Moon Knight (Pilot)
Starring: Oscar Issac and Ethan Hawke. Where I Watched It: Disney Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: Steven (Issac) works at a museum. This is also the Marvel introduction to Moon Knight. So, trying to explain this to you would involve spoilers. But, yes, Steven works at a museum. What Works: I know the critics have been getting screener access to the first four episodes, but I like to review pilots, because you’re never guaranteed an audience will come back for more if the pilot doesn’t work. So it really doesn’t matter if the show picks up in … Continue reading Moon Knight (Pilot)
The 355
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Lupita nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Edgar Ramirez, Sebastian Stan, Bing Bing Fan, and Jason Flemyng. Directed By: Simon Kinberg Where I Watched It: Peacock English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: May (Chastain) is a spy working for the United States that is sent on what seems to be an easy mission, but ends up getting her partner (Stan) killed, and sends her spiraling on a quest for vengeance and to stop the worlds criminals from getting their hands on a flash drive that has unlimited abilities to destroy the world. But first, she’s gonna have … Continue reading The 355
Drive My Car
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Mira, Reka Kirashima, and Park U-Rim. Directed By: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Where I Watched It: HBO MAX English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: An actor/director is offered the chance to launch a production of uncle Vanya at a theatre festival at Hiroshima. The festival that hires him requires him to have his own personal driver, as a safety precaution. he learns more about himself, and his driver, as well as those closest to him as he unpacks his own emotional baggage that lies parallel to the context of the play he’s directing, pulling him closer to … Continue reading Drive My Car
Coda
Starring: Amelia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Daniel Durant, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Pillo, and Amy Forsyth. Directed By Sean Heder Where I Watched It: Apple Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes The Plot: Ruby (Jones) is a CODA, a child of deaf adults. Her older brother (Durant) is also deaf, and her entire life has been shaped by this unique experience growing up in a household as the only hearing individual. Ruby often has to translate for her parents, and spends her free time helping her father (kotsur) with his fishing business. She presumes that this will be the rest … Continue reading Coda
The Too Much TV Roundup
Welcome back for my weekly post tackling the top 10 shows I watched an episode or two of last week, that I either loved or just wanted to mention here for some reason. As always, I don’t watch everything with audio description, and that will be notated. And for long term readers, I have a perpetual problem with the app design on peacock, and I’m just happy to be able to watch anything, but I can’t navigate in any form to turn on audio description because the app is so poorly developed. 1) The Oscars English Audio Description?: I was … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup
Cheaper By The Dozen (2022)
Starring: Gabrielle Union, Zach Braff, Erika Christensen, and Timon Kyle Durrett. Directed By: Gail Lerner Where I Watched It: Disney Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes Narration By: Nigel Mojica Description provided By: Descriptive Video Works The Plot: The Bakers this time have taken their name literally, and they now run a Breakfast restaurant where dad (Braff) is the Breakfast King, and mom (Union) is supporting with her marketing degree. And that “dozen” includes animals, so there are less kids in this version. Among many other changes. What Works: First, i love Gabrielle Union in this. After Home Sweet Home … Continue reading Cheaper By The Dozen (2022)
Home Team
Starring: Kevin James, Taylor Lautner, Tait Blue, Jackie Sandler, Rob Schneider, Gary Valentine, Isaiah Mustafa, Lavell Crawford, and Chloe Feinman. Directed By The Kinnane’s Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes Description Provided By: Deluxe Narrated By Jedidiah Barton The Plot: Based on the true story of the scandal that followed the Super Bowl win of the New Orleans Saints that led to the year long suspension of coach Sean Payton (James) who takes the time off to visit his son Connor (Blum) in Texas, where he is on a football team that is on quite a … Continue reading Home Team
Rescued By Ruby
