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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: Peacemaker: S2E3 (HBo MAX) with audio description, Dexter: Resurrection: S1E8 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Ginny And Georgia: S3E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Summer I Turned Pretty: S3E6 (Amazon) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E9 (Hulu) with audio description, Match Game: Most Recent (Hulu) with audio description, Who Wants To Be A millionaire: Most Recent (Hulu) with audio description Peacemaker- A strong audio description track is given another sequence in which to shine. This week, Peacemaker stops a group of terrorists in truly brutal fashion. While seeing what life is like in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/25

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Going In Blind: Sharp Corner

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Cast Written And Directed By: Jason Buxton Release Year: 2025 There Is no Known Audio Description For This Title What Is it?: Location, location, location. The most important thing in realty. A man (Foster) fails to do his due diligence and moves his family into a new home that is positioned at a particularly treacherous part of the road. As the crashes pile up, he becomes increasingly more committed to the chaos at his property, sacrificing his familial duties, and his work. Will this sharp corner be the final turn in his own life? What Works: Initially premiering at the … Continue reading Going In Blind: Sharp Corner

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Going In Blind: Audrey’s Children

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Cast: Natalie Dormer, Clancy Brown, Jimmi Simpson, Brandon Michael Hall, Tony Robinette Written By: Julia Fisher Farbman Director: Directed By: Ami Cannan Mann Release Year: 2025 There Is No Known Audio description For This Title What is it?: In 1969, a female doctor (Dormer) joins the ranks of medical professionals at a children’s hospital, hoping to help as many kids as she can. She ends up revolutionizing how cancer in kids is diagnosed, treated, and all against the discouraging opinions of many of her male peers. she also has a big hand in establishing the first Ronald McDonald house, seeing … Continue reading Going In Blind: Audrey’s Children

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Going In Blind: Trans In Trumpland

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Director: Tony Zosherafatain Release Year: 2025 There Is no Known Audio Description For This Title What Is It? That’s a great question. What is this? It first came to my attention while perusing upcoming VOD titles on the Apple Store. I like to add things to my watchlist I intend on watching. I don’t get around to all, but this seemed up my alley. when it was made available, my watchlist listed it as being on Amazon Prime video with my subscription. Great. I went to Prime video, which also had the film billed as a movie, not broken into … Continue reading Going In Blind: Trans In Trumpland

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Night Always Comes

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Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagn, Stephan James, Randall Park Written By: Willy Vlutain, based on the book. Directed By: Benjamin Caron release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Netflix Audio Description produced By: Descriptive Video Works Written By: Jeff Heck Narrated By: Mocha Owen What is it?: A family deep in poverty has one shot at finding a stable place to live, but when the matriarch (Leigh) blows their money, her daughter (Kirby) is left with the prospect of being kicked out on the street if she can’t come up with 25K by morning. What Works: Some have reacted like … Continue reading Night Always Comes

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Karate Kid: legends

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Cast: Ben Wang, Sadie Stanley, Joshua Jackson, Jackie Chan, Ming-Na Wen, Wyatt Oleff, Aramis Knight, Ralph Macchio Written By: Rob Lieberer, based on characters originated in The Karate Kid Directed By: Jonathan Entwistle Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Sony 94 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Pixel Logic Written By: (Need Credit) Narrated By: Laura Post What is It?: An attempt to have the best of all worlds. Karate Kid: legends is a brand new story featuring a teenage boy from Beijing who moves to New York City, where he not only has to leave his troubled past behind, but also Kung … Continue reading Karate Kid: legends

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F1: the Movie

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Cast: Brad Pitt,Damson Idris,Javier Bardem, Carrie Condon, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Nyles Written By: Ehren Krueger and Joseph Kosinski Directed By: Joseph Kosinski Notable Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Louis Hamilton, Joseph Kosinski, Brad Pitt Original Score By: Hans Zimmer Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Apple Runtime: 155 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Pixel Logic studios Written By: (credit Needed) Narrated By: Laura post What Is It?: A professional race car driver (Pitt) near the end of his days of thunder, is offered a long shot chance at redemption, driving in Formula One racing for a team owner (Bardem) he used to race against, … Continue reading F1: the Movie

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Fall For Me

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I’m sure there’s some minimum word count I should be giving to each review, but even a week later, and I can’t stop thinking about this random soft core Skinemax knockoff that Netflix just quietly slipped onto their service. I knew it wasn’t Shakespeare. The audio description isn’t great, as it fails to translate any subtitles, but there’s a sex scene that starts almost immediately with dripping a blood orange’s juice onto the stomach of the female participant. this character, specific enough to indulge in blood oranges, has a closet full of only black t-shirts and white t-shirts. It is … Continue reading Fall For Me

