Tommy Edison, better known on YouTube as the Blind Film Critic, this week reviewed a movie of particular relevance: “Don’t Breathe,” a thriller about three thieves who break into a visually-impaired veteran’s home. Edison is highly positive on Fede Alvarez’s film overall, granting it 3.5 out of 4 “eyes wide open,” and says that, with one exception, “I don’t think it was unrealistic compared to other blind characters in movies.”
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“There’s one point where he’s doing a lot of sniffing, right, to see if he can figure out where these people are in his home and to see if he can get it with his nose. I don’t know,” Edison says. “He probably uses his nose a little more in that situation than I would,...
Read More: SXSW Review: Fede Alvarez’s Thriller ‘Don’t Breathe’ Starring Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto & Stephen Lang
“There’s one point where he’s doing a lot of sniffing, right, to see if he can figure out where these people are in his home and to see if he can get it with his nose. I don’t know,” Edison says. “He probably uses his nose a little more in that situation than I would,...
- 8/24/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
This guy! What an inspiration. Thanks to a great profile in The Guardian, we have been introduced to and must share this story of Tommy Edison, a man from here in America known as the "Blind Film Critic". Edison got the most attention in 2011 and 2012, being profiled by Roger Ebert and earning news coverage from CNN and other TV media by publishing YouTube video reviews of films he "watched", or rather, he listened to. We're just catching up to him now, but watching his reviews (see them below), seeing that smile on his face, and hearing his enthusiasm for film even though he can't actually see the screen - is infectious. So how does it work? If Tommy can't see the movie, how is he reviewing it? Well, he's listening and judging the film based on his own imaginative experience. "I thought it might be fun to review movies from...
- 12/9/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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