Author: John Stark

Blogger. EIC of macthemovieguy.com. Contributor to mjsbigblog.com and houseofgeekery.com. Previously featured on starpulse.com.
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Shell

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Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, Kaya Gerber, Ziwe, Elizabeth Berklee, Mary Lynn Raskjub, Este Haim, Dustin Milligan, Peter MacNicol Written By: Jack Stanley Directed By: Max Minghella Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Republic/Paramount Runtime: 100 minutes Audio description produced By: Media Access Group Written by: Narrated by: Peter Jaycock What Is it?: It’s very much like a Demi Moore film from 2024. You know, that one. In this film, an aging actress (Moss) seeks to give herself a competitive edge in the casting room,and finds herself drawn to a new experimental drug company that promises she’ll look like she hasn’t aged … Continue reading Shell

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The Small Screen Diaries: 11/02/2025

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Y’all have no idea how many times I type the title and my fingers trip and spell “Dairies”. Nearly every morning. TV Shows Watched: The Last Frontier: S1E4 (Apple TV) with audio description, From: S3E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description, DMV: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Starting Five: S2E2 (Netflix) with audio description, 911 Nashville: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tulsa King: S3E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, South Park: S28E2 (Paramount Plus) no audio description yet, Boston Blue: S1E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Abbott Elementary: S5E5 (Hulu) with audio description, and Nobody Wants this: S2E1 (Netflix) … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/02/2025

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Hedda

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Cast: Tessa Thompson, Nina Haas, Tom Bateman, Imogene Poots, Nicholas Pinnock, Katherine Hunter Written and Directed by: Nia DaCosta Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Prime video Runtime: 107 minutes Audio Description Produced by: the Media Access group Written By: Narrated By: what is it?: An update to Henry Gibson’s classic work, director Nia DaCosta has decided to take the work from 1890 and move it to the 1950’s, combining the complex character with new undercurrents of racial identity and queerness, in a movie that has characters race swapped as well as gender bent. Hedda seems supportive of her husband, and throws … Continue reading Hedda

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Only Murders In the Building: Season 5

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Cast: Steve Martin as Charles, Martin Short as Oliver, Selena Gomez as Mabel, Michael Cyril Creighton as Howard, Teddy Coluca as Lester, Paul Rudd as Lester, Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Det. Williams, Richard Kind as Vince Fish, Meryl Streep as Loretta, Nathan Lane as Teddy, Russell G Jones as Dr Stanley, Jermaine Fowler as Randall, Beanie Feldstein as The, Dianne Wiest as Loretta, Bobby Cannavale as Nicky, Logan Lerman as jay, Christoph Waltz as Bash, Tea Leoni as Sophia, Renee Zellweger as Camilla, and Keegan Michael Key as Mayor Tillman. Length: 10 episodes Release year: 2025 Streaming Service: Hulu Audio … Continue reading Only Murders In the Building: Season 5

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The Baltimorons

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Cast: Michael Strassner, Liz Larsen Written By: Jay Duplass and Michael Strassner Directed By: Jay Duplass Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: IFC Films Runtime:101 minutes Audio Description Created By: Audio Eyes Written By: Sean Boggs Narrated By: Rick Boggs What Is it?: A man (Strassner) finds himself on a bit of an unexpected journey, when he finds himself in a dental emergency on Christmas Eve, and finds the only dentist (Larsen) open at the time.What starts with the promise of returning the favor slowly evolves into two strangers travelling Baltimore’s streets on Christmas Eve, trying desperately to avoid that which makes … Continue reading The Baltimorons

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Gen V: season 2

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Cast: Jaz Sinclair as Marie, Lizzie Broadway as Emma, Maddie Phillips as Kate, London Thor and Derek Luh as Jordan, Asa German as Sam, Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity, Jessica Clement as Harper, Hamish Linklater as Cypher Length: 8 episodes Release year: 2025 Streaming Service: Prime video Audio Description Produced By: Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: Picking up mostly where we left off, a new head of the University has been appointed, and the spin is the kids who were locked up, are now heroes. If they can just agree to keep their heads down, they might get … Continue reading Gen V: season 2

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/31/25

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TV Shows Watched: It: Welcome To Dairy: S1E2 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Solar Opposites: S6E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S3E9 (Netflix) with audio description, The Lowdown: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Haunted Hotel: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Elzabeth: S3E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description Welcome To Dairy- Steven Christopher is going to give me nightmares. The show is doing that, but his written description for this (coupled with a narrator who needs to be a top choice if we ever go back and add AD to shows like Dick Van Dyke, Donna Reed, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/31/25

