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Fight Or Flight

John Stark

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, Katee Sackhoff Written By: Brooks McLaren Directed By: James Madigan Release Year: 2025 Audio Description Produced By: Fourth Rock Written By: Narrated By: Jeffrey Hillard What Is it?: A little like the plot simplicity of Speed. Josh Hartnett is a disavowed agent who becomes the only option to catch a spy that no agency has been able to catch. He reluctantly takes the gig, only to find himself not the only one who got the message. suddenly, he’s on a plane full of contract killers, and one of them is his target. What Works: the … Continue reading Fight Or Flight

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The Institute: Season 1

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Cast: Joe Freeman, Ben Barnes, Mary Louise Parker, Hannah Galway, Julian Richings, Fionn Laird, Simone Miller, Viggo Hanvelt, Arlen So, Robert Joy, Jason Diaz, Jane Luk Based On the Book by Stephen King Length: 8 episodes Streamer: MGM Plus Audio description produced By: Written By: Narrated By: Roy Samuelson What Is it? A convergence of two stories. one follows a teen (freeman) who is kidnapped and wakes up in a facility that is testing kids who are telekinetic or telepathic. it is obviously a shady organization with a dark secret. We also follow a former police officer (Barnes), who moves … Continue reading The Institute: Season 1

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The Small Screen diaries: 09/06/25

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TV Shows Watched: Outlander: Blood of My Blood: S1E6 (Starz) no audio description, Wednesday: S2E7 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S6E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Foundation: S3E9 (Apple plus) with audio description, All Of Us Are Dead: S1E11 (Netflix) with audio description, Pop Culture Jeopardy: The Show That Never Ends (Amazon) with audio description, Hostage: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, and South Park: S27E4 (Paramount Plus) no audio description Outlander: Blood of My Blood- An episode focusing mostly on childbirth, but including a little bit of that touchstone of the Outlander franchise… rape. Just a dash of rape. Wouldn’t … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 09/06/25

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Ballard: Season 1

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Cast: Maggie Q, John Carroll Lynch, Michael Mosley, Amy Hill, Victoria Moroles, Rebecca Field, Courtney Taylor, Ricardo Chavira, Titus Welliver, Brandon Sexton III, Jim Rash, Mimi Roger’s, Frankie Faison Length: 10 Episodes Streamer: Amazon Prime Video Audio Description provided By: (Need Credit) Written by: (Need Credit) Narrated By: (Need Credit) What Is it?:Renee Ballard (Maggie Q) is yet another creation by Michael Connolly, who has brought us both Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer, and Ballard is a spinoff of Bosch: legacy, after having her appear near the end of that final season. Harry Bosch (Welliver) also appears here as Ballard … Continue reading Ballard: Season 1

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Highest To Lowest

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Cast: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, Aubrey Joseph, Elijah Wright,Rick Fox, Rod Strickland, Ice Spice, Frederick Weller, Michael Potts, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Wendell Pierce Written By: Alan Fox, based on the novel Kings Ransom, and the Akira Kurosawa film High and low Directed By: Spike lee Original Score By: Howard Drossin Release Year: 2025 Studio: A24 And Apple Films Runtime: 135 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Pixel logic Written By: (Need Credits) Narrated By: Katherine Grantham What is it?: Spike Lee retells what Kurosawa once already adapted, putting a modern flair on the story. Here, we have … Continue reading Highest To Lowest

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/25

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TV Shows Watched: The Buccaneers: S2E7 (Apple plus) with audio description, Wednesday: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, NCIS: Tony And Ziva: S1E1 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Long Story Short: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Sausage Party: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description The Buccaneers- I definitely felt with the last episode that The Buccaneers had finally reached its true potential, and with this episode, all of the strong subject matter they have opened up until now is paying off. the season’s penultimate episode has Nan’s mother filing for divorce from her husband, and she has to have proof. Mind you, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/05/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/25

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TV Shows watched: Alien Earth: S1E5 (Hulu) with audio description, Wednesday: S2E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Butterfly: S1E5 (Amazon) with audio description, Twisted Metal: S2E6 (Peacock) with audio description, the Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball: S1E7 (Hulu) with audio description Alien Earth- I think the wrong name was listed when the cyborg fist slammed down. It should have been Morrow, but I’m fairly certain it was one of the expendables. This episode featured a look at what happened to all those people we saw at the beginning of the series, flashing back to how shit hit the fan in the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/03/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/02/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: The Runarounds: S1E1 (Amazon) with audio description, Platonic: S2E5 (Apple plus) with audio description, The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox: S1E3 (Hulu) with audio description, and Mindhunter: S1E10 (Netflix) with audio description. The Runarounds- I’m glad I got to this quickly. So, if you are interested in The Runarounds, DO NOT stay for the preview of the season that runs at the end. I’ve never seen such a spoiler laden thing in my life. It’s ridiculous. it is one of those “this season on The runarounds”, but everything they showed had a far different tone than the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/02/25

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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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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/25

John Stark

TV Shows Watched: From: S3E3 ((MGM Plus) with audio description, Black Mirror: S4E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Foundation: S3E8 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S2E10 (Netflix) with audio description, Upload: S4E2 (Amazon) with audio description, Ballard: S1E10 (Amazon) with audio description, Breaking Bad: S2E12 (Netflix) with audio description From- This show is brilliant. I loved the stuff happening with Tabitha, and how she begins to believe she never left the nightmare (though I’m pretty sure she did). Meanwhile, Chrissy gets in trouble and needs rescue, and Victor really wants to build a fort. The lore keeps coming. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/31/25

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Fall For Me

John Stark

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

John Stark

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