Ranking The Best Actor Oscar Wins Of the 2010’s
I don’t always get an opportunity to do too many other fun side columns and projects for my site other than just straight-up reviews. Everything is content-driven based on things I’ve recently seen, whether it’s my Small Screen Diaries or pushing reviews out for newer content. But I often talk about the Oscars on my YouTube channel, and I wanted to bring a little bit of that over here. Recently, I did a video, which everyone can check out on my YouTube channel, ranking the Best Actor winners of the 2010s, and this is a series I hope to continue … Continue reading Ranking The Best Actor Oscar Wins Of the 2010’s
Your Friends And Neighbors: Season 2
Since I don’t have a review for the first season of Your Friends and Neighbors, I’ll give you a brief statement about how I felt. I was not terribly enthused about Jon Hamm coming into this. He was coming off an excellent recurring role on The Morning Show, and of course, it’s hard to talk about Hamm without talking about Mad Men. So I know Apple was looking for another Mad Men-esque show with Your Friends and Neighbors, but the first season didn’t quite do it for me. It was a bit of a mixed bag as we followed Cooper … Continue reading Your Friends And Neighbors: Season 2
Going In Blind: Union COunty
This would not be the first film about drug addiction, nor would it be the first film about the rehabilitation process. The state of battling addiction, no matter what it was you were addicted to, is a bit of a gold mine, albeit a depressing one, for filmmakers. Often, that’s because it allows for personal reflection and offers that human connection to the audience. People will watch Union County and immediately be able to relate to it or take something away from it, whether they themselves have found themselves on the exact same path or they’ve watched somebody else go … Continue reading Going In Blind: Union COunty
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/08/26
Tonight. The season finale of House Of The Dragon. Are we getting the Battle of Tumbleton tonight? If so, are we looking at a host of deaths? Get those prediction wheels going in your heads. TV Shows Watched: The Agency: S2E6-10 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S2E15 (Netflix) with audio description, Elzabeth: S3E19 (Paramount) with audio description, and Hacks: S5E8 (HBO MAX) with audio description The Agency- So weird no one is credited for the AD on this. I have listened all the way to the end, and while I think I recognize the voice, and assume … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/08/26
The Agency: Season 2
I vaguely remember season one of The Agency, and that only came after getting pretty deep into season two. I started getting little flashbacks to the first season. Listen, these are things that just happen when you watch as much content as I do. Hours upon hours of TV and film kind of molds and melts things together, and you end up really remembering the best of everything and the worst of everything. But that stuff in the middle can get kind of muddled. I think that’s where The Agency landed for me in its first season, somewhere in the … Continue reading The Agency: Season 2
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/07/26
TV Shows Watched: Silo: S3E6 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description,XO Kitty: S3E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Deli Boys: S2E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Kevin: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, and Little House On The Prairie: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description Silo: Foward momentum. Camille finds what she’s looking for, Juliette tries to make her play after remembering Silo 17, and the Sheriff might have found out who killed the Shadow. It’s a shame the Shadow died, because they know what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Nice audio description, not a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/07/26
EPIC: Elvis Presley In Concert
In case you thought that year where Austin Butler walked around doing every interview pretending he was such a heavy method actor that he couldn’t shake his Elvis Presley voice was some sort of fever dream, it actually wasn’t. Baz Luhrmann really did direct an Elvis biopic, and it really was nominated for multiple Oscars. As a byproduct of making that film, Luhrmann clearly developed an even deeper fascination with Elvis Presley, and that eventually led him to dig through archival material, restore and assemble footage from different performances, and create one of the most exhilarating concert films I’ve ever … Continue reading EPIC: Elvis Presley In Concert
Wishing You Were Somehow Human Again: Deli Boys: Season 2
I’m pleasantly surprised that Hulu went with a second season for Delhi Boys. Sometimes it’s easy to get a second season, but it’s hard to get anything beyond that. So the real question now is whether Hulu is willing to go with a third season for a comedy whose episode count was reduced in year two. Six episodes isn’t exactly a ringing vote of confidence. Ultimately, it’s going to come down to how many people actually watched it. At the same time, six episodes also makes this one of the easiest shows on streaming to recommend. If you’re sitting there … Continue reading Wishing You Were Somehow Human Again: Deli Boys: Season 2
The Highest Stakes
Every once in a while I watch a movie where I can see that the elevator pitch is solid, and somewhere along the way it just got lost. Maybe there was a good treatment that slowly became muddled in the screenplay, or perhaps the director simply wasn’t sure how to translate the concept to the screen. Whatever happened, The Highest Stakes is built around an interesting premise that never quite works. It reminded me of those morality tales where some unseen force gathers a group of people together for reasons that aren’t immediately clear, with the audience slowly uncovering the … Continue reading The Highest Stakes
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/06/26
TV Shows Watched:The Agency: S2 E1-5 (Paramount) with audio description, Shelved: S1E3 (Peacock) no audio description, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: S5E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Agency- Yup. Tried to knock out another show, but this one is another 10 episode behemoth, and I couldn’t pull it off, so I’ll tackle 6-10 likely on Saturday. I don’t remember much of Season 1, but this has so many different beats to it than a typical Taylor Sheridan production. The cast is stellar, and John Megarro has a lot to do in the first five episodes, where I … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/06/26
Criminal Record: Season 2
Apple has quietly assembled one of the most impressive television libraries in the business. HBO still has the advantage of decades of prestige programming, but considering Apple TV+ has only been around for a handful of years, the quality of its lineup is remarkable. Even beyond the awards magnets like Severance and Slow Horses, there are shows such as For All Mankind that have built fiercely loyal fan bases without the Emmys showering them with trophies every year. Then there’s Trying, which recently returned to my absolute delight. Somewhere in the middle of that lineup sits Criminal Record, a British … Continue reading Criminal Record: Season 2
Running Point: Season 2
Spoiler Warning: It’s possible to like something that is in the middle of an identity crisis, and that would be Running Point, Netflix’s sophomore comedy about Isla Gordon, played by Kate Hudson, who is continuing to run a professional basketball franchise against all odds. At the end of last season, her brother Cam, played by Justin Theroux, managed to get out of rehab. This season, he rejoins the family business, clearly with the intention of taking it over again, although he settles for a smaller position while the family slowly welcomes him back, believing that he’s sober when he is … Continue reading Running Point: Season 2
Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
Probably one of the most prominent documentaries in my life remains Super Size Me. It’s one of only a handful of documentaries that I’ve watched more than once. It followed documentarian Morgan Spurlock as he attempted to survive on nothing but McDonald’s for an entire month, ordering breakfast, lunch, and dinner from the Golden Arches. Every meal came with an entrée, fries, and a drink, and back when McDonald’s still offered Super Size, he agreed to supersize only when the cashier asked if he wanted to. His health absolutely cratered over the course of the experiment. Spurlock has since passed … Continue reading Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy
The Small Screen Diaries: 08/05/26
TV Shows Watched: X-Men 97: S2E8 (Disney Plus) with audio description,Ted Lasso: S4E1 (Apple) with audio description, Daemons Of The Shadow Realm: S1E10 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Strip Law: S1E9 (Netflix) with audio description, Tales Of The TMNT: S2E10 (Paramount) with audio description, Life Larry And The Pursuit Of Unhappyness: S1E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S4E7 (Netflix) with audio description X-Men 97- Still synthetic, but in terms of the written context, it was fine. Some of the X-Teams take a back seat, and aren’t mentioned anywhere, but they basically are all now in the same plot line. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/05/26
Wishing You Were Somehow Human Again: 23,000 Lives (2026)
One thing that continues to frustrate me is trying to figure out Netflix’s logic for deciding which international originals get English audio description and which ones don’t. Sometimes it feels like they’re just spinning a wheel. I still can’t get over the fact that Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-nominated Roma never received an English audio description track, nor did acclaimed films like Bardo or El Conde. Yet I stumble across a German film called 23,000 Lives, something I’d never even heard of, and it not only has English audio description, it even has an English dub. Granted, the description uses a synthetic … Continue reading Wishing You Were Somehow Human Again: 23,000 Lives (2026)