cinema Archives - Taylor Holmes inc. https://taylorholmes.com/category/cinema/ Movies, Books & TV for people who like to think.. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:11:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://taylorholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cropped-light-bulb-1-32x32.jpg cinema Archives - Taylor Holmes inc. https://taylorholmes.com/category/cinema/ 32 32 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#15 to #11) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/28/top-100-netflix-documentaries-15-to-11/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/28/top-100-netflix-documentaries-15-to-11/#respond Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33765 Top 15 to 11. Stutz — the highest audience score on the entire list at 97%. Pepsi, Where’s My Jet — pure entertainment. Killer Sally — pure controversy. The variety here is incredible. Magical in every way. You… my new best friend… are welcome. Netflix Documentary #15 — Killer Sally 2022 | Series | Directed by Nanette Burstein 100% from critics but 69% from audiences. A female bodybuilder kills her husband — also a bodybuilder — and the question of […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/28/top-100-netflix-documentaries-15-to-11/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#20 to #16) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/25/top-100-netflix-documentaries-20-to-16/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/25/top-100-netflix-documentaries-20-to-16/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33764 Still at 100%. We’re in the top 20 now. Found. Gone Girls. Elizabeth Smart. The stories are extraordinary and the filmmaking is impeccable. And I HAVENT SEEN A COUPLE OF THESE YET!? So flipping excited. Look at us GOOOoooOOoOoo! Join me in watching these along side me. Starting with #20, Descendant and working my way through to the bottom of the list. Netflix Documentary #20 — Descendant 2022 | Film | Directed by Margaret Brown 100% from critics. The descendants […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/25/top-100-netflix-documentaries-20-to-16/feed/ 0 The End of Oak Street Theories to Explain that Absurd Ending https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/24/the-end-of-oak-street-theories-to-explain-that-absurd-ending/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/24/the-end-of-oak-street-theories-to-explain-that-absurd-ending/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:05:56 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=34069 I’m in desperate need of talking about the movie The End of Oak Street – because, HOLY COW, what just happened here? My Guy Movie Night group went and saw this together, and everyone was saying, this is a great movie to watch in a crowded theater – Frights, Fun, Jump Scares! “It’s like a more mature Spielberg influenced Jurassic Park” I kept hearing before I walked into the theater. Oh? Okay. I’m here for that movie! Let’s Gooooo! But […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/24/the-end-of-oak-street-theories-to-explain-that-absurd-ending/feed/ 2 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#25 to #21) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/21/top-100-netflix-documentaries-25-to-21/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/21/top-100-netflix-documentaries-25-to-21/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33763 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from here on out. Every single doc in the top 25 has a perfect critical score. We start with A Secret Love, Crip Camp, and Daughters. This is the promised land. Netflix Documentary #25 — A Secret Love 2020 | Film | Directed by Chris Bolan 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Two women who’ve been in a secret relationship for nearly 70 years finally come out to their families. Set against the backdrop of the All-American Girls […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/21/top-100-netflix-documentaries-25-to-21/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#30 to #26) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/18/top-100-netflix-documentaries-30-to-26/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/18/top-100-netflix-documentaries-30-to-26/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33762 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. We’re in the top 30, and these docs are nearly flawless according to critics. Apollo 11 is here. So is Will & Harper. Strap in. Netflix Documentary #30 — Apollo 11 2019 | Film | Directed by Todd Douglas Miller 99% from critics with 130 reviews. No narration. No talking heads. Just restored archival footage and audio from the actual Apollo 11 mission, and it is BREATHTAKING. You will feel like you are sitting in Mission […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/18/top-100-netflix-documentaries-30-to-26/feed/ 0 The End of Oak Street is a Fullon Banger https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/16/the-end-of-oak-street-is-a-fullon-banger/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/16/the-end-of-oak-street-is-a-fullon-banger/#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:46:27 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=34052 Okay so I just watched The End of Oak Street and I loved it. Loved it in the way where I walked out already rearranging my week so I could watch it again before writing anything real about it. But here’s my problem: everything I actually want to say about this movie is a spoiler. The whole thing lives and dies on things I am not going to type in this post. I’m doing the full spoiler-heavy breakdown tomorrow, the […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/16/the-end-of-oak-street-is-a-fullon-banger/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#35 to #31) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/14/top-100-netflix-documentaries-35-to-31/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/14/top-100-netflix-documentaries-35-to-31/#respond Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33761 98% on RT. Making a Murderer. Secret Mall Apartment. Wild Wild Country. We are in rarefied air now. These are the docs that defined Netflix’s documentary ambitions. Netflix Documentary #35 — Making a Murderer 2015 | Series | Directed by Laura Ricciardi & Moira Demos 98% from critics and 93% from audiences. Steven Avery spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Then, two years after being exonerated, he was charged with murder. Is the justice system […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/14/top-100-netflix-documentaries-35-to-31/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#40 to #36) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/11/top-100-netflix-documentaries-40-to-36/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/11/top-100-netflix-documentaries-40-to-36/#respond Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33760 The 97% club continues. The Keepers, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Tinder Swindler — plus the My Lai massacre doc and Beyoncé’s Coachella. The range is insane. And you know what? I have a full 2 or 3 days ahead of me because I haven’t seen a single one of these Netflix documentaries yet! HAHA! That is the first time that that has happened since I started doing these posts. And I’m so excited about each one of these. […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/11/top-100-netflix-documentaries-40-to-36/feed/ 0 Full Metal Jacket IMDB Top 250 Challenge https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/09/full-metal-jacket-imdb-top-250-challenge/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/08/09/full-metal-jacket-imdb-top-250-challenge/#respond Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:59:52 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=34037 This is film two of the IMDB Top 250 Challenge, where I let a cryptographically secure random number generator dictate my watch order through all 250 films on the IMDB Top 250 Films list and write up each one as they come. If you missed film one, we opened with Andrei Rublev, so believe me when I say the tonal whiplash of going from a three hour Soviet meditation on faith to Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam is not lost on me. […]

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