Going In Blind: Stop The Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
Following up my review of Andrea Gibson in Come See Me In The Good Light, I now have the Susan Powter documentary. I swear i didn’t grow up in an underground cave. I do know people and things, and I pretty consistently kill pop culture references. Yet, I had to privilege to learn who Andrea Gibson was, and now I have the same to learn who Susan Powter is. Based on the clips, I should know who she is. Even though I was a kid for the 80’s and 90’s, and wasn’t into infomercials, I still recognized certain people whose … Continue reading Going In Blind: Stop The Insanity: Finding Susan Powter
Come See Me In the Good Light
I’ve heard excellent things about this film all year, and finally got the chance to check it out. I ignored the opportunity to do n advance screening since Apple doesn’t include audio description, just so I could get the whole experience. It was totally worth it. for fans of Andrea Gibson, I think this bittersweet approach to her final moments will be more poignant, but I had no idea who she was, and I still adored this. Andrea could have been anything, and still the way this film is shot, the story told, is beautiful. It takes one of the … Continue reading Come See Me In the Good Light
Going In Blind: Bunny
Available today for rental or purchas is Bunny, a dark comedy set in a tenement in New York, where the ragtag misfit residents pool together to help one of their own. the most immediately recognizable cast member is Henry Czerny, most known for being “that guy” in a hundred different things. Often typecast as a villain, the nominal screentime he’s given here is at least against type. But Henry can’t really save Bunny from itself. It isn’t that Bunny is some travesty to cinema, but as a product of some friends who wanted to make a film, it suffered from … Continue reading Going In Blind: Bunny
The Cut
Actors have long been willing to put themselves in harms way for their craft. weight gain and loss has been right at the top of this, with actors bouncing all around the scale in hopes of earning critical praise. For an actor like Orlando Bloom, whose career is teetering on relevancy, and has never been nominated for an Oscar, I’m sure he saw the Cut as a quick fix to that. He lost 52 pounds for the role. It isn’t quite the 62 pounds Christian Bale lost for the Machinist, but perhaps still more dangerous. Bale didn’t have to play … Continue reading The Cut
Going In Blind: Ai weiwei’s Turandot
Heading into this, I had no idea who Ai Weiwei is. Listen, I’m into film, television, and pop culture. I’m telling you, I kill it from my living room at Pop Culture Jeopardy. the problem is I can’t enter as a solo act. However, I am loosely familiar with Tura dot. In my free time, which actually is a misnomer because my free time goes to this stuff, and the other thing is how I get money, but I work with musicians. Classically trained musicians, music theatre performers, choirs, musicals, etc. I work in the performing arts. So as a … Continue reading Going In Blind: Ai weiwei’s Turandot
In Your Dreams
2025 has not really been a banner year for animation, which perhaps has worked in favor for Netflix, who went to the bank with a certain group of singing demon hunters earlier this year. The largest opening weekend for an animated feature went to CrunchyRoll, for their continuation of Demon Slayer. I’ve been waiting for a film to really pull some emotion from me. I like my animation to have a bit of heart with it. Not that it can’t make me laugh myself silly, but my favorite animated movies have a punch to them. An emotional gut punch. We … Continue reading In Your Dreams
The Small Screen Diaries: 11/06/25
TV Shows Watched: Boots: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Devil In Disguise: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Sheriff Country: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, English Teacher: S2E7 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Name that tune: S4E6 (Hulu) no audio description, Elzabeth: S3E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and… Gabby’s Dollhouse: S1E1? (Netflix) with audio description. Boots- Why do I feel like the character who is trying to decide whether or not to reenlist secretly had a gay relationship, and in this don’t ask don’t tell world, is trying to pretend like nothing happened and move forward? But basically Cameron … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/06/25
The Small Screen Diaries: 11/05/25
TV Shows Watched: Down Cemetary Road: S1E2 (Apple TV) with audio description, Wayward: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Tracker: S3E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Squid Game The Challenge: S2E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E12 (Disney plus) with audio description, and The Paper: S1E10 (Peacock) with audio description I usually go in order, but I did finish both Wayward and The paper, and intend to do a full review for both. Look for that. Down cemetary Road- A lovely mystery is unfolding, with some really surprising twists along the way. I gotta say, I … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/05/25
