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Wall Street Bets, the Reddit hub of memes and financial advice responsible for fueling the GME surge was so initially anti-GameStop that early investors like Farris Husseini — an Alabama data visualizer — were banned from posting about the company because it annoyed so many users. “GameStop was hated among gamers, like hated,” Jeff Tarzia, a former video game tester and one of the stock’s few early supporters, says in the documentary.

debuted at Sundance this week, unravels Lee’s bizarre story with actor Alan Cumming sitting in for the man himself by lip-syncing to Lee’s narration (Lee agreed to tell his story, but didn’t want to appear on camera). Director Jono McLeod, who knew Lee as a fellow student, tells the tale via interviews with his now-50-something classmates, animated sequences and snippets of old video. Cumming, who was originally attached to star in a now-defunct feature adaptation of the story, remembers the saga as a news bombshell in Scotland.

deal with his drug problems.“I wanted to be able to stand on my own feet,” the 55-year-old pop superstar reveals in the two-part documentary “Janet,” which airs on Lifetime Friday and Saturday. “And at that time I thought that there was no other way I would be able to kind of get my own life — unless I got married.”The two met when the sibling group DeBarge made its debut on “Soul Train” while Jackson was there with sister LaToya and brother Jermaine. And the shy sweethearts bonded over both coming from musical families while talking on the phone.“I started dating him when I was 16,” Jackson says.

poisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. Called “Navalny,” it’s a no-holds-barred indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, and insists that Navalny’s close brush with death was the result of a secret state-run operation to assassinate him.“As I became more and more famous guy, I was totally sure that my life became safer and safer because I am kind of famous guy — and it will be problematic for them just to kill me,” Navalny, 45, says in the film. “I was very wrong.” The doc, heading to HBO Max, was added at the last minute to the Sundance slate just as Putin had stationed more than 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian border.

years of living in her brother Michael’s shadow.“Janet” chronicles the life of the 55-year-old pop star in the doc that airs this Friday, January 28 on A&E and Lifetime — and revealed a darker side to her relationship with her icon brother.“There were times when Mike used to tease me and call me names. Pig, horse, slut, or hog, cow,” Jackson said.“He would laugh about it, and I’d laugh too, but then there was some­where down inside that it would hurt,” she continued.

10-part A&E documentary, “Secrets of Playboy.”The series, premiering Monday at 9 p.m., will pull back the curtain on the organization and its founder with accusations of predatory practices.Ahead of the debut, the brand released an open letter that condemned “abhorrent” actions of the late magazine publisher and promised to make “positive changes.” “First and foremost, we want to say: we trust and validate women and their stories, and we strongly support the individuals who have come forward to share their experiences,” the letter began. “As a brand with sex positivity at its core, we believe safety, security and accountability are paramount, and anything less is inexcusable.”The documentary will unfurl shocking allegations about cultlike hedonism that surrounded Hefner and reportedly involved drugs, orgies, sexual assault — and even bestiality.

Muhammad bin Nayef Counseling and Care Center was founded by its namesake Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, as a pillar of Saudi Arabia’s new method for dealing with terrorism. Once released from Guantanamo Bay, prisoners — not unlike American convicts — tend to relapse back to their old, destructive behaviors.

, a New Jersey-based toy expert featured on the show.“People know what a Slinky is, and to really put a historical backstory behind a lot of these is to educate consumers about the history of their childhood.” Through re-enactments, the show reveals how the Slinky originated in the 1940s, when Naval engineer Richard James was tasked with creating a device to stabilize sensitive equipment that was being transported through rough seas during World War II. “These cargo ships were traveling across

That’s why he was the “King of Cool” — he marched to his own drummer, eschewed the high-profile celebrity lifestyle and could tell Frank Sinatra off without caring about the repercussions.

“Lost City of the Monkey God,” which airs Oct.

Netflix lately, as the horror thriller “Squid Game” continues to dominate viewership. A new docuseries aims to ride that wave with its sensationalistic subject matter.

“Introducing, Selma Blair” starts on an unexpectedly hilarious note. The 49-year-old actress, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) a few years ago, makes joke after joke as she applies her makeup.“Kim Kardashian sent me some makeup.

one of her generation’s most promising young stars, with memorable turns in films such as “Clueless” and “Girl, Interrupted,” to one of Hollywood’s darkest tragedies.In the documentary, reporter Amber Ryland recalls getting an exclusive interview with Monjack shortly after Murphy’s death. “It was in the back of my mind, ‘Am I sitting with a murderer?’” she says.

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association made the landmark decision to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental disorders. It had classified same-sex attraction as a “sociopathic personality disturbance” in its first edition, which was published in 1952.

Myron Dewey was a documentary filmmaker who covered the protests at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, including directing “Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock.”Dewey was the founder of the production company Digital Smoke Signals. He took acclaimed and widely viewed footage of the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, running near Standing Rock.

“Pharma Bro,” available on demand on Oct. 5.“He thinks that it [the goading] is fun,” she adds.Brent Hodge, the film’s director, told The Post that his interest in Shkreli was sparked by damning headlines published in September 2015.

Netflix documentary “Britney vs Spears” sheds new light on the “Toxic” pop icon’s ongoing fight for freedom. Britney Spears, 39, has been living under a conservatorship since 2008. The “Circus” headliner hasn’t had control over her financial or personal life, because it’s in the hands of a team led by her father, Jamie Spears. Everything from her access to her children to her ability to spontaneously go out for lunch has been in her 69-year-old dad’s well-compensated hands.

announced the news Tuesday, writing, “It’s official. We’re starting production on my official documentary.

