content moderators in the Philippines who are rele…

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There are too many legendary stars to count in Netflix’s ‘Quincy’ documentary trailer

Quincy Jones has too many awards, accolades, and accomplishments to list.
And the legendary musician and film producer’s upcoming Netflix documentary, directed by his own daughter Rashida Jones, features almost as many stars. 
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