The Machine
Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description: Yes Movie review speed round. The Machine is a film based on a stand up routine by Burt Crysher, where he discusses a trip to Russia, and how he got involved with the Russian mob and earned the nickname The Machine. Obviously, he plays a version of himself, who in the longer version of this joke has revenge sought against him for being The machine. It’s two hours long. His joke is fine as a stand-up routine, which is why he’s here, but take any joke and try and make an entire … Continue reading The Machine
The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/4/23
So, we are back to the studios saying they have submitted their “last, best, and final offer” to SAG. Just the fact that the studios are saying that makes me question its validity. Just saying. 5) Dreaming Whilst Black (Paramount Plus) English Audio Description?: Yes Status: Not Yet renewed i didn’t even know there was a pregnant character on the show. This whole thing was about a birth. And I was so surprised by it. Episode Grade: B 4) Praise Petey (Hulu) English Audio Description?: No Status: Not Yet renewed The Cult is still poor, so they start throwing barn … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/4/23
As Above So Below
English Audio Description?: Yes Rapidly catching up on my insanity to try and review 62 movies in October, I have completely forgotten where I watched this, and apparently have no notes. I think I thought i would remember, and i think it was Freevee, but I’m not confident enough to say that. So, this found footage horror film has an audio description track, because I’ve heard it. And, once again, thanks to The Blair Witch Project for this genre being done to death in horror films. This does have the distinguished charm of being actually shot in the catacombs. Maybe … Continue reading As Above So Below
The Burial
Where I Watched it: Amazon English Audio Description? Yes Jamie Foxx has had a year. luckily for him, he seems to be coming out the other side, and he’s doing so with a strong performance in what should be Oscar bait. Oddly enough, it was his performance in They Cloned Tyrone that recently earned him a Gotham nomination, not the burial, adding to my idea that no one has watched this movie. Based on the true story of a small funeral home operator (Tommy Lee Jones), who gets the run around from a corporation looking to buy out funeral homes … Continue reading The Burial
The Babadook
English Audio Description?: Yes Still catching up on old Halloween titles, and I finally watched The Babadook. Now, I can understand the hype to some extent. it wasn’t the scariest thing I’d ever seen, but it had a lot going for it. Basically, this Australian horror film centers around a mom, who is still recovering from some grief, and her son, and how the world doesn’t want her son. Honestly, that’s the one thing this film did the best. We all love our kids, but even this guy is a bit much. The direction here was so much to make … Continue reading The Babadook
The Caine Mutiny Court Marshal
Where I Watched it: Paramount Plus English Audio Description Provided By: Roundabout Narrated By: Elias Recently, we lost director William Friedkin, who had already earned his place among the best directors of all time. He’s been in that group since his 1971 Best Picture winner The French Connection, which he followed up with the horror classic The Exorcist. Honestly, he could have just stopped there. He probably should have. Though his career does include some fondly remembered films like To Live and Die in LA, it also features the Al Pacino flop Crusin, the David Caruso forgotten erotic thriller Jade, … Continue reading The Caine Mutiny Court Marshal
The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/03/23
Well, I suppose the studios weren’t ready to accept SAG’s proposal, so they sent back a counter. Honestly, these companies needing to win this AI battle is pissing me off. Stop trying to own a person’s likeness, especially without informed consent, and certainly not in perpetuity. Also, the new trailer for Echo dropped, and it’s going to be TV-MA. 9) The Gold (Paramount Plus) English Audio Description?: Yes Status: Limited? in what should have been a movie, we slowly build to the police making their case and being able to arrest people for the heist. Episode Grade: B- 8) Strange … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/03/23
Accessibility Matters, But Are We Shouting into The Wind?
Over the summer, I attended a virtual panel at the annual American Council of The Blind’s annual meeting, where representatives were invited to discuss all the amazing futures their services had regarding audio description. All of this was met with lots of promises of making sure audio description travelled, seeking out audio description as often as possible to make sure that as many titles had audio description on their service that they could get, all without any concrete numbers or goals moving forward as to intended goals for each service. For example, no service promised to be 100% audio described … Continue reading Accessibility Matters, But Are We Shouting into The Wind?
The Cloverfield Paradox
Where I Watched it: Netflix English Audio Description?: Yes I finally took this Halloween season to round out the Cloverfield franchise by finally checking out this much derided entry. it deserves a lot of the hate being thrown its way, as it feels like a film that was made, and then given a Cloverfield spin.It barely takes advantage of the world created by Cloverfield, and spends its time in space with a rather impressive cast doing unimpressive things. It’s one of those “am I losing my mind?” Films, and deals with parallel dimensions and stuff, but nothing that would lead … Continue reading The Cloverfield Paradox
Double Dragon
Where I Watched it: Peacock English Audio Description?: No Peacock knew exactly what totally random title to suggest to me in that moment, and that moment was ripe for Double Dragon. no, it doesn’t have audio description. Yes, it should. Will anyone care? No. Double Dragon is a pretty notoriously awful film adaptation from the 90’s, which features mark Dascascos and Scott Wolf (one of them can actuallly fight, the other is pretty), who get roped up in the attempt to bring an actual plot and story to the old school Nintendo game. This was still from the period where … Continue reading Double Dragon
The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/02/23
Nothing too big in the TV world. The CW confirmed what we already assumed, that this is the final season of The CW… I mean… Superman and Lois. It marks the final show to be cancelled in the once dominant DC Arrowverse that started with the Stephen Amell led series, and birthed spinoffs The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, Superman and Lois, and arguably also Stargirl and Swamp Thing, though those were originally created for DC’s streaming service. The new CW seems less interested in making their own programming, and instead repurposing Canadian, British, and Australian shows. 9) … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/02/23
The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/01/23
The fact that I’m hearing that the SAG AMPTA negotiations are being held up over AI really tells me all I need to know about the studios positions. I do hope SAG does not waiver on their counter to many of the terrible ideas these studios were proposing, including owning an actors likeness in perpetuity, simply because they showed up as an extra for one day. People say that AI is the future, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. If we don’t regulate it now, that same person is going to have their face regenerated into a … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 11/01/23
The Too much TV Roundup- 10/31/23
It’s the day after Halloween. I had such a weird experience, where years of declining trick or treaters apparently led to a group trying to reclaim the night, and hundreds of people were out. No one could possibly have prepared that much candy. What was your Halloween experience? 13) Alias (Disney Plus) English Audio Description?: No Status: Ended This show has LONG scenes just set to music where action is happening, and no dialogue, which makes it really hard to follow, even for someone who has seen this show before. Sydney was still reeling from Dixon having a second detonator, … Continue reading The Too much TV Roundup- 10/31/23
The Too Much TV Roundup- 10/30/23
Even though this is a roundup of what I watched on the 30th, you are reading this on the 31st, which means…. there’s someone standing behind you! BOO! happy Halloween! May your trick or treat bag be full of the good stuff. What horror movie or TV show do you have lined up today? 9) Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers (Disney Plus) English Audio Description?: No Status: Ended Well, at least Zipper wasn’t in charge of everything this time, and I could follow this episode. it’s always so refreshing to hear the theme song. It just takes me back. I … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 10/30/23
The Too Much TV Roundup- 10/29/23
First off, I want to give a big shoutout to Scott Blanks, another movie lover and audio description advocate who just dropped his first review on my site for Birth/Rebirth. Make sure to check that out. 9) Billy The Kid (MGM Plus) English Audio Description?: No Status: Season 2 Just Started I wanted to start this show and give it a shot, but sadly, this story based on the titular outlaw is really hard to follow without audio description. I tried, and failed. The sad thing is, where The Winter King just left me cold, there’s a part of me … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- 10/29/23
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