The Small Screen Diaries- 06/11/26
TV Shows Watched: Man On Fire: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description,Unconditional: S1E2 (Apple) with audio description, Off Campus: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Mia: S1E2 (PEacock) with audio description, Dreaming Whilst Black: S2E6 (Paramount) with audio description, Virgin River: S7E7 (Netflix) with audio description, and Abbott Elementary: S5E18 (Disney Plus) with audio description Man On Fire- Solid adaptation thus far, and I didn’t love the film, so that says something. Speaking of,the original film was directed by Tony Scott, and his brother Ridley, is just now receiving his first Oscar as one of the named recipients of the Honorary Oscars … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 06/11/26
Movies With Pride: Pillion
I first watched this back in December as part of A24’s awards consideration package. While I did get a few screeners from A24 last year, Pillion sadly wasn’t one of them,and there was clearly a lot happening. I really wanted to wait to review it until I got the audio description, and now in time for Pride month, Pillion: Unrated is on HBO MAX with audio description! If any of this made it into the R rated cut, we’ve come a long way from This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Kirby Dick’s exploration of the MPAA and its bizarre ratings … Continue reading Movies With Pride: Pillion
The Small Screen Diaries: 06/09/26
I’m probably the only one who got excited, but I was under the assumption Apple had moved on from Trying. Then I saw their announcement for Season 5 coming later this year. I’m so happy. It is such a wonderful little seen show. TV Shows Watched: A good Girls Guide To Murder: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Witch Hat Atelier: S1E10 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Star City: S1E2 (Apple) with audio description, Young SHerlock: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: S2E5 (Paramount) with audio description, Mating Season: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, and Love … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 06/09/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 06/08/26
TV Shows Watched: Nemesis: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, For All Mankind: S5E7 (Apple) with audio description,Paradise: S2E8 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Top Chef: S24 Top 7 (Peacock) with audio description, Sheriff Country: S1E13 (Paramount) with audio description, Last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description Nemesis- A trending show with an all-black cast that Tyler Perry had nothing to do with. Whoever made Nemesis should ink a first look deal with the streamer, so they can ditch their reliance upon the perry Ferry of Shit he keeps accosting us with. Nemesis is great, but Vito is … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 06/08/26
Movies With Pride: Carol
Pride Month gave me the perfect excuse to finally revisit Carol, a film I admired more than I ever truly loved. Todd Haynes’ 2015 romance remains an astonishing achievement in visual storytelling, even if I still find myself wishing the screenplay gave me a little more to hold onto beneath all the longing glances and carefully guarded emotions. Before I lost my sight, Carol was the kind of film that felt like a dream. Every frame seemed meticulously crafted through its production design, costumes, cinematography, makeup, hairstyling, and lighting. Haynes pours so much attention into the look of the film … Continue reading Movies With Pride: Carol
The Small Screen Diaries: 06/07/26
TV Shows Watched: From: S4E7 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Vladimir: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Criminal Record: S2E5 (Apple) with audio description, Bel Air: S4E8 (Peacock) with audio description, Will Trent: S4E11 (Disney Plus) with audio description, SNL: Jack Black (Peacock) with audio description, The Madison: S1E5 (Paramount) with audio description, and Pop Culture Jeopardy: S2E3 (Netflix) with audio description From- Not looking for spoilers, but this episode had Victor needing to go do something scary, so he asked Tabitha to help, and she heard scary and brought Ethan along. People keep telling Sophia far more than anyone should, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 06/07/26
Miss You, Love You
Jim Rash, best known for playing the Dean on Community,along with his years spent at the Groundlings, and that time he won an Oscar with Nat Faxon for writing the screenplay to The Descendants, is making his solo feature directorial debut. He and Faxon broke out and made the excellent The Way Way Back, and followed that up with the not so excellent Downhill.But, Rash proves he still has a lot to give in this film he wrote and directed, which is not adapted from anything. It does feel so much like a play, like Rash was trying tow rite … Continue reading Miss You, Love You
Office Romance
