Didn’t we just have an action Ballerina film last year? Still, the concept of ballerinas using their particular set of skills to get themselves out of a tight situation feels like something fun to sit through. Even though Ana de Armas just did an overpowered version of this last year, I’m still excited to see *checks notes* Maddie Ziegler kick some ass? Yes. And that is the draw of pretty Lethal, the new Amazon Prime exclusive. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival before landing on Prime Video with audio description (we will get to that), … Continue reading Pretty Lethal

Frida McFadden’s series of novels is finally breaking onto the big screen courtesy of Paul Feig, who helped to get a similar twisty mystery onto the screen with A Simple Favor. That became a sleeper hit in 2018, and The Housemaid became solid counterprogramming in December 2025. Both Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried had Oscar hopefuls on the table, which ultimately neither happened, and the combined worldwide grosses of both those films is less than the domestic opening weekend box office for The Housemaid. Sweeny’s Christie made 2.1 million off a 15 million budget, while The Testament Of Ann Lee … Continue reading The Housemaid

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and I typically watch films with audio description. This movie does have audio description, and I believe it was the exact same narrator as Chapter 1. When I watched One Mile: Chapter One, I was pleasantly surprised. Was it groundbreaking cinema? It hails from Republic Pictures, so of course not. It was a decent survival thriller built around a father trying to rescue his daughter from a community of breeders using that particular set of skills one gathers over a lifetime. Sometimes that’s all you need. Punch, kick, kill, repeat. A movie that understood … Continue reading One Mile: Chapter Two

This is one of those cases where, much like the recent faces Of Death supposedly having something to say about our desensitization to violence, Outcome has something to say on cancel culture. Jonah Hill writes and directs an odd duck of a film that never quite finds a consistent tone, and cant’ quite decide on its own messaging. On one hand, Hill might be interested in exploring the external forces behind cancel culture, as he flirted with it when his ex-girlfriend released a barrage of personal text messages and accused him of emotional abuse. If Hill was hitting close to … Continue reading Outcome

Coming This week: Euphoria (HBO), Beef (Netflix), and Million Dollar Secret (Netflix) all return for a second season while Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple), American Gladiators (Amazon), and The Audacity (AMC Plus) drop as new titles with audio description. In case that last bit confuses you, the stand alone AMC Plus is flirting with audio description now, having set up their most recent content. currently, from what I can see, there are two films (The plague and 100 Nights Of Hero) and four series (The Audacity, Dark Winds, Gangs of London, and The Walking Dead: Dead city). The last three … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/11/26

What a bizarre show. it is this trainwreck of a combination that forces a Simon Cowell vanity project about himself, with a reality show to find the next One Direction. Simon seems alone in this endeavor, using the camera crew to make him look like a tame pussycat, and a deeply empathetic individual who has a knack for finding excellent talent and being able to predict trends, and create the next One direction. The problem is that no one saw this, so the band created within the show faces an extreme uphill battle in validating Cowell’s prowess as a producer. … Continue reading Simon Cowell’s Next Act: Season 1

It always blows my mind how Michael Mann’s Heat, an exceptional and influential film wasn’t just not nominated in Best Picture, it wasn’t nominated anywhere in any category. In fact, it missed all major precursor awards,despite its critical acclaim and cultural significance. From some of the best written, most well shot sequences, to the dynamic performances by Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, I’d like to think if we could do it all over again, Heat would make the cut.Crime 101 certainly didn’t fall from the tree, taking a charismatic theif, an aging cop with a fractured family, and a complicated … Continue reading Crime 101

TV Shows Watched: The Testaments: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Strip Law: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, The Burbs: S1E5 (Peacock) with audio description, Shifting Gears: S2E13 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Greatest Average American: S1E5 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Landman: S2E9 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The Testaments- We learn more about Daisy’s past (she’s not Nicole), and about half of the story of how she came to be at the facility. The girls take a field trip to the home of a rather recent married girl to see what it is like to run a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/10/26

