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Navalny

John Stark

Where I Watched it: HBo MAX English Audio Description?: Yes My third of the five Oscar nominated documentaries, and the first one I actually agree with the nomination. I had no idea what this was. Navalny? I heard people try to pronounce it in their Oscar prediction videos, and I honestly thought everyone was having a stroke. Then, when i actually clicked play, I was like… oh. This guy. Alexei Navalny stood in opposition to Putin’s regime in Russia, and some smart and enterprising documentarians started following him with cameras, not just getting some interesting thoughts from a would be … Continue reading Navalny

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Shotgun Wedding

John Stark

Where I Watched it: Amazon English Audio Description Provided By Deluxe Narrated By: Roy Samuelson I would love to control Jennifer Lopez’s acting career. Like, feed me her scripts, and I’ll choose the projects. I know being seen and admired still at her age is an achievement. Running around doing a romcom on a tropical island a guy 17 years younger than her seemed like a catch, but then, that co-star had some problems with…. Normal stuff… like DM’s and cannibalism. So instead of trotting around with someone who reminds her audience how coveted of a starlet she still is… … Continue reading Shotgun Wedding

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You People

John Stark

Where I Watched it: Netflix English Audio Description provided By: international Digital Center Written By: Liz gutman Narrated By: Savannah Calder Some have erroneously tried to call this a remake of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? No. It’s just a culture clash film, featuring a talented cast, from a writer/director who doesn’t shy away from social commentary. Yes, this is Kenya barris’s directorial debut. He’s had his producing and writing hits with TV shows like Black-ish and films like Girls Trip, but he’s never sat in the chair for a feature. The last thing he touched, #BlackAF was pretty awful. … Continue reading You People

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Sick

John Stark

Where I Watched It: peacock English Audio Description?: Yes i didn’t even look this up to see how Kevin Williamson is involved, because if he’s not, someone has figured out how to mimic his style perfectly. Not in a Scream 5 way, which was obviously not him, but right down to the clear homage this movie is paying to the slashers Williamson helped revive with his 90’s screenplays. Sick takes place during covid, because if dying from covid wasn’t scary enough, now we have a killer. It follows the trope of having that first opening kill, just like Scream, and … Continue reading Sick

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The Drop

John Stark

Where I Watched It: hulu English Audio Description?: Yes This was my first viewing of a 2023 title. I watched so many shitty movies in 2022 that I made a pledge to myself that I would watch films i wanted to actually see, not just films to help my total reach some insane level. As of this writing, it is entirely likely that before the Oscars, I will have seen 300 titles from 2022. I don’t plan on that this year. I really did read the concept for The Drop, and saw some familiar names in the cast, and I … Continue reading The Drop

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All That Breathes

John Stark

Where I Watched It: HBo MAX English Audio Description?: Yes Narrated By: Melissa Etselberg The second Oscar nominee this year for Documentary feature that I’ve seen, and yet another one I find to be overrated. Granted, i really believe people got caught up in the cool volcano footage from Fire Of Love, like an IMAX film from back in the day. Here, I’m assuming the footage of the kites are what captivate, because otherwise, this was just very average. This doc centers around two brothers in india who rescue kites. I didn’t know what a kite was, but it is … Continue reading All That Breathes

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Empire Of Light

John Stark

Where I Watched It: HBO MAX English Audio description Provided By: Deluxe Narrated By: Christian Simpson Sam Mendes is a director that gets me into a film, cast be damned. I won’t make any claim that he has hit a home run every single time, but he’s a very strong director at bat. Generally, he has delivered some terrific work. For the longest time, when i was young and first starting to explore the art of cinema, I would refer to American Beauty as my favorite film. Times change, the lists move around, and while I still rank that movie … Continue reading Empire Of Light

