I Swear
When this finally opens in America, will audiences be ready to receive this story on Tourette’s? for the UK audience, they were treated to i swear, the biopic of John Davidson, a Scottish man who struggled with Tourette’s his whole life, including for a period in his youth and early years when it wasn’t a recognized disability, and he often suffered greatly as a result. UK audiences responded quite well, where it made 6.3 million pounds in the UK. That puts it ahead of Emma Stone’s Bugonia *(4.1 million pounds), but just below something like 28 Years Later, which made … Continue reading I Swear
Roommates (2026)
Happy Madison Productions, Adam Sandler’s shingle, has been responsible for a lot of nepotistic casting, with nearly the entire Sandler family having been in one of his films. Judy Sandler, his mom, popped up in Big Daddy and Happy Gilmore, his dad was in Eight Crazy Nights, his wife Jackie was in Big Daddy, 50 First Dates, Just Go With It, and even by herself in non-Happy Madison works like Duplex. His younger daughter Sunny has been in a ton of movies, but starred recently in You’re So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, and was a voice in Leo. … Continue reading Roommates (2026)
The Small Screen Diaries: 04/18/26
Coming Up This Week: from: Season 4 (MGM Plus), Running Pointe: Season 2 (Netflix), Criminal Record: Season 2 (Apple), as well as new shows Half Man (HBO MAX), Kevin (Amazon), Unchosen (Netflix), and a few movies including the Disney Nature release Orangutan (Disney Plus) and the Charlize Theron/Tarn Edgerton thriller Apex (Netflix). Oh, and the NFL Draft if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s also this Stranger Things off shoot, Tales From 85. It’s an animated series taking place between Season 2 and 3, and No, I don’t know why Netflix thinks this is the thing people want from … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/18/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 04/17/26
TV Shows Watched: Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen: S1E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Shrinking: S3E8 (Apple) with audio description, Ponies: S1E7 (Peacock) with audio description, School Spirits: S2E7 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Love Story: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen- Rachel’s character is gone. Her actual arc and structure has been tossed out the window because it needs her to be dumb enough to stick around.She actually tells Nicky that she’s a bad person, and she’s the one who needs to change. Poorly written, but a very well directed episode … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/17/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 04/16/26
NBC officially inked a new deal for SVU to return next season, but also axed Organized Crime after five seasons. The Law and Order flagship show has not been renewed yet, but is looking good, while The Hunting Party and Brilliant Minds are expected to be cancelled. The question marks are the new comedies The Fall And Rise of Reggie Deakins and Stumble, both heavily on the bubble. It may actually turn out that the pedigree behind Fall and Rise may lead to NBC keeping that over Stumble, whose ratings with Happy’s Place on a Friday night really aren’t bad.The … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/16/26
The Small Screen Diaries: 04/15/2026
Still looking at feedback moving forward on The Small Screen Diaries. I know some may be reading it in their mailbox, but if the audience has nearly evaporated, I’d like to figure out how to get that back or do something more productive, like review an entire season all at once instead of spreading out the love. I have no intention of changing before May though. CBS also recently announced their fall lineup, with predictable cancellations for Watson and DMV. Everything else is coming back,but Matlock is being pushed to midseason. Ghosts is also being shifted to midseason, but will … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/15/2026
Going In Blind: Everyone Is Lying To you For Money
Ryan Atwood has moved on from The O.C., but have we? Ben McKenzie, whose career has gone on far beyond the phoenix-esque show that burned bright and fast, running only 4 seasons, yet being the career defining moment for McKenzie. he’d go on to do the critically acclaimed Southland, which ran for 5 seasons, and of course Gotham, which also ran for five seasons. In film Ben recently starred in Bloat, a horror film in the vein of Searching, and was also in Junebug with Amy Adams (who earned her first Oscar nomination for the film). he’s not DiCaprio, but … Continue reading Going In Blind: Everyone Is Lying To you For Money
The Small Screen Diaries: 04/14/26
Never check your stats. I know some people subscribe, so if you’re getting this in an email, and it isn’t showing up as a metric, speak soon or forever hold your peace. These Diaries have declined so much that they now average between 4 and 6 views. In a Top 50 ranking of my posts and how they’ve performed in the last week, all of them performed worse than my review for XXX: Return Of Xander Cage, which is neither linked to Rotten tomatoes, and is from my pre-blindness review era. when reviews like that start trending above new content, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/14/26
