documentaries

The Berkeley Forum hosted a Fireside Chat with filmmaker and Buzzfeed executive video producer Aria Inthavong on Feb. 16. Open to the Berkeley community, the event took place at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library gathering an audience of 25 individuals. 

Beyond candy and parties, if you’ve decided to take a rain check and stay home this year, consider binging these true-crime documentaries this weekend. 

These days, when you click on the Animal Planet channel, all you see are people.

If you remember, “Blackfish” was about an orca named Tilikum who was a SeaWorld attraction for many years and allegedly mauled several people to death. Very nice stuff for casual watching.

With dead week here, we should all be studying. But the likelihood that that is what we will be doing every moment of the next week is very slim, and thus, UC Berkeley students will be looking for some other activities to fill dead week with.

Even for an institution as terminally sanitized as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group’s newly announced changes to its telecast read as its deepest kowtow yet.