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 »Screener Squad: The Platform 2

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 In Time

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 Suspect Reviews: Saturday Night

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,… Read More »Screener Squad: Azrael

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 »Screener Squad: His Three Daughters

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 Suspect Reviews: Megalopolis

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: Joker: Folie à Deux

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 Man: Hell Yeah!

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: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The Creep Tapes

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 More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Escape From the 21st Century

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 – Daddy’s Head

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 »Screener Squad: The Paragon

TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR This week on Trash on the Tube, Master of Horror Wes Craven brings his most terrifying monster to the small screen – Jeffrey Jones! That’s right, noted character actor and pedophile stars as a cartoonist and “family man” whose imagination comes to life in this oddball sitcom… Read More »Trash on the Tube: The People Next Door

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: Fantastic Fest 2024 – House of Spoils

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 Fest 2024 – Trizombie

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 Mess With Grandma

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 2024 – Dead Talents Society

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 – The Wild Robot

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 Fest 2024 – Heavier Trip

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 »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Saturday Night

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 Fest 2024 – Anora

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 »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Terrifier 3

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 Jenny Pen

Párvulos Movie Review Mexican director Isaac Ezban returns to Fantastic Fest this year with his new post-zombie-apocalypse film Párvulos. The story centers around a house in the middle of nowhere where a teen boy and his two much younger brothers eke out a scant survival. Both parents are gone, ostensibly dead but it appears as… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Párvulos

WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? MOVIE REVIEW Found footage horror isn’t always everyone’s favorite, but if it’s playing at Fantastic Fest, it generally is better than most. Such is the case for What Happened to Dorothy Bell? written and directed by Danny Villanueva Jr. The film follows Ozzie (Asya Meadows) who has lost much of… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – What Happened to Dorothy Bell?

BOOKWORM MOVIE REVIEW You just can’t keep Elijah Wood away from New Zealand. And who can blame him? It’s goddamn gorgeous. He gets to revisit the scenic countryside in his second collaboration with director Ant Timpson, Bookworm. The tale starts with Mildred (Nell Fisher) and her mom who don’t get along well. Mildred lives a… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Bookworm

U ARE THE UNIVERSE MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you were an astronaut on a deep space mission and discovered the Earth had blown up? If you were Ukrainian space trucker Andriy, then probably not much different. You’d continue to tolerate terrible dad jokes from your onboard robot trying to cheer you up,… Read More »Infestation: U Are The Universe

TIME BANDITS SERIES REVIEW Remember as a kid when it was super cool to have a favorite dinosaur? When day-dreaming of sailing the world with vikings like Leif Erikson was a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do? When you could tell the difference between Greek and Roman history without extra scrutiny? Kevin (Kal-El Tuck)… Read More »Screener Squad: Time Bandits

THE SUBSTANCE MOVIE REVIEW We’ve never seen Demi Moore like this before. Coralie Fargeat’s, director of Revenge, second feature film The Substance is a wild combination of David Cronenberg’s body-horror and Frank Henenlotter’s exploitation sensibilities. Demi Moore plays Elizabeth Sparkle, whose stardom has faded from Hollywood icon to hosting a tv workout show ala Jane… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Substance

REBEL RIDGE MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like a good ol’ fashioned solid action flick. Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) is back with his newest film, Rebel Ridge, starring Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb, and Don Johnson. We meet Pierre’s character Terry riding his bike down a long country road where he’s suddenly run off the road… Read More »Screener Squad: Rebel Ridge

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 346: THE MEN FROM DIGITAL NOISE Chris and Wright have a stack that goes all over the place, from deadly electrified motorcycle beach killers to Costner “classics” getting a not-so-great reevaluation. From Bowie playing a con-man working with Rosanna Arquette to rob a restaurant, to a giant spider eating people in an… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 346: The Men From Digital Noise

THE 4:30 MOVIE FILM REVIEW Kevin Smith is one of the defining Gen X filmmakers. Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy inspired countless storytellers from the 90’s to today. He’s also the guy who made Cop Out and Yoga Hosers. The guy’s had a mixed bag of a career. So, it comes as a wonderful surprise… Read More »Screener Squad: The 4:30 Movie

SPEAK NO EVIL MOVIE REVIEW The Danish horror film Speak No Evil was much discussed in horror circles as being one of the bleakest and most frightening films of 2022. Now here comes Blumhouse Films to soften it up for American audiences. And while there is no denying that they did exactly that, is it… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Speak No Evil

MY OLD ASS MOVIE REVIEW Elliott (Maisy Stella) has grown up in a beautiful lakeside town with her family, who grow cranberries there for a living. While there had been some expectation that she would continue on in the family business at some point, she has since made clear that she has no interest. Soon… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: My Old Ass

THE DECAMERON SERIES REVIEW In 1384 the deadliest pandemic in human history known as the black death did not discriminate. All classes, creeds and sexes fell prey as the plague ravaged Europe, caring not for borders or alliances. What could one do to survive such a horror? If you were wealthy enough, you would take… Read More »Screener Squad: The Decameron

JACKPOT! MOVIE REVIEW In the dystopian future of 2030, former child actor, Katie Kim (Awkwafina), is trying to restart her career in Hollywood. After unknowingly entering and winning the California Grand Lottery, Katie finds herself in a fight for her life as everyone in the city, from biker gangs to yoga teachers, comes out of… Read More »Screener Squad: Jackpot!

INCOMING MOVIE REVIEW The teen sex comedy genre has had some truly classic entries in the past couple of decades, like Dazed and Confused, Can’t Hardly Wait, American Pie and Superbad. These movies focus on the coming-of-age experiences of teenagers, often revolving around high school and that one night where everything goes wrong before it… Read More »Screener Squad: Incoming

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 345: TAKE THE TWISTER CHALLENGE John and Chris review a really big stack this week of home releases. Some good. Some bad. Some EXTREMELY bad. And some surprisingly wonderful. From the film that set the standard for hitman movies, to that 90s Gene Hackman thriller on a train you never saw (but… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 345: Take The Twister Challenge

TRASH IN THE CAN: STEEL & LACE This week, guest Tessa Morrison returns for revenge served with a side of robotic boobs. Toxic bro culture gets what’s coming to it when the robot recreation of a sexual assault victim picks of her assailants one by one. It’s like Inspector Gadget, but with more penis mutilation!… Read More »Trash in the Can: Steel & Lace

THE UNION MOVIE REVIEW When freedom is hanging off the ledge of a ten story building and is quickly losing its grip you only have a split second to send the right agent for the job. Do you want the pampered nepo baby with a major in economics and a bachelors in debate that can… Read More »Screener Squad: The Union

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE MOVIE REVIEW After many, many, MANY, many many attempts to get a sequel to 1988’s smash cult hit Beetlejuice off the ground, Tim Burton finally got somebody to pony up the dough all these decades later. Everyone is back (except for Jeffrey Jones because of…well, look it up) and it’s a family reunion… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

THE FRONT ROOM MOVIE REVIEW Don’t you just hate it when the in-laws move in? In The Front Door, this Mother-In-Law (Kathryn Hunter) is one straight from Hell. First time Directors, Max and Sam Eggers, have produced a film that at first glance appears to be another taut horror flick released by their brother’s (Robert… Read More »Highly Suspect Review: The Front Room

HELL HOLE MOVIE REVIEW They’re icky and they’re gross-y. Tedious and dull-y. They’re into butt stuff-y. It’s the Adams Family, the film collective behind such films as Hellbender, The Hatred, and The Deeper You Dig, brings us their newest low-budget horror flick, Hell Hole. A group of frackers and scientists embark on a new project… Read More »Screener Squad: Hell Hole

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 344: PURPLE VELVET FICTION MACHINE Chris and Wright have an epic-list this week of titles and despite having a bunch of classics on it, Wright has never seen any of them. From the purple-clad adventures of “The Kid”, to a young Tony Perkins getting a good talking-to from Henry Fonda. From an… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 344: Purple Velvet Fiction Machine

BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER SERIES REVIEW ATTENTION! Attention all listeners, there have been reports of a mysterious bat-like creature stalking the streets of our fair Gotham City. Be on the lookout for this Caped Crusader! From the powerhouse collective of Bruce Timm, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker, and J.J. Abrams comes Amazon Prime’s animated series, Batman: Caped… Read More »Screener Squad: Batman: Caped Crusader

THE LAST BREATH MOVIE REVIEW Back in ye olden days, a ship would go out to see and often return with tales of adventure and massive booty. But alas, what if the captain and the hardy crew did not return to dock? Could the ship have sank, and what of the hearty crew? Perhaps a… Read More »Screener Squad: The Last Breath

BLINK TWICE MOVIE REVIEW It’s hard to know how to market a film that depends on a giant twist without spoiling the surprise. It definitely feels like Blink Twice is one of those, where the trailers make it look like some kind of slasher on an island with beautiful people. But what if I told… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Blink Twice

DANCING VILLAGE: THE CURSE BEGINS MOVIE REVIEW Lyall Watson once said “Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives… Read More »Screener Squad: Dancing Village: The Curse Begins

THE COLORS WITHIN MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest of us… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024: The Colors Within

THE IMAGINARY MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest of us non-festival… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024 – The Imaginary

ALIEN: ROMULUS MOVIE REVIEW On an incredibly crap mining planet job, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her ‘brother’, the mentally simple android Andy (David Jonsson), are coming to terms with the fact that the Weyland-Yutani Corporation has no intention of letting their contract finish and they’re going to be stuck there probably till they die. Teaming… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Alien: Romulus

THE STORM MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest of us non-festival… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024 – The Storm

THE INSTIGATORS MOVIE REVIEW One last heist? In this economy I’m just happy to have a job. No benefits? Typical. Apple Plus presents a summer film brought right to your living room. Directed and written by Doug Liman and written by Chuck Maclean and Casey Affleck, The Instigators is a brisk political caper under two… Read More »Screener Squad: The Instigators

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 2 REVIEW Tensions are quite high in Westeros. House of the Dragon is back with its second season and picks up right where we left off when Prince Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) killed Prince Luke and left the relationship between Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Queen Alicent (Olivia Cooke) in utter… Read More »Screener Squad: House of the Dragon Season 2

BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F MOVIE REVIEW Better late than never, which could be said to be true both for the release date of this review and of the movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. After the dismal third chapter in 1994, and with Eddie Murphy’s declining star power, it’s understandable that this was a… Read More »Screener Squad: Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

CUCKOO MOVIE REVIEW Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) is a grieving teen who can’t really deal with the death of her mother. Being not quite 18, she reluctantly moves with her father (Marton Csokas), stepmother (Jessica Henwick) and mysteriously mute little half-sister Alma (Mila Lieu) to a quaint resort town in the Bavarian Alps. Her father is… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Cuckoo

SING SING MOVIE REVIEW It’s sounds like a stunt, taking the real-life folks who had an experience and casting them as versions of themselves. In Sing Sing, it feels like the only way you’d want to do it. The story follows a group of prisoners inside of Sing Sing Correctional Facility who have a theater… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Sing Sing

GO! GO! LOSER RANGER! SERIES REVIEW With all the spectacle and extravagance of a Sunday Superbowl showdown, Boss Monsters from beyond the stars have attacked the earth. Thanks to a team of heros called The Dragon Keepers, the evil beings from beyond the moon were all slaughtered and righteous justice reigns supreme. What of these… Read More »Screener Squad: Go! Go! Loser Ranger!

MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN SEASON 2 REVIEW Now that we’ve had our run through the animated Superman that would conquer the world and the cartoonishly evil Superman trumping up the place, we’re back with the classic boy scout in blue, now animated on Adult Swim with My Adventures with SuperMan season 2. Clark Kent (Jack… Read More »Screener Squad: My Adventures With Superman Season 2

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024 – The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

THE GLASSWORKER MOVIE REVIEW Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest of us non-festival… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024 – The Glassworker

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 343: DIGITAL DREAM John and Chris review home releases together. This is the podcast they review them on. You should listen and subscribe because then you get to hear stuff like their take on Burt Reynolds trying to do a mature romantic dramedy (not great); How you divvy up one of the… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 343: Digital Dream

EXPLODING KITTENS SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series comes from humble kickstarter origins and the twisted mind of The Oatmeal‘s webcomic creator Matthew Inman. It’s inspired a card game, an NSFW version, Plushie merch, and even a pinball table. Now with co-creator Shane Kosakowski, Netflix presents a nine episode animated series based on Exploding Kittens.… Read More »Screener Squad: Exploding Kittens

THE DEVIL’S BATH MOVIE REVIEW In 18th century Austria, love is in the air! Or in the very least, an arrangement made between random strangers to please their lineage and God by becoming one under holy matrimony and offering up their wedding bed for the good of procreation and carrying on the will of the… Read More »Screener Squad: The Devil’s Bath

TRASH IN THE CAN: TOXIC OBSESSION This week we go down under for another exercise in clueless ego. And no, we don’t mean the podcast! A tech industry wizard with the charisma of lawn clippings inexplicably finds himself in the middle of a fatal attraction scenario that leads him to almost raise his eyebrows. Join… Read More »Trash in the Can: Toxic Obsession

THE BOYS SEASON 4 REVIEW The Boys are back in town! The Amazon series is back with it’s fourth and penultimate season. Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Starlight (Erin Moriarty), and the gang are in somewhat disarray from the previous season as they struggled with their newest adversary in Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit). Mother’s… Read More »Screener Squad: The Boys Season 4

ODDITY MOVIE REVIEW We’ll never look at a terrifying, lifesize, wooden Golem the same ever again. Damian McCarthy’s second feature film, Oddity, has an incredibly simple and dread inducing setup. Carolyn Bracken plays Dani who’s renovating her home while her husband Dr Timmis, played by Gwilym Lee, works the overnight shift at the local mental… Read More »Screener Squad: Oddity

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2024 – “DIPLODOCUS” Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the world of animation for the rest… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024 – “Diplodocus”

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FEST 2024 – INTRO AND “THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES” Our man in Poland, Maciej Kur, gets to go to the Annecy Animation Festival every year (lucky bastard) and bring us back news of what’s good. This year, he again teams up with Spidermike to lay out what’s coming soon in the… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Fest 2024 – Intro and “The Most Precious of Cargoes”

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE SERIES REVIEW The Knights of One Of Us, Melina, Neil, and TC, gather in the Jedi Council Chambers to discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte. This mystery-thriller tells the dark tale of of Mae (Amandla Stenberg), an assassin of Jedi who has been trained in the… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Wars: The Acolyte

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE MOVIE REVIEW Deadpool is finally in the MCU for real. He made the cut. He gets his third movie. But this time he’s bringing Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine with him on an adventure to save their universes from the ‘sacred timeline’ wiping them out (re: the MCU). So, we gotta reference the Time… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Deadpool and Wolverine

TWISTERS MOVIE REVIEW In this age of rapidly changing weather, as disasters begin to significantly increase, it’s par for the course for Hollywood to parallel it with action films. So let’s resurrect a film from 1996, beloved by some, make it plural, and largely have no other connection to the original. It’s Twisters and now… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Twisters

THE BEAR SEASON 3 REVIEW Dial up the Emmy voters and get the best ensemble SAG award ready. The Bear on FX and Hulu is back with season 3. We last left Chef Carmey (Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White) locked in the freezer. The beef wasn’t the only thing needing a thaw within that icey… Read More »Screener Squad: The Bear Season 3

LONGLEGS MOVIE REVIEW The hype is here for director/writer Osgood Perkins new horror film Longlegs. It’s everywhere. Even not huge horror fans I know are talking about it in anticipation. Which is weird because I only know a handful of people who actually saw his terrific other films, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel and Hansel, and… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Longlegs

TRASH IN THE CAN: THE SEDUCTION OF DR. FUGAZZI This week we dive into the work of an amateur auteur in the tradition of Tommy Wiseau, Deuandra T. Brown, and the Former United States Secretary of the Treasury’s wife. Frank Calvillo returns strictly to discuss Faye Dunaway dressed as Annie Hall, but sticks around for… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Seduction of Dr. Fugazzi

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SEASON 2 AMC Plus presents the Immortal Universe based on the books of Anne Rice and Interview with the Vampire is their core show (at this juncture). Heading into season 2, we last left our narrator Louis (Jacob Anderson) recounting the departure from his maker Lestat to interviewee Daniel Molloy (Eric… Read More »Screener Squad: Interview With The Vampire Season 2

A FAMILY AFFAIR MOVIE REVIEW Zara Ford (Joey King) is a young ambitious producer who’s ready to take the Hollywood bull by the horns and change the industry forever! She’s got her Pulitzer prize winning mother’s (Nicole Kidman) blessing and bottomless funds, and a foot in the door by being Mr. Blockbuster mega star Chris… Read More »Screener Squad: A Family Affair

JOKO ANWAR’S NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS SERIES REVIEW Hey to all you Christmas in July folks! You can get out of here with your awful snow and frozen heart. We are getting into the spooky scarys in the 2024 summer brought to you by Netflix. Joko Anwar Presents Nightmares and Daydreams is an anthology of seven… Read More »Screener Squad: Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams

ULTRAMAN RISING MOVIE REVIEW Every parent wants their child to shine on the stage of life and honour the sacrifices made to raise them into a brilliant independent hero amongst so much mediocrity. What happens though if the child in question is pushed in two different directions by their parents? Ken Sato (Christopher Sea) is… Read More »Screener Squad: Ultraman Rising

MAXXXINE MOVIE REVIEW Even if you’re not a fan of the films, you’ve got to hand it to director/writer Ti West: no one has ever made a horror trilogy in the fashion that the X series is constructed. Each one distinctively different in style, and believe me, style is in charge here, but ultimately with… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Maxxxine

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 342: THE ENDLESS PODCAST Chris and Wright got a little carried away this week with having fun and turned in an epic-length show, but to be fair, there WERE a lot of titles to talk about. From a Russian/American hidden gem of a thriller from the 90s, to a bizarre Russian/Chinese hybrid… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 342: The Endless Podcast

KINDS OF KINDNESS MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Yorgos Lanthimos definitely veered away from his usual fare with his recent and multi-award winning films The Favorite and Poor Things. But his latest, a triptych anthology Kinds of Kindness, returns to the dark absurdism of films like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. His cast… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Kinds of Kindness

TRASH ON THE TUBE: TEQUILA AND BONETTI Is the only thing keeping you from watching Law and Order: SVU the lack of Mariska Hargitay interacting with a talking dog at a grisly crime scene? You’re in luck! This week, join us for a take on Turner and Hooch that adds a dash of racial stereotypes… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Tequila and Bonetti

THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL MOVIE REVIEW Broadway actress Lillian Hall is ready to go full showtime with Ivan Chekhov’s stage play “The Cherry Orchard” but a bad diagnosis from her doctor sets her up to have the standard biopic ‘long life lived’ reflections before the final curtain call. The Great Lillian Hall stars Jessica Lange… Read More »Screener Squad: The Great Lillian Hall