Little known fact. Lady Gaga was this close to titling her song Office Romance instead of Bad Romance. Don’t fact check me. But, the fairly generic title found its way into Jennifer Lopez’s pantheon of equally vague titles like The Back Up Plan, Marry Me, and Unstoppable (a title so generic Denzel also has a film called Unstoppable). Regardless of the premise, Jennifer Lopez remains a queen of romantic comedies, and her sex appeal at 56 has allowed her to be able to pull off being desirable enough to carry films like this. Jennifer Lopez is not the problem here. … Continue reading Office Romance
Tribeca Film Festival 2026: AI Probably Nothing To Worry About
My third alarmist AI documentary so far this year. I have yet to find one about Ukraine though. It’s probably just how screeners come my way. I’ll give it time. This is the best of the AI specific docs, and narrowly comparable to Your Attention Please, which is also mostly about how Social Media is wrecking you kids, but also how AI is starting to contribute. This documentary backs off of the overpersonalized approach of Daniel Roher’s AI doc, and instead takes a seemingly neutral approach. Instead of smacking you with the apocalypse, it asks how did we get here, … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: AI Probably Nothing To Worry About
The Small Screen Diaries: 06/06/26
Coming up this week, the HBo MAX premiere of They Will Kill You on Jun 12, the return of Interview With A Vampire (which AMC Plus does not offer audio description for), and a few new shows like Alice and Steve (Hulu) and Every Summer After (Amazon), plus the return of Sweet Magnolias for anyone who is excited for that. Also, the FIFA World Cup and Stanley Cup, along with NBA finals. So, if you are into sports, this is very much your week. And if you’re into Broadway, the TOny Awards are Sunday with live audio description on CBS. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 06/06/26
Tribeca Film Festival 2026: Stealing Magic
This could have been the plot to the Now You See Me sequel, where the crew has to fight piracy, and the secrets to their tricks being sold online.This doesn’t require an illusionist, just some bored teens in a country where piracy reigns supreme, who see a niche they feel needs to be filled. The unfortunate truth is, you can actually steal magic. And no,not in some Disney way where an evil wizard drops from the sky and drains the home you know of all its magic, but there are actual people who build complex tricks, and sell them to … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: Stealing Magic
Tribeca Film Festival 2026: The A Word: The Future Of Aging
Yes, a whole documentary just about The A Word. George Carlin would be so proud. Not that kind of A word? Well, then it must be the other more risqué A word. No? Oh. it’s a documentary about aging. Hold my beer. I feel constantly triggered by media as I never feel, nor has anyone correctly guessed my age (because I dress like a child), and yet I hear my age all the time. I remember rewatching Frasier within the last few years, and in the early seasons, he said his age, and it matched mine. And I felt so … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: The A Word: The Future Of Aging
The Small Screen Diaries: 06/05/26
In Every Generation… there is a Giles. Actor Anthony Stewart Head, best known for his role as Buffy’s watcher Giles across seven seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and also known to fans of Ted Lasso, and to Brits for his start as the Prime Minister on Little Britain, which actually jumpstarted career opportunities for him in comedy. Although Buffy was being rebooted at Hulu, until being unceremoniously killed off by a random Hulu executive, Anthony Head was not involved in the reboot. TV Shows Watched: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S4E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Your Friends And Neighbors: S2E3 … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 06/05/26
Tribeca Film Festival 2026: American Zoo
Families are complicated, and having to unpack that in a documentary can be tough. In American Zoo, we focus primarily on the Catskill Game Farm, which for decades was a massive zoo that a family got to grow up on and around, because someone had to run it. But just who is that someone? The film uses the present to reflect the past as we learn of Heinz Hezck, a German doctor who was invited in 1959 to come over and run this zoo. And Yes, he’s that kind of German, or at least appeared to be, and that is … Continue reading Tribeca Film Festival 2026: American Zoo
Brooklyn Film Festival 2026: Rocket Girl
Sometimes, you forget that when you critique something, there is a potential for the person you are critiquing to actually read the thing you wrote. Earlier, before being a blind film critic, I did get a couple of shoutouts for my reviews, even without the TomatoMeter approval. Probably the coolest one was Gina Prince-Blythwood who loved that I loved Beyond The Lights. Those in the industry seem to be built for criticism, but what about documentaries? I certainly have had filmmakers reach out, most of them about this thing called audio description that didn’t exist, or the fact that audio … Continue reading Brooklyn Film Festival 2026: Rocket Girl