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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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The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/2025

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TV Shows Watched: gen V: S2E2 (Amazon) with audio description, Black Rabbit: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, Next Gen Chef: S1E1 (Netflix) with audio description, The girlfriend: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, red Fish Blue Fish: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, The paper: S1E4 (Peacock) with audio description, and The morning Show: S4E1 (Apple Plus) with audio description Gen V- The very special guest this episode is Deep, who makes a brief appearance at a frat hazing ceremony. Otherwise, our trio of heroes decide after all that school is the safest place, so they return to take classes on anti-woke … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 09/18/2025

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Message In A Bottle: 25th Anniversary

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Message In A Bottle: 25th Anniversary- Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, Nicholas Sparks Quick Take: Get out the Kleenex. It is time for a good old fashioned Nicholas Sparks cry. This guy loves to make depressing romantic movies. Here, Robin Wright plays a journalist who finds this, well, you know, and decides to find out who wrote it. that leads her to a sad but hunky Kevin Costner, who is still mourning the loss of his loved one, while trying to care for his recovering alcoholic father (Paul Newman). Of course, she doesn’t tell him about the messages, and … Continue reading Message In A Bottle: 25th Anniversary

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Forrest Gump: 30th Anniversary

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This year brings about the return of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Robert Zemeckis. Later in the year, they have a film releasing together called Here, but it feels special because 30 years ago they made the Best Picture winning Forrest Gump, based on a best selling novel. The film has since not aged quite as well as others, especially since its big Oscar competition was Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption. Shawshank at the time did not have the box office, and while Pulp Fiction marked a return to form and a new career high for John Travolta, Tarantino … Continue reading Forrest Gump: 30th Anniversary

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Damsel

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Millie Bobby Brown needs to have a deal with… life. The poor girl basically is living inside Netflix, as the star of Stranger Things, which will probably air its final season when she’s 30, and the Enolah Holmes series, Brown is of course doing Damsel for Netflix. The problem with that, is that Netflix has a movie vomit approach to its platform, and it is so hard to parse which films are worth your time just by assuming it’s the new Friday release. Netflix has so many mediocre movies with movie stars they could stock a defunct Blockbuster with just … Continue reading Damsel

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Emmy Watch: And The Nominees Are…

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Outstanding Drama Series: Mad Men True Detective Game Of Thrones House Of Cards Downton Abbey Breaking Bad Outstanding Comedy Series: The Big Bang Theory Louie Modern Family Orange Is The New Black Silicon Valley Veep Outstanding Miniseries: American Horror Story: Coven Bonnie and Clyde Fargo Luther Treme The White Queen Outstanding Movie: The Normal Heart The Trip To Bountiful Killing Kennedy Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight Sherlock: His Last Vow Lead Actor In A Drama: Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom) Jon Hamm (Mad Men) Matthew McConaughey (True Detective) Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) Woody Harrelson (True Detective) Kevin Spacey (House Of Cards) Lead … Continue reading Emmy Watch: And The Nominees Are…