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Sovereign

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Cast: Nick Offerman, Jacob tremblay, Dennis Quaid, Megan Mullally Written And Directed by: Christian Swegal Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 100 minutes Audio description produced By: Written by: Narrated By: What is it?: A widower (Offerman) is a prominent member of the Sovereign citizen movement, and is teaching his son what it means to live that (not legally recognized) lifestyle. As he becomes increasingly stuck in his ways, the world around him continues to reject his ideaology, putting him on a crash course with the law that will not end well for him or his son. Based on a true story. … Continue reading Sovereign

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Going In Blind: lesbian Space Princess

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Featuring The Voices Of: Shabana Azeez, Gemma Chua-Tran, Richard Roxburgh Written and Directed By: Ema Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghees Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 86 minutes *There Is No Known Audio description For This Title In The US* What Is it?: A sheltered lesbian space princess must journey away from the comfort of her home to try and save her ex-girlfriend, who she still pines for, and has been captured by the Straight White Maleiens, who are seeking a battery for their chick magnet that the princess has. However, they have to lure her away from gay space, thus, of … Continue reading Going In Blind: lesbian Space Princess

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Together

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Cast: Dave Franco, Allison Brie Written and Directed By: Michael Shanks Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Neon Runtime: 102 minutes Audio description Produced By: Creative Media Access Written By: No Credit Given Narrated By: No Credit Given What Is it?: It begins as all great horror movies do, in a cabin in the woods. A couple (Franco/Brie) have recently relocated to help support her career, and are staying in a cabin that is near a dangerous place where those that unfortunately travel there become cursed. Our intrepid leads of course travel there, become cursed, and find themselves inexplicably pulled together, poking … Continue reading Together

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/31/25

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TV Shows Watched: Has Been Hotel: S2E1 (Amazon) with audio description, English Teacher: S2E6 (Disney plus) with audio description, Devil In Disguise: S1E2 (Peacock) with audio description, Shifting Gears: S2E5 (Disney plus) with audio description, and Murdock: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description Has Been Hotel- I know people are really big fans of this, but it wouldn’t be in my top five or ten adult animations right now. I did like it enough to come back, mostly for the musical numbers, and exceptional voice cast. I’ve forgotten most of season 1, and I think this used to be a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/31/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/2925

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TV Shows Watched: Down Cemetery Road: S1E1 (Apple TV) with audio description, Wayward: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S3E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Rick And Morty: S8E4 (HBO MAX) with audio description, The Sisters Grimm: S1E4 (Apple TV) with audio description, The Paper: S1E? (Peacock) with audio description Down Cemetery Road- Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in this new mystery from the team behind Slow Horses. I need to speak on something. It may just be that aging thing,but I’ve always considered myself to fit in with a younger mindset anyway. I still love cartoons, and would … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/2925

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/28/25

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TB Shows Watched: Chad Powers: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, High Potential: S2E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Lazarus: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, Dr Seus’s Horton: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E? (Netflix) with audio description, The Chosen Adventures: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description, Only Murders In The Building: S5E10 (Hulu) with audio description Chad Powers- I think, and I know what I’m saying here, but I think Chad Powers might be my new favorite show of 2025. In terms of actual, real, uncontrollable laughs, chad … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/28/25

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Anniversary

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This review has been brought to you by the Change. “The Change, just do it.” For those of us who have achieved enlightenment through the wonders of The Change, you’ll understand that Lionsgate’s new Anniversary is not your typical film. It presents as a typical family gathering, but as the rules go, leave politics and religion off the dinner table. What happens when those lines become blurred, and politics and religion seem to blur into a cult like following, and because the cult is so prominent you can’t help but bring it up. This is the kind of stuff that … Continue reading Anniversary

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/27/25

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TV Shows Watched: Splinter Cell: DeathWatch: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, IT: Welcome to Dairy: S1E1 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Boots: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, The Chair Company: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Mr Scorsese: S1E2 (Apple plus) with audio description, and Last Week tonight: current (HBO MAX) no audio description yet Splinter Cell Deathwatch- I feel like I missed something. I remember the second episode, where they were on the run, and they had that unrealistic fight out of the window onto the top of a car,but where we picked up is not where I feel … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/27/25