My Mom Jayne

Featuring: Jayne Mansfield as Herself, Mariska Hargitay as herself Directed By: Mariska Hargitay Streaming Service: HBO MAX Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 118 minutes Audio Description Provided By: International Digital Center Written By:Liz Gutman Narrated By: Frankie Corzo What Is it?: Mariska Hargitay takes a break from Law and order SVU to direct a documentary about her mother Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically when Mariska was just three years old. What Works: As a film lover, i enjoy movies about Hollywood. I like things that revisit the golden age of cinema that existed long before I was born, and is populated … Continue reading My Mom Jayne

Dora And The Search For Sol Dorado

Cast: Samantha Lorraine as Dora, Jacob Rodriguez as Diego, Mariana Garzon Toro as Naiya, Gabriel Iglesias as the voice of Boots , Daniella Pineada as Carmen Written By: JT Billings, Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh-Valdez, Eric Weiner Directed By: Alberto Belli ((The Naughty Nine) Original Score: Kenny Wood Studio: paramount/ Nickelodeon Release Year: 2025 96 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Written By: Narrated By: What is it? The second attempt to make a live action Dora The Explorer film has our intrepid young adventurer team up with Diego in search of the fabled lost city of Sol Dorado. Along the way, … Continue reading Dora And The Search For Sol Dorado

Heads of State

Cast: Idris Elba as Prime Minister Sam Clark, John Cena as president Will derringer, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas as Noelle, Paddy Consadine as Victor, Carla Gugino as Vice President Kirk, Stephen Root as Arthur, Jack Quaid as Marty, Sarah Nyles as Simone, Richard Coyle as Quincy, Claire Foster as Kat, Sharlto Copley as Agent Coop, (From, Citadel), Andre Nemec (From, Wonder Park), Harrison Query Directed By: Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry, Nobody) Notable Producers: Josh Applebaum, John cena, Idris Elba, Andre Nemec, Peter Saffron Original Score By: Steven Price (Academy Award Winner for Gravity) Studio/Streamer: Amazon/MGM Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 115 minutes Audio … Continue reading Heads of State

The Old Guard 2

Folie Aux Deux! There are so many great sequel titles that can be co-opted so you don’t have to simply go the boring old number two route. There’s The old Guard: Electric Boogaloo, or The Old Guard: Guard Harder, and 2 Old 2 Guard. Sometimes the problem with a sequel is that it mines nothing, and is simply a cash grab, and extension of a franchise property. then, we have stories that actually seem set up to be a continuation, even though the sequel wasn’t initially planned. This follows the latter, meaning that we pick up exactly where the first … Continue reading The Old Guard 2

Jurassic World: Rebirth

I love Jurassic Park. I like to list it often as my favorite film of all time, and I truly don’t know how many times I’ve seen it. I wore my old VHS copy out, always caught it when it was on TV, own it on DVD/BluRay, digital, and whatever I can get. Merch, shirts, the Jurassic Park section at Islands Of Adventure. I’ve seen every film, and watch the entire animated Jurassic franchise on Netflix. I did not see Dominion in theatres. I don’t get out to see every movie, but I prioritized this, my 6th trip (7th film) … Continue reading Jurassic World: Rebirth

Echo Valley

I know these streamers don’t think about patterns, but over the last couple of years, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed some June films dropping on Apple Plus. This was the window for Cha Cha Real Smooth, and also for Fancy Dance. If you haven’t seen either of those, I highly recommend. Echo Valley seems more in tune to the bumps along the way Apple struggled with last year, putting out the failed Oscar bait Blitz, the critically derided Argylle, and the forgettable The Instigators. they have a lot riding on their Brad Pitt/Joseph Kosinski collaboration F1, so echo Valley is more of … Continue reading Echo Valley

Deep Cover

What happens when you send three improv actors into a sting operation? This movie happens. In one of the more rewatchable films to go straight to Prime video, Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World, Argylle), Orlando Bloom (pirates Of The Caribbean, Gran turismo), and Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso) find themselves asked to do their duty for their country, and get paid to do it. As aspiring actors who have either barely been or never were, this is an opportunity they can’t turn down. Their oddball pairing works, with Howard actually playing a bit more of the straight man character, leaving Bloom … Continue reading Deep Cover

