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RIPD 2

John Stark

Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Available?: no one of those rare times Netflix let me down. A quick search for this title found audio description available should someone want to rent this on a VOD service, which means Netflix just couldn’t be bothered. Which for them is rare, so I had to call and let them know to please add the audio description track. However, I don’t know that they ever will, so I had to review the film as is. To be honest, I had no desire to see a RIPD sequel.Even if this film was … Continue reading RIPD 2

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Stutz

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Where I watched It: Netflix English Audio Description?: Yes I am a really big fan of Jonah hill. it’s the entire reason I watched this documentary produced and directed by him, because I was really interested in this story I thought he was going to tell. Then, I saw Stutz, and I really don’t know how to feel about it, grade it, talk about it, recommend it, or anything. Stutz is the last name of Jonah hill’s therapist. For those paying attention, hill has been struggling with things for a while, losing and gaining and losing weight, and most recently … Continue reading Stutz

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My Father’s Dragon

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Where I Watched It: Netflix Audio Description Provided By: Deluxe Written By: Andrea Mozerella Narrated By: Laura Post We are going to need to not nominate this one for an Oscar this year. If we could just not, that’d be great. When i first heard of this, I saw a critic asking fans what their favorite Cartoon Saloon film was, and i didn’t get the name recognition. I watched the film, and still didn’t care. Since then, I now know they are the Irish animation studio behind The Secret Of Kells. This animated offering has a stacked voice cast. Jacob … Continue reading My Father’s Dragon

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Falling For Christmas

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Where I Watched It: Netflix Audio Description Provided By: Descriptive Video Works I admit that I don’t really know what to do with this film. I know that this type of film is big money, and an entire economy for hallmark, but I don’t watch these low-budget holiday romcoms that seem to all be cut and paste from some list of tropes used to make these movies work, whether it’s on Hallmark, Lifetime, or Candice Cameron Burre’s Network Of Bigotry. None of that really matters. you’re not here right now reading this review because you want to know how cute … Continue reading Falling For Christmas

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Enolah Holmes 2

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Where I Watched It: Netflix Audio Description Provided By: Descriptive Video Works Written By: Sarah Vindel Narrated By Sophie Benson While I don’t have an existing review of the original, even though I usually go back through and review a film’s prior entries when a sequel drops, it’s because I was one of the few people underwhelmed by Enolah Holmes to begin with. It’s not that Millie Bobbi Brown isn’t good in the role, I just didn’t find the initial entry that attention grabbing. Here, the titular detective has opened her own office, but no one wants to hire a … Continue reading Enolah Holmes 2

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Blade Of The 47 Ronin

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Where I Watched it: Netflix English Audio Description?: Yes This. this film is why I watched Keanu Reeve’s 47 Ronin after nine years of it existing. Just a day on Netflix, and I’m out there finally inspired to watch a film with a 200 million dollar budget just so I can better understand a straight to video sequel with no returning cast members, no budget, and not a single fuck given. Eraser Reborn took a long ass time between the first and second, so long that the second just copies very formulaically, and poorly, the original. This one, it decides … Continue reading Blade Of The 47 Ronin

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The Good Nurse

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Where I Watched it: Netflix English Audio Description Provided By: international Digital Center Written by: Betty Capone Narrated By: Liz gutman Always a pleasure to see gutman as the narrator. most of the time she’s a writer, but here she delivers the audio description. I gotta say, maybe it’s my expectations of what this could be, or that other projects like Dr Death have ruined this experience for me, but i wasn’t crazy about The Good nurse. I mean, by the end of the film, you’re told the gravitas of what this guy did, but I never actually felt the … Continue reading The Good Nurse

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All Quiet On The Western Front

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Where I Watched It: Netflix Audio Description Provided By: International Digital Center Written By Dakota Green Narrated By: Emily Eden There have been war films as long as there has been film. Capturing violence on celluloid has not just been for documentarians and journalists, but also has long served as a method for aspiring filmmakers to make their stance, whether it be in a support our troops, or the horrors of war sort of way. That’s why, when people generally reference All Quiet On The Western Front, they are referencing the Best picture Oscar that is almost 90 years old, … Continue reading All Quiet On The Western Front