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Clerks 3

John Stark

Where I watched It: iTunes English Audio Description?: Yes Now that Kevin Smith has finally come full circle with clerks 3, and gone full meta by inserting his real life experiences into the film franchise originally sprung from his real life experiences, perhaps he can do something different. I might be the only one, but I’m a fan of Red State. I’d love to see him take a few more risks. in general, I think I used to be a Smith fan, with Dogma being my top, but Clerks 3 is just something that highlights how old and dead and … Continue reading Clerks 3

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Jeepers Creepers Reborn

John Stark

Where I Watched it: hulu English Audio Description?: no Yeah, i figured since I saw the first and second films in this series, I’d check out Reborn, despite the awful word of mouth. I mean, it couldn’t be any worse than… Fuck me. It is. I don’t even need audio description to know this film is awful. It’s assembled from a laundry list of barely functioning tropes to cause an audience to contemplate walking into traffic. I’m sure, as shitty as this film is without audio description, nothing really changes except knowledge of how silly the gore probably is. We’ve … Continue reading Jeepers Creepers Reborn

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Lyle Lyle Crocodile

John Stark

Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description?: Yes I’ve seen this film compared to Paddington, but honestly that’s just disrespectful to Paddington. I suppose because both films originated as kids books, and Lyle is beloved somewhere, but Paddington and its sequel are actually good films. hell, even Clifford The Big Red Dog has a narrative that isn’t gibberish. This thing is awful. From the minute Javier Bardem starts the film as a failed magician, and there’s a bout of singing, I know I’m in for something. But when Shaun Mendes steps in to autotune Lyle, it seems like a … Continue reading Lyle Lyle Crocodile

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Bones And All

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes English Audio Description provided By: Deluxe Narrated By: William michael Redmond I try to approach all films with some form of neutrality. Try. Obviously, I can’t help myself from being excited about an upcoming film, but even when I think I won’t like a film, I remind myself that I have been pleasantly surprised in the past. I thought I would hate Bones and all. I haven’t ever been really connected to anything Luca Guadanino has done in the past, and didn’t even bother to check if that was the right spelling of his name. … Continue reading Bones And All

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Spoiler Alert!

John Stark

Where I Watched It: Peacock English Audio Description?: Yes I wonder if there are any other critics who find it odd that not only did I just watch a movie about Michael Ausiello, but now I have to write a review about it. The possibility that one day, someone might play Roger Ebert in a biopic has crossed my mind, but it’s Ausiello who made it to the screen first. For those who don’t devour entertainment, Ausiello is an entertainment journalist with a focus on writing about television. I have been a big fan of TVLine since the beginning, and … Continue reading Spoiler Alert!

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The Too Much TV Roundup- 02/16/23

John Stark

At least one of these was the final episode. but, was that final episode enough to put it on top? Honestly, I have to write something here, so creating fake drama is about as good as this gets. 6) Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney Plus) English Audio Description?: Yes Damn. That was cold. On top of Cody not wanting to follow orders, the man shouting at him had the most annoying voice, so when that scene played out the way it did, I was a bit surprised. I thought Cody was going to shoot his obnoxious leader. Episode Grade: … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 02/16/23

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

John Stark

Where I Watched It: Disney Plus English Audio Description provided By: Deluxe Narrated By: John Bentley While I enjoyed the first Black Panther film, primarily because it had one of the best villains to grace a Marvel film, it’s not in my Top 5 or 10. It’s also not in the bottom either. it hovers in the middle somewhere. I’m too scared to actually rank these things, because i generally love all things Marvel, and the rankings would be so close, except for a handful of films that missed the mark entirely. I’m looking at you Eternals. I enjoyed Chadwick … Continue reading Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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The Too Much TV Roundup- 02/11/23

John Stark

The past few days have seen me all move on from a show. Peak television means i really can’t be screwing around with shows I don’t like, or shows with no future that I’m not in love with. Today is no different. 8) Accused (FOX/Hulu) English Audio Description?: No So, first off, since there was a lot of talk about the subject matter of the first episode, let me just say my decision to not follow the series has very little to do with that, if at all. An odd, but bold choice. No, this show is hard to follow … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 02/11/23