THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA SEASON 3 REVIEW Last time on Vox Machina, our band of fearless warriors rolled the dice against the dragons that would rule the world and it was all kinds of super effective. However, all is not well in the world of Exandria. The most wicked and powerful of all dragons,… Read More »The Legend of Vox Machina Season 3…

Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of history. Each week, Luke Lamana, a Marine Corp Reconnaissance Veteran, pulls back the curtain on what once was classified information exposing the secrets and lies behind the world’s most powerful institutions. Fro…

GET AWAY MOVIE REVIEW Boring families go on vacations to well known attractions surrounded by fellow tourists and the safety of park security. An adventurous family, like Richard (Nick Frost), Susan (Aisling Bea), Sam (Sebastian Croft), and Jessie (Maisie Ayres), prefer something a little more off the beaten path. They take a vacation to a… Read Mo…

MOANA 2 MOVIE REVIEW It’s not usually a good sign when an animation company repurposes a planned tv series into a sequel film to one of their hits. I mean, I think. It’s happened before, right? Regardless, that’s the case with Moana 2. We were nervous because of that, Lin-Manuel Miranda not returning to do… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Moana …

THE PENGUIN SERIES REVIEW Set just one week after the events of 2022’s The Batman, The Penguin follows Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) trying to collect what little is left in his nightclub, The Iceberg Lounge. He’s caught by Carmine Falcone’s son Alberto Falcone (Michael Zegen), but through a fit of rage Oz kills Alberto. Now… Read More »Screener Squad: T…

GLADIATOR II MOVIE REVIEW After 24 years, Ridley Scott decided to dust off the old Gladiator garb and make a sequel to his 2000 epic that won the gold at the Oscars. Does Gladiator II have the same chances at becoming the best film of the year? Highly unlikely. Paul Mescal takes on the titular… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Gladiator II…

WICKED MOVIE REVIEW Seems like a holiday season can’t go by anymore without a big event musical film. Not that Chris, Frank, Wright, and Kim are complaining (note: these four end up together on a lot of the musical releases). This year though, one of the biggest musicals of the past few decades that has… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Wicked…

GHOST CAT ANZU MOVIE REVIEW Four adolescents are on a quest to see a dead body gathered around a campfire for the night to discuss one of life’s great mysteries: Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, Pluto is a dog, so what’s Goofy? The world may never know, but dear reader/listener, if you… Read More »Screener Squad: Ghost Cat Anzu…

RED ONE MOVIE REVIEW The influx of Xmas movies has begun. With a big cast and with director Jake Kasdan (The Jumanji movies) at the helm, Red One inserts a Marvel movie feel to the proceedings. Dwayne Johnson is Callum Drift, a top agent at E.L.F. who protects Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) and other mythological… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Red…

AGATHA ALL ALONG SERIES REVIEW Disney Plus would like to M See U this fall for the WandaVision follow-up, Agatha Coven of Chaos! Wait, was that it? Hold on, let me get Feige on the phone: Mr. Feige, was that Agatha the Darkhold Diaries or Agatha the Lying Witch and the Wardrobe? He has just… Read More »Screener Squad: Agatha All Along…

MEMOIR OF A SNAIL MOVIE REVIEW There are some filmmakers out there that appear to have an agenda to make the audience feel utter despair and sadness. Much like his previous film Mary & Max, Adam Elliot’s newest picture, Memoir of a Snail, drives home how truly terrible it can be to just exist in… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Memoir of a Snail…

YOUR MONSTER MOVIE REVIEW Thomas Fuller once said “abused patience turns to fury”. Adapted from a short film by writer director Caroline Lindy and coming to a theater near you is the rom-com horror film, Your Monster. Breaking up is hard to do, or at least you’d think so when your partner is diagnosed with… Read More »Screener Squad: Your Monster…

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING SEASON 4 REVIEW They say the first rule of real estate is “location, location, location”. While that’s mostly true for Season 4 of Only Murders in the Building, the showrunners seem to have embraced the second rule of sitcom television: “guest stars, guest stars, guest stars”. Considering the number of… Read More »Scree…

HERETIC MOVIE REVIEW Just because Halloween is over, that doesn’t mean random young people won’t come knocking on your door; only this time they aren’t asking for candy, they’re asking if you have a moment to talk about their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That’s right, we’re talking about Mormon missionaries. When Sister Barnes (Sophie… Read More »…

THE SHADOW STRAYS MOVIE REVIEW You like the John Wick movies? How about The Raid movies and a touch of Taken? Action. Violence. Extreme violence. And like, a Ninja Scroll amount of blood? The Shadow Strays might be exactly what you need to satisfy your masochist cinematic action itch. It certainly did for the One… Read More »Screener Squad: The Sha…

WOMAN OF THE HOUR MOVIE REVIEW Back in the decade of disco balls and bell bottoms, the reality tv landscape on the boob tube was the game show! Unlike the modern day vetting of today to keep psychopaths off the air (unless that would translate into great ratings), the questioning process to participate used to… Read More »Screener Squad: Woman of t…