Going In Blind: Peter Hujar’s Day
Here is a little film with some big talent behind it. Peter Hujar’s Day is Ira Sachs’s follow up to Passages, which also starred Ben Whishaw. The two are back together to provide not so much a biopic of photographer Peter Hujar, but more like a docudrama dramatization of a conversation he might have had with a friend (Rebecca Hall). He recounts parts of his life that are the most memorable to him, in a near stream of consciousness experience. If Hujar was given more emotionally taxing and bombastic moments, it would be a tour de force for Whishaw, since … Continue reading Going In Blind: Peter Hujar’s Day
The Small Screen Diaries: 11/05/25
TV Shows watched: High Potential: S2E7 (Disney plus) with audio description, Chad Powers: S1E6 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Anne Rice’s Talamaska (AMC Plus) no audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E8 (Netflix) with audio description, Murdock: S1E4 (Disney plus) with audio description, The Chosen Adventures: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description High Potential- The Fall Finale. The Thomas crown Affair meets High Potential as an art piece goes missing, and it’s up to our team to recover it. but when the insurance company associated with the owners of the painting sends … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/05/25
Going In Blind: I Wish You All The Best
A promising victim of a system where I ask for accessible screeners and don’t get them. I did a short review for Good Boy a while back, which I struggled with, after getting a screener for that with no audio description. Now I’ve been offered the film AGAIN (I shit you not) as part of IFC’s FYC campaign, and it still isn’t accessible, and their reps will not respond to my email to save their lives. When you say “audio description”, I might as well be speaking High valerian. I reviewed another film recently which I enjoyed very much, and … Continue reading Going In Blind: I Wish You All The Best
The Small Screen Diaries: 11/03/25
TV Shows Watched: Black Mirror: S5E3 (Netflix) with audio description, Mr Scorsese: S1E3 (Apple TV) with audio description, The Chair Company: S1E4 (HBo MAX) with audio description,Crutch: S1E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and Last Week tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet Black Mirror- Miley Cyrus’s episode is my nomination for a gateway episode to Black Mirror if you’re trying to introduce your friend to it, and they may not get the eccentricities of other things. Some of the episodes are wickedly smart, highly satirical of our lazy asses, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/03/25
Nuremberg
it feels like it has been ages since Russell Crow has been in a film of note. It hasn’t been really that long, but after films like Kraven The Hunter, The Exorcism, Sleeping Dogs, Land of Bad, The Pope’s Exorcist, and others, it is tough to remember a time when he made a good film. it seemed like he had been submitted for film jail. Nuremberg could change all of that for him. In every film he’s done,he’s been the best thing about it. Nuremberg is finally a great film to match his talent, and he’s on screen with a … Continue reading Nuremberg
The Small Screen Diaries: 11/03/25
TV Shows Watched: the Witcher: S4E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Robin Hood: S1E1 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Star Wars Visions: S2E1 (Disney Plus) with audio description, ghosts: S5E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Have I Got News for you: S3E9 (HBO MAX) no audio description, Matlock: S2E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Loot: S3E3 (Apple plus) with audio description the Witcher- One day, I may find someone, fall in love, and they may say to me… The Witcher. I’ve never seen it. In that moment, maybe, I will watch it, long after the series has finished. when I can … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 11/03/25
The Naked Gun (2025)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, Written By: Directed By: Akiva Schaffer Release Year: 2025 Studio: Paramount runtime: 85 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Written By: Narrated By: What is it?: A continuation of the trilogy that starred Leslie Nielsen, with Liam Neeson portraying his son, Frank drebin Jr., who finds himself in very similar hilarious setups, and delivering the same dry, deadpan humor. He has to help a blonde bombshell (Anderson), who he obviously will fall in love with, just like his father, and go up against a tech billionaire (Huston), who is seeking to … Continue reading The Naked Gun (2025)
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