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Steve (2025)

John Stark

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman, Jay Lycurgo Written By: Max Porter Directed By: Tim Mielants Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Netflix Audio description Provided By: Written By: Narrated By: What Is it?: Shot in the style of a documentary, a camera crew watches the youth at a juvenile detention center over the course of a day, focusing on their relationships, and how their mentor/teacher Steve hopes to change their bleak futures. What Works: The format is certainly interesting as we’ve had so many films about adults trying to change the lives of misguided youth. It used to be quite a regular … Continue reading Steve (2025)

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Weapons

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Cast: Julia Garner, josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Amy Madigan, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, June Diane Raphael, Toby Huss, Sara Paxton, Justin Long, Written and Directed By: Zach Cregger Release year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Warner Bros Runtime: 128 minutes Audio Description provided by: (Need Credit) Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: A sleepy town is turned upside down when 17 elementary school kids get up at the exact same time in the middle of the night and run away from their homes. All of the kids were in the same class. What exactly happened? Is the teacher responsible, or … Continue reading Weapons

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Maintenance Required

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Audio Description Provided By: Media Access Group Written By: Narrated By: What Is it?: A shameless ripoff of Shop Around The corner, which has been remade several times. IMDb’s page doesn’t even acknowledge this is clearly based on source material previously written. Instead of bookstores, which really don’t exist in 2025, a neighborhood car garage faces competition from a big chain store, complete with the same storyline where the girl running the mom and pop store is corresponding in some manner with the guy opening the chain. Why It Doesn’t Work: the girl from Riverdale and the guy from the … Continue reading Maintenance Required

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Access Horror 2025

John Stark

Release Year: 2025 Streaming Service: AMC Plus Audio Description Provided By: the Social Audio Description Collective What Is it?: A short film festival from earlier this year that was disability minded and accessibility forward features a bunch of different shorts all in the horror genre. What Works: This actually has audio description on AMC Plus, one of the very limited options the service has. if you are truly interested in this, you can always run a free trial. if you find other things while you’re there, good for you. The lack of audio description actually on these streaming services by … Continue reading Access Horror 2025

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Ordinary People: 45th Anniversary

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Cast: Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, M. Emmett Walsh, Elizabeth MCGovern, Dinah Manoff Written By: Alvin Sargeant directed By: Robert Redford release Year: 1980 Runtime:124 minutes Nominated for six Academy Awards, winning 4. *This Film may Have Existing Audio description, however I Watched In response To The Passing Of Robert Redford, And At The time It Was Not Available With Audio Description* What is it?: A family deals with depression and loss. A father (Sutherland) and mother (Moore) fret over what to do about their recently returned teenage son (Hutton), who survived a suicide attempt, following … Continue reading Ordinary People: 45th Anniversary

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Ice Road Vengeance

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Cast: Liam Neeson, Bing Bing Fan, Marcus Thomas, Grace O’Sullivan Directed By: Jonathan Hensleigh release Year: 2025 Runtime: 112 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: Liam Neeson’s brother dies and his dying wish is to have his ashes scattered on Mount Everest. So, 73 year old Neeson flies to Nepal to climb Mount Everest to do just that, but is thwarted on his journey by a local criminal enterprise. Time to unleash some vengeance. What Doesn’t Work: what a baffling sequel. Did we need this? did anyone want this? I know we can say … Continue reading Ice Road Vengeance

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The Lost Bus

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Cast: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera Directed By: Paul Greengrass Studio/Streamer: Apple Films Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 129 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Pixel Logic Written By: Narrated By: Yuki What Is it?: Based on the wildfires that ripped through Paradise, CA, and one bus driver’s attempt to get a bus full of kids out safely. What Doesn’t Work: Paul Greengrass thrives in these ripped from the headlines films, and also has a strong sense of mounting tension and holding it. I wish he had an ability to look at the Final Cut of his film and see what isn’t working, … Continue reading The Lost Bus

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The man In My Basement

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Cast: Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop Written And Directed By: Nadia Latif based on the novel by Walter Mosley Studio/Streamer: 20th Century Fox/ Hulu Release Year: 2025 Audio description Produced By: Pointe 360 Written By: Court Soto Narrated By: Tansy Alexander What is it?: A man (Hawkins) faced with the possibility of losing his ancestral home finds himself entertaining the wild idea of letting a white guy (Dafoe) he doesn’t know rent out his basement. But the reason why is far stranger. What Works: A perfect casting for Willem Dafoe who revels in strange performances. i can see why … Continue reading The man In My Basement