HBO Max. Growing up in the 1980s, Russo-Young had what felt like a conventional New York City childhood: two parents and a sister growing up in a downtown apartment.The only difference? Russo-Young, now 40, had two moms, Robin Young and Sandy Russo.At the time, “being gay meant that you were not going to have children,” Young says in the film.

released a full-length trailer on Wednesday for the new documentary, which drops Sept. 28.“It’s been 13 years and it’s enough,” Spears’ voice can be heard saying in the teaser.The film is directed by Erin Lee Carr and has been in the works for 18 months, though being released after the FX documentary “Framing Britney Spears.”“This is a two-and-a-half years-long investigative process into the conservatorship,” Carr told the Los Angeles Times.

went on to become the enduring and iconic face of the on-screen monster in popular culture.Karloff, who was a struggling actor before that, liked to tell the story of the encounter that changed his life. While waiting in the rain for a bus in Hollywood, he was offered a ride home by a fellow actor — Lon Chaney, celebrated for chilling performances in silent films like “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1923) and “The Phantom of the Opera” (1925).

2021 Toronto International Film Festival.“I agreed to participate in a piece about the celebration of ‘Jagged Little Pill’’s 25th anniversary, and was interviewed during a very vulnerable time (while in the midst of my third postpartum depression during lockdown),” the Canadian singer said hours before the debut screening at TIFF.“I was lulled into a false sense of security and their salacious agenda became apparent immediately upon my seeing the first cut of the film.

about being sexually taken advantage of by unnamed figures in the music industry when she was a teenager. The film is otherwise celebratory and innocuous.‘They’re all pedophiles.

HBO Max first to confirm a docu-series.Campfire Studios confirmed to The Post on Friday it has been commissioned to produce a “multi-part doc series” for the streaming giant.The series “will investigate the mysterious, still-unraveling events” that started in June, when then-powerful lawyer Alex Murdaugh found his wife and 22-year-old son shot dead near their weekend hunting lodge in Islandton, the production company said.Now “national networks, Hollywood production companies and global

being groped by the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood” author on a couch. “He was playing the aging queen.”“Truman was lazy,” said Italian heiress Marella Agnelli, one of the circle of socialites known as Capote’s “swans” — including Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Lee Radziwill, C.Z.

revered rock ‘n’ rollers the Velvet Underground released its first trailer on Monday. The eponymously named flick, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes (“Far From Heaven,” “Carol”), features in-depth interviews with “key players” from the group’s 1960s and ’70s heyday, as well as “never-before-seen performances and a rich collection of recordings, Andy Warhol films and other experimental art,” promises a press release. The film will be released in conjunction with a digital and

after he was slammed for including remarks from conspiracy theorists.“I’m Back In The Editing Room And Looking At The Eighth And Final Chapter Of NYC EPICENTERS 9/11➔2021½,” Lee said in a Wednesday statement, The Wrap reported. “I Respectfully Ask You To Hold Your Judgement Until You See The FINAL CUT.

new Netflix documentary “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed,” streaming Friday, explores Ross’ innocent showbiz beginnings, unexpected rise to fame and the people around him who wished to cash in on his gifts.In the 1960s, Ross was a member of the Air Force, and was stationed in Alaska with his first wife Vicky and young son Steve. It was in the “Last Frontier” where he became passionate about nature.“Bob loved the forest, the animals, the trees,” Vicky says in the documentary.

controversial filmmaker is dropping bombshell statements about 9/11 conspiracy theories while on the promotion trail for his new HBO documentary series, “New York Epicenters: 9/11-2021½.”The“Do the Right Thing” director has now admitted that he doesn’t buy into “official explanations” of the terrorist attacks that devastated the world on September 11, 2001, while speaking with the New York Times on Monday.In addition to the usual talking heads — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep.

according to an interview with The New Yorker. Neville pored over hundreds of hours of footage of Bourdain to stitch together voice-overs for the film, which hits theaters Friday, he told the outlet.When he couldn’t find an existing narration to match an email he wanted read in the film, he made it up, according to the report.“There were three quotes there I wanted his voice for that there were no recordings of,” Neville reportedly said.

“Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” in theaters Friday. “One minute I was standing next to a deep fryer.

Poo told IndieWire.“It was gold, like a treasure trove you’re lucky to come across in your career,” Poo added.The documentary provides a first-person account of the actor’s rise to Hollywood star, followed by a bumpy next few years. Shots are taken from his early years as an up-and-coming actor, his conflict-laden acting career in which he details his creative vision and his tragic battle with throat cancer.In 2017, Kilmer confirmed that he had cancer after months of denying he was sick.

was a “Little Red-Haired Girl” — her name was Donna and she was Schulz’s big boyhood crush (he was distraught when she married someone else).Schulz, who never took a vacation or missed a deadline, continued to do all the work on “Peanuts” himself, even after having heart surgery in 1981, when his post-surgical shaky writing and drawing was simply incorporated into the comic strip without missing a beat.

Disney+. According to Disney, the documentary’s two-hour installments will feature a “wealth of tremendous footage Peter Jackson has reviewed, which he has spent the past three years restoring and editing.”The documentary transports audiences to the band’s intimate recording sessions during the 1960s.

Dave Chappelle catchphrase is exactly the kind of emphatic statement that the late “Super Freak” funkster made in one encounter revealed by his former manager Kerry Gordy in the new documentary “Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James,” which premiered Tuesday night at the TriBeCa Film Festival and will be available to stream on TriBeCa at Home beginning at 6 p.m.

the Holocaust, interviewed several former Nazis about their memories of the murderous Third Reich. It took him 10 years to track his elderly subjects down and capture them on film.