SALEM’S LOT MOVIE REVIEW Let the right one in this fall season and commune with Bradly, Drew, and Melina as they partake in a midnight mass of vampire cinema forged from the mind of Stephen King at the pique of his spooky scary powers. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman, Salem’s Lot is a modern… Read More »Screener Squad: Salem’s Lot…

BROTHERS MOVIE REVIEW Israel Zangwill once said “It takes two men to make one brother”. Step aside Gyllenhaal and Maguire. Retire and move on Devito and Schwarzenegger. This time around the actors playing siblings are Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage in a film directed by Max Barbakow and written by Etan Cohen and Macon Blair,… Read More »Screener Sq…

THE DELIVERANCE MOVIE REVIEW Doth mine ears hear banjo music…? Wait, that’s the other one. If you’re in the mood to hear a bunch of film geeks riff on the funniest horror movie 2005 had to offer, then you’re in the right place. Just in time for Halloween! Single mother Ebony, played by director Lee… Read More »Screener Squad: The Deliverance…

TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT SERIES REVIEW Back in 1996, Core Design released a Playstation game that since has spawned 18 sequels across dozens of consoles and PC, mobile games, and even themed Pachinko machines! In the early 2000’s, Paramount produced two Tomb Raider films starring the Oscar winning box office sensation Angelina… Read Mo…

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE MOVIE REVIEW Unbelievably, Venom: The Last Dance is the third film in the series to get made, starring Tom Hardy in the dual roles of Eddie Brock and his charming but homicidal alien symbiote Venom. This time he’s on the run from nearly everybody. The law wants him because after the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Venom: T…

THE PLATFORM 2 MOVIE REVIEW “Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger” – Maxim Gorky. Netflix presents The Platform 2. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian. The Platform 2 is a pre-re-Sequel that further explores the atrocities people are… Read More »Scre…

GOODRICH MOVIE REVIEW What if you were so into your life’s work that the life you were living happened as if you were on the outside looking in? What if you were SO into your work that you’d often step away from the outside looking in completely? Written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Goodrich is… Read More »Screener Squad: Goodrich…

WOLFS MOVIE REVIEW George Clooney and Brad Pitt star in this movie you might’ve seen a trailer for a few months back. Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, and knew about the singular week it was actually in theaters. Now, the only way you’re watching this snappy action-comedy thriller is with that… Read More »Screener Squad: Wolfs…

Smile 2 Movie Review The saying “a smile is worth a thousand words” doesn’t even begin to describe the horror in Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 hit Smile. Smile 2 takes place 6 days after where the last film left us and we’re following the lone survivor of the Smile entity, Joel (Kyle Gallner).… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Smile 2…

WE LIVE IN TIME MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that what the world needed right now is the ridiculous amount of charisma of Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in a romance? Directed by John Crowley (Brooklyn, Boy A), We Live In Time tells the story of Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) and how their car crash-cute… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: We Live …

Saturday Night Movie Review In the midst of its 50th season on television, Saturday Night Live is without question a staple in American comedy. It’s hard to imagine that the comedy juggernaut was almost an impressive disaster right up until it aired on October 11th, 1975. Saturday Night, directed by Jason Reitman, tells the story… Read More »Highly…

AZRAEL MOVIE REVIEW Some time after the Rapture, we find civilization in disarray and no one can speak. Azrael follows the titular character (Samara Weaving) and her partner Kenan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), as they escape imprisonment from a female-led community of religious zealots. As she’s recaptured, she is due to be sacrificed by an evil entity…

HIS THREE DAUGHTERS MOVIE REVIEW Spooky Scary Fall is upon us and nothing brings about the fall of all things like the number one undisputed King of Horror, Death. Vincent is going to die. From writer director Azazel Jacobs comes a Netflix feature length awards season prospect His Three Daughters. Vincent’s three daughters from two… Read More »Scre…

Lyle Menendez and Erik Menendez, collectively referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers and convicted murderers who killed their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. The defense argued that the brothers killed their parents out of fear their father would kill them after years of sexual, emotional,…

MEGALOPOLIS MOVIE REVIEW Once heralded as one of the most gifted filmmakers of all time, Francis Ford Coppola has finally achieved his nearly 40 year dream in releasing his epic vision, Megalopolis. The film is jam packed full of incredible actors and some problematic ones. It is led by Adam Driver who plays Cesar Catilina,… Read More »Highly Suspe…

Folie à Deux Movie Review The Clown Prince of Crime has taken on Batman, the Justice League, and the Gotham Police time and time again, but his newest foe…musicals? Joaquin Phoenix is back in his Oscar winning performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux. Todd Phillips’ approach to the 2019 film was an… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Joke…

KITE MAN: HELL YEAH! SERIES REVIEW When you are a villain that’s mocked by the C-list and even ridiculed by the most obscure Robins, sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. Kite Man (Matt Oberg) is an off-again never-again romantic interest from the Adult Swim DC dark comedy show Harley Quinn. With a… Read More »Screener Squad: Kite…

