In case you were unaware, the origin of the crudely labeled torture pron genre now has its entire franchise on Netflix with audio description for the first time apparently ever. I was not really excited, but Alex Howard, of the Dark Room Podcast certainly was. He urged me to jump into the series. Prior to losing my sight, I did technically watch the first two films, but that was it. The original Saw was actually a low budget indie hit at Sundance, which was picked up, and distributed. its most. Marketable stars at the time were Danny Glover and Cary … Continue reading Saw

This is the rough part. If you had asked me at the beginning of the year if I’d be disliking a film with Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Charles Dance, Richard E Grant, Emily Mortimer, and Fiona Shaw, I would have probably thought no way in hell. Worst case scenario, that gang tried to make an Oscar bait film that the pacing is a bit rough in, and moves at a glacial pace. But to see them in a comedy, a high concept comedy based on a French Netflix title, we are living in some weird reality. I don’t know … Continue reading Ladies First

I’m a little late to the game on reviewing Arco, a film I first screened for awards consideration back in November of 2025, but I waited until I finally had the chance to hear the audio description track before sitting down to write this. So, shoutout to Audio Eyes and Sean Boggs, the one man assembly line who wrote and narrated Arco. Sean proves, if nothing else, that it is indeed possible for Neon to commission audio description for a title they picked up at Cannes that originally existed in another language, while apparently keeping costs at whatever Sean earns. … Continue reading Arco

A Mosquito In The Ear sounds like one of those indie titles where you think, that’s original, that’s memorable, whoever came up with that should get a raise. Considering how many films we have named after super basic things, like Memory, brand identity right off the bat is a win.. Yet within the context of the film itself, the meaning lands with surprising weight. Adapted from Andrea Ferraris’ graphic novel Una Zanzara nell’Orecchio and directed by Nicola Rinciari, the film finds surprising depth in a deceptively simple premise. A little Indian girl explains to a nun at her orphanage what … Continue reading Going In Blind: A Mosquito In The Ear

This one has its heart in the right place. Dana Larson is putting himself on the line in a battle to help those with drug addiction problems, and not in the abstinence market, but in harm reduction. He runs a hotly contested store in Canada, where their rules are slightly different, but as we learn through Searching For Drug Peace, Karen’s are not simply an American problem. The feeling deep inside for someone to get involved in things, indignantly, believing that they have an innate right to maintain morality as they see fit, has bled into Canada, and Dana has … Continue reading Going In Blind: Searching For Drug Peace

I pushed this out, since Daniel Roher co-directed this as well as one of my new obsessions in theaters right now, Tuner. He’s also the director of Navalny, the Oscar winning feature about the Russian opposition leader, who has since tragically passed. And now, we just casually let Russia occupy a chunk of a sovereign nation. But by all means, Chat GBT is going to end us. Not our indifference to totalitarianism, but generative AI. Roher also directed Blink, the documentary about the family of kids who were diagnosed with progressive vision loss, so their parents took them on a … Continue reading The AI Doc Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist

The only truly good thing that came out of Greenland 2: Migration is the fact it prompted me to finally watch the first one, which was surprisingly much better than I expected. So, I went into the sequel with pretty high hopes, only for those hopes to get obliterated almost immediately. Greenland 2 feels like a sequel made by people who didn’t really understand why the first film worked, but assumed audiences wanted “more”, because Hollywood has confused bigger with better for so long you’d think they were in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas, but not in California, and … Continue reading Greenland 2: Migration

There’s a version of this review where I spend half the time complaining that Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War isn’t trying to be Mission: Impossible, but honestly, that says more about modern criticism than it does about the film itself. This weekend features two films based on television shows, but the difference is one of them is making a giant leap to the big screen, while the other understands exactly what it is. Ghost War is not trying to reinvent espionage cinema, launch a billion dollar franchise reboot, or convince audiences that John Krasinski should be hanging off airplanes … Continue reading Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War