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Wendell and Wild

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Where I Watched It: Netflix Audio Description provided by: International Digital Center Written By: Liz gutman Narrated By: Sri Gordon I know most critics just hop in and do their thing, but I’m not them. I have to admit, there are moments even with terrific audio description, that i still find things where I get more depressed than excited or elated, because my inability to visually see something, or participate in the way I would have been able to a few years ago is now totally different becomes apparent in something. Here, I’m aware Wendell and Wild is a Henry … Continue reading Wendell and Wild

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Blood Red Sky

John Stark

Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description?: Yes One of those films that actually has English Audio Description despite not being originally an English language feature. Go figure it happens to be a film about vampires on a plane and not some Italian artsy Oscar bait. Although, i did really want to see that Netflix film with Sophia Loren, but I guess we get what we get. The official description for this film is misleading as hell. It makes the film sound like there’s a plane, some terrorists are on board, but they encounter a horror they weren’t ready … Continue reading Blood Red Sky

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The Stranger (2022)

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Where I Watched It: Netflix English Audio Description Provided By: International Digital Center Written By: Betty Capone One thing is for sure. Joel Edgerton is starring in some films flying way under the radar this year. Between this and 13 Lives are films that look on the surface like they could potentially net him an Oscar nomination, but neither actually will. Especially this Australian import that might be the most disjointed film I’ve seen this year. To be fair, I’ve seen some critics say they really found the constant scene changes and lack of continuity appealing. For me, it felt … Continue reading The Stranger (2022)

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The School For Good And Evil

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Where I Watched It: Netflix Audio Description Provided By: International Digital Center Written By: Betty Capone Narrated By: Sri Gordon Netflix is obviously chasing the next big YA adaptation, as they are throwing everything they have at this super similar, but just different enough adventure that you may have felt like you’ve seen before. To do this, they recruited Paul Feig, and based on his previous work, ranging from Freaks and Geeks to Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters, Feig’s style is entirely not here. This feels more like a film directed by perhaps Ava Duvernay, as I felt more of her Wrinkle … Continue reading The School For Good And Evil

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The Curse Of Bridge hollow

John Stark

Where I Watched it: Netflix English Audio Description?: Yes to be honest, I’m not sure why Netflix hasn’t made more films like this, expanding its own library of Halloween themed content, and potential franchises. There are a silly amount of horror titles for adults, but less content for the whole family. So, for Netflix to set out with Marlon Wayans and make their own hocus Pocus, I’m not surprised. And it wasn’t awful. I also have to admit, I don’t know how this ends. I did fall asleep, having made this the second movie in a marathon behind a first … Continue reading The Curse Of Bridge hollow

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Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark

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Where i Watched It: Netflix Audio Description provided By: Zoo Digital Written By: Julie Winter Narrated By: Heather Foster This book, as my generation can tell you, was fucking terrifying. The book. The movie is not. I still remember some of the stories today, and I haven’t read the damn thing in probably 30 years. The girl with the ribbon around her neck, the thing on top of the dresser and the sound it made, there were some stories in here that were not meant for elementary school kids, yet that’s exactly who was reading it. At the same time, … Continue reading Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark

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The Too Much TV Roundup- October 20th

John Stark

Six shows enter. one will make the top. This is The Round Up. 6) The Masked Singer (FOX/Hulu) English Audio Description?: No Does anyone else find it incredibly reductive for an artist like the one eliminated last night, who is a legendary singer in her own right, to be eliminated immediately? This show has always had a problem with legends, as their older voice isn’t as popping as it once was. But throw her from her prime into this competition, and she would not have gone home. In some ways, The Masked Singer can’t figure out how to keep these … Continue reading The Too Much TV Roundup- October 20th