‘Lion’ Is National Geographic’s Breathtaking, Irresistible Wildlife Epic
There are wildlife documentaries that educate you about animals, and then there are wildlife documentaries that make you emotionally invest in one. National Geographic’s Lion does the latter — spectacularly. The four-part series follows Kio, a lion born in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, from a vulnerable little cub into a powerful young male fighting for the chance to establish his own kingdom. Filmed over more than four years and nearly 1,400...
‘Balls Up’ Contending for the World Cup of Comedy
Put Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser and Molly Shannon together and what do you get? A very fun and funny feature romp now streaming on Prime, Balls Up. It’s the kind of chaotic, big-swing comedy that’s broad, unapologetically ridiculous, and surprisingly sharp when it wants to be. The film leans hard into its absurd premise of a condom company trying to become an official World Cup sponsor and is largely set in Brazil....
Step Into Eddie Murphy’s “Convertible” Home in Netflix’s Revealing New Documentary
If you’ve ever wondered what it might feel like to sit across from Eddie Murphy at a dinner table — really sit with him, not just watch him launch into one of his famous riffs — the new Netflix documentary Being Eddie is probably the closest you’ll ever get. Taking place in his sprawling palace of a home with a retractable roof—whose concept he copied from Cher’s home–it’s warm, funny, surprisingly reflective, and packed with...
‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps:’ Not So Fantastic
It was one weekend into the theatrical run and there came an opportunity to see this well-reviewed film at an industry screening. And now it’s apparent that there are no legs for The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Box office plunged 66% from its opening weekend. It was easy to see why. The film started off strong enough with Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby playing a married couple in their super swanky ultramodern abode when she finds...
‘Wild Beauty’ Documentary Exposes the Mistreatment of Wild Horses in the West
Majestic scenes of wild horses roaming free on the range loom large in the American imagination. Yet what many people do not realize is that the federal government regularly rounds up these beautiful animals because it says they are overpopulated on literally nearly 30 million acres of land in the West. Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West, a new feature-length documentary, chronicles the plight of these wild horses across remote,...
Follow The Atkin Report
