Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast8 Heinä 2019

120 - Biopsy: ROCKETMAN "Robb Stark gets bottom billing"

This is the pilot episode of our new sidecar project Biopsy!

Our new show format recaps BioPics in a loose, funny way and we'll drop occasional episodes into your regular Sup Doc feed.

We think BioPics are the real life version of our game Cast This Doc. We hope you enjoy it and let us know what Bi-OP-Pics you want us to cover.

On the premiere episode we look at Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher, 2019) about the life and music of Elton John. Yes THAT Elton John. Both George and Paco agree that Rocketman is a formulaic, paint-by-numbers biopic. One glaring problem was that the musical numbers are not in order of when the songs were released. Rocketman begins oddly at a moment of a huge crossroad in Elton's career, then backtracks to show us how he ended up there—a narrative device that already was a cliché when “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” parodied it back in 2007. Taron Egerton does an admirable job with what he's given.

Paco and George also talk about how Rocketman is seemingly prepackaged for the Broadway stage, packed with Elton John hits you’ve known and maybe loved for decades. And of course what self-respecting biopic would not have plenty of montages: the obligatory scenes of Elton hits rising up the charts and racking up, all the gold records and the sex and drugs that go along with the rock ‘n’ roll.

Correction: Not Bernie Maupin nor Armistead Maupin but Bennie Maupin and he's not a piano player but a reed player.

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194 - 20TH ANNIVERSARY DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON with director Jeff Feuerzeig

Hosts Paco and George sit down with director Jeff Feuerzeig to discuss the 20th anniversary of the ground-breaking documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. We hear incredible behind-the-scene storie...

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193 - PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF

Paco and George watched the 2025 Matt Wolf two-part Paul Ruebens doc on HBO.This is prime Gen X imprinting, Paul Reubens' real life definitively laid out for the picking. The impish Reubens created hi...

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192 - OUR TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW

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191 - MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM w Daniel Gill

MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM is a 2022 doc based on the book of the same name by Lizzy Goodman. Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, this look at '00s nostalgia focuses on a cluster of rock bands ...

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190 - WATCH OR NOT 2022 Wrap Up

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189 - IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS w director Kenneth Thomas, Windy Chien, Andee Connors, Allan Horrocks

IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS is a feature-length documentary about the SF-based independent record store, Aquarius Records. Having closed in 2016 after 47 years, this small apartment-sized store cham...

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188 - LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BEN FONG TORRES w Daniel Gill

We’re covering Like a Rolling Stone: the Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres. Released in 2021, Suzanne Joe Kai’s debut feature doc is now available on Netflix. Fong-Torres was the editor at the beginni...

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