THE CREEP TAPES SERIES REVIEW After two successful and highly thought of found footage movies, Mark Duplass as Josef with Patrick Brice back in the director’s chair return to tell more stories of the strangest serial killer in The Creep Tapes. Going from films to a six-episode Shudder tv series may seem like an ‘uh-oh’… Read More »Infestation: Fant…

ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY MOVIE REVIEW Three High School best friends, after an encounter with some toxic waste, get a super-inconvenient superpower. Whenever they sneeze, their bodies in 1999 fall unconscious and their minds go into their own bodies twenty years in the future. This also apparently wipes out the personalities that exist in… Read…

DADDY’S HEAD MOVIE REVIEW A young boy named Isaac whose father has just died, and who not long before had to deal with the death of his mother, is withdrawn and upset. Laura (Julia Brown) had recently married Isaac’s father and now as the sole caregiver without much of a connection with the boy even… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Da…

BETTER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Oh My God, It Was Earth All Along, You Finally Made a Monkey Out of Me. It was a missed opportunity not to have iconic singer Robbie Williams belt out a version of the Troy McClure song in the biopic about his life Better Man. Why? Because the part of Robbie… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Better Man…

KAOS SERIES REVIEW The thing about prophecies is that they tend to come true in spite of a person’s best efforts to stop them, and when it involves the gods, it is often mortals who suffer the consequences. With Prometheus acting as guide, the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, Caeneus, and Ariadne are woven together… Read More »Screener Squad: Kaos…

THE PARAGON MOVIE REVIEW One day you’re crossing the street and the next day you’re eating blue gloppy glippy gloop, going through intensive montage training to stop a conspiracy that transcends the dimension you thought you knew, and befriending a conspiracy theorist that looks like she does her occult make up on a moving train.… Read More »Screen…

THE APPRENTICE MOVIE REVIEW Get ready for the movie that gives you the story of why we live in such an insane world. The story of Donald Trump and how he got to be…well…like he is. Sebastian Stan takes on Trump with a measured performance as we see him at first as a young man.… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The Apprentice…

HOUSE OF SPOILS MOVIE REVIEW Ariana DeBose plays Chef, who has just gotten her big shot thanks to an enthusiastic investor (Arian Moayed) to run her own restaurant. It’s going to be very high-end, set in a crumbling mansion way out in the countryside. Expectations are high and she is ready to deliver, despite being… Read More »Infestation: Fantasti…

TRIZOMBIE MOVIE REVIEW In another ‘probably only at Fantastic Fest’ movie, one of the few zombie entries this year was the Belgian film Trizombie. In most ways this is a traditional zombie story with a group of survivors who must make a trek across zombie infested areas in order to reach their goal. The difference… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic…

DON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA MOVIE REVIEW There are a lot of home invasion films out there these days, some of ’em pretty scary and intense. That is NOT the vibe that Don’t Mess With Grandma (formerly Sunset Superstar) is going for. Michael Jai White plays Jasper, a gentle giant and a big Dio fan who… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Don’t …

DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY MOVIE REVIEW It’s odd to describe a film with as much gore and supernatural scary stuff in it as Dead Talents Society as ‘delightful’ and even ‘heartwarming’, but here we are. It’s the sort of thing that can happen at Fantastic Fest. This Taiwanese film takes place on Earth, but from the… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest …

THE WILD ROBOT MOVIE REVIEW Dreamworks Animation is here with another big prestige project, The Wild Robot. With Chris Sanders at the helm, who directed Lilo & Stitch, How To Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, you can be reasonably sure it’s going to be a good one. And lo, it delivers. The story takes… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – …

HEAVIER TRIP MOVIE REVIEW One of the low-key hits of 2018 among folks who actually go to see bizarro foreign films at movie fests was Heavy Trip. The story followed the four members of the metal band Impaled Rektum and their insane misadventures. Basically, Wayne’s World in Europe but with a more surreal and very… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic …

SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW The story of Saturday Night Live’s beginnings is one of a show hindered by chaotic creatives, unconvinced executives, drugs, sex, and one very beleaguered but determined showrunner. Director Jason Reitman brings us the story of the 90 minutes before SNL went live for the first time and how close it came… Read More »Infes…

ANORA MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Sean Baker hits Fantastic Fest with the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes this year, Anora. Ani (Mikey Madison) is a stripper whose life in New York City is filled with parties, sex, and fun. Because she can speak Russian, her boss connects her with a young Russian son of an oligarch… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic F…

TERRIFIER 3 MOVIE REVIEW One of the best things about Fantastic Fest is how there’s something very nichey for every taste. And if your taste runs to unbelievably explicit gore and goofy clown killers, then you already know all about director/writer Damien Leone’s Terrifier series. The third entry dips into the beloved subgenre of Xmas… Read More »I…

THE RULE OF JENNY PEN MOVIE REVIEW John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush play two men in a nursing home who go to war with each other. That’s certainly enough of a selling point alone for the Fantastic Fest film, The Rule of Jenny Pen. But the film we saw wasn’t exactly what we expected. Rush… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The Rule of Jenn…