Billy McFarland

Ja Rule

Jason Bell

Gabrielle Bluestone

Shiyuan Deng

Michael Ciccarelli

Mdavid Low

Samuel Krost

Andy King

J.R.

Brett Kincaid

Mick Purzycki

James Ohliger

Grant Margolin

Keith van der Linde

Marc Weinstein

Martin Howell

Mark Musters

Luca Sabatini

Adam Renna

Mary Ann Rolle

Calvin Wells

Jillionaire

Seth Crossno

Mark Crawford

Columbo

Justin Liao

Stacy Miller

Ben Meiselas

Kindo

Carola Jain

Alyssa Lynch

C.C. Clarke

Rose Bertram

Hailey Bieber

Bella Hadid

Elsa Hosk

Chanel Iman

Kendall Jenner

Lais Ribeiro

Shanina Shaik

Gizele Oliveira

Emily Ratajkowski

Alessandra Ambrosio

Ron Funches

Conan O'Brien

Andy Richter

Chris Smith

Danny Gabai

Cory Fraiman-Lott

Henry Zaballos

Jon Karmen

Max Pollack

Matthew Rowean

Elliot Tebele

Jeremy S. Bloom

Nathan Hasz

Sanghee Moon

Tom Paul

Tzvi Sherman

Davide Sorasio

Colton Fordyce

Andrew Geary

Stefan Sonnenfeld

Jake Burghart

Jason Hill

Documentary

Fyre

Jerry Media

Library Films

VICE Media

United States of America

Peter McGinn

Between downloads and streaming services, I have way too many shows and movies lined up to watch. This documentary on the Fyre Festival has been waiting for me for a long time.  So today I figured the reason I haven’t watched it might point to the possibility I could start watching it, not like it, and get it off my waiting list.

But, as you might guess, I ended up watching the entire film. It won’t get any hyperbole from me for being the best of this or totally awesome at that, but it is entertaining and informative, if only as yet another warning that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.

It describes how wealthy or moderately well off customers were duped and ripped off by an affable and persuasive entrepreneur named Billy McIntire who built a huge house of cards music festival through deceit and fraud and gullibility.

It is almost difficult to feel sorry for some of those well-off victims. They will live to spend again. The ones I feel bad about are the regular people, especially on the island where it was to be held, who performed work for the Festival and were never paid, a common trick used by wealthy, lying, immoral “lawyered-up” businessmen. What is almost as bad as the crime itself is the subsequent total lack of remorse as a Billy lived the high life and moved on to his next scam. Perhaps Billy’s conviction will at least prevent him from running for office.

Anyway, this film won’t change your life, but it is instructive in small ways and entertaining.

English

Official Trailer