TV Shows Watched: The Boys: S5E2 (Amazon) with audio description, The Testaments: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Dynasty: The Murdocks: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Monarch: S2E4 (Apple) with audio description, Sunny Nights: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description The Boys- there was a scene where we get “Huey and the gang”, followed by a decent bit of silence before dialogue. I wonder if we couldn’t have listed the six members individually? Was the timing crunch really that tight? Otherwise, I love the Boys, and I loved this episode. Each one so far has ended with a cliffhanger. The … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/09/26

TV Shows Watched: The Testaments: S1E1 (Hulu) with audio description, The Boys: S5E1 (Amazon) with audio description, The Night Agent: S3E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Sheriff Country: S1E10 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, The Hunt: S1E3 (Apple) with audio description, and Virgin River: S7E1 (Netflix) with audio description The Testaments- It isn’t as instantly iconic as The Handmaid’s Tale, but it is pretty damn good, especially for anyone who wanted closure from the flagship series but couldn’t get it because of The Testaments. The series centers on Agnes (One Battle breakout Chase Infinity), who you may know as June’s daughter, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/08/26

TV Shows Watched: American Idol: S24E11 (Disney plus) no audio description, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Daredevil: Born Again: S2E4 (Disney plus) with audio description, Imperfect Women: S1E2 (Apple) with audio description,and The Forsyths: S1E3 (PBS) with audio description American Idol: Really for the first time, we started to see some of the kids perform just pretty good, but not as good as the others. I think Jesse’s choice was a pure example of that, which is why he was where he was. His Wonder Wall was so mediocre. Hannah has been riding … Continue reading !The Small Screen Diaries: 04/07/26

To see or not to see? I feel like that is the question critics are asking, but somehow feels very different when being asked by a blind film critic. It really puts that clever flip on the classic Shakespeare quote in a whole new light, doesn’t it? One of the many cases where my screener did not have audio description, but simultaneously, I’m not putting on my bumpkin hat and pretending to be unfamiliar with Hamlet. I do find it amusing that this film has apparently been in some form of gestation for over ten years. On one hand, it … Continue reading Going In Blind: Hamlet (2026)

If you’re a fan… FOX picked up Memory of A Killer for a second season. TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul: Shadow Lord: S1E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description,The Count Of Monte Cristo: S1E3 (PBS) with audio description, Ghosts: S5E5 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Finding Her Edge: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and Hijack: S2E7 (Apple) with audio description Maul: Shadow Lord- The weird thing is, I think this show had excellent audio description, but when it comes to Maul and his actual skin color/tattoo hybrid thing he’s got going on, I’m not sure it mentioned the color combination … Continue reading The small Screen Diaries: 04/06/26

I’ll admit, that the concept of doing another 28 Days film this close to 2025’s 28 Years Later gave me strong reservations. it basically was mirroring the release strategy of Renny Harlin’s Strangers trilogy, nothing which should ever be repeated.With director Danny Boyle taking a break again from the series,a new director was needed, and that came in the form of Nia Dacosta, who directed the candyman reboot, but also most recently Hedda for Amazon. Sure, in between she did The MArvels, but I have a feeling there was a lot of studio interference on that one, and with her … Continue reading 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

TV Shows Watched: Pluribus: S1E8 (Apple) with audio description, Invincible: S4E1 (Amazon) with audio description, Detective Hole: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, School Spirits: S3E6 (Paramount) with audio description, Simon Cowell’s Next Act- S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, The Last Thing he Told Me: S2E4 (Apple) with audio description, Elzabeth: S3E11 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Breaking Bad: S3E12 (Netflix) with audio description Pluribus- Carol, clearly struggling with loneliness, welcomes Zosha back into her life, trying to get her to identify more as an I than a We, and seeing how the aliens have crafted the world around them. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 04/05/26