By Gregory Crofton If you grew up in the Northeast in the 80s, and you haven’t heard about the HBO documentary “Class Action Park,” you should be sure to check it out. I lived in Connecticut and was six years…
‘The Crime of the Century’ Shows How FDA Approved Language Led to Our Opioid Epidemic
By Gregory Crofton Opioid abuse has America in a death grip, and it’s been that way for decades. Why have we been so slow to respond to this massive public health problem? Money is the shortest answer. But Oscar-winning (Taxi…
Things Not Included in the HBO Doc Series: ‘Allen v. Farrow’ Part Two
Award-winning filmmakers Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick and Amy Herdy go deeper inside Part Two of the HBO Original “Allen v. Farrow” and examine Mia Farrow as a mother and the controlling nature of Woody Allen’s relationship with her. In addition,…
Director Alex Gibney on how Theranos Fooled Silicon Valley
HBO’s documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” looks at the case of Elizabeth Holmes. She created the company Theranos, which promised to revolutionize the field of blood-testing. The company swiftly rose to be valued at billions of…
Pure Nonfiction Podcast: Inside “The Case Against Adnan Syed” on HBO
Serial, the podcast, won millions of listeners to the story of the 1999 Baltimore murder of Hae Min Lee that sent her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed to prison. Now the case is re-opened by private investigators in a new 4-part series…
‘THE DEFIANT ONES’ is an Epic Docuseries on Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Too Good to Miss
Interscope Records was home to Dr. DRE and Jimmy Iovine. Together they defined 90s popular music. By Gregory Crofton I was late in seeing “THE DEFIANT ONES,” a four-part docuseries (2017) directed by Allen Hughes (AMERICAN PIMP, MENACE II SOCIETY)…