When the two-part documentary Phoenix Rising aired on HBO on March 15th and 16th 2022, I saw it and immediately wrote my review of part two, having already written my review of part one when I saw its premiere at Sundance over a month earlier. I didn't have much time to process it at the time, because it has a lot of information, and with limited space to write about it in a limited time, there was only so much you could address. After watching the documentary about 3 or 4 times, I realized I could easily write a book with all I had to say. Now that some time had passed since I last saw it, I just rewatched the documentary this past week on the anniversary of its premiere, and there were things that stood out to me that I didn't either capture a year ago or didn't have enough knowledge at the time to better comprehend. I will try to summarize my thoughts and observations into a list of ten things I wanted to address, though it could easily be more than ten, choosing five t
Marilyn Manson in the News (January 24-30, 2022) - Phoenix Rising News, Updates on the Ashley Walters Case, and a New Marilyn Manson Website
Media Response to Phoenix Rising After Phoenix Rising premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23rd, the reviews starting pouring in, and to no ones surprise the critics loved it. Evan is portrayed as brave and courageous for coming forward, while readers are encouraged to be disturbed while watching how Hollywood has protected celebrities to incur such abuse on women. They must not have been watching the same documentary I watched, because the one directed by Amy Berg was an absolute disaster of a documentary, that should only be shown at midnight showings of independent theaters along with The Room and Cats as movies that are so bad that when collectively seen together by an audience it becomes the source of laughter and mockery. I'm being too generous, because The Room is actually a masterpiece compared to this documentary. If I were to highlight one review of the many, it would be the short review by Kevin Maher for The Times . In fact, it is so short, that I w