I have so many amazing memories of film, and not just of watching movies. I’ve spent my life working in and around them, seeing them on big screens and little ones, working in movie theaters, studying film in college and writing about movies online. I always hoped I would eventually gain some kind of clout as a film critic, and, to be fair, I have. I’m Rotten Tomatoes certified, and I’ve been welcomed into several critics’ organizations. I can’t say that my entire existence as a blind film critic has been a complete and total wash. Still, there is something … Continue reading Well…

TV Shows Watched: Silo: S3E10 (Apple) with audio description, Stuart Fails: S1E7 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Will Trent: S4E18 (Disney Plus) with audio description, St Dennis Medical: S2E17 (Peacock) with audio description, Berlin: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description Silo- Plan to review the whole thing, but this episode does a lot, in both timelines, and answers the question about the air outside, Silo 1, and how we buried the lead on cryo. Pixel Logic did another solid track. Stuart Fails- But this show is excellent as well, and with all the timeline hopping in this one, and the variations … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/04/26

TV shows Watched: Lucky:S1 E1-5 (Apple) with audio description, and The Doomies: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description Lucky- My newest attempt to knock out a show while busy brought me pretty damn close, since there are only 7 episodes of Lucky. But this series is a blast from start to finish if you haven’t started. A huge cast, led by Anya Taylor Joy, but also featuring Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey, William Fichtner, Aunjuane Ellis-Taylor, and Clifton Collins Jr. Not bad at all. Pixel Logic has done some nice work on the audio description for a somewhat frenetic … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/01/26

TV Shows Watched: Lanterns: S1E3 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Black Torch: S1E1 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, elle: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, American Classic: S1E8 (MGM Plus) with audio description I almost finished a fifth show, but alas, I did not. Lanterns- A fantastic flashback origin story for John Stewart, and how his family worked hard to ensure he’d be the next Green Lantern. IDC, Dakota Green, and ren Leach continue to produce good work. I liked how the guardian was described, and little details about the passage of time during John’s sniper mission. Black Torch- A fairly easy … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/26

TV Shows Watched: The Walking dead: Dead City: S3E6 (AMC Plus) with audio description, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: S1E10 (Apple) with audio description, Sheriff Country: Season finale (Paramount) with audio description, The Legend of Vox Machina: S4E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Five Star Weekend: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S4E9 (Netflix) with audio description, Hacks: S5E9 (HBO MAX) with audio description Dead City- AMC Plus failed to get the AD up for this alternate reality version of The Walking Alive, where the zombie apocalypse never happened, and Negan and Maggie still have a fateful meeting. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed- … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/30/26

Hulu has picked up Furious for another season, and The Gentleman (Netflix) is set to return for a second season in a week full of 9/11 docs, football docuseries, Dolly tributes, and box office misses The Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney Plus) and Scary Movie (Paramount), along with straight to streamer titles The Runner (Amazon) and Mayday (Apple). Plus, there’s a spinoff from Martin (I’m not kidding) featuring Tommy Davidson hitting Paramount Plus this week. TV Shows Watched: Adventure Time: side Quests: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Tomb Raider King: S1E3 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Elle: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 08/29/26

Loosely, I’ll say I’m feeling discriminated against this morning, though I won’t provide context. I did have to casually accuse/suggest that in an email, which is not fun. TV Shows Watched: Lanterns: S1E1 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Widows Bay: S1E10 (Apple) with audio description, Avatar: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S4E? (Paramount) no audio description, Elzabeth: Season Finale (Paramount) with audio description, and Last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description Winner: Lanterns Loser: Tracker I don’t know why Tracker lost AD for an episode, but considering I also watched Elzabeth without problem, then Tracker just … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/17/26

The conversation around the use of text-to-speech audio description has been inflamed recently as certain streaming services and film distribution companies have turned to their top tier branded content, replacing human audio description performers with synthetic, non-human voices replicating the human vibe, but still unable to deliver a human performance. This isn’t terribly shocking, since we seem to be a brad crumb society, patiently waiting for, and accepting the scraps given to us. Aside from the disability centric ReelAbilities, there isn’t a single streaming service that is 100% accessible, nor is there a network or cable channel offering 24/7 audio … Continue reading The Fable Of Synthetic Voice