The Accountant 2

Nine years ago, Ben Affleck played an assassin with a code. He seemed to just be good at certain tasks, and funneled the money he got into good causes. Affleck also had to try and work a realistic representation of Autism Spectrum disorder into his character. Audiences responded, and continued to respond as the film found footing on home video and streaming. Nine years later, which isn’t long enough to be a legacy sequel, but is too long to make anyone believe a sequel was always planned, we get The Accountant 2. But is this sequel a bit more Folie … Continue reading The Accountant 2

Movies With Pride: Burlesque

As i looked into a few titles for Pride month, I noticed Burlesque. Is this really a Movie With pride? there’s something so inherently queer about this film, yet it appears to only really have one supporting character that is gay, and is played by a straight actor. Perhaps this comes from living in a metro area where burlesque is an actual thing. i know burlesque performers, and most of them are somewhere on the LGBTQ scale. Not all, but more common than not. this is also a movie I wasn’t a fan of the first time, but it had … Continue reading Movies With Pride: Burlesque

The Small Screen Diaries: 06/13/25

TV Shows Watched: Duster: S1E5 (MAX) with audio description, And Just Like that: S3E3 (MAX) with audio description, Drag Race All Stars: S10E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Destination X: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Dark Winds: S1E4 (Netflix) no audio description,The narrow Road to The Deep north: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, F1: The Academy: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, The Kardashians: S2E1 (Hulu) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description. best Episode: Breaking Bad- As I start to finally watch Breaking Bad, after having it on my checklist forever, that pilot was terrific. I actually … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 06/13/25

Sinners

Ryan Coogler is on fire. Don’t be alarmed. it is a good kind of fire, like the heat a bright young filmmaker brings to every project. I think every project of Coogler’s is either an A or A-, which is a strong consistency rate. most directors can’t have that level of output, and for Coogler, he’s been doing it through other people’s stories, until now. Sinners is his first original film, not based on a previous work or someone’s life story, and it shows us the kind of director Coogler could be when not having to work within the confines … Continue reading Sinners

The Monkey

Monkey see and monkey do, what Ozgood has might not be right for you. There’s been a long standing fear in Hollywood anytime someone adapts a Stephen King anything. book, novella, or even a tweet. We’ve had some crazy success stories, like Brian Depalma’s Carrie, frank darabont’s the Shawshank Redemption and The green Mile, and to many cinephiles, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. On the other end, we have films like Sleepwalkers, Cujo, and The Dark Tower. Ozgood Perkins, the director of Long Legs and son of Anthony Perkins, is hoping to put his name on the auteur side of the … Continue reading The Monkey

Jeannette

I had never been to Pulse. Bars and clubs are just not my thing in general. I’d feel so uncomfortable in any location. However, i had driven past it many times, and remember its iconic sign, all of course before going blind myself. I knew people who went to pulse all the time, as well as other gay bars in Orlando. It seemed to certainly be a staple in the rotation. And while it really isn’t talked about much, straight people go to gay bars. From what I can tell, it seems to be more of my female friends who … Continue reading Jeannette

Straw

I ultimately feel obligated to watch Tyler Perry films for review consideration. I think if this was just for my own pure enjoyment, I would have stopped giving him a chance ten films ago, and saved myself the likes of Divorce In The Black and Duplicity, as well as basically anything featuring Madea. However, on his 28th feature, he may have finally directed something of value. He might have finally shown a level of competence and care that are often missing from his films, because he is overextended in his bid to rule the world. You just can’t be involved … Continue reading Straw

Predator: Killer Of killers

If it ain’t broke… the familiar phrase is missing conceptually here, as the predator films evolve into adult animation. but, gone are the vibes from the original predator films of the 80’s, or either Predators or The Predator, and instead this builds a bit more on the concept Dan trachtenberg so successfully ran with a few years ago in Prey. take something we know, but instead of throwing more soldiers with guns, send him back to fight other kinds of warriors. They even used the reversal of time to show that the aliens also had some less perfected technology. Prey … Continue reading Predator: Killer Of killers