Author: John Stark

Blogger. EIC of macthemovieguy.com. Contributor to mjsbigblog.com and houseofgeekery.com. Previously featured on starpulse.com.
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Stay (2025)

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Cast: Megalyn Echikunwoke, Mo McRae Written And DirectedBy: Jas Summers Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Hulu Audio Description Provided By: Written by: Narrated By: What Is it?: A couple at the end of their marriage find themselves trapped inside their house by benevolent forces that force them to deal with the demons of their relationship, and come to terms with all of the unsaid emotions. What Doesn’t Work: For those of us who celebrated Christmas, perhaps you get the analogy of having something on your list that was so specific it couldn’t simply fit in a box. Sometimes, your parents wouldn’t … Continue reading Stay (2025)

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Steve (2025)

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Cast: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman, Jay Lycurgo Written By: Max Porter Directed By: Tim Mielants Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Netflix Audio description Provided By: Written By: Narrated By: What Is it?: Shot in the style of a documentary, a camera crew watches the youth at a juvenile detention center over the course of a day, focusing on their relationships, and how their mentor/teacher Steve hopes to change their bleak futures. What Works: The format is certainly interesting as we’ve had so many films about adults trying to change the lives of misguided youth. It used to be quite a regular … Continue reading Steve (2025)

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The Small Screem Diaries: 10/11/25

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TV Shows Watched: Outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E10 (Starz) no audio description, My Life With the Walter Boys: S2E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S6E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description, 911: S9E1 (Hulu) with audio description, King Of The Hill: S2E19 (Hulu) no audio description, Pop culture Jeopardy: Second Semi-Final (Amazon) with audio description, Abbott Elementary: S5E2 (Hulu) with audio description Outlander: Blood of My Blood- Will do a full review. My Life With the Walter Boys- this is not good television. We know that, right? I feel like we know that about Virgin River. There was some acting … Continue reading The Small Screem Diaries: 10/11/25

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Weapons

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Cast: Julia Garner, josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Madigan, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, June Diane Raphael, Toby Huss, Sara Paxton, Justin Long, Written and Directed By: Zach Cregger Release year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Warner Bros Runtime: 128 minutes Audio Description provided by: (Need Credit) Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: A sleepy town is turned upside down when 17 elementary school kids get up at the exact same time in the middle of the night and run away from their homes. All of the kids were in the same class. What exactly happened? Is the teacher responsible, or … Continue reading Weapons

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The Girlfriend: Series review

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Cast: Robin Wright, Olivia Cooke, Laurie Davidson, Walled Zuaiter, Karen Henthorn Length: 6 episodes Studio/Streamer: Amazon Prime video Audio Description Produced By: Audio Description Written By: Audio Description Narrated By: What Is it?: A mother’s love for her son knows no bounds. After Laura (Wright) becomes suspicious of her son’s new girlfriend (Cooke), her determination to break them up will pit both women against each other in a game of mutual destruction where only one can win. The show plays with perspective, showing you the same block of time from one of the two main perspectives, before flipping to the … Continue reading The Girlfriend: Series review

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Peacemaker: Season 2

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Cast: John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, Robert Patrick, Frank Grillo, Tim Meadows Length: 8 episodes Streaming Service: HBO MAX Release Year: 2025 Audio Description Produced By: Zoo Digital Written By: Narrated By: What Is it?: An opportunity to try and turn Peacemaker into not just more of a clear hero, but also aligned with the new DCU championed by James Gunn. The season centers around Rick Flagg Sr taking over Argus, has a clear vendetta against Peacemaker, but Peacemaker is playing around with a portal to another dimension which seems like there’s maybe a perfect … Continue reading Peacemaker: Season 2

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Maintenance Required

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Audio Description Provided By: Media Access Group Written By: Narrated By: What Is it?: A shameless ripoff of Shop Around The corner, which has been remade several times. IMDb’s page doesn’t even acknowledge this is clearly based on source material previously written. Instead of bookstores, which really don’t exist in 2025, a neighborhood car garage faces competition from a big chain store, complete with the same storyline where the girl running the mom and pop store is corresponding in some manner with the guy opening the chain. Why It Doesn’t Work: the girl from Riverdale and the guy from the … Continue reading Maintenance Required

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The Small Screen diaries: 10/10/25

