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Jules

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes English Audio Description?: Yes Ben Kingsley top lines this movie destined for the AARP Awards this year. When a curmudgeonly man (Kingsley), with a set routine, and a concerned daughter, finds a spaceship crash landed in his backyard, he does the only thing logical. He befriends the little tyke, and lets him into his house. Even though there are no communication pathways, these two seem to find ways of understanding each other. The alien, who becomes known as… well I’ll let you guess… enjoys apples and just often sitting and staring at his surroundings. Things … Continue reading Jules

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Past Lives

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes English Audio Description By Deluxe Primary Narration By Jedidiah Barton Do you ever think “Oh, that seems interesting.”, and then everyone on the internet responds to it with the level of dedicated Ferber that suggests the movie is now a religion. Do you worship at the church of Past Lives? Perhaps you saw the A24 logo, and just stared at that for two hours, and let A24 be your new God. in short, cal the hell down. I went into Past Lives really trying to keep my expectations measured and fair, allowing a film to … Continue reading Past Lives

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Blackberry

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes English Audio Description?: Yes Narrated By: Nicole Surillo Easily one of the best decisions I’ve made this year was to pull the trigger and make sure I rented a copy that had audio description. This film hails from IFC Films, which seems to not care how their films are presented across various platforms, and their accessibility is unfortunately quite lacking as the films traditionally premiere on AMC Plus with their IFC channel, where it won’t have audio description, before later winding up on Hulu, where it also will not have audio description. And these companies … Continue reading Blackberry

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Somewhere in Queens

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes English Audio Description?: No I still like to review films that don’t have audio description to talk about why they need them. I also like to remind these various companies that they are not at a 100% level of accessibility, so they should be constantly striving toward that. Even though iTunes is great for letting us know what has audio description, the fact that only a handful of titles are actually available to a blind audience with audio description is still disconcerting. I chose Somewhere In Queens because I wanted to see what Ray Romano … Continue reading Somewhere in Queens

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes (VOD) English Audio Description Provided By: Deluxe Narrated By: Erin Nixon I was more of a Beverly Cleary kid in Elementary school, along with whatever was on my reading lists. I’m pretty sure I’ve never read Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret. That did not have any bearing on my ability to enjoy the film, nor did my gender. This isn’t just a film for girls, or for tweens. It’s just a really great story. Margaret is a young girl whose parents up and relocate at the beginning of the film, and she’s just … Continue reading Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

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Sisu

John Stark

Where I Watched It: iTunes (VOD) English Audio Description provided By Deluxe Narrated By Jedidiah Barton I can’t fully credit John Wick with the existence of this type of film, since absurd action films have long been the staple in our film diet. It often used to just be a really thin plot that gave an action star reason to kick ass, but now that we have all these stunt crews and elaborate visual effects, a film like Sisu, which takes place in WWII era Finland has all the blessings to send its audience to the proverbial brink. And i … Continue reading Sisu