I always start off with the optimism that the streaming service I’ve selected will have ten films with audio description that I’ve seen at some point in my life and can recommend. See, the thing is it’s like a Venn diagram from hell. you start with every movie ever made. Then, you have to reduce that list to only what’s on my selected streaming service. Then, it has to have audio description. Then, it has to have some relevance to the holidays. Then i have to have seen the damn thing in order to recommend it, and it has to … Continue reading 10 Movies With Audio Description On hulu To Bring You Holiday Joy

Of course, one wonders how this list would look if Paramount Plus and Showtime got their shit together and actually decided that accessibility matters, but just like how I did for Netflix, I will now try and recommend 10 titles on Paramount Plus. The usual rules apply. I’m using the list available on The Audio Description Project (ADP.ACB.org) and any title on this list I must have seen, either with audio description, or without (meaning, before I lost my vision). And then, it has to actually be worth recommending. I know, I set such a high bar to find ten … Continue reading 10 Titles On Paramount Plus With Audio Description To Bring you Holiday Cheer

The final streamer. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Amazon’s list at The Audio Description project (ADp.ACB.org) was included slightly under 600 titles free to prime subscribers. Since the master Amazon list has over 3,000 (we need to have a talk about that disparity, Amazon) I’m glad I didn’t have to search through over 3,000 titles. however, Amazon does have multiple genres which shortened the list, they have films I have seen and can’t recommend without having seen, and they have films I have seen but wouldn’t recommend. They’ve also prioritized a lot of D-list titles, which doesn’t help … Continue reading 10 Titles On Amazon With Audio Description To Frighten Prime Subscribers

So, the year is shaping up. Pretty much everyone has seen every major release minus a few like Babylon, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, and Avatar: The Way Of Water. But taht’s not stopping the Oscar talk, and the 20 actresses most likely to be one of five nominations announced. If I haven’t listed them, lets just be honest and say 15 of these actresses already won’t be nominated, and these aren’t my personal choices based on who I would vote for. This is pure buzz and industry talk. 1) Michelle Williams (The Fablemans) Despite the baffling decision to run a … Continue reading Oscars: Top 20 Contenders For Best Supporting Actress

If you have been following these lists, as Halloween approaches, I’ve already covered 10 Titles With Audio Description on HBo MAX, Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Hulu, and Peacock. Now it’s time to tackle the behemoth of them all. Netflix. Per the usual rules, if it is on this list, it is a recommendation by me. I may have seen the film before losing my vision, and not have seen it with audio description yet, but all titles are listed as having audio description on our trusted Audio Description Project (ADP.ACB.org). 1) Birdbox Back just a few years ago, this Sandra … Continue reading 10 Movies On Netflix With Audio Description To Scare you Silly This Halloween

Let’s be honest. It’s Disney Plus, which is not necessarily synonymous with scary. however, the service has a surprising amount of family friendly titles to get you in the mood. However, like my previous lists, I must have seen the film for it to make the list. So titles like Zombies 3 and Don’t look under The bed sound promising, but I missed those. The ones on my list are films I’ve seen and recommend, although I might not have seen the film yet with audio description. Based on the list of titles I hadn’t seen, I’m hoping this will … Continue reading 10 Movies On Disney Plus With Audio Description To Make Your Halloween Not-So Scary

I’ve already covered HBo MAX and hulu. Time to see if i can muster up ten titles worth watching that are on Peacock and have audio description. As before, every film on this list I recommend on some level, but I may not have seen the film with audio description, and my recommendation comes from having seen the film years ago. As usual, my list was pulled from The Audio Description Project, which you can always access: (Http:\\adp.acb.org) 1) Beast Soon, I’ll be posting a full review, but this film which dropped on the service two days ago was in … Continue reading 10 Titles With Audio Description On Peacock To Make Your Halloween Spooky

Just like the HBo MAX list I made last week, this list is pulled from the current list on the audio description project (ADp.acb.org), and are titles I have seen. I may not have seen all of these titles yet with audio description, but I am not recommending anything I haven’t seen. I figured since Hellraiser drops today, hulu seems like a logical choice. It is not on this list, because I have not watched it yet. 1) Fresh Sebastian Stan gives a rather delicious performance in this film that revolves around a topic that sometimes we don’t like to … Continue reading 10 Titles With Audio Description On hulu To Make Your Halloween Spooky

It’s that time of year, and while you’ll be seeing some more reviews from me of the spooky type, both here and on my Youtube channel (YouTube.com/macthemovieguy) I know not everyone has every service. So here’s a quick look at 10 titles available on HBO MAX with audio description. Note: If it’s on this list, I’ve seen it. However, I may not have seen the title with audio description, but rather am recommending the title based on my thoughts when I could see the films. 1) Antlers Now, here is one i did watch with audio description, and a review … Continue reading 10 Scary Titles On HBO MAX Right Now With Audio Description

being blind is an interesting and consistently challenging way of life where you use adaptive technology to do things that most people take for granted on a regular basis. For example, want to microwave dinner? Hopefully, you ahve a system set up for you to navigate the buttons on your microwave (as many microwaves have flat buttons, and no built in braille), or you had the foresight to get something a little more accessible, like perhaps an Alexa enabled microwave. Then, you have to read the directions on the box. But there’s an app for that. Unfortunately, tonight’s selection isn’t … Continue reading Opinion: Selective Audio Description Isn’t Just Lazy, It’s Censorship

When I started into my journey of relaunching at the beginning of the year, it came from the place of a lover of all things film and television, constantly running into my new found blind and visually impaired friends and the discussions we would have about audio description. either, the lack thereof, the small selection, the wide range in quality, how action and science fiction films aren’t described well, or any of the various statements that usually followed with I don’t watch much TV anymore, or I just like to read now. I personally think audio description on the whole … Continue reading Editorial: Following Chip N Dale, What Does Audio Description Sound Like?

With all the films tanking at the box office this summer, I felt like exploring some of my favorite summer releases that I might have to call “guilty pleasures”, because they aren’t typically regarded as ‘great’ movies. I tried to pick one from each summer from the last twenty years. Here’s a very damning list that I probably shouldn’t share with anyone, but I’m gonna post it. And yeah, I loved Rough Night, and I liked Baywatch. That’s why this list exists. 2016- Ghosbusters Technically, critics loved this. It got a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes. And it made 128M domestically, … Continue reading Summer’s Best Guilty Pleasures