TV Shows Watched: The Witness: Full Series (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S3E18 (Paramount) with audio description, The Miniature Wife: S1E9 (Peacock) with audio description, and The Rookie: S8E9 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Witness- Three episodes of this true crime limited series based on the memoir Letting Go by the grown up version of the little kid who is left as the only witness to his mother’s brutal murder, when he was three. We’ve seen Hollywood play with little kids as lone witnesses before, and even if they all spun from this true story, they do it better. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/11/26

Tonight. The season finale of House Of The Dragon. Are we getting the Battle of Tumbleton tonight? If so, are we looking at a host of deaths? Get those prediction wheels going in your heads. TV Shows Watched: The Agency: S2E6-10 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S2E15 (Netflix) with audio description, Elzabeth: S3E19 (Paramount) with audio description, and Hacks: S5E8 (HBO MAX) with audio description The Agency- So weird no one is credited for the AD on this. I have listened all the way to the end, and while I think I recognize the voice, and assume … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/08/26

Can you imagine if Disney had the audacity to announce Wonder Man’s cancellation in front of their comic con panel? I love how they waited until right after and then slid in with “by the way”. As if they weren’t getting negative reactions from people still looking for previously discussed Blade and Shang Chi movies, which have seemingly vanished. TV Shows Watched: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S4E? (Netflix) with audio description, Daemons Of THe Shadow Realm: S1E8 (CrunchyRoll) with audio description, Star City: S1E8 (Apple) with audio description, SSheriff Country: S1E17 (Paramount) with audio description, Tracker: S3E17 (Paramount) with audio … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/30/26

TV Shows Watched: X-Men 97: S2E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Nemesis: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Your Friends And Neighbors: S2E9 (Apple) with audio description, Scarpetta: S1E8 (Amazon) with audio description, The Miniature Wife: S1E8 (Peacock) with audio description, The Four Seasons: S2E8 (Netflix) with audio description, and Elzabeth: S3E18 (Paramount) with audio description X-Men 97: So we have some mistakes again. Come on, Deluxe. There’s a mixup between Rogue and Polaris, as in this Savage Land episode, Bishop and Polaris are paired off, and Rogue is with Nightcrawler. At the climax, when Bishop and Polaris destroy the inhibitor … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/29/26

TV Shows Watched: Every. Year After: Season 1 (Amazon) with audio description, THe Bear: S5E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description, and Hacks: S5E7 (HBO MAX) with audio description Every Year After- I know I didn’t do many shows, but to be fair, I binge watched an 8 episode YA drama. So there’s that. Of course, I will review the whole thing. The audio description was really lovely. There’s plenty of specificity here, like in Percy’s horror tastes. She’s watching Blair Witch at one point, she’s reading Christine, and there’s a poster … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/28/26

TV Shows Watched: House Of THe Dragon: S3E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: S1E7 (Apple) with audio description, Million Dollar Secret: S2E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Ted: S2E8 (Peacock) with audio description, Stranger Things: Tales From 85- S1E9 (Netflix), Last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description, and Breaking Bad: S4E6 (Netflix) with audio description House Of The Dragon- Connor DeWolfe is writing, in my humblest of opinions, the best AD at the moment, for a currently running series. There’s so much detail being pulled out of a broad ensemble, and being brought to life. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/27/26

TV Shows Watched: The Walking Dead: Dead City: S3E1 (AMC Plus) no audio description, Margo’s Got Money Troubles: S1E8 (Apple) with audio description,Strip Law: S1E9 (Netflix) with audio description, The Westies: S1E4 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Top Chef: Season Finale (Peacock) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: S2E14 (Netflix) with audio description, The Hawk: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Marshals: S1E10 (Paramount) with audio description The Walking Dead: Dead City- On the AMC Plus app, this show is tagged as having AD. More importantly, since I switched to the app between S2 and S3, AMC Plus doesn’t know I’ve … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/26/26

Coming up this week, a few movies to note, The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Disney Plus) on Wednesday, The Drama (HBO MAX) on Friday, and the new The Devil’s Mouth (Amazon) on Wednesday with Katherine Newton and Lana Condor. Returning shows include The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC Plus) today, Batman: The Caped Crusader (Amazon) on Friday, and a few new ones including The Bombing Of Pam Am 103 (Netflix) and Furious (Hulu) with Emmy Rossum and Lola Pettigrew (it sounds a little like Killing Eve to me). TV Shows Watched: I Will Find You: Full Series (Netflix) with audio … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/25/26