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TV Shows Watched: Peacemaker: S2E8 (HBo MAX) with audio description, English teacher: S2E3 (Hulu) with audio description, The Sisters Grimm: S1E2 (Apple plus) with audio description, Haunted Hotel: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, the Great North: Series finale (Hulu) no audio description, Name that Tune: S4E44 (Hulu) no audio description, and celebrity Weakest Link: S1E3 (Hulu) no audio description Peacemaker- Full review coming. English Teacher- the core gang are summoned to the principal’s house for some kind of event, but it mostly turns out to be figuring out if this one boyfriend character is gay. A secondary plot involved Markie … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 10/10/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/10/25

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TV Shows Watched: The Girlfriend: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, The lowdown: S1E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Shifting Gears: S2E2 (Disney plus) with audio description, Billy the Kid: S1E2 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Wayward: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Tulsa King: S3E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The Girlfriend- Definitely doing a full review. I have thoughts. Wait for that.the Lowdown- Hawke’s Lee keeps pulling at a thread, and danger still befalls him. He ends up having to admit to his daughter why he was in jail..kind of. I’m still waiting for that moment to be sucked fully into … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/10/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/08/25

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TV Shows Watched:Gen V: S2E6 (Amazon) with audio description, House of Guinness: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Platonic: S2E10 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Migrete: S1E1 (PBS) with audio description,Ginny and Georgia: S3E? (Netflix) with audio description, and The Paper: S1E? (Peacock) with audio description Gen V- Murray and the gang still have to fully break out, which they do with the help of Sam who decides to finally join the squad. Then, we get some cameos from The Boys with Emmy Nominee Giancarlo Esposito swinging back in as the head of VOT, and he’s got his “granddaughter” with him. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/08/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/07/25

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TV Shows Watched: Chad Powers: S1E2 (Hulu) with audio description, High Potential: S2E3 (HulU) with audio description, The Gold: S1E1 (PBS) with audio description, The Runarounds: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox: S1E8 (Hulu) with audio description, The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description, Only Murders In The Building: S5E6 (Hulu) with audio description Chad Powers- OMG. I listen to some shows while I exercise in the morning, and it is not good to do that with Chad Powers. I’m in the middle of trying to get my step in while laughing uncontrollably. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/07/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/06/25

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TV Shows Watched: Black Mirror: S5E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Black rabbit: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Task: S1E5 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Dr Seuss’s Horton: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball: S1E11 (Hulu) with audio description, and last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet. Black Mirror- Striking Vipers offers up an interesting premise, but as with most black Mirror episodes, it scrapes the surface. As a gamer, I immediately had a lot of questions about this game because having been a gamer before losing sight, it is impossible to … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/06/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 10/05/25

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TV Shows Watched: Daryl Dixon: S3E5 (AMC Plus) no audio description, The Sisters Grimm: S1E1 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The terminal list: Dark Wolf: S1E7 (Amazon) with audio description, Hotel Cocina: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, Rick and Morty: S8E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Have I got News for you: S3E? (HBO MAX) no audio description, SNL: S51E1 (Peacock) No Audio description yet, and The Rainmaker: S1E5 (Peacock) with audio description Daryl Dixon- this season is trying my patience, not just from a lack of accessibility, but also a storytelling perspective. I just do not care about this … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/05/25

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the Best of 2025 So Far: October Edition

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I’m now up to 306 films, which does include streaming exclusives, a few festival titles that haven’t released, and a tiny smidge of documentary and animated shorts. All are 2025 releases for all intents and purposes, though festival releases can get pushed back. the top 25 Films: #1- deaf President now #2- Twinless #3- Tornado #4- the Parenting #5- F1: the movie #6- Lavender Men #7- My dead Friend Zoey #8- Sinners #9- the Assessment #10- she rides Shotgun #11- Sovereign #12- Thunderbolts #13- Superman #14- Materialists #15- Ballerina #16- Elio #17- Magazine Dreams #18- K-Pop Demon Hunters #19- the … Continue reading the Best of 2025 So Far: October Edition

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Access Horror 2025

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Release Year: 2025 Streaming Service: AMC Plus Audio Description Provided By: the Social Audio Description Collective What Is it?: A short film festival from earlier this year that was disability minded and accessibility forward features a bunch of different shorts all in the horror genre. What Works: This actually has audio description on AMC Plus, one of the very limited options the service has. if you are truly interested in this, you can always run a free trial. if you find other things while you’re there, good for you. The lack of audio description actually on these streaming services by … Continue reading Access Horror 2025