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Marvel’s Zombies: Season 1

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Featuring The Voices of: Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, Elisabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, David Harbor as Red Guardian, Florence Pugh as Black Widow, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Simu Liu as Shang Chi, Awkwafina as Katie, Todd Williams as Blade Knight, Hudson Thames as Peter Parker, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, Randall Park as Jimmy, Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, Carrie Condon as F.R.I.D.A.Y. Length: 4 episodes Release Year: 2025 Studio/Streamer: Disney Plus Audio Description Produced By: Deluxe Written By: Narrated By: Jedidiah Barton What is it?: A continuation of the themes and ideas set … Continue reading Marvel’s Zombies: Season 1

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/26/25

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TV Shows Watched: Peacemaker: S2E6 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Marvel Zombies: S1E3 (Disney plus) with audio description,Wayward: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, the Summer I Turned Pretty: S3E10 (Amazon) with audio description, My Life With the Walter boys: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, celebrity Weakest Link: S1E1 (Hulu) no audio description, The Daily Show: Monday (Paramount Plus) no audio description, and Who wants to Be A Millionaire: S4E8 (Hulu) with audio description Peacemaker- I’ve heard this is game changing. Considering I’ve recently seen Superman, I’m not sure something can be that game changing when the thing that came before … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/26/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/25/25

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TV Shows Watched: Gen V: S2E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Marvel’s Zombies: S1E2 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox: S1E6 (Hulu) with audio description, House Of Guinness: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The Girlfriend: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Black rabbit: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, and Name That Tune: S?E2 (Hulu) no audio description Gen V- Hamish Linklater has been a great cast addition as Cypher, this new head of the school who is really hard to decipher. What are his powers? Does he even have any? You’ll know by the end of this … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/25/25

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Elio

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Cast: Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldana, Remy Edgerly, Brandon Moon, Brad Garrett, Jamila Jamil, Written By: (too many people, three credited with screenplay, three credited with story by, and two who made additional contributions to the screenplay) Directed By: Adriane Molina, Madeline Scharafain, Domee Shi Original Score By: Rob Simonson Release Year: 2025 Studio: Disney/Pixar Audio Description Produced By: No credits Were Listed Written By: Need Credit Narrated By: Need Credit What Is It?: In the latest Pixar offering, Elio is a young boy recently orphaned through the loss of his parents, who is now being raised by his aunt. Elio … Continue reading Elio

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Lilo And Stitch (2025)

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Cast: Maia Kealoha (Lilo), Chris Sanders (Stitch), Sydney Agudong (Noni), Zach Galafanakis (Jumbo), Billy Magnussen (Bleakly), Courtney B Vance (Bubbles), Amy hill (Tutu), Tia Carrere, Kaipo Dudoit, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Scott Lee Written By: Chris Kekaniokalani and Mike Van Was, based on the film Lilo and Stitch Directed By: dean Fleischer Camp release Year: 2025 Studio: Disney Runtime: 108 minutes Audio Description Produced By: Deluxe Written by: (Need Credit) Narrated By: Amy Davis What is it?: A remake of the 2002 animated Disney hit, bringing as many elements live action as possible. Lilo and Noni are still recovering from the … Continue reading Lilo And Stitch (2025)

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Lilo and Stitch (2002)

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Cast: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stires, Kevin Macdonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott lee, Kevin Michael Richardson, Amy Hill Written By: Chris sanders directed By: Dean DeBois and Chris sanders release Year: 2002 Studio: Disney Audio description Produced By: Deluxe Written By: Narrated By: Laura Post What is it?: After the death of their parents, Noni and lilo are trying to make it together, with the big sister looking after her little sister. But, life is challenging, and Noni has to grow up fast, get a job, and still somehow be there for her younger sister. Lilo … Continue reading Lilo and Stitch (2002)

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Freaky Friday (2003)

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Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Harold Gould, Stephen Tobolowsky, Christina Vidal, Ryan Malgarini, Haley Hudson, Willie Garson Written By: Heather Hawke and Leslie Dickson, based on the novel by Mary Roger’s Directed By: Mark Waters Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Release Year: 2003 Audio desProduced by: Deluxe Written by: Narrated By: what is it?: A remake of the original, and the book, which has a mother, Tess (Curtis) switch places with her daughter Anna (Lohan), as Tess’s pending nuptials to a new man in their lives (Harmon) looms. But is he really the reason they … Continue reading Freaky Friday (2003)

