Demi Lovato’s directorial debut follows a few looks at child stardom this year, namely the buzzy docuseries Quiet on set, but also Andrew McCarthy’s Bratz, and even Gary, which took an expansive look at child star Gary Coleman. Lobato has made a lot of friends along the way, and she gets to do a little of what Quiet On set and Brats did, which is sit down with these major players and discuss what went wrong, or what went right. She also blends this with her own story, so it ends up being half a Demi Lovato story. I can … Continue reading Child Star

It certainly has A24 vibes. This indie landed on Hulu, surprisingly with audio description from neon, the studio with the most “A24 vibes”. It’s a pandemic comedy about a gay man who takes in his male model cousin during the pandemic while the young man heals from a scooter accident. Of course, this sets all the friends around him into their own levels of “OMG you’re living with a male model?” In addition to making his ex curious about this model. To make things funnier, our lead is also really vigilant about contamination during the pandemic, and is trying to … Continue reading Stress Positions

I would say that being called a spiritual companion piece to Past lives is a compliment. Past Lives, for many, was the best film of last year, so they are not throwing that around lightly. This film about reconnecting after even more years apart has a very similar emotional resonance, but more importantly, it has audio description on peacock. Instead about being two friends in South Korea who are separated when one moves to America, only to be reunited thanks to social media years later, Touch centers around a Scandinavian youth who abandons college to work in a Japanese restaurant, … Continue reading Touch

Zach Braff has a new movie, and MGM Plus had it with audio description. In this film, he plays an English teacher who is very into Shakespeare, and has a Canadian girlfriend currently living with him in the states. She’s a professional chef, and the opportunity of a lifetime for her is presented, but is back in Canada where her family is, and where the job might be. So, not wanting to lose his girlfriend, Braff follows her to Canada, tries to impress her family, and fight off competition from her potential boss, who is actually an ex-girlfriend of his … Continue reading French Girl

One of the quickest ways for me to get to an even point in my reviews is to acknowledge a handful of releases that I’ve seen recently that are celebrating an Anniversary this year. So, first up is the only one in this group that was my first viewing, the 70th Anniversary of Disneys live action adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Starring a few Hollywood legends, notably Kirk Douglas (who has to serenade a seal at one point), this film isn’t that far removed from a film I watched last year, The black hole. Though, those two films … Continue reading 10,000 Leagues Under The Sea/ Bowfinger/ A Civil Action/Fight Club Anniversaries

I do like activist style documentaries, the ones with a perspective that there is a cause they are trying to bring to light. Often, these can stumble a bit on their way to the final stage when in the editing bay footage is chosen or not chosen based on the overall central idea that the thing the documentary is about is more important than the film itself. Sometimes, these end up working, because they’ve shown show much footage, it is almost impossible to imagine that there is another side, or anything could be creatively edited. Take ‘The cove’ for example, … Continue reading Daughters