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Going In Blind: Good Boy

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Cast: Written By: directed By: Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: IFC/Shudder *This Movie Does Have An Audio Description Track, Which Despite Multiple Attempts, I Was Unable To Secure An Accessible screener* In many ways, this is a hopeful placeholder. I’m very much open to watching an accessible screener copy of this film, and I will be on the lookout for a copy when it comes to VOD later this month. However, because it is heading apparently straight to AMC Plus/Shudder, I’m not sure if there will be a copy available post-theatrical with a audio description since AMC Plus rarely uses the … Continue reading Going In Blind: Good Boy

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Bodyguard Of Lies

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Documentary Directed By:Dan Krause Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Paramount Audio Description Provided By: no credits given Written By: Credit Needed Narrated By: Credit Needed What is it?: An explosive look into the Afghanistan War from those who were there. were we ever winning? Was there ever a point? Interviewing several officials who were involved across the 20+ years of Afghani occupation, the picture becomes clear. We were never properly prepared for what came next What Works:An interesting look and compendium to a lot of the documentaries that have come out and focused on the good things we may have done … Continue reading Bodyguard Of Lies

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Sorry Baby

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Cast: Ava Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Lucas hedges, John Carroll Lynch Written and directed By Ava Victor Release Year: 2025 Studio: A24 Audio description produced By: deluxe Written By: (Submit Credit) Narrated by: (Submit Credit) What is It?:A young woman (Victor) navigates her life in the wake of a sexual assault. Why it Works: I was guilty of using my phone during the movie, because I had such a hard time figuring out the intentional tone of the film. then, when I saw IMDb going with “dark comedy”, things made more sense. Sorry Baby is definitely a … Continue reading Sorry Baby

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Going In Blind: The man Who Saves The World

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Documentary Directed By: Gabe Polsky release Year: 2025 *There Is No Known Audio Description For This Title* What is it?: A filmmaker follows a typical white american savior who may just be the answer to an ancient South American prophecy and destined to bringing the indigenous tribes together and bringing world peace. Why it Works: This documentary is also produced by Danny McBride, and after sitting through it, I’m convinced he jumped on board because he’s working on adapting this mans life for him to play it in a fictionalized series or film. This story is so unbelievable I hesitate … Continue reading Going In Blind: The man Who Saves The World

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All Of You

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Cast: Brett Goldstein, Imogene Poots, Jenna Coleman Written By: William Bridges and Brett Goldstein Directed By: William Bridges Release year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Apple TV Plus Runtime: 98 minutes Audio Description Provided By: (Submit Your Credit) Written By: (Submit Your credit) Narrated By: (Submit Your credit) What is it?: With a dash of science fiction thrown in, the movie centers on two individuals who ignore their actual chemistry because in this reality there is a test to match you with your soulmate, and it is someone else. Still, these two remain inseparable, as wee see little moments of their lives moving … Continue reading All Of You

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Going In Blind: the Knife

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Cast: Nnamdi Asomugha, Melissa leo, Aja Naomi king, Manny Jacinto, Amari Alexis Price, Aiden Gabrielle Price Written by Mark Duplass and Nnandi Asomugha Directed By: Nnandi Asomugha release Year: 2025 82 minutes *There Is No Known Audio description For This Title* What Is it? The life of a black family is turned upside down after the father handles an intruder, but makes the mistake of dialing 911, triggering an overly exhaustive examination from a detective (Academy award Winner Melissa Leo), who isn’t sure who the victim really is. What Works: Frustrating at times, the investigative part of the film is … Continue reading Going In Blind: the Knife

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Stans

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Documentary Directed By: Steven Leckart Release year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Paramount Plus Audio Description produced By: (Need Credit) Written By: (Need Credit) Narrated By: (Need Credit) What Is it?: Look. If you had one shot. one opportunity. to stalk any celebrity you wanted and then talk about it in a documentary, would you capture it, or just let it slip? Stans explores the phenomenon behind Eminem fans, taking the term from his song Stan about a mentally unhinged stalker that kills his girlfriend and drives his car off a bridge. It’s apparently now a cool thing to be this. what Works: … Continue reading Stans