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

Cast: Jonah Feingold Written and Directed By: Jonah Feingold release year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Level 33 *There Is no Known Audio description For this title* What is it?: Leo is just looking for love, and is in the middle of a situationship. he’d like it to be more, but alas, he’s unlucky in true love. when he runs into an old classmate, he thinks he knows where hope may lie. In order to get back in the game, he decides to finally have his bar mitzvah at 30 years old, and for his mitzvah, he’s going to find a real relationship. … Continue reading Going In Blind: 31 Candles

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, Kaya Gerber, Ziwe, Elizabeth Berklee, Mary Lynn Raskjub, Este Haim, Dustin Milligan, Peter MacNicol Written By: Jack Stanley Directed By: Max Minghella Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Republic/Paramount Runtime: 100 minutes Audio description produced By: Media Access Group Written by: Narrated by: Peter Jaycock What Is it?: It’s very much like a Demi Moore film from 2024. You know, that one. In this film, an aging actress (Moss) seeks to give herself a competitive edge in the casting room,and finds herself drawn to a new experimental drug company that promises she’ll look like she hasn’t aged … Continue reading Shell

Cast: Steve Martin as Charles, Martin Short as Oliver, Selena Gomez as Mabel, Michael Cyril Creighton as Howard, Teddy Coluca as Lester, Paul Rudd as Lester, Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Det. Williams, Richard Kind as Vince Fish, Meryl Streep as Loretta, Nathan Lane as Teddy, Russell G Jones as Dr Stanley, Jermaine Fowler as Randall, Beanie Feldstein as The, Dianne Wiest as Loretta, Bobby Cannavale as Nicky, Logan Lerman as jay, Christoph Waltz as Bash, Tea Leoni as Sophia, Renee Zellweger as Camilla, and Keegan Michael Key as Mayor Tillman. Length: 10 episodes Release year: 2025 Streaming Service: Hulu Audio … Continue reading Only Murders In the Building: Season 5

Cast: Michael Strassner, Liz Larsen Written By: Jay Duplass and Michael Strassner Directed By: Jay Duplass Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: IFC Films Runtime:101 minutes Audio Description Created By: Audio Eyes Written By: Sean Boggs Narrated By: Rick Boggs What Is it?: A man (Strassner) finds himself on a bit of an unexpected journey, when he finds himself in a dental emergency on Christmas Eve, and finds the only dentist (Larsen) open at the time.What starts with the promise of returning the favor slowly evolves into two strangers travelling Baltimore’s streets on Christmas Eve, trying desperately to avoid that which makes … Continue reading The Baltimorons

Cast: Nick Offerman, Jacob tremblay, Dennis Quaid, Megan Mullally Written And Directed by: Christian Swegal Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 100 minutes Audio description produced By: Written by: Narrated By: What is it?: A widower (Offerman) is a prominent member of the Sovereign citizen movement, and is teaching his son what it means to live that (not legally recognized) lifestyle. As he becomes increasingly stuck in his ways, the world around him continues to reject his ideaology, putting him on a crash course with the law that will not end well for him or his son. Based on a true story. … Continue reading Sovereign

Featuring The Voices Of: Shabana Azeez, Gemma Chua-Tran, Richard Roxburgh Written and Directed By: Ema Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghees Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 86 minutes *There Is No Known Audio description For This Title In The US* What Is it?: A sheltered lesbian space princess must journey away from the comfort of her home to try and save her ex-girlfriend, who she still pines for, and has been captured by the Straight White Maleiens, who are seeking a battery for their chick magnet that the princess has. However, they have to lure her away from gay space, thus, of … Continue reading Going In Blind: lesbian Space Princess