Turning Red )My Video Review)
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The Too Much TV Round Up
It’s that time of week when I rundown the top 10 shows I watched last week I feel compelled to talk about. New development, is that… midweek… Peacock pushed an update to their application that actually allowed me to navigate and turn on audio description. Mind blowing. So, strap in, because even more titles on this list are now likely to have audio description. 1) Moon Knight (Disney Plus) English Audio Description Available?: Yes I cannot state how much I loved the pilot episode of this series. And it has very little to do with my excitement for the character … Continue reading The Too Much TV Round Up
Fire heart
Featuring the voices of Olivia Cooke, Kenneth Branagh, and William Shatner. Where I Watched It: Hulu English Audio Description Available?: No The Plot: A young girl tells her firefighter father that she wants to be just like him when she grows up. He tells her women aren’t allowed to be firefighters. That’s why they’re called firemen. So, flash forward to her being 16, in 1930’s New York City, and someone is burning down Broadway theatres one by one, and luring in the firefighters and kidnapping them in the process. So, our girl Georgia becomes Joe, and signs up to go … Continue reading Fire heart
Apollo 10 1/2 A Space Age Childhood
Featuring the voices of Jack Black, Glen Powell, and Zachary Levi. Directed By: Richard Linklater Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes The plot: A man narrates his childhood growing up in Houston, TX in 1969 around the time of the Apollo 11 mission. He may or may not have been recruited by NASA as a young boy for a super secret mission. What Works: Richard Linklater is nothing if not interesting. Even when he makes something I don’t care for, I still find his approach, his attempt to make human connections and stories, to be uniquely … Continue reading Apollo 10 1/2 A Space Age Childhood
Better Nate Than Never
Starring: Rueby Wood, Lisa Kudrow, Joshua Basset, Aria Brooks, and Norbert Leo Butz. Directed By: Tim Federel Where I Watched it: Disney Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes The plot: Nate (Wood) is a delightful 7th grader who dreams of being a big Broadway star one day. But surviving his school seems like a challenge, as the other kids tease and bully him, and he can’t even get cast out of the ensemble. Then his best friend, Libby (Brooks) notices an open casting call for Lilo and Stitch the musical, and the two devise a plan to make it to … Continue reading Better Nate Than Never
The Bubble
Starring: Karen Gillan, Fred Armisen, Keegan Michael Key, Iris Apatow, Pedro Pascal, Kate McKinnon, David Duchovny, and Leslie Mann. Directed By: Judd Apatow Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: Set during the pandemic, a film crew and the actors involved try and complete the filming on the 6th film in a ridiculous franchise, and satire ensues. What Works: There were a lot of people who didn’t like Don’t Look up, and that got a nomination for Best Picture. The thing about satire is that it is really hard, and almost never done correctly. That’s … Continue reading The Bubble
Moonshot
Starring: Cole Sprouts, Lana Condor, an Zach Braff. Directed By: Christopher Winterbauer Where I Watched It: HBO MAX English Audio Description Available: Yes Narrated By: Nicole Zanzarella Description Provided By Deluxe The Plot: In what I can only assume is the sequel to moon fall, Walt (Sprouts) is an insufferably average doofus who lives in a time when Mars has been colonized, and the only people who get to go are either rich, or worthy, neither of which apply to him. This doesn’t stop him from applying 37 times to go to Mars. One night at a party, he meets … Continue reading Moonshot
Halloween Kills
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Judy Greer, Andi Madichak, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Will Patton. Directed By: David Gordon Green Where I Watched It: HBO MAX English Audio Description Available?: Yes Narrated By Briana Leon Audio Description provided By: The Media Access Group The Plot: Picking up exactly where the last film in the series left off, we continue with our very bloody Halloween night that will absolutely cause a noticeable drop the next time a census is taken. After the town of haddonfield realizes that Michael Myers is loose and killing again, the denizens of this sleepy town that have … Continue reading Halloween Kills
Moon Knight (Pilot)
Starring: Oscar Issac and Ethan Hawke. Where I Watched It: Disney Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: Steven (Issac) works at a museum. This is also the Marvel introduction to Moon Knight. So, trying to explain this to you would involve spoilers. But, yes, Steven works at a museum. What Works: I know the critics have been getting screener access to the first four episodes, but I like to review pilots, because you’re never guaranteed an audience will come back for more if the pilot doesn’t work. So it really doesn’t matter if the show picks up in … Continue reading Moon Knight (Pilot)
The 355
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Lupita nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Edgar Ramirez, Sebastian Stan, Bing Bing Fan, and Jason Flemyng. Directed By: Simon Kinberg Where I Watched It: Peacock English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: May (Chastain) is a spy working for the United States that is sent on what seems to be an easy mission, but ends up getting her partner (Stan) killed, and sends her spiraling on a quest for vengeance and to stop the worlds criminals from getting their hands on a flash drive that has unlimited abilities to destroy the world. But first, she’s gonna have … Continue reading The 355
Drive My Car
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Mira, Reka Kirashima, and Park U-Rim. Directed By: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Where I Watched It: HBO MAX English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: An actor/director is offered the chance to launch a production of uncle Vanya at a theatre festival at Hiroshima. The festival that hires him requires him to have his own personal driver, as a safety precaution. he learns more about himself, and his driver, as well as those closest to him as he unpacks his own emotional baggage that lies parallel to the context of the play he’s directing, pulling him closer to … Continue reading Drive My Car
Coda
Starring: Amelia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Pillo, and Amy Forsyth. Directed By Sean Heder Where I Watched It: Apple Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: Ruby (Jones) is a CODA, a child of deaf adults. Her older brother (Durant) is also deaf, and her entire life has been shaped by this unique experience growing up in a household as the only hearing individual. Ruby often has to translate for her parents, and spends her free time helping her father (kotsur) with his fishing business. She presumes that this will be the rest … Continue reading Coda
The Too Much TV Roundup
Welcome back for my weekly post tackling the top 10 shows I watched an episode or two of last week, that I either loved or just wanted to mention here for some reason. As always, I don’t watch everything with audio description, and that will be notated. And for long term readers, I have a perpetual problem with the app design on peacock, and I’m just happy to be able to watch anything, but I can’t navigate in any form to turn on audio description because the app is so poorly developed. 1) The Oscars English Audio Description?: I was … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup
Cheaper By The Dozen (2022)
Starring: Gabrielle Union, Zach Braff, Erika Christensen, and Timon Kyle Durrett. Directed By: Gail Lerner Where I Watched It: Disney Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes Narration By: Nigel Mojica Description provided By: Descriptive Video Works The Plot: The Bakers this time have taken their name literally, and they now run a Breakfast restaurant where dad (Braff) is the Breakfast King, and mom (Union) is supporting with her marketing degree. And that “dozen” includes animals, so there are less kids in this version. Among many other changes. What Works: First, i love Gabrielle Union in this. After Home Sweet Home … Continue reading Cheaper By The Dozen (2022)
Home Team
Starring: Kevin James, Taylor Lautner, Tait Blue, Jackie Sandler, Rob Schneider, Gary Valentine, Isaiah Mustafa, Lavell Crawford, and Chloe Feinman. Directed By The Kinnane’s Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes Description Provided By: Deluxe Narrated By Jedidiah Barton The Plot: Based on the true story of the scandal that followed the Super Bowl win of the New Orleans Saints that led to the year long suspension of coach Sean Payton (James) who takes the time off to visit his son Connor (Blum) in Texas, where he is on a football team that is on quite a … Continue reading Home Team
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