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Fantasia: 85th Anniversary

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Release year: 1940 Studio: Disney Runtime: 124 minutes Audio Description Provided By: Deluxe Written by: Narrated By: What is it?: A classic. Walt Disney originally intended for Fantasia to be a living project, and continue to evolve more over the years. Despite feature length animation being relatively new still in 1940, it didn’t attract the same attention as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and didn’t get a second wind until fantasia 2000. The movie takes mostly silent animated shorts and sets them to classic compositions. Each segment is accompanied by a live orchestra, slightly visible on screen, with a … Continue reading Fantasia: 85th Anniversary

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Eyes Of Wakanda: Season 1

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Streaming Service: Disney Plus Length: 4 episodes Audio Description Produced By: deluxe Written By: Narrated By: Michelle Deco What is it?: An animated anthology style series exploring four individual adventures that help to shape the Wakanda as we know it. From a Dora Milaj being tasked with capturing a former Wakandan turned foe, to a spy embedded in the battle of Troy, to a retrieval of an artifact that has a protector more than they bargained for, and ultimately the one artifact they can’t retrieve in order to save the future of Wakanda, each story is considered canon. What Works: … Continue reading Eyes Of Wakanda: Season 1

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/04/25

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TV Shows Watched: Eyes of Wakanda: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, The hunting Wives: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: Resurrection: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Leanne: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description, All Of Us Are Dead: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Last Week Tonight: Most Recent (HBO MAX) no audio description yet, The Gilded Age: S3E7 (HBO MAX) with audio description Eyes of Wakanda- Full review coming. the Hunting Wives- I think this might be everyone’s new guilty pleasure. It’s a hot mess in such a good way. It’s this show where everyone is really conservative, but … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/04/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/03/25

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TV Shows Watched: Eyes Of Wakanda: S1E3 (Disney Plus) with audio description, From: S2E10 (MGM Plus) with audio description, Black Mirror: S3E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Twisted Metal: S2E1 (Peacock) with audio description, Furia: S1E1 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Ginny and Georgia: S2E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Foundation: S3E4 (Apple Plus) with audio description, King Of The Hill: S2E12 (Hulu) no audio description, The Art Detectives: S1E6 (Acorn) no audio description, Ballard: S1E4 (Amazon) with audio description, Sherlock and daughter: S1E8 (MAX) no audio description Eyes Of Wakanda- Third episode was great. A Wakandian spy retrieves an artifact that … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/03/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 08/02/25

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TV Shows Watched: Eyes of Wakanda: S1E2 (Disney plus) with audio description, chief Of War: S1E1 (Apple plus) with audio description, Untamed: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S5E9 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, And Just Like That: S3E10 (HBO MAX) with audio description, Leanne: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, The Summer I Turned Pretty: S3E1 (Amazon) with audio description Eyes Of Wakanda- Solid audio description, hated the episode. most of what we know about Troy is from The Aenead, and while most if not all is myth, it felt so weird for them to take this part of history … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 08/02/25

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The Small Screen Diaries- 08/01/25

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TV Shows Cancelled: And Just Like that (HBO MAX) and FUBAR (Netflix). TV Shows Watched: Eyes of Wakanda: S1E1 (Disney plus) with audio description, Leanne: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Stick: S1E10 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Countdown: S1E6 (Amazon) with audio description, Washington Black: S1E3 (Hulu) with audio description, Match Game: S?E2 (Hulu) with audio description, and Breaking Bad: S2E5 (Netflix) with audio description. eyes Of Wakanda- first episode was done well enough. I remember when a Wakanda series was in the works with Danai Gurira attached, and I’m guessing that died, and became this? This is… fine. the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 08/01/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: 07/19/25

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TV Shows Watched: Squid Game: S3E5 (Netflix) with audio description, Black Mirror: S3E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Disney POV: Five Videos (Disney plus) no audio description, And Just Like That: S3E8 (HBo MAX) with audio description, too Much: S1E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Dexter: S5E6 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, All Of us Are Dead: S1E3 (Netflix) with audio description Squid Game- I love how the words on the wall are spelled out, so if you want to look them up, you can. Episode 5 answered the big question of how many people will be left in competition at the … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 07/19/25

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The Small Screen Diaries: The Weekly Rankings

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Once again I’m running down the sixty shows on my broad watchlist. Joining the list this week, which was fairly slow for new shows, are The Sandman (Netflix), All Of Us Are Dead (Netflix), The Office (Peacock), Such Brave Girls (Hulu), Nautilus (AMC Plus), Dexter (Paramount Plus), and Prison Break (Netflix). I wrapped some shows, and anything that would rank outside the top 60 dies. WINNER: Squid Game (Netflix) with audio description- I knew I was going to lose my favorites. After the tragic uprising didn’t work last season, it meant playing out Squid Game till the end. I’m only … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: The Weekly Rankings