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The Thursday Murder Club

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Cast: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, Naomi Ackie, Daniel mays, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Richard E Grant Written By:Katie Brant Directed By: Chris Columbus Studio/Streamer: Netflix Release Year: 2025 Runtime: 121 minutes Audio Description Produced By: VSI Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: When a property owner plans to demolish a retirement community and redevelop it, he didn’t count on the residents being so feisty, and when someone turns up dead, he certainly wasn’t prepared for the Thursday Murder club, a little group of seniors obsessed with true crime and mysteries, … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club

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The Small Screen Diaries- 08/30/25

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TV Shows Watched: Outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E5 (Starz) no audio description, The Hunting Wives: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S6E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Two Graves: S1E1 (Netflix) no audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E6 (Hulu) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Amazon) with audio description,Hostage: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description Outlander: Blood of My Blood- Coming in as someone who could see, and now cannot, there are very few things weirder than just listening to people have sex. With no context. The audio description can often having varying … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 08/30/25

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Revival: Season 1

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Cast: Melanie Scrofano, David James Elliot, Romy Weltman, Andy McQueen, Katharine King So, Hudson Wurster, Stephen Ogg, Release Year: 2025 Where To Watch: SyFy/Peacock Audio Description Produced By: diffuse Written By: Narrated By: What Is it? A sleepy town is changed overnight when, inexplicably, everyone who has died in the last few days is revived.This naturally causes a lot of questions about why, and also for public safety. Some are happy to see their friends and loved ones return, and others not so much. But are the revived hiding secrets? What Works: Well, the premise is cool, if it was … Continue reading Revival: Season 1

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The Map That Leads To You

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Cast: Madeline Klein, KJ Apa, Sophia Wylie, Madison Thompson, Orlando Norman, Josh Lucas Written By: Vera Herbert and Les Bohem, based on the novel by JP Monninger Directed By: Lasse hallstrom Original Score By: Sarah Trevino Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Amazon Runtime: 96 minutes Audio Description Produced By: (Need Credit) Written By: (need Credit) Narrated By: (Need credit) What is it?: A young woman (Klein) on vacation in Europe has her trajectory changed when she finds herself connected to a Brit (Apa) who lives in the now, and has no plans for the future. But as her time spent across … Continue reading The Map That Leads To You

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The Life of Chuck

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Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillen, Mark Hamill, Mia Sara, Jacob Tremblay, Matthew Lillard, Benjamin Pajak, Cody Flanagan, Carl Lumbly, David Dastmalchian, Harvey Guillen, Michael Trucco, Q’Oorianka Kilcher, Violet McGraw, Kate Segal, Heather Langenkamp, Nick Offerman Written and Directed By: Mike Flanagan (based on the story by Stephen King) Original Score By: The Newton Brothers Release Year: 2025 Studio: Neon Runtime: 111 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Point 360 Written By: Narrated By: Tansy Alexander What Is it?: Told in reverse chronological order, the film tackles a seemingly average human, and breaks their life up into three parts. We … Continue reading The Life of Chuck

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The Sandman: Season 2

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Cast: Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, Patton Oswalt as Matthew The Raven, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Razane Jammal as Lyta, Kyo Ra as Rose, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, Mason Alexander Park as Desire, Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Esme Kreed-Miles as Delerium, Ann Skelly as Nula, Mark Hamill as Merv Pumpkinhead, Stephen Fry as Gilbert, Gwendolyn Christie as Lucifer, Adrien Lester as Destiny, Freddie Fox as Loki, Donna Preston as Despair, Jack Gleason as Puck, Steve Coogan as Barnabus, Barry Sloan as Destruction, John Cameron Mitchell as Hal, India Moore as Wanda, Derek Jacobi as Night … Continue reading The Sandman: Season 2

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Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

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Directed By: Erik Wiese Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Apple Runtime: 40 minutes Audio Description Provided By: (Need Credit) Written By: (Need Credit) Narrated By: (Need Credit) What Is It?: Charlie Brown and his friends are off to their last summer of camp, which is also Sally’s first. Sally doesn’t understand the draw of going to camp, so Charlie takes it upon himself to make sure she has a fun experience like he always had, until they realize the camp is going to close due to decreasing attendance. Can Charlie Brown and the gang save the camp from closing, and can … Continue reading Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical