The Small Screen Diaries: 12/17/25
TV Shows Watched: Fallout: S2E1 (Amazon) with audio description, Mr Scorsese: S1E4 (Apple TV) with audio description, Murdoch: Death In The Family: S1E5 (Hulu) with audio description, Name that Tune: S5E10 (Disney Plus) no audio description, and Death By Lightning: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description Fallout- Of course I had to jump right in on this. Love the show, and I’m glad it’s back. The audio description had to describe a lot of gory things, including a few exploding heads, but by far I was most grossed out by the presentation of flea soup. Ugh. If it has been a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/17/25
Going In Blind: My Neighbor Adolf
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. This movie has no audio description. Roll with me on this. We’re veering out of traffic onto an exit ramp here. I’m not sure this is a review, as much as it is an experience. I basically just consume as much, and try and discuss the merits of audio description. This movie came across my path, and became more important after the passing of Udo Kier. I had a review all queued up, ready to go, but something was amiss. I keep the experience to pretty much what an audience member would get. i … Continue reading Going In Blind: My Neighbor Adolf
The Small Screen Diaries: 12/16/25
TV Shows Watched: The American revolution: S1E3 (PBS) with audio description, Percy Jackson: S2E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, and Landman: S2E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description The American Revolution- If you’ve never done Ken Burns before, my God. I feel like I’m getting my learning done. The weird thing is, for a really educational experience, it is somehow entertaining? Even if every episode is really long. The cool kids put this on the PBS app on their phone, and bump up the speed modification. Yeah, I didn’t spend two hours on this, but it was still over an hour. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/16/25
Roofman
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. In the morning, I’m making waffles. How many McDonald’s do you need to rob in order for Channing Tatum to play you in a film? the answer is, don’t do that. He’s done it once, there’s no reason to believe he’d do it again. Although, this is exactly the kind of role Tatum needs in his life. As he moves more toward being a respected actor, films of note, like Roofman, help give him the kind of status he wants. This is also interestingly a Christmas movie, as it takes place mostly around the … Continue reading Roofman
welcome To Dairy: Season 1
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man? Dairy: Population… declining. Andy Muschitti really hit Gold with his remake of It in 2017 and the sequel just two years later. Taking the whole book and splitting it into two chapters, plus casting some wonderfully talented new kids, really paid off for him. As you know, nothing in Dairy ever really stays dead, so warner Bros eventually wanted more of this series, and a prequel was born. It’s a dangerous thing to go back before the thing you created, because it is like … Continue reading welcome To Dairy: Season 1
The Small Screen Diaries: 12/15/25
TV Shows Watched: It: Welcome To Dairy: S1E8 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Tulsa King: S3E10 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Nobody Wants this: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Loot: S3E7 (Apple TV) with audio description Welcome To Dairy- This show has been obsessively and graphically violent, very gory, and brilliantly described.My review of it might contain a bit more than this, but the scene with the Principal, for example, had to walk a fine line. It couldn’t reveal the whole thing up front, but it was pretty obvious what it was. They announced the series is getting a physical … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/15/25
Oh, Hi
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. As you wish. It’s a pretty simple movie. Oh, Hi feels like the kind of film that could just keep going further and further off the rails, but it stays pretty much on the first new set of tracks it jumps to. one derailment, and then onward. The question is, will anyone find these characters charming? Will anyone root for these crazy kids? I think more couples will be glad this isn’t them. Weighing how much to tell in the review, that is the question. Molly Gordon and Logan lerman play a couple on … Continue reading Oh, Hi
Predators
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I’m not Chris Hanson. the new Paramount/MTV documentary Predators, which made its debut earlier this year at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has some questions. But, does it actually answer them? David Osit shines a light on the former pop culture phenomenon that was To Catch A Predator, and while he’s only slightly in his own documentary, he does seem to suggest that perhaps the ends don’t justify the means. In order for there to be a predator, there must be prey. He explores this by getting different sides of the same coin from … Continue reading Predators
Regretting You
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I don’t know how to quit you. I get it now. Coleen Hoover is Nicholas Sparks. They stopped adapting every one of Sparks’s novels, so he decided to become Colleen Hoover. Either that, or Hoover only read one novelist, and it’s showing. I know critics have not been kind to this, but it is really hard to do that. Full disclosure, Paramount gifted me a digital copy. It did nothing to sway my opinion, but it saved me either a rental, or waiting for Paramount Plus. I don’t see me rewatching this, but I’d … Continue reading Regretting You
Black Phone 2
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic.You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Not to brag, but I’m a pretty big fan of the first Black Phone film. It was in my Top 10 of 2022, and I believe I had Mason Thames and Scott Derickson in my top 10 for both Actor and Director. I wasn’t a big fan of horror before losing my sight, but The Black Phone is certainly one of the films that I’m glad I got to experience, because I don’t know if I would have otherwise. Probably, … Continue reading Black Phone 2
The Small Screen Diaries: 12/14/25
I’m shocked and horrified this morning at the senseless murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner. An unbelievable tragedy. TV Shows: The Chair Company: S1E5 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: S1E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Devil In Disguise: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, and Starting Five: S2E? (Netflix) with audio description The Chair Company- I still don’t love the show, but it has some darkly comedic beats that work for it. They did bring up ADA requirements this episode, though I think the best gag was the joke where the character talked about arriving for a job, and … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 12/14/25
Going In Blind: the Last Republican
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and the director of Hot Tub Time Machine didn’t put audio description on this. Perhaps, it is time to use that machine, and go back and add the description? What happens when a liberal democrat makes a documentary about a conservative republican? In these times, in this political climate, I’m sure the mountain felt a lot steeper to climb. Even being able to have any kind of conversation or discourse when we’ve never been so divided. But, Steve Pink decided to follow adam kenzinger around for his final days in Congress, and document how … Continue reading Going In Blind: the Last Republican
The Family Plan 2
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. I’m in the middle of Oscar season, and I know you want this review. The first film set a record at the time for Apple, and I had to review that. I wasn’t a fan. Still, I find myself, as many do, with giant men, tears streaming down their eyes, saying “Sir. Could you please review the family Plan 2?” I aim to please. I’m not sure this film does, but I do. Mark Wahlberg, who has abandoned all hope of being a big screen star, returns … Continue reading The Family Plan 2
Going In Blind: Lilly
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic, and to the best of my knowledge, this film does not have audio description. It’s that time of year when I’m getting a barrage of screeners. Everyone wants awards attention and votes. I had to take the time out when a rep offered me Lilly, because it stars Patricia clarkson. I knew nothing. I didn’t IMDb the film until after. then, I saw this thing is just floating on Netflix. It just has such a low profile, I’m not sure anyone noticed. When I asked my Alexa device about it, she thought first I … Continue reading Going In Blind: Lilly
Going In Blind: tapawingo
Disclaimer: I’m a blind film critic. I typically watch films with audio description. There is no known description for this film. The audacity. I often just get a screener, and I watch it. I don’t always get press notes, and i don’t always know what I’m watching. So, I got Tapawingo, and jumped in figuring it needed my consideration at this time of year. I found myself sitting there, wondering in 2025 who would have the audacity. It isn’t just one audacious item either. there’s first the audacity of making this film, and it being basically “What if Drillbit Taylor … Continue reading Going In Blind: tapawingo
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