#documentaries

#documentaries

Barcelona will shut down the television channel Barca TV at the end of the season, the club said in a statement on Thursday.Sources told ESPN the cost-cutting act was related to making savings across the board to free up money to invest in the playing squad, although Barca did not give any official reasons for the closure.

In 2016, Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity party.Two passersby saw the nineteen-year-old freshman thrusting upon an immobile, partially unclothed woman, next to a dumpster, and restrained him while they called the police.

In the decades since Jimmy Carter left the White House, there have been many reconsiderations of the former President's legacy.Among the more unexpected of these is "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President," a documentary released in 2020, which chronicles Carter's overlooked relationship not only with rock and roll but also with country, jazz, folk, and other genres.

The star, who's been a lightning rod for attention since she was a child, on how she has survived controversy and life in the public eye.The more you learn about Brooke Shields's life, the more you marvel at how well-adjusted she must be to have got through it all in one piece.Born in 1965, Shields began modelling during infancy, and she has lived in the public eye-as a totem of American girlhood, as a paragon of beauty, as a lightning rod-ever since.

In the winter of 1969, at fifty-two years old and after decades of revolutionizing the way we hear notes and silence, the jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk was invited to record a conversation and solo session for French television.As the outtakes of the program reveal, the occasion quickly devolved into a probe of Monk's carefully protected private life.

Channing Tatum, left, and Salma Hayek Pinault in "Magic Mike's Last Dance."(Warner Bros. Pictures) StarOutline StarOutline (1.5 stars) "Magic Mike's Last Dance," a mostly flat, flavorless cocktail of a sequel that tries to replicate the fizz of the 2012 original by stirring together elements of a getting-her-groove-back love story with music-video-style production numbers, lessons in female empowerment delivered with all the subtlety of a TED Talk and the kind of let's-put-on-a-show energy that went out of style in 1940, has - despite those flaws - its moments.

The premise of Alain Gomis's "Rewind & Play" is as exciting as the film itself.While doing research for a fictional film about Thelonious Monk, Gomis gained access to the rushes-the unedited raw footage, including outtakes-for a documentary about Monk that had been made for French television.

MLB's streaming service, MLB.TV, launched this week for the 2023 season with a brand new feature, giving subscribers access to Minor League Baseball games.MLB.TV subscribers can watch more than 7,000 games for affiliates of all 30 MLB organizations, including all 60 Triple-A and Double-A teams, as well as home games from more than 40 additional clubs and select postseason games through the First Pitch app.

In a recent memoir, the actor Matthew Perry, of "Friends," reveals that his parents spent the hours before his birth playing the board game Monopoly.It was an unhappy marriage, Perry writes, and they divorced when he was a baby.Monopoly probably wasn't responsible, but it can't have helped.