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE MOVIE REVIEW The nasty sound-sensitive alien monsters return, or rather, we see their arrival from a different viewpoint, in this new prequel to the A Quiet Place films, A Quiet Place: Day One. Whereas the first two films in the series are both co-written and directed by John Krasinski, here… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: A Quiet Place: Day One

SWEET TOOTH SEASON 3 REVIEW It has been a long, long journey to get here but we have reached the end of our story. That story being the third and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s comic, Sweet Tooth. The final eight episodes sees Gus and his merry crew still on the search… Read More »Screener Squad: Sweet Tooth Season 3

THE EXORCISM MOVIE REVIEW What’s hard to believe about The Exorcism is that it was shot pre-pandemic much earlier than Crowe’s other and much better exorcism movie, The Pope’s Exorcist. Yet, after viewing the film, it’s understandable why the studio shelved it for nearly 5 years. Russell Crowe stars in The Exorcism, his latest bout… Read More »Screener Squad: The Exorcism

WHAT REMAINS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Ran Huang and Co-Writer Megan Everett-Skarsgård presents What Remains, based on a true story mystery of a man confessing to multiple murders that he may have not committed. The film begins with a chance at a new life as Mads Lake (Gustaf Skarsgård) is released on a probationary period but… Read More »Screener Squad: What Remains

HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON MOVIE REVIEW What do you do when you’re a vampire, and the thought of biting someone’s neck puts you in a moral quandary? This is the dilemma of Sasha, a young teenager of the vampyric persuasion who, despite her family’s pressure, is unable to bring herself to hunt down… Read More »Screener Squad: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

I USED TO BE FUNNY MOVIE REVIEW Wanda Sykes once said “I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.” The following film is about a young woman who raised laughter like an au pair raises a widower’s troubled teenage daughter. Sam (Rachel Sennott) is struggling with… Read More »Screener Squad: I Used To Be Funny

THE BIKERIDERS MOVIE REVIEW Director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) dives into the world of motorcycle enthusiasts in the 1960s with The Bikeriders. Inspired by a book of photography of the same name that chronicled the lives of outlaw bikers in the period, the film is an original story by Nichols. It is told largely… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Bikeriders

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 341: TWO MEN, ONE STACK John and Chris dive in and sip from the stack with some films they both really should have seen before now, and some you wonder why anyone ever saw. From a bizarre Italian erotic thriller with sax sex, to Owen Wilson playing a very Owen Wilson-esque serial… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 341: Two Men, One Stack

INSIDE OUT 2 MOVIE REVIEW Riley is now a teen, and as we all know, a BUNCH of new emotions come out of nowhere with puberty, few of them terribly pleasant but all of them rather insistent. Thus have things changed inside Riley’s head with a group of new feelings suddenly taking the controls such… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Inside Out 2

POOLMAN MOVIE REVIEW The Screener Squad has gathered in the One Of Us City Hall to go to the very bottom of the weekly agenda and discover that they have a review collecting dust and algae. Poolman is a “comedy” mystery film starring, produced by, written by ,and directed by one of our many cinematic… Read More »Screener Squad: Poolman

TRASH IN THE CAN: MOSQUITO We kickoff the summer with camping, barbecues, and giant mutant mosquitoes! A cluess biologist, Leatherface, and Iggy Pop’s bassist team up for a rubber monster roulette. Chris Cox returns to Trash in the Can with 1994’s Mosquito!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews,… Read More »Trash in the Can: Mosquito

STAR TREK DISCOVERY – SEASON 5 REVIEW These are the voyages of the starship Discovery. Its five-season mission: to set-up spin-off shows; to seek out new fans and new demographics, to boldly go where no Trek series has gone before: the streaming era! While some may prefer the episodic format of Strange New Worlds, the… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Trek Discovery – Season 5

THE WATCHERS MOVIE REVIEW Nepotism is alive and well with Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of M.Night Shyamalan, in her first feature film, The Watchers. Based on the book by A.M. Shine, the story follows grief stricken Mina, played by Dakota Fanning, as she wastes her days in a pet shop job that she doesn’t care about… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Watchers

HIT MAN MOVIE REVIEW Director Richard Linklater is a director who pretty much always turns out a good film, even if it’s not terribly populist entertainment. Hit Man certainly isn’t for the kids, but it’s surprising that Netflix buried its theatrical run considering how endearing the film really is, not to mention the star vehicle… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Hit Man

BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE MOVIE REVIEW The bad boys return for this fourth movie (shouldn’t they have saved “for life” for this one) from the same director/writers as the previous entry. This time, Mike (Will Smith) is tying the knot with the beautiful Christine (Melanie Liburd) and it’s a lovely wedding except that Marcus… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Bad Boys: Ride or Die

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES SERIES REVIEW This new Netflix series is based on the Neil Gaiman/Matt Wagner comic books, which are themselves spin-offs of The Sandman (and some cameo casting establishes that the same is true of the show). Dead Boy Detectives is the story of Edwin and Charles, two youths cut dead in their prime,… Read More »Screener Squad: Dead Boy Detectives

IN A VIOLENT NATURE MOVIE REVIEW What do you get when you combine Friday the 13th, the serene cinematography of Terrence Malick, and the brooding dread of It Follows? Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature of course! The film, literally, follows the undead murderer Johnny on a slow and methodical rampage through the woods. He… Read More »Screener Squad: In a Violent Nature

ATLAS MOVIE REVIEW Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), is an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence. She has committed her life to Blade Runn-er-um-searching for fugitive AI terrorists, specifically Harlan (Simu Liu), the AI who gained sentience 28 years ago and led a robot rebellion that left 3 million Earthlings dead before military forces… Read More »Screener Squad: Atlas

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA MOVIE REVIEW I don’t think anyone could have even begun to imagine back in 1979 when the original Mad Max was released that this series would go on for decades (albeit with only five movies thus far) and become what it is now: arguably THE event movie of the year.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

TALES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES REVIEW Following in the steps of Tales of the Jedi, which told the tales of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano in the prequel era, Tales of the Empire offers us another point of view. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (who we were introduced to in the Ahsoka series as… Read More »Screener Squad: Tales of the Empire

X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints it remained popular enough to last until 1997. A few years later, X-Men the movie… Read More »Screener Squad: X-Men ’97

TRASH IN THE CAN: THE KILLER EYE It’s hard to describe this week’s movie, but it’s similar to the Tommy Bahama shirt Wright was wearing as we recorded. Painful to look at, confusing, and surprisingly sexual. Jarred Schiff joins us for a movie he brought with him, so don’t blame us. We watched the tentacle… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Killer Eye

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 340: DIE FOR DIGITAL NOISE Chris and Wright have a grand ol’ time with today’s stack, despite having very mixed results. From a giant alligator Jaws rip-off cheapie to one of the best terrible films we’ve ever seen. From an 80s forgotten Gene Hackman/Matt Dillon international spy thriller to a delightful feminist… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 340: Die for Digital Noise

KNUCKLES SERIES REVIEW It’s been thirty years since Knuckles made his Sega Genesis debut in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Now the chaotic mascot races onto Paramount Plus in a 6 episode mini series before Sonic The Hedgehog 3 lands in theaters this December. The master emerald has been protected and the evil Doctor Robotnik has… Read More »Screener Squad: Knuckles

INFESTED MOVIE REVIEW Creature Features are mostly a thing of the past… post-WWII and pre-space race, a lot of films dealt with the fallout (pun intended) of nuclear weapons. In 50’s cinema, you had all sorts of creepy bugs being super-sized by human hubris. Movies like Tarantula, The Deadly Mantis, and Earth Vs. Spider freaked… Read More »Screener Squad: Infested

I SAW THE TV GLOW MOVIE REVIEW The director of experimental art-horror hit from last year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun, returns with their latest experimental art-scifi hit, I Saw the TV Glow. The film follows Owen, who first we meet in 7th grade (briefly played by Ian Foreman). He is… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: I Saw The TV Glow

NEW LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time you dressed so fine. Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you? People say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall.’ You thought they were all kidding you. You used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out. Now you don’t talk so loud. Now you… Read More »Screener Squad: New Life

UNFROSTED MOVIE REVIEW Jerry Seinfeld presents Unfrosted, his feature length directorial debut that offers a fictionalized account of 1963 Michigan business rivals Kellogg’s and Post competing to create a crusted fruit pastry that could change breakfast forever. This is the origin of the Pop Tart. Told as though it were as important and as dramatic… Read More »Screener Squad: Unfrosted

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Ryûsuke Hamaguchi won Global acclaim with the 2022 Oscar winning Best International Feature Film Drive My Car. His first follow up feature parks the car in the garage and takes us up to a secluded mountain paradise. Evil Does Not Exist follows Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) a single father… Read More »Screener Squad: Evil Does Not Exist

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES The apes and their planet return in their tenth overall outing in this brand new (300 years after the last film) story. Caesar and his revolution have become more of a legend than anything else in this world of separated ape tribes. The Eagle Clan live peacefully, with… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

INVINCIBLE SEASON 2 REVIEW Invincible is back! I mean it was back, and then 4 episodes in, Amazon was like “just kidding, still working on it.” but our favorite teenage Viltrumite Mark is back for another soul crushing season. After Omni-Man (Nolan) leaves Earth, Mark deems it crucial to take up the mantle, hopefully without… Read More »Screener Squad: Invincible Season 2

SHOGUN SERIES REVIEW FX on Hulu presents James Clavell’s classic novel adapted into a mini series created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, Shōgun. Marooned on the Islands of Japan during the Edo era in the 1600’s, English navigator John Blackthorn (Cosmo Jarvis) plans to persuade the powerful bushō and lord of the Kantō, Yoshi… Read More »Screener Squad: Shogun

HUMANE MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that a Cronenberg could make a populist movie?! That’s what we get to some degree with Caitlin Cronenberg’s (daughter of filmmaker, David Cronenberg) first feature, Humane. Set in the not too distant future, the UN has decided due to environmental collapse that each country in the world needs to decrease… Read More »Screener Squad: Humane

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 339: YACHT ROCK THEME SONG John and Chris take on some home releases with a look at the final Leone Western and an analysis of a director through the window of his inspiration from a beloved children’s film. We look at some folks trying to make a NEW Marx Brothers movie and… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 339: Yacht Rock Theme Song

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3

THE FALL GUY MOVIE REVIEW While the track record for adapting really old tv shows into feature films has been…mixed, to say the least, director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, John Wick) taking on The Fall Guy, which centered around a Hollywood stuntman, seems like a match made in heaven. Ryan Gosling plays Colt Seavers, the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Fall Guy

RIPLEY SERIES REVIEW He had always understood the power of lies – how they could shape reality, how they could make people see what you wanted them to see. The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Patricia Highsmith back in 1955, has seen many adaptations over the decades. This time around, Steven Zaillian is running the… Read More »Screener Squad: Ripley

TRASH ON THE TUBE: COP ROCK This week, we watch a show that takes the gravity of Hill Street Blues and combines it with the pizazz of Glee. Does it work? Absolutely not! Is it a fun watch? Debatable! Join us for Steven Bochco’s musical misfire Cop Rock!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Cop Rock

THE IDEA OF YOU MOVIE REVIEW Anne Hathaway at 40. Man, do I feel old. Not as old as she feels though in the Amazon Prime Video movie The Idea of You. Anne plays single mom Solène. She splits time taking care of her teen daughter Izzy with her ex-husband while also running an art… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Idea of You

FALLOUT SERIES REVIEW Hey there vault dwellers. I know it’s been a bit much being confined to a Vault-Tec vault for over 2 centuries, but we think it’s time that you zipped up your jumpsuit and wander out to the Wasteland. There’s raiders, rad roaches, and these cute little things called Yao Guai (basically giant,… Read More »Screener Squad: Fallout

BOY KILLS WORLD MOVIE REVIEW Take one part chiseled action hero, one part post-apocalyptic ‘Running Man‘ wasteland, and the 3rd project Sharlto Copley has been in this year. What do you get? Boy Kills World starring our ever favorite Pennywise the clown, Bill Skarsgard! Skarsgard stars as Boy, a deaf-mute man riddled with grief and… Read More »Screener Squad: Boy Kills World

REBEL MOON PART 2: THE SCARGIVER REVIEW Round 2! Zack Snyder is back with the second part of his sci-fi “epic”, Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver. We last left Kora (Sofia Boutella) and her band of mighty warriors on the titular rebel moon, Veldt. They are welcomed by the thankful villages saving them from… Read More »Screener Squad: Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver

PARASYTE: THE GREY SERIES REVIEW My skin is not my own! You know the quote, but how do you know it? It’s like the word Ewok; sometimes we just know stuff. Or perhaps the alien inside you shared the knowledge with you in a dream. Parasyte The Grey is a live-action Netflix miniseries adapted from… Read More »Screener Squad: Parasyte: The Grey

CHALLENGERS MOVIE REVIEW Who knew a movie about tennis could be so sexy?! Only genre-jumping Luca Guadagnino could bring a fresh take on a sports movie with Challengers. Zendaya plays tennis prodigy, Tashi, who develops a relationship with two rising stars in the game, Art (Mike Faist) and Patrick (Josh O’Connor), which ultimately becomes a… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Challengers

THE GREATEST HITS MOVIE REVIEW We all have those special songs that take us back to a moment in time. We can hear a track, and suddenly, we’re with our first love, or driving across our home town, or hanging with those friends we’ve lost touch with. Imagine listening to those songs didn’t just figuratively… Read More »Screener Squad: The Greatest Hits

MARS EXPRESS MOVIE REVIEW In 1940, The Three Laws of Robotics were formulated by Isaac Asimov in his “Robot” series. And since then, these fictional guidelines intended to govern the behavior of robots and artificial intelligences have been used to explore ethical and moral dilemmas surrounding robots’ interactions with humans. They have allowed other storytellers… Read More »Screener Squad: Mars Express

ARCADIAN MOVIE REVIEW It’s a gamble when you watch a Nic Cage film. You never know if it’s going to be a good movie or not, but the man never phones it in. No matter the quality of the overall film, you’ll still get Cage at full Cage. The real gamble is choosing to watch… Read More »Screener Squad: Arcadian

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM SEASON 12 After 24 years and 12 seasons, the other show about nothing has come to an end. This creation of Larry David gave us the cringiest of comedy as Larry navigated his life and relationships in Los Angeles, often revolving around his incessant need to speak his mind without filter. The… Read More »Screener Squad: Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12

ABIGAIL MOVIE REVIEW Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have directed several films together, often referring to themselves and their team of collaborators as Radio Silence. Having hit the ground running with arguably the best segment in the original V/H/S “10/31/98”, they went out to become a big hit with 2019’s Ready or Not and then… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Abigail

THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE MOVIE REVIEW If anyone is going to make a World War 2 movie look cheeky and fun then Guy Ritchie is your bloke. Ritchie returns to the big screen after last year’s somber The Covenant with The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Based on a true story, the film follows a… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

TRASH IN THE CAN: RAISING HEROES A bear and a twink face off against the mob! Do we have your attention? Good because this movie couldn’t keep ours. Baylor Johnson returns for a deeply 90s indie flick that echoes early Tarantino, but with a Kevin Smith physique. We watched 1996’s Raising Heroes!   YOUR HOSTS… Read More »Trash in the Can: Raising Heroes

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 338: SICK WITH THE COLOR OF FEAR Chris and Wright stick their noses into the pile of home releases and come up with a look at the very best of the ‘viral plague’ thrillers now in 4k, a weirdly meta-martial arts movie from last year, a HK sorta-version of The Frighteners, two… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 338: Sick With the Color of Fear

CIVIL WAR MOVIE REVIEW Director/Writer Alex Garland is known for his not exactly optimistic but deeply intelligent sci-fi films, like Ex-Machina and Annihilation. It seemed surprising for him to veer so distinctly political with his latest, Civil War, and very near future at that. Needless to say, there has been no small amount of ‘why… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Civil War

3 BODY PROBLEM SERIES REVIEW Move over Newton, that three body problem of yours isn’t just for discussing the moon’s motion about the earth under the influence of the sun anymore. Hugo winning Sci-Fi masterpiece The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu has been adapted into a netflix series titled 3 Body Problem by the Game… Read More »Screener Squad: 3 Body Problem

MASTERS OF THE AIR SERIES REVIEW War, huh, good god ya’ll. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing… except when the people behind Band of Brothers make another WWII series, this time focusing on the Mighty Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces. Okay maybe war still is good for nothing, but… Read More »Screener Squad: Masters of the Air

SHIRLEY MOVIE REVIEW Shirley Chisholm was a trailblazer in so many ways. She became the first black woman to be elected to US congress back in 1966, back when being an old wrinkly white man was the preferred look of US politics. She’s eventually convinced to run for the Democratic nomination for the ’72 Presidential… Read More »Screener Squad: Shirley

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 337: DIGITAL WARRIORS HAVE COME OUT TO PLAY John and Chris take on their stack with aplomb and yet don’t see eye to eye on everything this week. From a stack of very different Hong Kong films that range from Police Academy variants to the HK version of Dead Heat, to a… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 337: Digital Warriors Have Come Out To Play

STING MOVIE REVIEW From cult filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood, Nekrotronic) comes Sting, the charming story of a girl and her beloved pet; A pet that happens to be a giant, man-eating spider from outer space. Charlotte (Alyla Browne) is a precocious 12 year old living in an old New York City apartment building with her… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Sting

MONKEY MAN MOVIE REVIEW Dev Patel has his directorial debut and co-writes and leads the cast of this new bloody revenge action film. He plays Kid, a scrappy pit fighter with the identity of “Monkey Man” who wears an ape mask and regularly takes the fall for cash at the hands of the fighting emcee… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Monkey Man

RICKY STANICKY MOVIE REVIEW Every once in a while, a filmmaker grows so far beyond the types of movies that they began their career with, it’s amusing to look back over their filmography and see how much they’ve matured. A director like Adam McKay can start his cinematic career with Anchorman and then win an… Read More »Screener Squad: Ricky Stanicky

THE FEUD SEASON 2: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS REVIEW After his novel In Cold Blood in 1966, eccentric life of the party Truman Capote climbed the ladder of high life society and became the legendary culture icon we all know, love, and imitate to this very day. What’s a scaling of social ladders though without… Read More »Screener Squad: The Feud Season 2: Capote vs the Swans

GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE MOVIE REVIEW This new film in the monsterverse continues the story from the last film where Godzilla was VS Kong instead of X Kong (which we’re still not sure what the x is specifically supposed to mean as they never multiply them by each other). To be clear, this… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM MOVIE REVIEW If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, squeak and squawk and flock with the animals well then I may just be one of the animals. In the distant future a small percentage of human beings are becoming ill and physically mutating while mentally adapting into various… Read More »Screener Squad: The Animal Kingdom