Starring: Grant Gustin and Scott Wolf Directed By: Katt Shea Where I Watched it: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes Description Provided by: Descriptive Video Works The Plot: An eager young cop with something to prove (Gustin) wants to join the K-9 force up in Rhode Island, so he adopts a shelter dog, and works at the pairing becoming an elite unit. Though, he has a lot of growth needed, and luckily this dog is here to learn him real good. It’s also based on a true story, which makes sense, because I don’t know why anyone would write this. … Continue reading Rescued By Ruby
Halo (Pilot)
Starring: Pablo Schrieber, Yarin Ha, Natasha McEllhonne, Bokeem Woodbine, and Ryan McPartlin. Where I Watched It: Paramount Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes Description Provided By: Descriptive Video Works The Plot: It’s Halo. I know that doesn’t mean much for people unfamiliar with the franchise, but for those who are, it’s Halo. For those who aren’t, this takes place way in the future, and we are introduced to a group of colonists who start dropping some exposition about Marines, Spartans, and some more Halo mythology before an alien race drops in and starts massacring people. Then, we finally get to … Continue reading Halo (Pilot)
Jackass Forever
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man, and the rest of the Jackass family, featuring several cameos from non-Jackass alumni ranging from Eric Andre to Machine Gun Kelly. Directed By: Jeff Tremaine Where I Watched It: Paramount Plus English Audio Description Available?: Yes Unfortunately, Paramount Plus decided I did not need to even finish the outtakes for this film, let alone view any of the credits, and made the choice to rip me out of Jackass Forever during the end outtakes, so i do not know which company provided the audio description or the narrator. I also didn’t finish the outtakes. … Continue reading Jackass Forever
The Best Of 2021
With the Oscar’s swiftly approaching, and my Oscar final predictions released yesterday, it’s finally time to discuss who i think actually should have been nominated in the major categories, and who I would vote to win. This list will be completely different than the Oscar list, because I am just myself, I have no guild or board of people to mess up my nomination process, and my awards mean nothing. No actor is sitting out there waiting with bated breath to see if they will be included on Mac The Movieguy’s Best of 2021. Which is great for me, because … Continue reading The Best Of 2021
My Very Final Official Oscar Predictions
So for those of you movie loving folk out there doing Oscar pools, let me be your guide. or not. Do your thing. Maybe your shaman already told you who will win. But these are my predictions for the Oscars that are being presented on Sunday. Yes, this Sunday. BEST PICTURE: The Power Of The Dog Despite the internet Oscar experts shitting bricks after Coda won the PGA award in this category, I know it is used as a barometer for predicting the winner in this category, and to be fair, i think Coda is in the #2 spot. It’s … Continue reading My Very Final Official Oscar Predictions
The Too Much TV Roundup
It’s time once again for the ten shows I watched last week that made me think one way or the other. As a reminder, I don’t binge watch, so I may be a bit behind on some streaming shows. Not all shows will have audio description either, but I will be denoting what does. Secondary note: The Peacock app is crap and I can barely get it to work, let alone activate audio description, so everything I watch on there is without audio description. Maybe someday… Without further adieu… 1) Murderville (Netflix) English Audio Description?: Yes Yes, it took me … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup
Windfall
Starring: Jason Segal, Jesse Plemons, and Lily Collins. Directed By: Charlie Macdowell Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes Provided By: Descriptive The Plot: A stranger (Segal) is in the middle of burglarizing a vacation home for a billionaire (Plemons), when he randomly shows up with his wife (Collins), and the situation gets sticky. Now the stranger must find a way out of this house with his freedom intact, but will everyone leave alive? What Works: I really loved the score for this film. It’s very reminiscent of films like North By northwest, which is why I … Continue reading Windfall
The Weekend Away
Starring: leighton Meester Directed By: Kim Farrant Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: Yes Audio Description Provided By: International Digital Works Narration Written By Liz Gutman The Plot: When two friends head to Croatia for a weekend away, what starts out as a fun time, quickly turns into a nightmare when one goes missing, and the other must prove she has nothing to do with her friends disappearance. Sounds like it was ripped from the headlines, no? What Works: This film is better than it has any right to be. I assumed I was walking into another … Continue reading The Weekend Away
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