Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic and this film is available with audio description. Nayadse Renee-Johnson stars. I know, this is hard for people to hear, but believe it or not, the young actress who plays Sara rector in the biopic about her life as a youth is actually, I’m not kidding, starring the little girl that plays Sara. Mind blown. At least three people at Kingdom and Amazon/MGM just had their heads explode. I know this, because despite being an inspirational true story of an 11-year old black girl in Oklahoma fighting racism to become a millionaire supposedly stars … Continue reading Sara’s Oil

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and i typically watch films with audio description. This film has audio description, produced by International Digital Center, narrated by Sri Gordon, available on Netflix. Trapped. Hopeless. I accept my fate each time. I reminisce of Shellly Duvall in The Shining, as she can hear the thwack against the door. only my hell is different, it is the repetitive knock until finally the door shatters, and i hear “Here’s Tyler!” As Tyler Perry never relents it is impossible to miss him. He’s like the equivalent of the needy boyfriend who comes to you asking … Continue reading Joe’s College Road Trip

Happy Valentine’s Day to those of you who are all about love. For the rest of us, welcome to hell. TV Shows Watched: The Traitors: S4E9 (Peacock) with audio description, Man Vs Baby: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Ghosts: S5E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Masked Singer: S14E6 (Disney Plus) no audio description, and A Man On The Inside: S2E9? (Netflix) with audio description The Traitors: I guess making any predictions would inherently be a spoiler with this few contestants remaining. But, the episode has Eric make a choice, a challenge where the Traitors get to test the Faithful, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/13/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and Ella McCay is available everywhere with audio description, except Disney plus, the most logical place. I watched when it first released on the platform, and Disney did not provide audio description. Normally, I prefer to watch films with audio description, but since Disney has been taking a very nonchalant approach to accessibility as of late, I figured what better way to point out the gap than with Ella McCay, a film so convoluted it doesn’t just need an audio description narrator, it needs in-film commentary to explain the baffling set of choices made … Continue reading Ella McCay

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and this is available on Amazon with audio description. Relationship Goals are good to have, but sometimes it can be rewarding to simply structure a film in such a way that it supports all the narratives in a perfectly tiered formula.For example, you have the ensemble films, like Love Actually, The Best Man, and Valentine’s Day. Each one puts together a hodgepodge of characters with different backgrounds and stories. The Best Man separates itself by being a romcom where the ensemble, while balanced, are all in the same narrative. We’ve seen this before, from … Continue reading relationship Goals

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic and I typically review films with audio description. By design, this film doesn’t have one. I’d argue that By Design is a movie for no one. It unabashedly discards convention in favor of driving a high concept narrative that is destined to just outright turn people off. The elevator pitch here is essentially that Juliette Lewis is a chair. And Yes, that premise got me to watch this film. I don’t regret it. it has no audio description, it is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen, and is borderline incomprehensible from a … Continue reading Going In Blind: By Design

TV Shows Watched: Starfleet Academy: S1E5 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Dawson’s Creek: S1E1 (Netflix) no audio description, Will Trent: S4E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tomb Raider: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Has Been Hotel: S2E4 (Amazon) with audio description Starfleet Academy- Still an awful show, which seems to be a misguided attempt to bring in young audiences, though I’m pretty sure it isn’t working. While the show landed 2.1 million viewers in its first eight days. By comparison, Landman’s Season 2 premiere pulled in 9.2 million in its first 48 hours. Tulsa King supposedly drew 21.1 million for … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/12/26

RIP James Van Der Beek. I most certainly will have Dawson’s Creek on my diary tomorrow. TV Shows Watched: What I Like About You: S1E1 (Netflix) no audio description, The Pitt: S2E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Steal: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Runaway: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, The Beauty: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description What I Like About You- Before I knew I’d be jumping back in on Dawson’s Creek, the Amanda Bynes show was front and center Wednesday morning. the pilot episode has one of the guys talking at length about how he can swallow anything, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/11/26

TV Shows Watched: American Idol: S24E3 (Disney Plus) Aggressively Without Audio Description, The Mighty Nine: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, High Potential: S2E9 (Disney Plus) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E4 (Peacock) with audio description, His And Hers: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description American Idol- Some good voices. A couple of really terrific singers. I really liked the guy who sang When A Man Loves A Woman.The rockers were an interesting addition, like they are trying to make rock happen again. Are they trying to reinvent the WGWG phase? … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/10/26

TV Shows Watched: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: S1E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description,All’s Fair: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Finding Her Edge: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description,Nobody Wants This: S2E8? (Netflix) with audio description A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms- Best episode so far. Duncan’s desire to do the right thing fuels a tonally inconsistent series. You want to root for him as he needs to find six Knights to stand with him in his super sized trial by combat. Dakota did a nice job on the burly man who stands, describing him initially with enough earnestness … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/09/26

Kid Rock pulled in 5.7 million last night from early estimates. That’s 5.7 million people I likely never need to meet or know. On the other hand, Bad Bunny’s halftime show reportedly broke the record, with over 135 million watching. Who’s the Real McCoy now Kid? More people watched the Puppy Bowl (13.2 million) than Kid Rock. Why did Kid Rock even headline? You might say, only God knows why. Turning Point According to a brief search, the most watched livestream on YouTube was some gamer hitting 8 million. So, we’re not setting the world on fire here guys. Read … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/08/26

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Wonder Man is available on Disney Plus with audio description. Marvel is in a funk, and they believe the only prescription to heal their wounds is Robert Downey Jr. Marvel is banking hard on Avengers: Doomsday, not to mention Tom Holland’s 4th outing as Spider-Man this year. They’ve started to try and distance themselves from the TV side of things, promising to spread things out more and focus less on every hero being an eventual Avenger. Of course, this comes at a time when they would go and drop one of their best shows … Continue reading Wonder Man: Season 1

I had a massive list of shows I had at least checked out one episode from in 2025. By request, I assembled a list of shows, without forcing a specific number. On my YouTube, I listed the Non-Negotiables, a list of films I really liked last year, that I think will stay with me. Following in the same trend, here’s my list of 2025, and since I’m combining Comedy, Drama, Limited, and Reality, I went with them in order as I started them. So, here are my non-negotiable shows. Severance: Season 2 (Apple Plus) with audio description- It perhaps got … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: The Best Shows Of 2025

Disclaimer:I’m a blind film critic. Typically I watch film with audio description. I did not have one for this screening, nor am I aware if one exists. In GALECA, the Society for LGBTQ Film Critics, we do still love to nominate films every year with negligible to non-existent LGBTQ representation, almost always pushing some of the more cringey titles to the side. Despite the presence of Olivia Coleman and John Lithgow, my prediction is that this film will be forgotten come awards season. It’s a shame. Jimpa, being released by Kino Lober, stars Olivia Coleman as a photographer and mother … Continue reading Going In Blind: Jimpa

TV Shows Watched: The Traitors: S4E8 (Peacock) with audio description, Wonder Man: S1E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, DMV: S1E5 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Masked Singer: S14E5 (Disney Plus) no audio description, and The Rookie: S8E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Traitors- It is so lovely to have actual competent audio description when their challenge is extremely visual. Basically, they had to recreate photographs as still life and three of the players in the tower had to guess which picture they were mimicking. No spoilers, but the one who gott murdered was a smart play by one … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 02/06/26