ROAD HOUSE MOVIE REVIEW in 1989, a cult classic was born as a shirtless and oiled up Patrick Swayze sauntered into the Double Deuce as the legendary bouncer Dalton. It was only a matter of time before they made another one of these. So they did, in 2006, with Johnathon Schaech playing Dalton’s son. And… Read More »Screener Squad: Road House

YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME MOVIE REVIEW Spring into your horror binges with every fright fanatics favorite streaming service…Shudder presents from writer/director Indianna Bell with co-Director Josiah Allen, You’ll Never Find Me. Patrick (Brendan Rock) lives alone in the deepest darkest corner of the trailer park. One stormy night, a young woman in need of shelter… Read More »Screener Squad: You’ll Never Find Me

TRASH IN THE CAN: ACTION USA This week’s movie is basically Lethal Weapon with a quarter of the budget and 100% more actual risk of death to the cast and crew. Austin Presley joins the boys to marvel at the always bloodshot eyes of our male lead, constantly hard nipples of our female lead, and… Read More »Trash in the Can: Action USA

DAMSEL MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time, the Screener Squad gathered in the high tower of the castle Of Us to sing the glorious tales of Elodie (Millie Bobby Brown), the adolescent daughter of Lord Bayford (Ray Winstone) in a land struggling to survive. The adventurous young lady receives a proposal from Queen Isabelle (Robin… Read More »Screener Squad: Damsel

LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL MOVIE REVIEW Ever since it premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, buzz has been growing for Late Night for the Devil, from Cameron and Colin Cairnes, and starring veteran character actor David Dastmalchian in a rare leading role. It’s 1977 and late night talk show Night Owls with Jack… Read More »Screener Squad: Late Night With The Devil

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 336: SHATNER SAVES ODDJOB Chris and Wright do their due diligence with Digital Noise as they get into a tasty stack of releases. From Shatner as a psychopathic killer, to billions of Earths and their related supes gone forever. From a sleazy Warren Beatty in a very realistic old west, to Burt… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 336: Shatner Saves Oddjob

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE MOVIE REVIEW The time for busting has resumed, only whether it’ll make you feel good certainly seems pretty polarizing this time around. Ok, really every time around when The Ghostbusters have another film, even, apparently in retrospect now, the original. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire follows the events of 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife which brought… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

TRASH ON THE TUBE: DADDY DEAREST This week, we continue our losing streak of watching shows too good for our show. The late Richard Lewis stars as the son of the very late Don Rickles in this dysfunctional family sitcom that works best when Rickles deviates from the script to say things we absolutely cannot… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Daddy Dearest

AMERICAN DREAMER MOVIE REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”. American Dreamer is a film about Phil (Peter Dinklage) who is a writer/college professor who wants it all: The hot wife, the fast car, & a… Read More »Screener Squad: American Dreamer

HISTORY OF EVIL MOVIE REVIEW It’s the not-to-distant future… the year 2045… and guess what ya’ll? Christian fascists have taken over the United States. And if you’re white you’re right. Everyone else is either a pledged convert to the cause, or shot dead. Alegre Dyer is the leader of the Resistance who has recently escaped… Read More »Screener Squad: History of Evil

DEATH AND OTHER DETAILS SERIES REVIEW Pay attention! Even the slightest detail can lead to the most damning results. Every coincidence a bread crumb yet to reveal itself on the trail to a gingerbread house of justice. Hulu presents Death and Other Details, a weekly episodic murder mystery starring Mandy Patinkin and Violett Beane. Imogen… Read More »Screener Squad: Death and Other Details

SPACEMAN MOVIE REVIEW When you see that the director, cinematographer, and composer from Chernobyl have gotten back together to work on a feature film about a lonely cosmonaut on a solo space mission toward a mysterious cosmic body that has suddenly appeared just beyond Jupiter, and a story about a man who, in his loneliness… Read More »Screener Squad: Spaceman

LOVE LIES BLEEDING MOVIE REVIEW Rose Glass, the director of the hit psychological horror film Saint Maud, has turned her gaze to film noir, albeit in a tangentially Cronenbergian fashion, with her second film Love Lies Bleeding, and trust us, this is no sophomore slump. Set in 1989, a gym manager named Lou (Kristen Stewart)… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Love Lies Bleeding

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER SERIES REVIEW Netflix just isn’t gonna be satisfied with One Piece of successful anime adaptation. They want the whole cake, the bakery, the street it’s on, eventually the world. Avatar: The Last Airbender was Nickelodeon’s 2005 three season animated series about a young boy who could control the elements of earth,… Read More »Screener Squad: Avatar: the Last Airbender

TRASH IN THE CAN: ROBOT NINJA It’s Oscar season, so of course we celebrate the only way we know how – by watching a lost VHS “super” hero movie starring an incel comic book writer turned wimpy vigilante. Filmmaker Travis Patten returns to discuss how badly Boy Wonder Burt Ward must have needed the money.… Read More »Trash in the Can: Robot Ninja

ORION AND THE DARK MOVIE REVIEW All tucked into the One Of Us bunk beds, Mike, Chad, and T.C. have a whispered conversation about the newest Netflix/Dreamworks animated film Orion and the Dark. Orion is a severely anxious 11-year-old kid with an endless list of irrational fears, including toilets overflowing, public speaking, getting beat up… Read More »Screener Squad: Orion and the Dark

SUNCOAST MOVIE REVIEW Back in the 90’s, a famous writer/comedian/late night talk show host did a recurring bit of what the world would be like in the year 2000. Come back to us Conan O’Brien, we miss you. In the distant past, 2004-6 was a time of Juicy T-shirts, PussyCat Dolls, Tom Brady and the… Read More »Screener Squad: Suncoast

DUNE PART 2 MOVIE REVIEW It’s part two time for the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi novel Dune, and sadly, the theater that Chris, Wright, and Marco saw it at did not have the sandworm fleshlight popcorn buckets. But we were still all in for this even better second half of the tale.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Dune Part 2

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS SERIES REVIEW Greek gods love tormenting humans. Sometimes they teach tales of morality, sometimes they test the resolve of mankind, and sometimes just to troll and mock. On those rare occasions though, unless you’re Zeus on a Tuesday, sometimes the gods walk among humans to fall in love. Disney Plus… Read More »Screener Squad: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET MOVIE REVIEW There’s nothing worse than wasted talent on a dumb movie. Case and point; the movie Skeletons in the Closet, now streaming on Shudder… It’s just bad. Not “good/bad” or “haha funny bad.” It’s just bad. Mark (Terrence Howard) and his wife Valentina (Valery M. Ortiz) are in trouble. They… Read More »Screener Squad: Skeletons in the Closet

TRASH IN THE CAN: DEATH RIDER IN THE HOUSE OF VAMPIRES Rocker Glenn Danzig returns to the director’s chair and brings us a vampire bordello movie so slow it can only be described as From Dusk Till Yawn. Guest Rhett O’Hara joins the boys for the world’s most boring shootout, roving accents, and not nearly… Read More »Trash in the Can: Death Rider in the House of Vampires

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS MOVIE REVIEW What do you do if you’re in the middle of a road trip in a rental (or a ‘drive-away’ in this case) and discover that hidden in your car is some bizarre contraband and some real bad dudes are after you to get it? If you’re Jamie and Marian, apparently you… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Drive-Away Dolls

MR. AND MRS. SMITH SERIES REVIEW Where does an early 2000’s successful rom com action blockbuster IP go after the credits roll and the hot leads would rather die than work together ever again? Why, to a streaming 8 episode series of course! Creators Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane bring you a very new take… Read More »Screener Squad: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

TRUE DETECTIVE – NIGHT COUNTRY REVIEW Time is a flat circle…again. True Detective is back with its 4th season now with showrunner and director Issa López. This season, aptly named Night Country, takes us to Ennis, Alaska where the town is preparing for the grueling six month period of darkness. On the eve of the… Read More »Screener Squad: True Detective – Night Country

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 335: IT’S ALL GOOD Wright and Chris get that February miracle: a whole stack of movies (and a show) for Digital Noise where they actually liked everything. From a mythology for the modern age adapted to tv, to a early history of one of the world’s greatest physical actors. From an anything… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 335: It’s All Good

MADAME WEB MOVIE REVIEW Sony Pictures’ spin-off Spider-verse keeps getting more bizarre in the way it plucks side characters from Spider-Man’s story and reinvents them for its own purposes. None more so than Madame Web, which takes the 90-something year old clairvoyant and makes her Dakota Johnson. In this world, Spider-Man doesn’t exist yet (it’s… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Madame Web

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 334: DISNEY AND THEN I GUESS MOVIES On this very special episode of Digital Noise, John reviews his first trip ever to Disney (spoiler: he dug it). He and Chris go on for quite a while reviewing the rides and experience. Oh, wait, we’re supposed to be reviewing home releases on this… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 334: Disney And Then I Guess Movies

TRUNK – LOCKED IN MOVIE REVIEW Trunk – Locked In is a new thriller streaming on Amazon Prime Video. A German film, this movie is relentless in its pacing. Right out of the gate we meet Malina, in a trunk, dazed and confused. Someone has abducted her for reasons that are unclear but through a… Read More »Screener Squad: Trunk – Locked In

HAZBIN HOTEL SERIES REVIEW We’re all sinners, there is no denying that. Some of us commit little sins, like rooting for the Dallas Cowboys or lying to our spouses about diet and exercise. Others commit inhuman atrocities like murder and hosting a podcast. Sure, there’s always deathbed repentance to get away in the nick of… Read More »Screener Squad: Hazbin Hotel

LISA FRANKENSTEIN MOVIE REVIEW Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) has a problem. It’s not that she’s had trouble fitting in with others at school. She prefers the company of the dead, at least as far as hanging out in an old abandoned cemetery in the woods and talking to one grave in particular as her confidant.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Lisa Frankenstein

THE UNDERDOGGS MOVIE REVIEW If you are of a certain generation, there’s a good chance that not only have you seen The Mighty Ducks, but you could probably quote it while explaining the plot in great detail. It was certainly a pivotal film of the early 90s. It spawned several sequels and more than a… Read More »Screener Squad: The Underdoggs

SUITABLE FLESH MOVIE REVIEW Who among us hasn’t had the dream of swapping bodies with someone? In fact, we’re all friends here. Let’s be honest with each other. Who among us hasn’t had at least one dream where we specifically swap bodies with Heather Graham? No? Only Jordan, Lewayne, and T.C. are willing to admit… Read More »Screener Squad: Suitable Flesh

ROLE PLAY MOVIE REVIEW Role Play starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo is a wholehearted attempt at making Cuoco an action star. On one hand, she’s a loving wife to her husband Dave (Oyelowo) and their two children. On the other, she’s secretly a professional assassin. When her lives collide, Dave is having trouble processing… Read More »Screener Squad: Role Play

LIFT MOVIE REVIEW Since this Netflix Kevin Hart heist movie about a crew of skilled thieves stealing a large amount of gold off a plane mid-flight feels like it was generated using AI, we thought about letting AI write the copy for it, however, after several attempts, it was clear that AI has yet to… Read More »Screener Squad: Lift

ARGYLLE MOVIE REVIEW From director Matthew Vaughn (The Kingsmen movies) and writer Jason Fuchs (Pan, Wonder Woman) and based on a book that probably doesn’t exist by a fictional person who has the name of the lead character of the film and is assuredly not secretly Taylor Swift, the spy spoof Argylle is here. Elly… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Argylle

TRASH IN THE CAN: LAS VEGAS BLOODBATH Are you ready for goblin king sex, makeshift abortions, and a movie coming to a complete stop so the characters can watch oil wrestling on TV? You better be because these are about the only things that happen in this boring VHS atrocity. Anna Marie McBrayer aka horror… Read More »Trash in the Can: Las Vegas Bloodbath

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS MOVIE REVIEW Strap on your snowshoes and grab your best raccoon skin hat! Cause we’re hiking up to 19th Century, Green Bay, WI. No Cheese Heads here (yet) just a lot of snow and mascot animals waiting to be harvested. Our protagonist Jean Kayak is thrown into the bowels of winter and… Read More »Screener Squad: Hundreds of Beavers

ECHO SERIES REVIEW Five months after the events of the Hawkeye series, Maya Lopez is being pursued by Wilson Fisk’s organization, leading her to return to her hometown in Oklahoma, where her ruthless behavior in New York City catches up with her. She must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots, and embrace… Read More »Screener Squad: Echo

THE BROTHERS SUN SERIES REVIEW Charles Sun (Justin Chien), the Jade Dragon’s number one assassin, is tasked to stop a rogue group of killers that threaten his family’s Taipei crime organization. He’s quick with his kicks and even faster with a knife but his true passion lies in not chopping faces of fiends but rather… Read More »Screener Squad: The Brothers Sun

REACHER SEASON 2 REVIEW If you go to the page for Reacher Season 2 on Amazon Prime, you will find the following synopsis: “When members of Reacher’s old military unit start turning up dead, Reacher has just one thing on his mind – revenge.” While there is nothing inaccurate about that synopsis, there is so… Read More »Screener Squad: Reacher Season 2

FARGO SEASON 5 REVIEW It’s cold outside, murder and mayhem are afoot, and everybody is “Minnesota nice”…must be a new season of Fargo. Noah Hawley’s highly acclaimed anthology series returns in the highly problematic year of 2019, where we find Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) in a bit of a pickle. In the midst of a… Read More »Screener Squad: Fargo Season 5

ARCHER SEASON 14 REVIEW In 2008 the highly anticipated James Bond sequel to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, premiered to much negative scrutiny. Long gone were the days of Roger Moore running across alligators while dead panning at the camera. The spy genre was now immersed in self seriousness with a tortured Daniel Craig more… Read More »Screener Squad: Archer Season 14

THE CURSE SERIES REVIEW Can you handle the uncomfortable cringe comedy of a show like Nathan For You or The Rehearsal? Or the heart-pounding, unbearable tension of Uncut Gems and Good Time? Both creators of those respective projects, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, have come together to give you a perfect amalgamation of their work,… Read More »Screener Squad: The Curse

I.S.S. MOVIE REVIEW A group of astronauts and cosmonauts are working together in friendship (and in some cases, more than that) aboard the International Space Station when WWIII between Russia and America breaks out on Earth. The leader of each team gets a private message, ‘Secure the I.S.S. by any means necessary’. Now THAT’S a… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: I.S.S.

TRASH ON THE TUBE: 704 HAUSER This week we look back on a footnote in the illustrious career of Norman Lear that’s still way too good for our show. Delight in the fully rounded characters, the sharp writing, and despair that The Big Bang Theory got 46 times more episodes. We watched 1994’s 704 Hauser!… Read More »Trash on the Tube: 704 Hauser

THE BEEKEEPER MOVIE REVIEW Jason Statham. Identify Theft. Bees. What do these things have in common? Well, the new David Ayer action movie of course! Jason Statham stars as the titular beekeeper who is living a modest life as a companion of sorts to Eloise (Phylicia Rashad). Once Eloise is scammed out of all her… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Beekeeper

DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS MOVIE REVIEW Welcome to January, or as the industry likes to call it “dump month.” Basically this time of year, studios release their lower budget fair that may not do well during Summer or Holidays, but hey… studio needs to make some money back, or leave it to die so it can… Read More »Screener Squad: Destroy All Neighbors

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 333: BAD NINJAS AND NUNS Our home release show has it all, as Wright and Chris discuss what the throat goat would have thought of Enter the Ninja, 2 Days in the Valley, The Fugitive, Oppenheimer, The Nun 2 and many more new 4k and Blu-Ray releases. All titles were sent to… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 333: Bad Ninjas and Nuns

GOOD GRIEF MOVIE REVIEW On a late night talk show, a famous west end actor recounted the grief felt when his mother passed away. In summation he said “…So, I hope this grief stays with me because it’s all the unexpressed love that I didn’t get to tell her”. Wise words from a thespian that… Read More »Screener Squad: Good Grief

A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD SERIES REVIEW After the abrupt and cruel cancellation of the popular and surreal Netflix sci-fi series The OA in 2019, fans have been waiting to see what the collaborative creative team Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij would conjure up next. The answer is, Hulu/FX’s  A Murder at… Read More »Screener Squad: A Murder at the End of the World

MEAN GIRLS MOVIE REVIEW First off, if you haven’t seen the original 2004 movie Mean Girls, stop everything and go watch that first. It’s a comedy classic (even if it did crib A LOT from 1989’s Heathers) and it still holds up. I’m going to assume you’re going to enjoy it because it’s that good.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Mean Girls

WHAT IF… SEASON 2 REVIEW Time. Space. Reality. It’s more than a linear path. It’s a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. We are Harmoni, Sarah Jane, and T.C., and we are the Screener Squad. We are your guides… Read More »Screener Squad: What If…Season 2

NIGHT SWIM MOVIE REVIEW Ray Waller (Wyatt Russell) is a former pro baseball player who has been forced to retire because of illness. His wife Eve (Kerry Condon) isn’t completely upset because they’ve always been forced to move a lot because of his career and now they can settle down and grow roots. Finding a… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Night Swim

REBEL MOON PART ONE: CHILD OF FIRE A village in need. Slow-motion action. A team of heroes. Space horses. Glowy swords. A robot named Jimmy. Even more slow-motion action. Zack Snyder’s latest film, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, dropped on Netflix a couple of weeks ago and drew A LOT of… Read More »Screener Squad: Rebel Moon Part One: Child of Fire

MERRY LITTLE BATMAN MOVIE REVIEW Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Batdad! Happy Belated Holidays. If you’re not quite hungover from all the parties, annoying family members, and binge eating… you may want to check out Merry Little Batman streaming on Prime. It’s a mashup of everything you love about the Batman universe… Read More »Screener Squad: Merry Little Batman

TRASH IN THE CAN: ASSASSIN 33 A.D. Let’s pour one more out for Jesus the birthday boy as we ring in another year of trash! Samia Abu-Shawish joins the boys for middle eastern characters played exclusively by Mexican actors, a covert bible app commercial, and time traveling assassins looking to bust a cap in Jesus… Read More »Trash in the Can: Assassin 33 A.D.

CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 23 years since Chicken Run came into our cinematic lives one stop motion frame at a time. And like all sequels that come decades later, the bar and expectations have been set higher than the electric fence surrounding Mrs. Tweedy’s farm. Since Ginger, Rocky, and… Read More »Screener Squad: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 332: WE ARE NOT KENOUGH Chris and John take on their home release stack with new entries in the Mortal Kombat universe, a look back at the film that largely started the Spanish horror renaissance of the 70s, a prequel to an all-time classic that’s maybe not quite as good as the… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 332: We Are Not Kenough

THE BOYS IN THE BOAT MOVIE REVIEW Sure are some boys in that boat. Yep. Look at those boys. In the boat. What’s goin’ on in that boat? Oh, ya know, they’re rowin’. Rowin’ you say? Sure, sure, college boys rowin’. Any good? Sure, sure, they gonna be in the Olympics and make that Hitler… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Boys in the Boat

THE COLOR PURPLE MOVIE REVIEW The 1985 adaptation by Steven Spielberg of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker was nominated for 11 Oscars (although it didn’t win any), was a huge success in theaters, and generally is thought of as a fantastic film. It does seem odd to take this story of deep… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Color Purple

WONKA MOVIE REVIEW The path to watching Wonka: Step 1: Ah, jeez, a Willy Wonka prequel? And it’s a musical? I am DEFINITELY not going to see that. Step 2: It’s written and directed by the guy who did the Paddington movies? Hmm. Step 3: Go see Wonka movie. Step 4: Enjoy. That’s pretty much… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Wonka

EILEEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s Christmas time in a small town in 1960’s Massachusetts, a place where any hopes and dreams are killed and buried beneath the cold and the grey of the monotonous tedium of everyday life. At least that’s the case for Eileen Dunlap (Thomasin McKenzie) as she spends her days listlessly going from… Read More »Screener Squad: Eileen

FERRARI MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 8 years since his last film Blackhat and Michael Mann is finally back in the director’s chair with his newest film, Ferrari. The film follows ex-racer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, played here by an aged up Adam Driver, during a tumultuous summer in 1957 where he jungles his auto-empire and… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Ferrari

THE IRON CLAW MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready to rumble? Well, you can get it on with A24’s new biopic about the doomed Von Erich family, The Iron Claw. Fritz (Holt McCallany) was a major wrestler in his day, but that time has passed and the mantle has been handed off to his multiple sons… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Iron Claw

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM MOVIE REVIEW Jason Momoa takes one last turn as the King of Atlantis in this follow-up to 2018’s Aquaman. This time around, he and Mera (Amber Heard) have had a child and rearing them takes about as much out of Aquaman as does being the King of the undersea empire.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

AMERICAN FICTION MOVIE REVIEW Jeffrey Wright plays author and teacher Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a man with a rather pretentious name and the attitude to back it up. Frustrated that he has trouble getting his books noticed by anyone other than critics or even published at all, he jokingly writes a ‘black’ book. That is to… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: American Fiction

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND MOVIE REVIEW So no one told you the world was gonna end today CLAPPING! Netflix presents an adaptation of the day before the technological collapse dystopia Leave the World Behind, co-written by the author Rumaan Alam with Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) who also directs. Amanda Sanford (Julia Roberts) has rented a… Read More »Screener Squad: Leave The World Behind

TRASH IN THE CAN: FIGHT OF FURY What would a Bruce Lee movie be like with woodenly spoken Hallmark card dialogue and fight scenes choreographed by Estelle Getty? Co-host of the Double Toasted podcast, Martin Thomas, joins us for a lively discussion on public bathroom dubbing, UFC lookalikes, and the taste of breast milk. We… Read More »Trash in the Can: Fight of Fury

MAESTRO MOVIE REVIEW Bradley Cooper is back behind and in front of the lens with his 2nd feature film with Maestro. Maestro tells the story of conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein’s rise as one of the most prominent conductors in the world while it chronicles his lifelong relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. The film beautifully… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Maestro

LORD OF MISRULE MOVIE REVIEW William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside and The Boy) has a new film out called Lord of Misrule. The plot follows Rebecca Holland, Henry Holland, and their daughter Grace. They’re transplants in a small town where everything seems to be going fine… That is until Grace is abducted during a… Read More »Screener Squad: Lord of Misrule

SILENT NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW It’s hard to believe but it’s been 20 years since Hong Kong action maestro John Woo directed a Hollywood film. While Woo retains his taste for melodrama, his latest bullet ballet trades in his usual operatic flair for a grittier, more grounded approach to violence. Shot in Mexico City on a… Read More »Screener Squad: Silent Night

GODZILLA MINUS ONE MOVIE REVIEW Godzilla has been known to overshadow his co-stars (figuratively and literally) but Godzilla Minus One deliberately centers its story around its human characters. During the final months of WW2, a kamikaze pilot named Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), abandons his suicide mission by flying back to base for bogus repairs. No sooner… Read More »Screener Squad: Godzilla Minus One

MAY DECEMBER MOVIE REVIEW Director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine) has finally taken the plunge into streaming services, with the silver screen replaced by the black mirror as Netflix presents May December. Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) is a famous procedural actor on a long running CSI-like show who’s just been cast in a scandalous… Read More »Screener Squad: May December

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY SERIES REVIEW In the 1950’s there was a post-war boom full of North Korean war vets, denim jeans, form fitting skirts, and the upcoming civil rights movements that would echo into our current age. Elizabeth Zot (Brie Larson) is a single mother and celebrity chef on a famous television show “Supper at… Read More »Screener Squad: Lessons in Chemistry

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 331: …FEATURING PAZUZU Chris and Wright tremble in fear beneath their huge stack of films to review this week, which makes sense since we’ve got a lot of horror and thrillers in the mix. From a 2009 remake of a questionable horror classic, to a new 4k of the central reference point… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 331: …Featuring Pazuzu

POOR THINGS MOVIE REVIEW Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos brings with him a certain level of prestige, as among his many awards he has Best Director/Picture for the 2018 The Favourite. But he also brings something else…some seriously weird stories. His latest, Poor Things, returns more to the form of his earlier work in that sense,… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Poor Things

THE BOY AND THE HERON MOVIE REVIEW In what seems likely to be master animator and storyteller Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (the man is 82), The Boy and the Heron returns to dark and surreal fantasy and I suspect long-time fans will be beside themselves happy about it. The story follows Mahito, a 12 year… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Boy and the Heron

SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF SERIES REVIEW What’s up subspace travelers? If you don’t know who Scott Pilgrim is, stop reading this, pick up the comics and watch Edgar Wright’s movie… Are you finished? Did you get all the plot points? Great, now forget everything you just learned because Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has nothing to… Read More »Screener Squad: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

WHAT HAPPENS LATER MOVIE REVIEW According to Love Actually and a rant from Ben Affleck in a scene from Dogma, there is no more romantic place on earth than an airport. Directed and co-written by actress Meg Ryan, What Happens Later ponders the famous beach boys lyrics from “God Only Knows What I’d Be Without… Read More »Screener Squad: What Happens Later

THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK John Wick 4 came out this year and just crushed it! It was an epic bullet ballet, worthy of being among the very best of action movies, and further cementing Keanu Reeves as one of the GOATs. So, with that movie doing what it did so damn… Read More »Screener Squad: The Continental: From The World of John Wick

BLUE EYE SAMURAI SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Edo-era Japan where isolationism is key to survival. Anyone who is an outsider is ostracized maybe sometimes murdered. The Japanese don’t want to fuck with white folk (for good reasons). But you know what white colonizers are like… A pillage here, a bunch of rapes over there… The… Read More »Screener Squad: Blue Eye Samurai

TRASH IN THE CAN: TWO OF A KIND This week, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John reunite for a romantic comedy with no romance or comedy. Gene Hackman as God, wisely going uncredited, gives four angels a week to prove humanity’s worth and prove Welcome to Mooseport wasn’t his worst movie. Frank Calvillo returns for edible… Read More »Trash in the Can: Two of a Kind

QUIZ LADY MOVIE REVIEW Remember the days back when studios made comedies? The old cinematic laugh-oh-matic? See back in the old days, studios didn’t make genre-smashing epics, punched up with funny yuck yucks. They would actually set aside a few million bucks, gather the best in comedy, and take a gamble on something lighter than… Read More »Screener Squad: Quiz Lady

WISH MOVIE REVIEW Disney’s latest animated release Wish is inspired by their Centennial anniversary, and yeah, they don’t want you to forget it for a second during this film. The kingdom of Rosas was founded by a powerful wizard who becomes King Magnifico (Chris Pine). He and his Queen (Angelique Cabral) rule with a gentle… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Wish

IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE MOVIE REVIEW Ever since Scream took a stab at flipping the tired slasher genre on its head, more and more millennial filmmakers have come along drawing inspiration from Wes Craven’s Ghostface. Horror comedies have become a genre unto themselves. And then there is the rare mashup of slasher, comedy and a… Read More »Screener Squad: It’s a Wonderful Knife

DREAM SCENARIO MOVIE REVIEW For some people, Nicolas Cage is the man of their dreams. But with the new film, Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams! Nic Cage stars as Paul Matthews in Kristoffer Borgli’s new film. He plays  a mild-mannered, put upon, nebbish college professor. All of a sudden people… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Dream Scenario

THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST SERIES REVIEW You’ve seen hundreds of thousands of films based on the Lutz family and their Amityville Horror but you’ve probably only seen tens of dozens of haunted house films based on the Hodgson’s! This isn’t your typical paint by numbers gas station bargain bin buy 1 feature starring Rob Schneider get… Read More »Screener Squad: The Enfield Poltergeist

THANKSGIVING MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 16 years since the fake trailer for this film appeared in the movie Grindhouse, but Eli Roth finally got around to making it. Your reviewers, Chris, Drew, Mike, and Nathan, are glad he did. The story takes place in Plymouth Massachusetts where it’s been a year since a Black Friday… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Thanksgiving

LOKI SEASON 2 REVIEW Previously, on Loki: Sylvie (Sophia D Martino) has slain He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) at the end of all time and Sparta-kicked our titular Loki (Tom Hiddleston) through a time portal. Now Loki keeps on slipping into the past, present and future of the TVA, our own reality, and variant timelines.… Read More »Screener Squad: Loki Season 2

SALTBURN MOVIE REVIEW The director of 2020’s indie hit Promising Young Woman returns for this new film that is going to kinda-sorta remind you of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Thought I’d get that out of the way first because literally everyone on their way out of the screening was discussing that quality of it, including… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Saltburn

TRASH IN THE CAN: BILLY OWENS AND THE SECRET OF THE RUNES This week, we complete a magical journey that began all the way back on episode 88. Baylor Johnson returns for the (mercifully) final chapter of the Billy Owens saga. Marvel as Billy stoically mumbles confusing dialogue, thrill at the other kids doing the… Read More »Trash in the Can: Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes

ATTACK ON TITAN: THE FINAL SEASON PART 4 Adapted from the popular manga written by Hajime Isayama, on April 7, 2013 the first episode of Attack on Titan premiered. After a decade of awesome horror violence, intriguing cat and mouse mystery, and dozens of memes, the stage has been set for this grand saga’s final… Read More »Screener Squad: Attack on Titan: The Final Season Part 4

NYAD MOVIE REVIEW 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. An open water swim deemed impossible by experts, sailors, and spectators alike. Diana Nyad in her prime had become renowned for her long distance swimming. In the ’70s she swam around the island of Manhattan in record time. She also swam from the Bahamas to Florida.… Read More »Screener Squad: Nyad

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 330: THE BIGGEST STACK EVER John and Chris take on a movie pile of record-breaking size (I think) as they dig their teeth into an international array of cinema. From a lesser-known but excellent South Korean horror, to that ’70s Robert Redford film that instantly became a classic to both of them.… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 330: The Biggest Stack Ever?

GEN V SERIES REVIEW To live up to your full potential and discover what your purpose is in life you gotta go to the right college. What is the right college for a kid that can spontaneously combust or shrink to the size of a cricket? The answer is Godolkin University! Visit the official website… Read More »Screener Squad: Gen V

STAR TREK LOWER DECKS SEASON 4 REVIEW Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the S.S. Cerritos. Exploring strange new worlds, making first contact with exciting new species and cultures. Boldly going where no one has gone before. Not the bridge crew mind you, the crew members who make sure the ship is… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4

PRISCILLA MOVIE REVIEW You got your Elvis biopic recently with the Baz Luhrmann film. But that movie gave mere minutes of screentime to Elvis’s longtime companion and later wife, Priscilla. Now Sophia Coppola takes the helm on this A24 produced film, based on Priscilla Presley’s own biography. Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny) was but a school girl… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Priscilla

THE MARVELS MOVIE REVIEW There’s a lot here to go through so keep up. Ahem. Captain Marvel is back from deep space where she tried to free the Kree from their AI intelligence but only made things much worse. Ms. Marvel is just chillin’ at home with her Captain Marvel fangirling and her family. Monica… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Marvels

TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE MARTIN SHORT SHOW This week, we check out a TV series featuring Martin Short and Steve Martin decades before Hulu made you pay extra for no commercials. All-star comedy legends, SCTV alums behind the scenes, and Elizabeth Taylor’s dog come together for a show you’ve never heard of – The… Read More »Trash on the Tube: The Martin Short Show

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2 REVIEW Fun fact, this high seas adventure action comedy romance is in fact loosely based on the life of Stede Bonnet, the honest to goodness “Gentleman Pirate”. Set in 1717, the first season depicts the early days of Bonnet’s career (portrayed by the hilarious Rhys Darby) as a pirate… Read More »Screener Squad: Our Flag Means Death Season 2

BUTCHER’S CROSSING MOVIE REVIEW Ah, the American frontier at the end of the 19th century. where men were men and rode horses into dusty sunsets over sweeping plains, ignoring their emotions and clearly suffering from deep traumas. America! Legends were made while history was written more often than not in blood and tears. And just… Read More »Screener Squad: Butcher’s Crossing

THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER MOVIE REVIEW Helena (Daisy Ridley) has an ordinary life. A loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a job that fills her days. Life is fine, until she realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of… Read More »Screener Squad: The Marsh King’s Daughter

THE HOLDOVERS MOVIE REVIEW Director Alexander Payne helms The Holdovers, set in the 70s at a snowy New England prep school during winter break. Paul (Paul Giamatti) is the teacher stuck with the job this season of watching over those poor students who don’t have a place to go over break and have to stay… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Holdovers

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER REVIEW Every Hallow’s eve the corporate ghouls and ghosts gather in the stream from hell to celebrate the return of Michael Flanagan to Netflix. Last year the master of horror gathered inspiration from one of the most diabolical existential hauntings that have plagued mankind’s existence, terminal illness. This… Read More »Screener Squad: The Fall of The House of Usher

HELL HOUSE LLC ORIGINS: THE CARMICHAEL MANOR REVIEW Oh so very spooky scary month is back and when the witching hour is upon us and theaters are shutting down for the night, a great honoured tradition is to gather up old trashy stabby horror film franchises and binge till morning. Long running found footage film… Read More »Screener Squad: Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor

THE KILLER MOVIE REVIEW Director David Fincher reunites with his writer from Se7en, Andrew Kevin Walker, for this adaptation of the highly regarded French comic series of the same name. Michael Fassbender is only known by the name The Killer as the film follows him and his somewhat typical workday. Which is hanging out across… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Killer

THE CONFERENCE MOVIE REVIEW Have you ever been forced to go to a stupid retreat with your stupid co-workers because your stupid boss wants to promote more “synergy” within the workplace? While sitting there, you take a sip from the one free alcoholic drink your employer is covering for the weekend, and while wallowing in… Read More »Screener Squad: The Conference

RESERVATION DOGS SEASON 3 REVIEW Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s Reservation Dogs returns to Hulu for its third and final season. We last left the dogs stranded at a beach in California after the four bid farewell to their friend Daniel. Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon A-Tai) says he is not returning to the reservation and… Read More »Screener Squad: Reservation Dogs Season 3

TOTALLY KILLER MOVIE REVIEW It’s that time of year where people are watching as many horror, thriller, and/or slasher movies as they can for the Halloween season, and we’ve got a new one for you to add to your list. We can sell it to you as simply as this: Scream meets Back to the… Read More »Screener Squad: Totally Killer

DICKS: THE MUSICAL MOVIE REVIEW Director Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno) likes to handle outrageous comedy material that borders on offensive. Adapting this off-broadway musical into a film was a step too far for some of our reviewers. The musical story involves two twin brothers, played by the show’s creators Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, who… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Dicks: The Musical

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON REVIEW Martin Scorsese’s latest film clocks in at a whopping 206 minutes, but what a fine 206 minutes they are. Killers of the Flower Moon is adapted from the non-fiction book of the same name but switches the perspective from a FBI lawman (Jesse Plemons) investigating the mysterious and rapidly… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Killers of the Flower Moon

V/H/S 85 MOVIE REVIEW Welcome One of Us listener, and Happy Halloween. Traditionally we dress up in costumes, wear some makeup, and head out to the streets to ask strangers for free candy. Everything is as it should be… but wait, it wouldn’t be Halloween without another spooky sequel. Today we Have V/H/S/85 which I’m… Read More »Screener Squad: V/H/S 85

APPENDAGE MOVIE REVIEW A young fashion designer seems fine on the surface but secretly struggles with debilitating self-doubt. Pfft, been there. That’s the life of any creative person. What else ya got, movie? Ah, well, soon these buried feelings begin to make Hannah physically sick and sprout into a ferocious growth on her body: The… Read More »Screener Squad: Appendage

IT LIVES INSIDE MOVIE REVIEW Overy 30 years ago a very ignorant and self assured TV dad once said “The code of the schoolyard… Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else…” and to this day those… Read More »Screener Squad: It Lives Inside

57 SECONDS MOVIE REVIEW Time loop movies have been a recurring and popular subgenre in modern cinema for ages. Maybe even longer, if you’re living in some sort of time loop yourself. These films typically involve a character or group of characters being trapped or forced to relive a specific period of time over and… Read More »Screener Squad: 57 Seconds

NANDOR FODOR AND THE TALKING MONGOOSE For all the famed historical figures who’ve seen biopics made of their lives and times, it’s always a pleasure to discover a lesser known individual of significance who’s been little more than a footnote in world history. Such is the case of Nandor Fodor and his experience with the… Read More »Screener Squad: Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose

FAIR PLAY MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Chloe Domont presents a Netflix original feature Fair Play. Two young and sexy co-workers are putting the fun in hedge fund as they embark on a secret kinky relationship together. Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) is a scrappy young go-getter who’s been looking up to his boss Campbell (Eddie Marsan) since he… Read More »Screener Squad: Fair Play

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 329: TO LIVE AND TO FORGET TO POST AN EPISODE Chris and Wright have a stack filled with all kinds of stuff this week. From one of the goriest horror movies ever to come out of Italy (and that’s saying something), to a couple different L.A. Noir films that definitely require discussing… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 329: To Live and to Forget to Post an Episode

AHSOKA SERIES REVIEW Rosario Dawson returns to the role she’s been destined to play since her appearances in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, the former Jedi Knight (and easily one of the most beloved characters in the new EU) investigates an emerging threat… Read More »Screener Squad: Ahsoka

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING SEASON 3 REVIEW Which of the Pickwick triplets did it, or any of the other members of this star-studded cast? Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez return as Charles, Oliver, and Mabel for the third season of their comedic mystery series Only Murders in the Building, and this time,… Read More »Screener Squad: Only Murders in the Building Season 3

SHE CAME TO ME MOVIE REVIEW You know what they say: you can’t spell opera without Oh, perhaps a saucy affair is in order. Writer/director Rebecca Miller presents She Came to Me. Brilliant composer of transcendent operas Steven Lauddem (Peter Dinklage) is a suffering artist who has come down with a horrible case of writer’s… Read More »Screener Squad: She Came To Me

THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (AND 3 OTHER STORIES) REVIEW How lucky are we that we get not 1, not 2, not 3, but 5 new projects from Wes Anderson in 2023?! Along with Asteroid City earlier this year, Wes Anderson has released 4 new short films on Netflix based on the works of… Read More »Screener Squad: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (and 3 other stories)

TRASH IN THE CAN: FRIGHTMARE This week is the story of the death of an old queen and we don’t mean Elizabeth. Comedian Brendan K. O’Grady returns to once again to suffer through a movie he somehow hates less than Knives Out. Discount Vincent Price returns from the grave for revenge, Irish wake dancing, and… Read More »Trash in the Can: Frightmare

REPTILE MOVIE REVIEW I had a thought while stuck in traffic that Benicio Del Toro sure can act but how are his skills with the script? Netflix presents Reptile, directed by Grant Singer and written by Benjamin Brewer, Grant Singer and Benicio Del Toro. The story starts with a young woman who is stabbed to… Read More »Screener Squad: Reptile

WHEN EVIL LURKS MOVIE REVIEW Two brothers Pedro and Jimmy live out in the countryside, scattered among a few other poor residents. But everyone is always somewhat on edge, waiting…for what? As it turns out, many years before there was a epidemic of demonic possessions in the cities (possibly tying this film into director Demian… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – When Evil Lurks

RIDDLE OF FIRE MOVIE REVIEW Three children are on a quest to solve the titular Riddle of Fire (actually just the password to their tv so they can play games on their pilfered hi-tech video game console). But one quest leads to the next, to the next, and really all they need is a specific… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Riddle of Fire

RESTORE POINT MOVIE REVIEW In Prague in the year 2041, new tech allows people to upload their consciousness at regular intervals so in case they are killed, they can be resurrected with their memories up to that point intact. The catch is, if you don’t back up within 48 hours, you can’t legally be brought… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Restore Point

THE CREATOR MOVIE REVIEW From the director of Godzilla and Rogue One comes this new sci-fi film NOT based on a previous IP (at least not overtly), The Creator. In the future, the humanoid robots humanity have built have achieved total sentience, despite most of the world’s reluctance to accept their ‘humanity’. After a nuclear… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – The Creator

STRANGE PLANET SERIES REVIEW In the archives of the ancient past of 2019, the ones and zeros driving the super information highway would often be implemented to spread joy on the daily. Images and captions would would work in unison to create what the inhabitants of Earth would call a webcomic. Nathan W. Pyle, the… Read More »Screener Squad: Strange Planet

THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER MOVIE REVIEW David Gordon Green is back to reboot…remake…resequel another beloved horror franchise with The Exorcist: Believer. Leslie Odom Jr plays Victor in the follow up to the 1973 classic as he raises his daughter Angela, played by up-and-comer Lidya Jewett. One day after school Angela and her best friend Katherine, Olivia… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Exorcist: Believer

FLORA AND SON MOVIE REVIEW Once you have seen a John Carney film, the world changes and no matter what you’re going through you feel as if you can begin again. From On The Edge to Sing Street, John’s view of the world isn’t so much about what we see but how we listen to… Read More »Screener Squad: Flora and Son

KILL MOVIE REVIEW While there’s always lots of great action movies at Fantastic Fest, it’s not very often that one comes along that instantly soars to the category of ‘all timer’. The Indian action film Kill is one of those movies. The film follows two army commandos, Amrit (Lakshya) and his friend Viresh, who have… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Kill

INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2023 – MARTIN THOMAS REVIEWS We pulled in our old friend and Chris’s old co-worker from Spill dot com, Martin Thomas, to give his perspective on this year’s Fantastic Fest, his first in a decade. Martin, Chris, and Wright talk about the films The Origin, Strange Darling, Cobweb, River, Fishmonger, The Last… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Martin Thomas Reviews

SAW X MOVIE REVIEW Horror franchises are weird. Even if most of the films in a series are terrible, once you’ve made it to three, your IP pretty much never dies. Such is definitely the case with the Saw series. Now at the tenth film in the series, the timeline moves back to a story… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Saw X

THEY CLONED TYRONE MOVIE REVIEW I don’t know if you are aware of this, but the United States has a history of oppressing those who are not white/anglo-saxons. I know, crazy to read in print but it’s true. Trail of Tears, the Tulsa Massacre, the Tuskegee experiments, Japanese internment camps during WWII, the list goes… Read More »Screener Squad: They Cloned Tyrone

FUTURAMA SEASON 11 REVIEW Great Manifestation of original IP sensations! Futurama is back after ten years and just in time to give Hulu a shot in the arm in the streaming wars. All your favorite Futurama pals are back with plenty of tales of interest! Time has skipped and Fry (Billy West) binges like no… Read More »Screener Squad: Futurama Season 11

SPOOKTACULAR! MOVIE REVIEW This new documentary Spooktacular! is perfect for Fantastic Fest as it concerns the rise and fall of the first Horror Theme Park (which is a bit of a semantic stretch, but ok). Spooky World started as just a haunted hayride that was putting in considerably more effort than most, and ended up… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Spooktacular!

THE ALTMAN METHOD MOVIE REVIEW Noa and Uri are a married couple living in Israel and things are starting to get tough. It looks like Uri is going to have to shut down his martial arts school as the students have stopped signing up and Noa isn’t getting the acting parts she used to. When… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – The Altman Method

THE UNCLE MOVIE REVIEW It’s the 1980s in Yugoslavia and for this father, mother, and teenage(?) boy, Christmas day is very important. It’s when their Uncle comes to visit and spend the holiday with them. A big turkey dinner, presents, dancing, and singing will follow. So why does it all seem to hollow and forced?… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – The Uncle

WHAT YOU WISH FOR MOVIE REVIEW It’s rare a Fantastic Fest goes by that we don’t get some extreme film that has food at the center of it. This year that award goes to What You Wish For. Nick Stahl plays Ryan, a talented chef but one with such a bad gambling problem that he’s… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – What You Wish For

THE ORIGIN MOVIE REVIEW Horror directors are always in search of a new twist on the genre and it’s gotten to the point that we’ve come down to animatronic characters coming to life and angry sorority sloths as the offerings this year. But Fantastic Fest presents a new way of delivering the thrills with a… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – The Origin

SLEEP MOVIE REVIEW While Wright and Chris could certainly use some sleep at this point of Fantastic Fest, this review is about a new Korean movie with that title. Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun previously in Parasite) has been sleepwalking and talking of late. This does not exactly excite his wife, new mother Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi previously… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Sleep

VISITORS (COMPLETE EDITION) MOVIE REVIEW Expanded from director Ken’ichi Ugana’s short, Visitors is the sort of crazed affair that some folks come to Fantastic Fest specifically for: wacky Japanese surreal comedy mixed with genre. In this case, picture Raimi’s original Evil Dead only as this type of madness. The story, such as it is, follows… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – Visitors (Complete Edition)

OUTLAW JOHNNY BLACK MOVIE REVIEW In 2009, Michael Jai White gave cinema one of the best homages and genre sendups of all-time with Black Dynamite. It wasn’t just a great comedy, it was an outstanding film, which at every step was elevated by the committed performance (and jacked physique) of co-writer and lead Michael Jai… Read More »Screener Squad: Outlaw Johnny Black

SLOTHERHOUSE MOVIE REVIEW It feels like there’s a cavalcade of great horror premises out there… You’re sitting there, scrolling through a streaming platform and oh… look at this movie called “Cariboo?” The idea of a dead reindeer haunting a small town makes your soul jump for joy. Then you proceed to watch a 90 min… Read More »Screener Squad: Slotherhouse

INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2023 – THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY Somewhere in between Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah seems to lie the director’s ambition for this new film The Last Stop in Yuma County. Featuring a veritable who’s who of actors who you’ve seen in many films but go, ‘yeah, who IS that?’ At… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – The Last Stop in Yuma County

INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2023 – ONE-PERCENTER Fantastic Fest has become known not only for weird and disturbing films, completely surreal foreign comedies, and insane horror, but for some of the most over-the-top great action as well. One-Percenter is one of this year’s entries in the latter category and it sure doesn’t hurt when Tak Sakaguchi… Read More »Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2023 – One-Percenter

HARLEY QUINN SEASON 4 REVIEW As the old saying goes, people need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. Nothing more dramatic than taking the next step in your relationship and having a severe career change! Light up the signal but not for Batman. Bruce is on a Blackgate sabbatical and Harley Quinn (Kaley… Read More »Screener Squad: Harley Quinn Season 4

DUMB MONEY MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like seeing the little guy take on the big guys and land some punches. In this case, a small investor vs Wall Street in the true story (from, like, two years ago) where a social media influencer nicknamed Roaring Kitty (Paul Dano) started getting frustrated with the big money firms… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Dumb Money

THE GATHERING: SEASON 4 EPISODE 1 The time is upon us once again to gather groups of geeks together to discuss all things wonderful and terrible in a state of inebriation. This is THE GATHERING. We reconvene, after a long break, with a new season and the promise of more regular installments to come but… Read More »The Gathering: Season 4 Episode 1

HEELS SEASON 2 REVIEW From September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001 Vince McMahon of the WWF waged a ratings battle with WCW’s Eric Bischof. Shady deals, empty hand shakes, and underhanded tactics were used by both companies in an all out brawl to be the world’s number one league in wrestling entertainment. The ongoing… Read More »Screener Squad: Heels Season 2

ELEVATOR GAME MOVIE REVIEW Based off of the urban legend of the same name, Elevator Game shows us a team of YouTubers who test out said urban legends. To play the game, you enter an elevator, punch in a specific combination of floor numbers, and if completed successfully you’ll be in a nether world. And… Read More »Screener Squad: Elevator Game

A HAUNTING IN VENICE MOVIE REVIEW Poirot is tired. And I don’t mean because of the last two Kenneth Branagh starring/directed films being so blah. I mean, in this third installment of his adaptations starring Agatha Christie’s famous detective character, he’s hung up his magnifying glass. Hidden away in Venice and refusing to accept any… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: A Haunting in Venice

THE AFTERPARTY SEASON 2 The songs off the playlist are winding down. The frantic dancing has slowed to a shuffling of feet in the drunken embrace of a lover that never was, and all the kegs are empty. You know what that means, catch me at the AFTERPARTY! Apple TV presents Season 2 of Chris… Read More »Screener Squad: The Afterparty Season 2

THE GOOD MOTHER MOVIE REVIEW What is a good mother? Webster has no definition. I mean sure the words ‘good’ and ‘mother’ are both in the pages but separately and never defined together. Stuffy old Oxford is no better. Is a ‘good mother’ a baker of pies, sewer of buttons, assorter of sack lunches? Maybe… Read More »Screener Squad: The Good Mother

SATANIC HISPANICS MOVIE REVIEW El Paso police come in and raid a building full of dead Latinos, finding one lone survivor know as “The Traveler.” He’s brought to the station for interrogation. The Traveler informs the police that they only have 90 minutes before their world comes to an end. The cops thinking this person… Read More »Screener Squad: Satanic Hispanics

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 328: WATER STREAM SWAMP TANK John and Chris take on this Herculean task of reviewing this massive stack of home releases. From a 4k upgrade to one of John’s all time fave superhero movies, to them disagreeing whether a new horror comedy is one of the best or worst ever. From giving… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 328: Water Stream Swamp Tank

MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN SEASON 1 REVIEW For 85 years, the Last Son of Krypton has been fighting for truth and justice, and battling evil of all sorts. He balances a life as the superhero all other superheroes are compared to while living as mild mannered Clark Kent, working for the Daily Planet alongside the… Read More »Screener Squad: My Adventures With Superman

THE NUN II MOVIE REVIEW Valek the demon is back to scare the bejesus out a new group victims in The Nun II. Taissa Farmiga returns as Irene, the nun that defeated the nun in The Nun. With the aid of Debra (Storm Reid) she’s tasked to uncover the mystery surrounding grisly murders taking place… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Nun II

ONE PIECE SERIES REVIEW King of the pirates Gold Roger (Michael Dorman) had fame and fortune beyond imagination. Before his execution he declared to all dreamers that his fortune was all there for the taking. You just have to find it first. A golden age of pirates has begun and sailors of all walks of… Read More »Screener Squad: One Piece

BOTTOMS MOVIE REVIEW From the writer and the director of the criminally underseen Shiva Baby comes this new high school raunchy comedy, Bottoms. PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are best friends, gay, and pretty much on the bottom rung of popularity at their school. And at their school, it is ALL about football.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Bottoms

JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL REVIEW Thirteen years ago a neo-noir western crime thriller on F/X called Justified aired its series finale. Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) said goodbye to being justified in gunning down the no good scum of Kentucky. Now, streaming as a new mini-series on FX presented by Hulu, Justified: City Primeval has the US… Read More »Screener Squad: Justified: City Primeval

TRASH ON THE TUBE: ON OUR OWN Did you like Mrs. Doubtfire but felt it needed 100% more parent death? Then join us for this drag-centric 90’s ABC sitcom whose premise was abandoned faster than its orphan stars. This week on Trash on the Tube, we watched On Our Own! YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek… Read More »Trash On The Tube: On Our Own

FIVE AND OUT 171: WE ARE BACK After several years, we are BACK! This time Wes and Steve discuss being a suburban dad, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and our Top 5 Children’s Entertainment That Adults Enjoy! Check it out! Also check out Wes’s webseries, the D&D PSAs. You can subscribe to the Five and… Read More »Five and Out 171: We Are Back

THE MONKEY KING MOVIE REVIEW You may be familiar with the legend of the Monkey King from the ancient Chinese myth Journey to the West. The tale has been adapted into film, television, books, comics, and music hundreds of times. If you’re somehow not familiar, the story of the Monkey King is an epic adventure… Read More »Screener Squad: The Monkey King

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SEASON 5 REVIEW What We Do In The Shadows, everybody’s favorite sitcom about vampires living together on Staten Island, is back for another season of mockumentary-style hijinks. Last season ended with Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), the long suffering familiar being turned into a vampire by someone who is NOT his… Read More »Screener Squad: What We Do In The Shadows Season 5

GIGANTICAST EPISODE 32: TRANSLATING GODZILLA Matt gets obnoxiously cerebral in that way you all seem to like when he brings on Jeffrey Angles, Professor of Japanese at Western Michigan University, and translator of Shigeru Kayama’s original GODZILLA novellas from 1955! You can purchase the book right here:     YOUR HOST   Matt Frank (Giganticast,… Read More »Giganticast Episode 32: Translating Godzilla

GOLDA MOVIE REVIEW Golda Meir was the Israeli prime minister from 1969 to 1974. During her service she made life or death decisions that would label her as a bloodthirsty tyrant to some and the Iron Lady Israel doing what’s best for her country by others. The film about her is directed by Guy Nattiv… Read More »Screener Squad: Golda

BAD THINGS MOVIE REVIEW Bad Things is a “Shinning” example of what not to do if you like the movie The Shining. Imagine a movie where Jack Torrence doesn’t get a character setup, we don’t find out about his abusive past, and we just show up at The Overlook Hotel. It’s not that compelling of… Read More »Screener Squad: Bad Things

THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES SEASON 3 REVIEW Everyone’s favorite dysfunctional, evangelical, family is back here to separate you from your disposable income… you know… for Jesus or something. This season, the siblings (Danny McBride, Adam DeVine, Edi Patterson) are at odds over running the kingdom now that dad (John Goodman) has “retired.” We’re also introduced to… Read More »Screener Squad: The Righteous Gemstones Season 3

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 237: DOUBLECROSS! Chris and Wright get up to shenanigans while they review this giant stack of home release. Check out our thoughts on a set of some of the best worst movies ever and see if they can talk more about a miniseries than the video game its based on (spoiler: they… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 237: Doublecross!

THE INVENTOR MOVIE REVIEW Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most enigmatic historical figures to ever live. He is credited as the founder of the High Renaissance. And despite having many lost works and fewer than 25 attributed major pieces, he created some of the most influential paintings in Western art, notably the Mona… Read More »Screener Squad: The Inventor

DARK WINDOWS MOVIE REVIEW Tracy Chapman once asked do you got a fast car in a great song about an impoverished woman trying to break the cycle of poverty set to folk rock. Bradly Martin is asking, why not call an uber if you’re drunk? Do not drink and drive and do not get into… Read More »Screener Squad: Dark Windows

BIRTH/REBIRTH MOVIE REVIEW Do you like undead children, zombie pigs, and Mini-DV tapes? Well you’re in luck! Birth/Rebirth is Laura Moss’ directorial debut with a chilling and unnerving story about the lengths that a mother would go through for her child. Judy Reyes stars as Celie, an overworked RN, whose daughter Lila, played by A.J.… Read More »Screener Squad: Birth/Rebirth

STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 2 REVIEW The second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues our five year mission with Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship Enterprise in the 23rd century, a decade before Star Trek: The Original Series. This season offers some fantastic looks at some truly classic scenarios: A… Read More »Screener Squad: Strange New Worlds Season 2

GRAN TURISMO MOVIE REVIEW What gamer hasn’t had a fantasy that they got to live their games for real? Even you apocalyptic gamers; I see you imagining how fun the end of the world would be. And yet, these are just fantasies. But not for young Jann (Archie Madekwe) who was SO good at the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Gran Turismo

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE MOVIE REVIEW Romantic comedies tend to have a pretty pat formula. They epitomize lighthearted love stories filled with charming predictability. These films thrive on familiar tropes—meet-cutes, quirky protagonists, and inevitable misunderstandings that tear the lovers apart. There are comedic sidekicks or best friends who provide comic relief and sage advice.… Read More »Screener Squad: Red, White & Royal Blue

BLUE BEETLE MOVIE REVIEW DC has obviously been going through some changes of late with their filmed content and Blue Beetle may, or may not be, the first in the new DCU. Honestly, it’s really just a stand alone, which is probably for the best as it really lets what works about it shine: the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Blue Beetle

STRAYS MOVIE REVIEW Tired of rewatching Barbie and Oppenheimer for the 16th time? Well, you’re in luck! Strays is the new film directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) which tells the story of Reggie the dog, voiced by Will Ferrell. Reggie is a happy-go-lucky pup that loves his human… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Strays

DREAMIN’ WILD MOVIE REVIEW Back in 1979, Don Senior (Beau Bridges) built a state of the art $100,000 recording studio for his two teenage sons Donnie (Noah Jupe) and Joe Emerson (Jack Dylan Grazer). The two brothers self recorded and self produced their first album “Dreamin’ Wild”. Don Sr. and Joe see the heart and… Read More »Screener Squad: Dreamin’ Wild

APORIA MOVIE REVIEW When Marty McFly returned to his home at the end of Back to the Future, he found that his actions in the past had a ripple effect on the timeline. He still lived in his house, but it was nice now. His brother and sister were still there, but they had real… Read More »Screener Squad: Aporia

TRASH IN THE CAN: CADE: THE TORTURED CROSSING Romantic! Suspenseful! Competent! None of these words could describe this week’s feature. Auteur and robot Neil Breen returns with another confusing, stock footage filled, visual dry-heave. Filmmaker Christian Remde joins the boys for an episode that is somehow longer than the movie and just as baffling. Let’s… Read More »Trash in the Can: Cade: The Tortured Crossing

THE POD GENERATION In the not-too-distant future, we’ve moved beyond our smartphones and laptops. We’ve got fully autonomous vehicles, created Oxygen Bars and park pods, and pretty much made the whole world artificial, but like super nice looking in an Apple product sorta way. We’ve automated everything, and amid this society madly in love with… Read More »Screener Squad: The Pod Generation

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 236: JOHN STORY 3: SUPERCRITIC Chris and John have a towering stack of home releases to review that range from all-time HK action classics, to the most surreal yakuza films ever made. From the latest but not greatest in a long-running boxing franchise, to aliens from another world fighting dinosaurs on Earth.… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 236: John Story 3: Supercritic

KING ON SCREEN MOVIE REVIEW When Stephen King released Carrie, his first novel, in 1974, the horror story initially received mixed reviews from critics. The novel’s unique blend of horror, psychological suspense, and coming-of-age themes garnered attention, but opinions were divided. Some critics praised King’s ability to capture the adolescent experience, create a sense of… Read More »Screener Squad: King on Screen

CORNER OFFICE MOVIE REVIEW Pour a drip of hurt, clock in, cram yourself into a cubicle, and start living with purpose. After all, without the rat race and daily grind of nine to five we’d have all the free time in the world to love, laugh, cry, smile, hope, despair, and dream. Have ever seen… Read More »Screener Squad: Corner Office

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER MOVIE REVIEW The script for The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been optioned and changed hands many times over the past 20 years. One can easily see why there was interest: take the never explored in film (that we could find) story of Dracula’s passage to London on… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Last Voyage of the Demeter

MEG 2: THE TRENCH MOVIE REVIEW It’s hard not to feel bad for the Megs in this film. I mean, what chance do they, or anyone really, have versus Jason Statham? This time though he and his (surviving) team have to deal with an illegal mining operation at the bottom of The Trench (where the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Meg 2: The Trench

THE BEANIE BUBBLE MOVIE REVIEW It seems like Hollywood has a never ending barrage of “Company Biopics” it wants to melt our eyeballs with. Something that gently plucks a little nostalgia out of your brain, and gives you a fleeting moment from your past… all while being bombarded with messages of “American Dreams” and “Capitalism… Read More »Screener Squad: The Beanie Bubble

SECRET INVASION SERIES REVIEW Back in the time of Blockbuster Videos and grunge rock, a young Nick Fury teamed up with a woman from outer space and together they would thwart the evil efforts of the Kree and stop the genocide of the peaceful, shape-shifting, extra terrestrials known as Skrulls. Thirty years later, branches of… Read More »Screener Squad: Secret Invasion

TALK TO ME MOVIE REVIEW The A24 production logo on this new horror movie should give you a sense of the quality and craft you can expect. And coming from the YouTube twins Danny and Michael Philippou, you can also expect a certain level of twisted quality. This is the duo who went viral with… Read More »Screener Squad: Talk To Me

TRASH IN THE CAN: SHRUNKEN HEADS Child murder, gender non-conforming villains, and mysterious voodoo rituals. No, it’s not the latest GOP talking points! It’s this week’s movie! Tessa Morrison returns to discuss a fantasy movie with the heart of a child and the mouth of a sailor. Join us for 1994’s Shrunken Heads!   YOUR… Read More »Trash in the Can: Shrunken Heads

THEATER CAMP MOVIE REVIEW If you’re a theater kid, raised on a healthy dose of show tunes, spirit gum, musty stages, polite applause from audiences of mostly family, and plenty of delusions of grandeur that your high school production of Sweeney Todd is pretty much as good as the one in New York, then we’ve… Read More »Screener Squad: Theater Camp

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM Believe it or not, there are other films opening this summer that aren’t named Barbie or Oppenheimer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is just one of them. Even if you’ve never seen a TMNT property, you probably already know the basic set-up: a mysterious green ooze released… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

THE WITCHER SEASON 3 REVIEW We’ve come to expect a lot from the world of The Witcher, like secrets, swords, spells, songs, and sexy times. What could go wrong with such a time honored formula in season 3 of Netflix’s adaptation? Is the mythical monster hunter still slicing, stabbing, sneaking and spelling or did the… Read More »Screener Squad: The Witcher Season 3

I’M A VIRGO SERIES REVIEW Writer, director, musician, and activist Boots Riley who directed the sleeper hit Sorry to Bother You is back with an Amazon Prime mini series titled I’m a Virgo. A virgo is an individual born under the sixth sign of the zodiac, traditionally late August, representing the maiden or goddess associated… Read More »Screener Squad: I’m a Virgo

COBWEB MOVIE REVIEW It’s not uncommon for children to end up with an imaginary friend. Or to have fears of monsters in their room at night. Usually the monster doesn’t become the friend but in the case of young Peter (Woody Norman) that’s what happens. The voice coming from his wall at night claims to… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Cobweb

BARBIE MOVIE REVIEW In what has been the most unexpected theatrical domination of the year (hell, the decade), the Barbie movie has blown past every other summer blockbuster to become one of the biggest hits of the year. The story follows ‘stereotypical Barbie’ (Margot Robbie) who lives in Barbieland with all the other variations of… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Barbie

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 235: IT’S NOT ABOUT SPHERE, IT’S ABOUT FEROCIOUS WOLF Chris and Wright get a show in with pretty much all good (or variables of ‘good’) films and some real surprises and hidden gems. From a bloody and awesome samurai two-punch classic, to a film DN calls “Oceans Zero”. From Florence Pugh’s latest… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 235: It’s Not About Sphere, It’s About Ferocious Wolf

HAUNTED MANSION MOVIE REVIEW Emboldened by the huge success of Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney has been determined to get a big franchise out of one of their other most classic and beloved attractions at the theme parks, The Haunted Mansion. The first attempt in 2003 with Eddie Murphy did not go so well, to… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Haunted Mansion

NIMONA MOVIE REVIEW Whimsical magic and future tech collide in Netflix’s Nimona, based on the Eisner winning webcomic by ND Stevenson. In a futuristic yet medieval world, there is a castle that thrives on electricity and the fear-mongering state run media in a kingdom physically and figuratively surrounded by walls. Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed) is… Read More »Screener Squad: Nimona

BIRD BOX BARCELONA MOVIE REVIEW Netflix streaming horror surprise Bird Box has leveled up this summer with the lore-expanding sequel Bird Box Barcelona. Sans Sandra Bullock, we now follow the blindfolded by black tinted goggles protagonist Sebastián played by Mario Casas. The world has been overrun by beings that some call angels and some fear… Read More »Screener Squad: Bird Box Barcelona

PLATONIC SERIES REVIEW Two childhood best friends rekindle their camaraderie while juggling suburbia, bar ownership, relationships, and middle age. Did I mention that these two BFF’s are a man and a woman!? Apple TV presents Platonic, starring Rose Byrne as Sylvia and Seth Rogen as Will. For the past 15 years, Sylvia has put her… Read More »Screener Squad: Platonic

SCREENER SQUAD: THE OUT-LAWS There’s a very, very excellent action spy flick out right now. It’s got high stakes, impressive action set pieces, and a surprising amount of comedy interspersed with the car chases and gunfire. The movie is called Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning, and we highly recommend it. Seriously, it’s one of the best… Read More »Screener Squad: The Out-Laws

TRASH ON THE TUBE: ALIENS IN THE FAMILY Join us for nightmarishly bulbous babies, a gooey James Van Der Beek, and maybe the saddest anecdote we’ve ever uncomfortably laughed at. Did we find a puppet show Eric doesn’t like? You’ll have to tune it to this week’s Trash on the Tube to find out! We… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Aliens in the Family

OPPENHEIMER MOVIE REVIEW Any new Nolan film is going to be a thing. People love his films. People hate his films. People are 50/50 on his films. But distinctly in such a Nolan-discussion way that, well, if you’re a film nerd, you know what I mean. The man has done a lot of stuff: comic… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Oppenheimer

INFESTATION: ANNECY ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2023 Spider-Mike and comics/animation writer Maciej Kur (Dollicious, Kayko and Kokosh) team up across the world to discuss the films and shorts at this year’s Annecy Animation Film Festival. Maciej talks about The Concierge, Spellbound, Chicken For Linda!, Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Once Upon a Studio, Wish, and more! Please… Read More »Infestation: Annecy Animation Festival 2023

THE BEAR SEASON 2 REVIEW Add 1 cup of found fortune, a tablespoon of ambition with a pinch of character motivation. Stir in famous character actor cameos. Be sure to use talented thespian and not major summer blockbuster cameos (see MCU casting clickbait articles for reference). Set tensions to boiling point, really push that powder… Read More »Screener Squad: The Bear Season 2

SKULL ISLAND SERIES REVIEW Where do monsters come from? Under the bed? From the deepest darkest places of the human mind? The Sewer? Netflix presents King Kong’s animated feature Skull Island created by Brian Duffield. Charlie (Nicolas Cantu) and his bestie Mike (Darren Barnet) are on an oceanic expedition led by Charlie’s dad Cap (Benjamin… Read More »Screener Squad: Skull Island

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART 1 MOVIE REVIEW Ethan Hunt and his team is back and this time they’re up against, well, pretty much everyone. An AI developed as a weapon gains sentience and the chase is on for a macguffin that is the only thing that can control it, and thus become the most… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1

LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR MOVIE REVIEW There have been many castles throughout the centuries at the heart of our timeless stories. Some castles are tucked away in the spooky forest. Some are a beacon of light upon the highest hill. Some contain the promise of a fair maiden but it turns out your princess… Read More »Screener Squad: Lonely Castle in the Mirror

BIOSPHERE MOVIE REVIEW So there’s this movie about a couple buddies locked inside a self-sufficient dome…No, not that movie. This one is a serious examination of masculinity, gender, race and Super Mario Bros starring Mark Duplass as Billy and Sterling K. Brown as Ray. These long-time friends seemingly find themselves the only humans left on… Read More »Screener Squad: Biosphere

GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI SERIES REVIEW As is tradition in new media, old media is (trying to) make a comeback. Here at One Of Us, we try to go into a movie/show/ip with an open mind, even if it’s a reboot/late sequel. And even though most times it just feels like a cash grab,… Read More »Screener Squad: Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 324: CALAMITY OF CO-HOSTS It’s all about the bad-asses in this week’s episode of our home release show, Digital Noise. Whether it’s the Justice League or Robert Shaw working for Mossad, some red cap fae taking on interlopers or ALL the snakes giving a bunch of apartment dwellers the what-for, bad-assery runs… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 324: Calamity of Co-Hosts

BLACK MIRROR SEASON 6 REVIEW After taking a break from the series while we all dealt with a pandemic, because, as creator Charlie Brooker said, “The world is too depressing right now, I don’t want to add to the misery,” Black Mirror returns with it’s sixth installment and five new entries into the anthology series.… Read More »Screener Squad: Black Mirror Season 6

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY MOVIE REVIEW One last time to strap on the whip and put on the hat…here we go. Certainly the last Indiana Jones outing did not exactly meet with the world’s universal pleasure and Harrison Ford has been pushing ever since to get one more go-round. It’s still a… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

THE FULL MONTY SERIES REVIEW Back in 1997 a film from across the pond debuted in the states from director Peter Cattaneo and writer Simon Beaufoy about six recently sacked steel workers who come together to perform a male stripper act. A quarter century later FX/Hulu presents The Full Monty: The TV series. Gaz (Robert… Read More »Screener Squad: The Full Monty

TRASH IN THE CAN: OUTRAGEOUS! We close out pride month with a struggling drag artist rooming with a pregnant schizophrenic, a phantom delusion called The Bonecrusher, and a roller skating nun! Sounds perfect for us, right? Wrong! Elisa Leichty joins us this week for a movie that is way too good for our show and… Read More »Trash in the Can: Outrageous!

EXTRACTION 2 MOVIE REVIEW Two brothers forged in streets running red with the blood of their people pitted against each other in civil war. Their life purpose? Burn down the house of freedom and flip it for tyrannical profit! When the leaves of oppression fall on the yard of peace, don’t reach for the hammer.… Read More »Screener Squad: Extraction 2

BARRY SEASON 4 REVIEW Well everyone, as they say in the world of theater, the final curtain has fallen on the beloved HBO series…pause for dramatic effect…Barry. That’s right, the show has officially concluded with it its fourth season and HOLY FREAKING DAVE AND BUSTER’S if we nerds at Oneofus.net haven’t been busting at the… Read More »Screener Squad: Barry Season 4

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 323: HOW TO SEXY DANCE LIKE A COCAINE ASSASSIN John and Chris tell it like it is and show you some moves in this latest episode of Digital Noise, covering home release movies and tv shows. They look at a film that they consider one of the least of the best of… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 323: How to Sexy Dance Like a Cocaine Assassin

TRASH ON THE TUBE: HEIL HONEY, I’M HOME This week, we test out pretty high limits for bad taste with a wacky 50s style sitcom starring the fuhrer himself and his love/hate relationship with his Jewish neighbors. Can you believe it was cancelled after one episode? Join us for a show we did NOT-SEE coming,… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Heil Honey, I’m Home

NO HARD FEELINGS MOVIE REVIEW Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, a woman scrambling to scrape together the money to save her house in beach town Montauk, NY. When her car is repossessed, she can no longer drive rideshare to make her goals and desperation sets in. The kind of desperation that has one take really bad… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: No Hard Feelings

ASTEROID CITY MOVIE REVIEW Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded symmetrical and stoic comedy is a nesting doll of a tale. A Rod Serling-ish Bryan Cranston narrates the story of the making of a play called “Asteroid City”, all of this presented in black and white. The play itself is presented in color and as if it… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Asteroid City

MAD HEIDI MOVIE REVIEW Hey everyone. I don’t know if you heard… here, come in closer, I don’t want anyone else to pick up on our intimate conversation. Listen… you know Heidi? Yeah, well some assholes killed her boyfriend Goat Peter, burned down her house with her grandfather still inside. Well that just boiled Heidi’s… Read More »Screener Squad: Mad Heidi

FLAMIN’ HOT MOVIE REVIEW Do as Nelly says with today’s film everyone: “It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes.” Wait… scratch that. Put your Chester Cheeto shirt back on. Nobody wants to see that. Anyways, today’s film is Flamin’ Hot directed by Eva Longoria (yes that Eva Longoria). It’s the story… Read More »Screener Squad: Flamin’ Hot

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE REVIEW Long long ago in a galaxy that can be referred to as our very own, the greatest classic Chinese novels were written. Journey to the West, attributed to author Wu Cheng’en is about the pilgrimage of the Tang Dynasty’s Buddhist monk Xuanzang and his travel to the western regions from Central… Read More »Screener Squad: American Born Chinese

YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 2 REVIEW BUZZ, BUZZ everybody! After a stellar first season that came outta nowhere, Showtime’s mega smash hit Yellowjackets returns for its much anticipated second season. Following the exploits of a high school girl’s soccer team that crashed in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 to a national tournament and were stranded for nineteen… Read More »Screener Squad: Yellowjackets Season 2

THE BLACKENING MOVIE REVIEW The tag line for this new horror comedy reads “They can’t all die first”. Because it’s a (largely) all-black cast and the trope is that the black people always die first. Just in case you were out of the 30-year old oft-repeated loop. This is the tone for a new horror… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Blackening

ELEMENTAL MOVIE REVIEW Disney/Pixar’s latest animated feature is Elemental, the story of a world populated by anthropomorphized elemental beings, either Fire, Earth, Water, or Air. The film follows the Lumen family, immigrants to Element City where fire beings are rare (understandably because of their nature to set fire to everything around them). Raising a family,… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Elemental

THE FLASH MOVIE REVIEW In what may or may not be the last gasps of DC’s Snyder-verse (it’s always too soon to call what Warner Brothers is gonna actually do until you see it happening in a movie theater), Ezra Miller returns as the Scarlet Speedster, the Flash. This time around he is sad, remembering… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Flash

TRASH IN THE CAN: EVIL TOONS Witness the movie so low-budget that even Roger Corman turned it down! Filmmaker, Travis Patten, joins the boys for a nearly pornographic Evil Dead/Roger Rabbit mashup that leaves us asking the question, “are boobs not enough to make a movie watchable?” Take a gander at this week’s movie, 1992’s… Read More »Trash in the Can: Evil Toons

THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL SEASON 5 REVIEW Midge Maisel is back for her final set in the last season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. As we left her in season 4, Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge found herself at a crossroads yet again trying to figure out with her manager Susie, played by Alex Borstein, what their… Read More »Screener Squad: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5

WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS SERIES REVIEW The Watergate scandal back in the early 70s led to the resignation of president Richard Nixon. Are you under 30? You probably recognize that president from Futurama as portrayed by Billy West. Turn off that cartoon and dive into some historical dramatic comedy. The former CIA agent and current author… Read More »Screener Squad: White House Plumbers

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS MOVIE REVIEW We all fib. We all tell harmless, little white lies to spare the feelings of the people we love. Hell, we even lie to yourselves, just to get through the day. It’s the trivial things, like telling someone you like the meal they made for you or that their… Read More »Screener Squad: You Hurt My Feelings

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS MOVIE REVIEW It’s time to ROLLOUT for the 7th entry in the Transformers franchise! Steven Caple Jr, director of Creed 2, takes us to 1994 where we find the Autobots lying dormant until an ancient artifact sends out a beacon to not only our heroes but to an evil faction… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

GREAT EXPECTATIONS SERIES REVIEW The 1988 film Scrooged is about a TV executive putting on a live TV broadcast of the classic novel, A Christmas Carol. In the beginning rehearsals for this production, the aforementioned executive is confronted by a censor who tells him that the dancer costumes are indecent. In his defense, he replies, “I… Read More »Screener Squad: Great Expectations

INFLUENCER MOVIE REVIEW So let’s get it out of the way; being an influencer is a double edged sword when it comes to making a living. On one hand, you’re paid by viewers and advertisers to basically be a proxy for the audience, living the life we all would enjoy if we had a disposable… Read More »Screener Squad: Influencer

SUCCESSION SEASON 4 REVIEW Last season on Succession, big bad CO of Waystar RoyCo Logan Roy (Brian Cox) reins supreme and has laid the smack down on his children. If you come after the king, you better be prepared to ravage the land, salt the earth, and drag the bodies of your enemies behind a… Read More »Screener Squad: Succession Season 4

THE BOOGEYMAN MOVIE REVIEW So, there are a LOT of movies and shorts that have gone by the title “The Boogeyman” or at least have “Boogeyman” in the title. It’s gotta be one of the dumbest sounding words for one of the most ubiquitous descriptors of the thing that hides in the night, in the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Boogeyman

