How nice for Hollywood to arrange a play date between two actors. One of them is on the rise, and benefits from being able to pull off comedy, and the other is on the decline, and needed to prove relevancy by pairing with an actor with a pulse. Kevin james (60) and Alan ritchson is 42. Much like how Hollywood loves to put older men with hot younger ladies, james is paired with a hot younger guy for a buddy action comedy where he’s not apparently “too old for this shit”. Also, can we reflect on James being 60? My … Continue reading Play Date

On a side note, a documentary about the two dogs that played Eddie on Frasier would be a fun watch. I hear they had some beef, and we could really dig into it. This, however, is fan service starring Eddie Murphy where he talks about himself. this follows in the grand tradition of a hundred other documentaries and docuseries we’ve had this year where a camera was plunked down in front of someone famous, or a filmmaker honed in on a famous person. Off the top of my head, Charlie Sheen, Paul Reuben’s, Billy Joel, Diane warren, Janis Ian, Susan … Continue reading Being Eddie

The second Richard Linklater film this year had me worried. If you stumbled here from the perspective of a sighted person, good for you. I certainly miss not worrying about walking into a theater and thinking about accessibility, and I certainly miss the world view we get from international cinema. Nouvelle Vague is probably 95% in French. As DuoLingo reminds me, I’m not fluent in French. the gods of random audio description assignment came through this year, and blessed me with a lovely track for this. Sadly, the bar was so low,a slug could have cleared it. Not only are … Continue reading Nouvelle Vague

Following up my review of Andrea Gibson in Come See Me In The Good Light, I now have the Susan Powter documentary. I swear i didn’t grow up in an underground cave. I do know people and things, and I pretty consistently kill pop culture references. Yet, I had to privilege to learn who Andrea Gibson was, and now I have the same to learn who Susan Powter is. Based on the clips, I should know who she is. Even though I was a kid for the 80’s and 90’s, and wasn’t into infomercials, I still recognized certain people whose … Continue reading Going In Blind: Stop The Insanity: Finding Susan Powter

I’ve heard excellent things about this film all year, and finally got the chance to check it out. I ignored the opportunity to do n advance screening since Apple doesn’t include audio description, just so I could get the whole experience. It was totally worth it. for fans of Andrea Gibson, I think this bittersweet approach to her final moments will be more poignant, but I had no idea who she was, and I still adored this. Andrea could have been anything, and still the way this film is shot, the story told, is beautiful. It takes one of the … Continue reading Come See Me In the Good Light

Available today for rental or purchas is Bunny, a dark comedy set in a tenement in New York, where the ragtag misfit residents pool together to help one of their own. the most immediately recognizable cast member is Henry Czerny, most known for being “that guy” in a hundred different things. Often typecast as a villain, the nominal screentime he’s given here is at least against type. But Henry can’t really save Bunny from itself. It isn’t that Bunny is some travesty to cinema, but as a product of some friends who wanted to make a film, it suffered from … Continue reading Going In Blind: Bunny

Actors have long been willing to put themselves in harms way for their craft. weight gain and loss has been right at the top of this, with actors bouncing all around the scale in hopes of earning critical praise. For an actor like Orlando Bloom, whose career is teetering on relevancy, and has never been nominated for an Oscar, I’m sure he saw the Cut as a quick fix to that. He lost 52 pounds for the role. It isn’t quite the 62 pounds Christian Bale lost for the Machinist, but perhaps still more dangerous. Bale didn’t have to play … Continue reading The Cut

Heading into this, I had no idea who Ai Weiwei is. Listen, I’m into film, television, and pop culture. I’m telling you, I kill it from my living room at Pop Culture Jeopardy. the problem is I can’t enter as a solo act. However, I am loosely familiar with Tura dot. In my free time, which actually is a misnomer because my free time goes to this stuff, and the other thing is how I get money, but I work with musicians. Classically trained musicians, music theatre performers, choirs, musicals, etc. I work in the performing arts. So as a … Continue reading Going In Blind: Ai weiwei’s Turandot

Here is a little film with some big talent behind it. Peter Hujar’s Day is Ira Sachs’s follow up to Passages, which also starred Ben Whishaw. The two are back together to provide not so much a biopic of photographer Peter Hujar, but more like a docudrama dramatization of a conversation he might have had with a friend (Rebecca Hall). He recounts parts of his life that are the most memorable to him, in a near stream of consciousness experience. If Hujar was given more emotionally taxing and bombastic moments, it would be a tour de force for Whishaw, since … Continue reading Going In Blind: Peter Hujar’s Day

it feels like it has been ages since Russell Crow has been in a film of note. It hasn’t been really that long, but after films like Kraven The Hunter, The Exorcism, Sleeping Dogs, Land of Bad, The Pope’s Exorcist, and others, it is tough to remember a time when he made a good film. it seemed like he had been submitted for film jail. Nuremberg could change all of that for him. In every film he’s done,he’s been the best thing about it. Nuremberg is finally a great film to match his talent, and he’s on screen with a … Continue reading Nuremberg

Cast: Mark Ruffalo, tom Pelfrey, Amelia Jones, Martha Plimpton Length: 8 episodes Release Year: 2025 Streamer: HBO MAX Audio description Provided By: Point 360 Written by: James Mason Narrated By: what is It?: A drug deal goes horribly awry, and a federal task force is formed to figure out what happened, who is responsible, and what happened to a young boy that was in the house at the time and is now missing. Beneath the surface lies an underbelly, a dangerous drug dealing motorcycle cult and its deadly way of handling internal conflict. What Works: Mare Of East Town was … Continue reading Task: Series Review