Going In Blind: the Voice Of Hind Rajab

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. This film has no audio description and its primary language is not English, though English is spoken. My first international contender reviewed for the 2025 season. To my knowledge, no contenders have audio description. Not the ones being distributed by NeoN, Sony Pictures Classics, Amazon, Mubi, or any other company. There’s a belief that blind audiences aren’t worth the funding, because we are a niche audience. if that were truly true,companies like Netflix and Apple wouldn’t be describing their international shows and movies on a somewhat random basis. for example, I got to see … Continue reading Going In Blind: the Voice Of Hind Rajab

Going In Blind: My Neighbor Adolf

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. This movie has no audio description. Roll with me on this. We’re veering out of traffic onto an exit ramp here. I’m not sure this is a review, as much as it is an experience. I basically just consume as much, and try and discuss the merits of audio description. This movie came across my path, and became more important after the passing of Udo Kier. I had a review all queued up, ready to go, but something was amiss. I keep the experience to pretty much what an audience member would get. i … Continue reading Going In Blind: My Neighbor Adolf

Oh, Hi

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. As you wish. It’s a pretty simple movie. Oh, Hi feels like the kind of film that could just keep going further and further off the rails, but it stays pretty much on the first new set of tracks it jumps to. one derailment, and then onward. The question is, will anyone find these characters charming? Will anyone root for these crazy kids? I think more couples will be glad this isn’t them. Weighing how much to tell in the review, that is the question. Molly Gordon and Logan lerman play a couple on … Continue reading Oh, Hi

Predators

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I’m not Chris Hanson. the new Paramount/MTV documentary Predators, which made its debut earlier this year at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has some questions. But, does it actually answer them? David Osit shines a light on the former pop culture phenomenon that was To Catch A Predator, and while he’s only slightly in his own documentary, he does seem to suggest that perhaps the ends don’t justify the means. In order for there to be a predator, there must be prey. He explores this by getting different sides of the same coin from … Continue reading Predators

Regretting You

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I don’t know how to quit you. I get it now. Coleen Hoover is Nicholas Sparks. They stopped adapting every one of Sparks’s novels, so he decided to become Colleen Hoover. Either that, or Hoover only read one novelist, and it’s showing. I know critics have not been kind to this, but it is really hard to do that. Full disclosure, Paramount gifted me a digital copy. It did nothing to sway my opinion, but it saved me either a rental, or waiting for Paramount Plus. I don’t see me rewatching this, but I’d … Continue reading Regretting You

Black Phone 2

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic.You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Not to brag, but I’m a pretty big fan of the first Black Phone film. It was in my Top 10 of 2022, and I believe I had Mason Thames and Scott Derickson in my top 10 for both Actor and Director. I wasn’t a big fan of horror before losing my sight, but The Black Phone is certainly one of the films that I’m glad I got to experience, because I don’t know if I would have otherwise. Probably, … Continue reading Black Phone 2

Going In Blind: the Last Republican

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and the director of Hot Tub Time Machine didn’t put audio description on this. Perhaps, it is time to use that machine, and go back and add the description? What happens when a liberal democrat makes a documentary about a conservative republican? In these times, in this political climate, I’m sure the mountain felt a lot steeper to climb. Even being able to have any kind of conversation or discourse when we’ve never been so divided. But, Steve Pink decided to follow adam kenzinger around for his final days in Congress, and document how … Continue reading Going In Blind: the Last Republican

The Family Plan 2

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. I’m in the middle of Oscar season, and I know you want this review. The first film set a record at the time for Apple, and I had to review that. I wasn’t a fan. Still, I find myself, as many do, with giant men, tears streaming down their eyes, saying “Sir. Could you please review the family Plan 2?” I aim to please. I’m not sure this film does, but I do. Mark Wahlberg, who has abandoned all hope of being a big screen star, returns … Continue reading The Family Plan 2

Going In Blind: Lilly

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and to the best of my knowledge, this film does not have audio description. It’s that time of year when I’m getting a barrage of screeners. Everyone wants awards attention and votes. I had to take the time out when a rep offered me Lilly, because it stars Patricia clarkson. I knew nothing. I didn’t IMDb the film until after. then, I saw this thing is just floating on Netflix. It just has such a low profile, I’m not sure anyone noticed. When I asked my Alexa device about it, she thought first I … Continue reading Going In Blind: Lilly

Going In Blind: tapawingo

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I typically watch films with audio description. There is no known description for this film. The audacity. I often just get a screener, and I watch it. I don’t always get press notes, and i don’t always know what I’m watching. So, I got Tapawingo, and jumped in figuring it needed my consideration at this time of year. I found myself sitting there, wondering in 2025 who would have the audacity. It isn’t just one audacious item either. there’s first the audacity of making this film, and it being basically “What if Drillbit Taylor … Continue reading Going In Blind: tapawingo

The Roses

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and you can’t handle the truth. We just have to remake things. it’s this compulsion we have in Hollywood, to not let any franchise die, even if there is no franchise. It’s why we have so many variations on An Affair To Remember and The shop Around The Corner. Here, the nod is deliberate, though the film is nothing like its predecessor. It was disappointing to see Jay Roach as the director here, because he’s fared much better in comedy.here, it feels like he’s not really sure what is funny anymore, so he recruited … Continue reading The Roses

A Magnificent Life

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and there’s still no crying in baseball. What is it to be an artist? that’s something this French animated feature is looking to find out as it explores the life of Marcel Pagnol. I didn’t know who that was. But, that’s OK. we can’t know everyone, and certainly not everything about them. In a year that also gave us a look into the making of Breathless, it would seem the spotlight is on French filmmakers. This film goes an interesting route, finding Marcel in the twilight of his career, working on a memoir. He’s … Continue reading A Magnificent Life

Going In Blind: Belen

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Belen is Argentina’s submission for the International Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards, and is being distributed by Amazon. However, Amazon did not pay for English audio description, only a dub was available. I’m actually glad they did make a dub available at least, because I could follow this legal drama at least somewhat. I was planning on writing a scathing takedown of a corporation whose founder made enough money to launch his own space program, yet Belen can’t get audio description as Amazon’s lone International Oscar play.It was submitted for my consideration a … Continue reading Going In Blind: Belen

Wake Up Dead Man

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. If you build it, he will come. In Rian Johnson’s third outing in what is called the Knives Out series (for no other reason than it being the title of the first Benoit Blanc outing), we are asked to have a little faith. or, perhaps it is better to have a lack thereof. Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man may center in a church, but this is no Murder In the Cathedral. If you dress it up with simplicity, it could be seen as a modern day version of that, but woven in Johnson’s narrative … Continue reading Wake Up Dead Man

Going In Blind: Stolen Kingdom

Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. it is a small world after all. Rarely do I give credence to the fact that I ahve a “local audience”, so when I get a screener for something playing out of my market, i still put it up, because blind people are everywhere. They don’t congregate in Orlando. Although, we do have theme parks, so I can understand should you choose to do so. I spent some of my formative years in Florida, which meant I went to Disney, quite a bit. One of my super specific childhood memories only I have, and … Continue reading Going In Blind: Stolen Kingdom