Thrash
I feel like I’m saying the same thing over and over this year, whether I like the film or not. where is the score? Where is the soundtrack? A few films this year have these really lackluster scores that feel like cheap placeholders for an early screening of the film before there’s a finished product, but yet, they remain. the lack of a bombastic thrilling score is just one of the many problems of Thrash, the new netflix original which boldly asks the question: “What if Netflix had made Sharknado?” And what if indeed. Apparently, they would have hired the … Continue reading Thrash
The Small Screen Diaries- 04/13/26
TV Shows Watched: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The COunt Of Monte Cristo: S1E4 (PBS) with audio description, One Piece: S2E5 (Netflix) with audio description, DTF: ST Louis: S1E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Malice: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description Maul: Shadow Lord- Excellent audio description still, though I have no idea what sport Riley was playing. It didn’t seem to matter to the plot, but I had nothing to ground or compare it to.If you’re an adult, thinking about not watching an animated show, as a conflicted Star Wars fan, this one aims older, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 04/13/26
Going In Blind: Screams from The Tower
Cory Wexler Grant’s under the radar coming-of-age teen comedy has all the moxie and attitude to attract the attention of either the youth of today, or a nostalgic audience looking for a glimpse back into their high school days. At its core, it is about best friends trying to accomplish something before the inevitable graduation, and likely separation, fractures their friendship. Their school has their own radio station, and students are chosen and given the opportunity to have their own blocks of programming. These two gay best friends end up becoming the talk of the school, as their edgy radio … Continue reading Going In Blind: Screams from The Tower
The Small Screen Diaries: 04/12/26
TV Shows Watched: The audacity: S1E1 (AMC Plus) WITH audio description, Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Predator Of Seville: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Bel Air: S4E3 (Peacock) with audio description, The real Housewives Of Rhode Island: S1E1 (Peacock) with audio description, All’s Fair: S1E9 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Matlock: S2E12 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The Audacity- yes. AMC Plus had the audacity to add audio description on a smidge of titles, including this new series, so I used it as the guinea pig. It worked. I got my audio description for the whole … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/12/26
Pretty Lethal
Didn’t we just have an action Ballerina film last year? Still, the concept of ballerinas using their particular set of skills to get themselves out of a tight situation feels like something fun to sit through. Even though Ana de Armas just did an overpowered version of this last year, I’m still excited to see *checks notes* Maddie Ziegler kick some ass? Yes. And that is the draw of pretty Lethal, the new Amazon Prime exclusive. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival before landing on Prime Video with audio description (we will get to that), … Continue reading Pretty Lethal
The Housemaid
Frida McFadden’s series of novels is finally breaking onto the big screen courtesy of Paul Feig, who helped to get a similar twisty mystery onto the screen with A Simple Favor. That became a sleeper hit in 2018, and The Housemaid became solid counterprogramming in December 2025. Both Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried had Oscar hopefuls on the table, which ultimately neither happened, and the combined worldwide grosses of both those films is less than the domestic opening weekend box office for The Housemaid. Sweeny’s Christie made 2.1 million off a 15 million budget, while The Testament Of Ann Lee … Continue reading The Housemaid
One Mile: Chapter Two
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and I typically watch films with audio description. This movie does have audio description, and I believe it was the exact same narrator as Chapter 1. When I watched One Mile: Chapter One, I was pleasantly surprised. Was it groundbreaking cinema? It hails from Republic Pictures, so of course not. It was a decent survival thriller built around a father trying to rescue his daughter from a community of breeders using that particular set of skills one gathers over a lifetime. Sometimes that’s all you need. Punch, kick, kill, repeat. A movie that understood … Continue reading One Mile: Chapter Two
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