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE MOVIE REVIEW I’m going to start by telling you something that the studios really dropped the ball on making extremely clear about Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: it’s part one of two and ends on a huge cliffhanger. Now you can just enjoy this sequel to Into The Spider-Verse as it deserves… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

WRATH OF BECKY MOVIE REVIEW Becky was a 2020 revenge thriller that asked, “What would Rambo be like if he were a 13-year-old girl?” Lulu Wilson starred as the titular Becky, an angsty girl who has lost her mother to cancer and must defend her family against a group of escaped Neo Nazi convicts led… Read More »Screener Squad: Wrath of Becky

ROBOTS MOVIE REVIEW In an almost Idiocracy “We’re doomed” not-too-distant future, the “big, beautiful” border wall has been completed, and 11 million people have been sent to the other side, leaving a massive non-complaining, non-raping workers hole to fill (the movie’s pointed satirical words, not ours). Tesla has advanced robotics technology to enable humanity to… Read More »Screener Squad: Robots

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 322: THE EYE OF THE WRIGHTGER Wright and Chris review some of the weirder home releases this week, from Batman as told by H.P. Lovecraft to a Hong Kong “Fighting on the Bus With My Brother”. From a Jeff Daniels movie that seems to have slid in from a parallel universe, to… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 322: The Eye of the Wrightger

TRASH ON THE TUBE: THE SECRET DIARY OF DESMOND PFEIFFER This week, we continue our adventures in the worst TV has to offer on Trash on the Tube with a lighthearted comedic take on the fight to free the slaves. No, really! This aired on television and is soaked in 1990’s sexism, racism, and Clinton-bashing.… Read More »Trash on the Tube: The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer

STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE REVIEW Michael J. Fox was just a short kid from Canada with a dream of being an actor. When he turned 18, he drove to Hollywood and started chasing that dream, barely making ends meet until the stars aligned, and in 1982, he landed the career making role of… Read More »Screener Squad: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

THE MUPPETS MAYHEM SERIES REVIEW It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the rock band that debuted back in 1975 on a sketch comedy show called The Muppet Show. After the series finale of The Muppet Show back in 1981, Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem… Read More »Screener Squad: The Muppets Mayhem

SANCTUARY MOVIE REVIEW Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley star in the new film, Sanctuary, directed by Zachary Wigon following the director’s 2014 romantic drama The Heart Machine. Abbott plays Hal, the next young CEO getting ready to take over his late father’s hotel empire while Qualley plays Rebecca, Hal’s dominatrix who has been preparing him… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Sanctuary

STAR WARS: VISIONS VOLUME 2 REVIEW Star Wars is back with a second season of Visions, the Disney Plus 2021 animated short series that featured the visions of several animators across the globe. The nine animation studios put to task this time are El Guiri, Cartoon Saloon, Punkrobot, Aardman, Studio Mir, Studio La Cachette, 88… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Wars: Visions Volume 2

MASTER GARDENER MOVIE REVIEW Joel Edgerton plays Narvel Roth, the titular gardener of this new Paul Schrader directed film. He tends to the palatial estate of wealthy widow Mrs. Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). But his very structured life is upended when she orders him to take her great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) on as an apprentice. Narvel… Read More »Screener Squad: Master Gardener

FAST X MOVIE REVIEW The crew revs up their reviewing engines to take on the tenth (well, eleventh if you count Hobbs & Shaw) installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise. This one is splitting the tenth film into three installments so get ready for cliffhangers. But it’s still well over two hours of… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Fast X

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? MOVIE REVIEW Love, true love, is what brings us critics here today to talk about a movie about marriage. Marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream. Director Shekhar Kapur and writer Jemima Khan present a romantic comedy that looks at the arrangement of marriage and asks… Read More »Screener Squad: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

FOOL’S PARADISE MOVIE REVIEW Charlie Day, from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame, has finally made his directorial debut with Fool’s Paradise. We follow the mute Latte Pronto, also played by Day, who finds himself a part of the Hollywood machine as a dead ringer for a blowhard actor in the next big picture. He’s… Read More »Screener Squad: Fool’s Paradise

ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME MARGARET. MOVIE REVIEW Are you there, God? It’s me, OneofUs. I’m watching a movie today. I’m so scared, God. I’ve never had a film adaptation of the book Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret before. Suppose Judy Blume’s beloved masterpiece about adolescence and personal discovery is reduced down… Read More »Screener Squad: Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.

RABBIT HOLE SERIES REVIEW Did you know that what you put on the internet can be accessed by anyone anytime anywhere? It’s not called the room wide web. It’s the World baby! Paramount + presents Cats vs Dogs creators Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s new show, Rabbit Hole. This corporate espionage thriller follows John Weir… Read More »Screener Squad: Rabbit Hole

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 321: MORE FUN WITH THE NEW STACK John and Chris talk about the latest home releases with a 4k upgrade to a classic that King Kong has nothing on, a French crime film influenced by Se7en, David Lynch’s second weirdest film, the worst Batman tv show ever made (so CHRIS says), and… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 321: More Fun With The New Stack

DEAD RINGERS SERIES REVIEW Which statement makes you more uneasy? “My gynecologist called and they want me to come in” or “David Cronenberg is filming a new body horror character study”. What if I told you that those two statements are one and the same in the amazon Cronenberg remake mini series Dead Ringers. Elliot… Read More »Screener Squad: Dead Ringers

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL.3 MOVIE REVIEW The Guardians return, but it’s been awhile since their last caper (unless you count the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special). Dynamics have changed in the group; they’re less constantly sniping at each other and more like best friends these days. They’ve made their home the makeshift planet… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3

SUZUME MOVIE REVIEW Following up the international success of his 2019 films Weathering with You and the 2018 anime classic Your Name, writer/director Makoto Shinkai is bringing back the magic and beauty of Japan’s ancient culture with Suzume. The title is the name of an adventurous teenage girl brought up by her reserved and cautious… Read More »Screener Squad: Suzume

TRASH IN THE CAN: THE IMMORTALIZER This week, it’s Get Out with an all-white cast! Guest Jarred Schiff joins us for wino henchman, intravenous glow sticks, weightlifting monsters, and the physically weakest man that’s ever been featured on this show – and that’s saying something considering our hosts. We watched 1991’s The Immortalizer!   YOUR… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Immortalizer

QUASI MOVIE REVIEW Oh boy, Broken Lizard is back, emphasis on the “broken” with Hulu’s new movie Quasi, starring said comedy troupe. Depending on who you talk to, it’s literally the most disappointing film ever, or just average. It seems Broken Lizard is stuck in a time warp, where the comedy really hasn’t evolved with… Read More »Screener Squad: Quasi

GHOSTED MOVIE REVIEW If you only watched the first 30 minutes of this new romantic Apple+ film starring Ana De Armas and Chris Evans, you might think you’re watching a Lifetime movie. Evans plays Cole, an unlucky-in-love farmer and agricultural historian who has recently been dumped when he crosses paths with Sadie (De Armas), a… Read More »Screener Squad: Ghosted

KIDS VS ALIENS MOVIE REVIEW With a title like this, you’d make assumptions. You’d assume there are kids in this movie. Correct. You’d guess there are aliens. Well, eventually. And by the look of it, you might assume an 80’s vibe. Yeah, that stylistic choice is certainly there, though it’s set in 2023. What you… Read More »Screener Squad: Kids vs Aliens

BEEF SERIES REVIEW BEEF is what you get when you can’t just let some petty shit go. You know what I’m talking about… that one time you were dissed in front of your paramour or when your boss (the one that hates your guts), yells at you in front of your peers. Sure, maybe replacing… Read More »Screener Squad: Beef

STAR TREK: PICARD SEASON 3 REVIEW After two uneven seasons, the third and final installment of Star Trek: Picard moves the story forward by going back to where it all began — Star Trek: The Next Generation — and everyone’s here! Well, everyone except Tasha and Dr. Pulaski and O’Brien and Guinan and Wesley (although… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Trek: Picard Season 3

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 320: THAT FIST OF LEGEND MAN WRIGHT IS NOBODY’S FOOL This is a weird episode of Digital Noise. Mainly because we have not a single horror film to talk about. Sometimes it just shakes out that way. But Chris and Wright do discuss that period piece version of Top Gun movie that… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 320: That Fist of Legend Man Wright is Nobody’s Fool

THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 3 REVIEW Star Wars fans rejoice! Our favorite helmeted bounty hunter Din Djarin (yeah I said it) and the delightful Grogu are reunited and onto a new adventure…yes, Grogu is back. Please turn to The Book of Boba Fett for any questions. After removing his helmet in violation of the Mandalorian creed,… Read More »Screener Squad: The Mandalorian Season 3

BEAU IS AFRAID MOVIE REVIEW Beau afraid. Beau very afraid. Ari Aster is back with his newest feature film following Midsommar with Beau is Afraid. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Beau who, following the sudden death of his overbearing mother (played by Patti LuPone), has to find a way back to his… Read More »Screener Squad: Beau is Afraid

EVIL DEAD RISE MOVIE REVIEW The deadites are back! This new installment of what is, perhaps, the only horror franchise (with more than 2 films) that every chapter of it works, Evil Dead Rise also changes a few things up. While there is (briefly) a cabin in the woods, the setting for the bulk of… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Evil Dead Rise

THE OWL HOUSE COMPLETE SERIES REVIEW Children of the Boiling Isles, it is time for us to come together in unity and binge the the entirety the Disney channel magical hit sensation The Owl House. The show features a plethora of humans, witches, demons, and palisman co-existing on the remains of a dead festering corpse… Read More »Screener Squad: The Owl House

TRASH IN THE CAN: ROADIE Take a trip with us to the music scene of the past. An era of rock & roll, fast cars, and romances of questionable legal status (hint: illegal). Journalist, Joseph Leahy, and the boys strap in for a bop-filled soundtrack featuring every truly gifted musician of the 70s plus Meatloaf… Read More »Trash in the Can: Roadie

GUY RITCHIE’S THE COVENANT MOVIE REVIEW In a film so different from everything else he’s made that he had to put his name in front of the title so you’d know it was him, The Covenant takes place during the war in Afghanistan. Jake Gyllenhaal plays sergeant John Kinley. His squad is tasked with uncovering… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

RYE LANE MOVIE REVIEW Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut, Rye Lane, tells the story of Dom and Yas. Brought together by an emotional breakdown of Dom’s design, in a gender neutral, bathroom, Dom is having a terrible time getting over his ex, and Yas wants to let him know that it will be okay. Rom-coms tend… Read More »Screener Squad: Rye Lane

MAFIA MAMMA MOVIE REVIEW If someone offered me a viewing of a new film by a director who is a part of a billion dollar global phenomenon with Toni Collette as the lead, they’d be making an offer I couldn’t refuse! Mafia Mamma, directed by Catherine Hardwicke follows Kristin (Toni Collette), an empty nester with… Read More »Screener Squad: Mafia Mamma

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 319: WHERE DID THESE HORROR MOVIES COME FROM? John got the short end of the stack this week with a lot of, well, not terrible but certainly not real good horror films. But hey, at least they’re from around the world and hell, maybe you’re the audience for them. But we do… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 319: Where Did These Horror Movies Come From?

RENFIELD MOVIE REVIEW It’s been a long few centuries for poor Renfield (Nicholas Hoult). Sure, being Count Dracula’s (Nicolas Cage) assistant comes with perks: eternal youth and super-powers (dependant on bug consumption). But Drac ain’t exactly a good boss. And finding the innocent to bring to Dracula as food is starting to wear on him.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Renfield

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES MOVIE REVIEW It’s a harsh winter even for Neverwinter.  You find yourself in a stone prison along with your roommate, a grizzled barbarian woman.  You’re brought into a council room made up of a two person prison review board.  As you work to persuade the board to your release,… Read More »Screener Squad: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

PAINT MOVIE REVIEW What if Bob Ross wasn’t who you thought he was? What if he was embroiled in some sort of seedy scandal? That’s the thought that led writer/director Brett McAdams to create Paint, the new IFC film starring Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross analog. Carl has hosted Burlington, Vermont’s number one… Read More »Screener Squad: Paint

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 30 years since the critical and commercial failure of the Super Mario Bros movie. And because of that absolute bomb, Nintendo has been very, very reluctant to license one of its properties for any sort of adaptation, film or otherwise. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto was finally convinced… Read More »Screener Squad: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

TRASH ON THE TUBE: LIFE WITH LUCY After deciding they don’t get enough punishment in the world of film, Eric and Wright are now diving into the bottomless pit of lousy television. Join the boys for the first bite-sized episode of Trash on the Tube! They kick things off with Life with Lucy, starring the… Read More »Trash on the Tube: Life With Lucy

AIR MOVIE REVIEW While our whole crew came together in celebrating how fun Ben Affleck’s latest directing effort Air is as a movie, we fought pretty hard on whether or not it was a bit ‘ethically queasy’. You’ll have to listen to the review to get more on Alan, Chris, Ben, and Frank arguing over… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Air

TETRIS MOVIE REVIEW Lazy sunday, gonna pour myself a glass of red wine, crank up on the volume and blast Korobeiniki. What’s that? You say you’ve never heard that tune? What if I told you that not only have you heard that melody before but you could hum it in your sleep? Apple+ presents Tetris,… Read More »Screener Squad: Tetris

TRASH IN THE CAN: THE KINDRED Are you ready to have a Rod Steiger inspired slime fetish? This is just the episode for you! Travis Patten returns once more for a squirmy, wiggly, creature feature starring watermelon tentacles, the world’s angriest fetus, and the Rod Steiger tentacle bukkakke you’ve been waiting for! We watched 1987’s… Read More »Trash in the Can: The Kindred

STAR WARS – THE BAD BATCH S2 REVIEW The Mandalorian may be a huge hit, but it’s not the best Disney Plus Star Wars show about Mandalorians who adopt a powerful child. That honor belongs to The Bad Batch, a spinoff of The Clone Wars animated series. Season 2 continues the story of Clone Force… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Wars – The Bad Batch S2

FURIES MOVIE REVIEW In Greek mythology, the Furies were a trio of very powerful and angry goddesses who punished men who did bad things, particularly to women. They were a force of justice, but also a force to be reckoned with. So, it is a well chosen title for the newest Netflix female driven revenge… Read More »Screener Squad: Furies

MALUM MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Anthony DiBlasi has been making horror movies for a while now. One of them is called Last Shift, released in 2014. Well apparently he liked the idea so much, he essentially re-(made/booted) his own film. Which brings us to today’s film, Malum. It tells the story of a rookie cop’s first… Read More »Screener Squad: Malum

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 318: PAUL FEIG – MALL COP Chris and Wright can’t believe Xmas is over, what with a killer Santa in our stack. Along with that we’ve got a killer pre-teen, killer rich people, killer hackers, killer sexy cannibal teens, killer homeless people, not-so killer zombies…there’s a lot of killers on this week’s… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 318: Paul Feig – Mall Cop

THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT MOVIE REVIEW Do you have bored kids on a Friday afternoon and all the theatrical runs are being ruled by John Wick 4? No kid friendly films for as far as the eye can see? Fear not Moms and Dads, Netflix has got you covered. Based on the beloved children’s book by… Read More »Screener Squad: The Magician’s Elephant

ATTACK ON TITAN – THE FINAL SEASON – PT.2 What’s up with all the shaking cups of water and that ominous thundering sound? It’s not T-Rex on a stroll this time. It’s the long awaited highly anticipated Rumbling in Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2 special Episode 1 penultimate special! Protagonist turned antagonist… Read More »Screener Squad: Attack on Titan – The Final Season – Pt.2

TRASH IN THE CAN: DEF BY TEMPTATION This week, we finally feature a movie with the third James Bond. No, not Roger Moore. We mean the charmless writer, director, and chap-lipped star of Def by Temptation, James Bond the third! Kim Brown joins the boys for layaway abortions, way too titillating feathers, and Sam Jackson… Read More »Trash in the Can: Def By Temptation

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II SERIES REVIEW Better late than never…” some would say. It’s been over 40 years since History of the World, Part 1 graced the silver screen, so now it’s Hulu’s turn (along with Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, and Mel Brooks as Exec Producers) to put history in perspective.… Read More »Screener Squad: History of the World, Part II

JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4 MOVIE REVIEW Well, Mr. Wick has himself in a helluva pickle. The high table of assassins has a huge bounty on him, spearheaded by the Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård) who has been given carte blanche to take down Wick however possible. Pretty much every assassin in the world (which,… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: John Wick Chapter 4

ANNE RICE’S MAYFAIR WITCHES SERIES REVIEW The adaptations of Anne Rice continues in the AMC presentation of Mayfair Witches, the follow up to Interview with the Vampire in Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe. Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) is a neurosurgeon on bereavement after her adoptive mother passes away. In her grieving she will return to New Orleans… Read More »Screener Squad: Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches

THE LAST OF US SERIES REVIEW Neil Druckmann takes his blockbuster video game from the small screen to…the other part of the small screen. Pedro Pascal stars as Joel and Bella Ramsey stars as Ellie in a world ravaged by mutated cordyceps that turns anyone infected into a mindless zombie. The continental United States is… Read More »Screener Squad: The Last of Us

THE LOST KING MOVIE REVIEW Based on a true story, The Lost King follows Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), a middle aged woman just stuck… Until she sees a performance of Richard III, and now the dead King follows her around. She takes it as a sign that she needs to find Richard’s body, which was… Read More »Screener Squad: The Lost King

CHAMPIONS MOVIE REVIEW Champions (a Bobby Farrelly joint) tells the story of Marcus (Woody Harrelson). After a tiff on the court and a drunk driving charge, Marcus is sentenced to 90 days coaching a local community center’s intellectually challenged basketball team. It’s a very formulaic situation for a sports/underdog movie, but that doesn’t take away… Read More »Screener Squad: Champions

TRASH IN THE CAN: SURVIVAL ISLAND You’d assume a movie featuring middle aged college co-eds lead by the guy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the girl from Poison Ivy 3 hunted by an evil pinata would be chock full of nudity, right? Well, prepare to be disappointed as guest Marco Noyola and the boys… Read More »Trash in the Can: Survival Island

PALM TREES AND POWER LINES MOVIE REVIEW Although this film was a massive darling at Sundance, receiving glowing reviews and honors, it took several months for the film to find distribution. The reason, according to director Jamie Dack, is that no company wanted to touch a movie that tackles such a controversial subject. Seventeen-year-old Lea… Read More »Screener Squad: Palm Trees and Power Lines

A LITTLE WHITE LIE MOVIE REVIEW Toni Morrison once said the ability of the writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Michael Shannon plays a handyman living in New York city who’s mistaken for a very famous, private, and reclusive… Read More »Screener Squad: A Little White Lie

