Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and this film has audio description. It’s that time of year. time for merriment and spreading joy for all to hear.It also means an onslaught of repetitive winter romances masquerading as Christmas movies. My Secret Santa is probably the best swing, and total miss. This idea actually is great, and I’m sad this is what it became. the plot of the film finds a mother (Alexandra Breckenridge) who is struggling, recently fired, trying to make rent, and her daughter just got accepted to an expensive snowboarding camp. She attempts to get a job at … Continue reading My Secret Santa

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. This film, like with most screeners, was made available to me without audio description. I do not know if a track exists, as the movie does not open wide until January. It is also from a relatively new distributor, so i don’t know their pattern for choosing audio description. That being said, if I don’t talk about this film, it will just continue to be ignored. Some of our smaller films this year are actually among the best, but their studios don’t have the money to convince everyone they are as life affirming as … Continue reading Going In Blind: Dead Man’s Wire

TV Shows Watched: Hal and Harper: S1E1 (Mubi) no audio description,All Her Fault: S1E2 (Peacock) with audio description, Has been Hotel: S2E2 (Amazon) with audio description, Boston Blue: S1E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Breaking Bad: ??? (Netflix) with audio description Hal and Harper- If you don’t have Mubi, that’s fine. they don’t have AD. they do make a few films with AD, and could start to make their service accessible, but they run a lot of really indie movies. I wanted to give them a try, as if you’ve kept up with these Diaries/Roundups, you’d know I’ve dabbled … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/18/25

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I’m also living in a material world, and I am a Material Girl. i guess I didn’t quite get around to reviewing this the first time around, but as the season for considering continues, I wanted to revisit Selene Song’s sophomore effort, which delighted me back in June. it does have audio description, so if you are weighing the material value of the film based on accessibility, you won’t be disappointed. There aren’t that many standout moments, but a certain visual cue that we notice about Pedro Pascal’s character in the third act certainly … Continue reading Materialists

TV Shows Watched: Fallout: S2E1 (Amazon) with audio description, Mr Scorsese: S1E4 (Apple TV) with audio description, Murdoch: Death In The Family: S1E5 (Hulu) with audio description, Name that Tune: S5E10 (Disney Plus) no audio description, and Death By Lightning: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description Fallout- Of course I had to jump right in on this. Love the show, and I’m glad it’s back. The audio description had to describe a lot of gory things, including a few exploding heads, but by far I was most grossed out by the presentation of flea soup. Ugh. If it has been a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/17/25

TV Shows Watched: The American revolution: S1E3 (PBS) with audio description, Percy Jackson: S2E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, and Landman: S2E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The American Revolution- If you’ve never done Ken Burns before, my God. I feel like I’m getting my learning done. The weird thing is, for a really educational experience, it is somehow entertaining? Even if every episode is really long. The cool kids put this on the PBS app on their phone, and bump up the speed modification. Yeah, I didn’t spend two hours on this, but it was still over an hour. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/16/25

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. In the morning, I’m making waffles. How many McDonald’s do you need to rob in order for Channing Tatum to play you in a film? the answer is, don’t do that. He’s done it once, there’s no reason to believe he’d do it again. Although, this is exactly the kind of role Tatum needs in his life. As he moves more toward being a respected actor, films of note, like Roofman, help give him the kind of status he wants. This is also interestingly a Christmas movie, as it takes place mostly around the … Continue reading Roofman

TV Shows Watched: It: Welcome To Dairy: S1E8 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Tulsa King: S3E10 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Nobody Wants this: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Loot: S3E7 (Apple TV) with audio description Welcome To Dairy- This show has been obsessively and graphically violent, very gory, and brilliantly described.My review of it might contain a bit more than this, but the scene with the Principal, for example, had to walk a fine line. It couldn’t reveal the whole thing up front, but it was pretty obvious what it was. They announced the series is getting a physical … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/15/25