SCREAM VI MOVIE REVIEW Who would have thought that the comedy-slasher that introduced most folks to meta-horror in 1996 would still be going strong all these years later? Sure, there have been missteps along the way (I’m looking at you, Scream 3) but largely the series has found the right notes to adapt with the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Scream VI

WE HAVE A GHOST MOVIE REVIEW Due to Frank Presley (Anthony Mackie) constantly trying and failing at get rich quick schemes, the Presleys find themselves moving into a cheap, old ass, house in the Chicago ‘burbs. One thing they didn’t count on was “Ernest,” the ghost that lives in the attic (David Harbour). Frank’s younger… Read More »Screener Squad: We Have a Ghost

EMILY MOVIE REVIEW Actress Frances O’Connor makes her writer/director debut with Emily, the story of the introverted and brilliant author Emily Brontë. After the death of her mother, young Emily (Emma Mackey) is living her own gothic story.  This reclusive and shy poet shut off from the world is to go to school for higher… Read More »Screener Squad: Emily

CREED III MOVIE REVIEW Hard to believe that there are now actually nine films in the Rocky film franchise, even if Creed III counts as the first one that doesn’t actually have the character in the film (he is mentioned once). But Michael B. Jordan has decidedly made the boxing series his own with his… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Creed III

MARLOWE MOVIE REVIEW Studios need a hero to sell the pictures but those pictures need a mystery that’s tall and shaped like an hourglass containing enough sand to bury a treasure that the most dangerous crooks this side of the strip are after. Not all treasure is shines like gold; sometimes that treasure is information… Read More »Screener Squad: Marlowe

SHARPER MOVIE REVIEW Ah, I see you’re curious about the art of the con. Well, let me tell you, it’s a delicate dance between charm and deception. And the best con films aren’t just flash and style, they’re about twisting an audience through a thrilling ride, often dealing with characters you come to know but… Read More »Screener Squad: Sharper

COCAINE BEAR MOVIE REVIEW It’s a bear, but on cocaine! Now take that sentence, reorganize it 30 times, and you’ve pretty much got the movie Cocaine Bear. There, I just saved you 15 bucks. But I know, I know…“IT’S A BEAR, BUT ON COCAINE” you’re saying to yourselves. “I’ve just gotta see that”. I guess… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Cocaine Bear

80 FOR BRADY MOVIE REVIEW Ah, 2017. Such a different time. A world before an ongoing pandemic, a world of Spider-man Homecoming and Beyonce pregnant with twins. A time when four elderly best friends and massive fans of the New England Patriots, particularly the team’s star quarterback Tom Brady, decided to celebrate the Patriots’ victory… Read More »Screener Squad: 80 For Brady

TRASH IN THE CAN: GETEVEN What better way to celebrate our 100th episode than with two Trash in the Can all-star guests and an explosion of vanity, iced nipples, and terrified karaoke! One of Us founder Chris Cox and gross storyteller Caroline Sulek (and a few surprise guests) return to discuss Wings Hauser’s improv skills… Read More »Trash in the Can: GetEven

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA I never expected the Ant-Man movies to make it to three, even with Paul Rudd’s inexhaustible charm. I DEFINITELY never expected the third film to be the one that opens wide the gates on the major villain for the Multiverse Saga. But here we are. The whole ant-family reunites and… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 317: DARK AND DEAD: DON’T WORRY, SMILE! John and Chris continue their dive into the depths of digital with their look at some more home releases. We see if one of last year’s most maligned wide-release sci-fi films is as bad as all that. We explore the later half of the 70s… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 317: Dark and Dead: Don’t Worry, Smile!

KNOCK AT THE CABIN MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready for a new M. Night film? After Old I still can’t believe people give him the benefit of the doubt anymore, but here we are. And he’s scored a pretty big horror property, the adaptation of horror novelist Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Knock at the Cabin

THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CHILDREN MOVIE REVIEW Let’s face it everyone… and I’m including both parents and people without children… kids are f**king creepy. They’re like 1/3 the size of an adult and have high pitched voices. You think that would be adorable, but it’s not. There’s Something Wrong With The Children doesn’t bury… Read More »Screener Squad: There’s Something Wrong With The Children

YOU PEOPLE MOVIE REVIEW You People (directed by Kenya Barris, and written by Jonah Hill/Barris) is a rom com about Ezra (Jonah Hill) and Amira (Lauren London), and how they must navigate each other’s families before they get married. Ezra is a dude down with the culture but grew up in privilege with his parents… Read More »Screener Squad: You People

MAYBE I DO MOVIE REVIEW There comes a time in every cisgendered, white male’s, life where he has to settle down with an equally boring cisgendered, white, woman. At least, in this universe, the woman is expecting a lifelong commitment, but that comes to halt when Allen (Luke Bracey) intercepts the bouquet at a wedding,… Read More »Screener Squad: Maybe I Do

WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD MOVIE REVIEW Gen Xers are typically described as resourceful, independent, and good at maintaining work-life balance. They were the first generation to grow up with personal computers, though not many are going to be able to wrap their heads around Twitch. Gen Xers tend to have liberal views on… Read More »Screener Squad: When You Finish Saving The World

EXTRAORDINARY SERIES REVIEW Imagine a world where everyone gets a super power on their 18th birthday. Well, almost everyone. From Walt Disney Studios comes Extraordinary, the story of Jen, a snarky, 26 year old slacker, and one of the rare people who doesn’t have a superpower. That’s right, she’s like Mirabel in Encanto, if Mirabel… Read More »Screener Squad: Extraordinary

HOUSE PARTY MOVIE REVIEW In 1990, cinema was given a generation defining comedy that brought together hip hop duo Kid ‘n Play and the comedic chops of legends like Robin Harris and John Witherspoon. It was a teen romp about a fez-shaped fade-wearing kid going to a party at his friend’s house. However, after a… Read More »Screener Squad: House Party

JUNG_E MOVIE REVIEW Streaming on Netflix and from the internationally acclaimed mind of Yeon Sang-Ho, step off the Train to Busan and into the post apocalyptic world of Jung_E. In the distant future, mankind has traveled into space to escape the desolate trash-ridden war-torn wastelands of earth. Three space stations were built to save mankind and… Read More »Screener Squad: Jung_E

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 316: DOGS ON A HINTERLAND MOTORCYCLE John and Chris team up for this first of a two-parter Digital Noise with a WIDE variety of stuff to talk about. From avant-garde French hipsters to a film some called the black American Graffiti. From that film about seeing Star Wars that should have come… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 316: Dogs on a Hinterland Motorcycle

TRASH IN THE CAN: ROCKULA Imagine the greatest musical supergroup of all time starring in a musical that leaves you humming the tunes on the way home. Now, forget all that and you’ve got 1990’s Rockula! Join guest Rhett O’Hara and the boys for Devo babies, Wright’s alphabet lesson, and ESL classes led by Hilaria… Read More »Trash in the Can: Rockula

KALEIDOSCOPE SERIES REVIEW The Heist genre has given us some classic films: Heat, Inception, Ocean’s 11, to name a few. The tropes are similar if not the same for every one of these stories. A ragtag group of criminals is brought together by the old pro looking to pull off one last job that will… Read More »Screener Squad: Kaleidoscope

ALICE, DARLING MOVIE REVIEW The greatest UK Pop sensation of all time once sang, “If you wanna be my lover you gotta get with my friends”. Or was it, “All you need is love”? Alice, Darling is the story of Alice (Anna Kendrick) who happens to have two wonderful friends named Tess (Kaniehtiio Horn) and… Read More »Screener Squad: Alice, Darling

THE PALE BLUE EYE MOVIE REVIEW There will always be a willing and vivacious audience for the bloody twists and turns of crime dramas. Netflix could indeed indulge in presenting an offshoot streaming service with their abundance of murder serials, documentaries of men with malicious intent, and motion pictures of scandal and treachery. However when… Read More »Screener Squad: The Pale Blue Eye

WILLOW SERIES REVIEW Nearly 35 years after the theatrical feature Willow, a television series on Disney Plus, also titled Willow, seeks to continue the story of Elora, Willow, Sorcha and a cast of bright, new exciting young people. Harmoni, Matt, Jordan, and Trevor found themselves hit with nostalgia, anachronism, queer representation, and some light Brownie… Read More »Screener Squad: Willow

THE RIG SERIES REVIEW A new six-episode series from Amazon, featuring a mostly Scottish cast, has splash-landed and One Of Us has a full panel to discuss the latest sea horror offering. A crew of blue collar laborers must not only contend with surviving on board a deep-sea oil rig, but must also face the… Read More »Screener Squad: The Rig

CHAINSAW MAN SERIES REVIEW From the internationally acclaimed haunted and depraved mind of Manga writer/artist Tatsuki Fujimoto comes Chainsaw Man.  Yes, he’s pretty much what he sounds like: a man made of chainsaws revving up from hell to chop of demons and cop some feels. Denji, a lonely orphan adolescent with despair for a pillow… Read More »Screener Squad: Chainsaw Man

THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN SERIES REVIEW 1200 years before the tales of Yennefer, Princess Ciri, and Geralt of Rivia, monsters are unknown in the land, as are humans, and the kingdom of Xin’trea is ruled by high elves. However, not all is as it seems, for a dangerous chess game of political power is being… Read More »Screener Squad: The Witcher: Blood Origin

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 315: INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE REVIEWS Right on the heels of our last episode, Wright and Chris probably foolishly continue onto a second show (Twas the night before Christmas and all through Wright’s house, two critics were drinking more than…oh hell, a giant mouse). This time around we look at some of the… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 315: Incredible But True Reviews

WHITE NOISE MOVIE REVIEW Ever since it was published in 1985, filmmakers have attempted to adapt White Noise, a benchmark in postmodernist literature from acclaimed novelist, Don DeLillo. Despite the book’s reputation for being unfilmable, Netflix gave writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story) the greenlight to try, as well as a… Read More »Screener Squad: White Noise

ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL MOVIE REVIEW Musicals are a film genre that never truly vanishes. Rather, it booms and wanes in popularity. We’ve had the Rodgers and Hammerstein films of classic Broadway shows, the 50’s road movies, the Disney’s animated Renaissance era that tricked two generations into watching and loving musicals, Heck, Chicago even… Read More »Screener Squad: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 6 REVIEW Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s multiverse-traveling Doc Brown and Marty McFly animated absurdist satirical comedy is back for it’s sixth season. You get the returning voice talents of Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke and loaded with a community of cameos such as Jack Black, Daniel… Read More »Screener Squad: Rick and Morty Season 6

A MAN CALLED OTTO MOVIE REVIEW Tom Hanks is grumpy and sad Tom Hanks who we all root to turn into happy Tom Hanks in Tom Hanks: The Movie. A Man Called Otto is an adaptation of a popular 2012 novel and later a Swedish film called “A Man Called Ove”. This new American version… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: A Man Called Otto

M3GAN MOVIE REVIEW Blumhouse Productions can certainly smell a new franchise from some distance, even when that distance is a rejected Chucky script that gets retooled into a new monster. Said monster is the titular M3gan, a robotic life-size child doll that uses advanced AI programming designed by Gemma (Allison Williams) to learn and interact… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: M3gan

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 314: THE CRITICS TWO: CRITIQUE LIKE A BEAST I’m trying to picture a W.A.S.P. satire album cover for this and my brain just shuts down from the horror. Wright and Chris review all the movies. Like, all of them. Or it only feels that way in this first of two back to… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 314: The Critics Two: Critique Like a Beast

EMANCIPATION MOVIE REVIEW On January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the the Emancipation Proclamation as the United States entered its third year of the Civil War. A slave named Peter (Will Smith) on a Louisiana plantation is sold into the Confederate war effort. Taken from his family on the plantation, Peter vows to return to… Read More »Screener Squad: Emancipation

THE WHITE LOTUS SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Welcome back to The White Lotus, a crown jewel of luxury, this time nestled in Sicilian town of Taormina. There’s new faces but don’t worry, everything isn’t black and white. Speaking of White, of the Mike variety… Mike White returns to write and direct all 7 episodes and… Read More »Screener Squad: The White Lotus Season 2

BABYLON MOVIE REVIEW Director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) helms this crazy, hard-R, chaotic look at the late 20s in Hollywood just as it was transitioning into sound films. Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad, a superstar actor and party staple who has trouble keeping his romantic relationships from imploding (not that he seems to care). Margot Robbie… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Babylon

TRASH IN THE CAN: RICH LITTLE’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Celebrate the holiday season with a star-studded holiday special that could only afford one star! Baylor Johnson returns for a retelling of A Christmas Carol as only a borderline talented Canadian impressionist can deliver. Come for Liza Minnelli having a seizure and stay for the Kennedy… Read More »Trash in the Can: Rich Little’s A Christmas Carol

THE PERIPHERAL SERIES REVIEW Peripheral: relating to or situated on the edge or periphery of something. Cyberpunk: A genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology.  Amazon Prime presents the William Gibson sci-fi classic created for television by Scott B. Smith The Peripheral. Flynne Fisher (Chloë… Read More »Screener Squad: The Peripheral

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 313: THE USUAL AVATARS Our theme this week is Avatar. I mean, no, not really, but we do have some fun at its expense along the way. What we’re really here is to review some new home releases like two classic thrillers on 4k, the biggest movie of 2022, Arrow introducing us… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 313: The Usual Avatars

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO MOVIE REVIEW Guillermo is having a good year and clearly a productive relationship right out of the starting gate with Netflix. First we get his superlative Cabinet of Curiosities, and now this (some would say) shoo-in for Best Animated Feature. This stop-motion animated musical fantasy takes a grimmer look than Disney… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER MOVIE REVIEW It’s over a decade later (both in terms of the original film’s release and in the storyline) and Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) have enjoyed a peaceful era, settling down with three children of their own, an adopted human child, and one ‘miracle… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Avatar: The Way of Water

TRASH IN THE CAN: GRAMPS GOES TO COLLEGE ‘Tis the season for “God” awful movies. Aggressively Christian viral filmmaker and bigoted elf-on-a-shelf, Donald James Parker, helps us ring in the holiday season with a story about the evils of critical thinking! Samia Abu-Shawish returns for the whitest Christmas yet. We watched the first chapter in… Read More »Trash in the Can: Gramps Goes To College

THE ENGLISH SERIES REVIEW At the turn of the century the American plains were up for grabs and the hands that prevailed belonged to the quick and the the conniving. Cornella Locke (Emily Blunt) is an Englishwoman who has come to America seeking revenge for the death of her son. With plenty of clues and… Read More »Screener Squad: The English

THE WHALE MOVIE REVIEW Darren Aronofsky is a director who is seemingly determined to either really upset, disgust, or confuse his audience. The thing is though, he’s really good at it. For any given film of his, your results may and will vary, it’s just short-sighted to dismiss any of them. But here he comes… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Whale

CHUCKY SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Some dolls never know when to give up. Of course, why would they? When Chucky now has his soul split into many different Chucky dolls that seem to have evolved into specific personality types? They’re all still after the three kids, Jake, Devon, and Lexy. And to make it easier… Read More »Screener Squad: Chucky Season 2

THE WONDER MOVIE REVIEW The Screener Squad venture to 19th century Ireland to bring to you, the devoted listeners, our in-depth thoughts on a film that is as bleak as it is hunger-inducing. Seriously, just thinking about this film makes me want to grab the biggest cheeseburger I can find. But first things first…Netflix’s The… Read More »Screener Squad: The Wonder

A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS MOVIE REVIEW It is really hard to live up to what has been dubbed by society as a “classic.” Especially when the original has been on a constant loop, every Christmas Day, on Ted Turner’s Broadcast Station. I know I know… what’s a broadcast station (traditional television) and who the fuck… Read More »Screener Squad: A Christmas Story Christmas

WEDNESDAY SERIES REVIEW They’re creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and all together on Netflix. Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega, follows the title character as she attempts to solve an ancient mystery from the time of buckled hats and witch burnings. The secrets are all hidden within the walls of her new school that was previously attended by… Read More »Screener Squad: Wednesday

SPIRITED MOVIE REVIEW Every now and then, and not often mind you, someone makes a new Christmas movie that isn’t just a checklist of tropes and cliches. Once in a great while, someone actually creates a unique and worthwhile Christmas movie that dares to be worthy of an annual rewatch alongside the Muppets, Elf, and Die… Read More »Screener Squad: Spirited

VIOLENT NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW What’s a holiday season without a little violent Christmas mayhem? In a bit of inspired casting, David Harbour takes on the role of (actual) Santa Claus in this brutal action comedy from the director of the Dead Snow films. It’s Christmas Eve and Santa is drunk, tired, and kinda about to… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Violent Night

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 312: SUPERSONS AND SUPERMONSTERS Chris and Wright have a mighty stack. So mighty, they don’t quite get to everything they planned on. But what you do get is a look at some supersons vs Starro, 80s wide-release horror classics getting the 4k and a 90s one that was rightfully overlooked, a loving… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 312: Supersons and Supermonsters

DISENCHANTED MOVIE REVIEW And they all lived happily ever after. Cue the music and roll the credits right? Oh ho ho I don’t think so!  What happens after your true love’s kiss and the wedding cake is cut? For Giselle and Robert it’s a big move to a luxurious private estate, an addition to their… Read More »Screener Squad: Disenchanted

THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING MOVIE REVIEW Jordan, Frank, Melina, and T.C. have been seated at the table reserved for those invited to a wedding who very clearly do not want to be there. They will spend the entire time talking shit about the people in attendance who they find annoying, dumb, and/or… Read More »Screener Squad: The People We Hate At The Wedding

SLUMBERLAND MOVIE REVIEW Little Nemo in Slumberland is the groundbreaking comic strip from innovative cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. Ever since it first appeared in 1905, the strip has been adapted multiple times for stage and screen, with varying results. Slumberland has the budget and digital tools to bring McCay’s eye-popping world to life in a way… Read More »Screener Squad: Slumberland

THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL REVIEW Just in time for the holidays, Marvel/DC golden boy James Gunn has gifted us The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special now streaming on Disney+. It’s a loving nod to the corny TV specials of old; including the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, which will definitely NOT… Read More »Screener Squad: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

STAR WARS: ANDOR SERIES REVIEW Unless you’ve been living under a pop culture rock for 45 years, you are aware of a little series of films and shows called Star Wars. It’s kind of a big deal. After 12 films and 9 TV series, and more books, comics, and video games than any normal person will… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Wars: Andor

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SERIES REVIEW It was a time before vampires adhered to a honour code and sparkled like a blood diamond that your wealthy uncle insisted was dug by a local whom was grateful for the job opportunity. It was a time when creatures of the night sang a song of sixpence and… Read More »Screener Squad: Interview With The Vampire

TRASH IN THE CAN: BUTCHER BAKER NIGHTMARE MAKER This Thanksgiving, we focus on a kind of family love you don’t usually see outside of an incognito browser! Mission Impodible host, Nathan Flynn, joins the boys for an exploitation flick with a movie-of-the-week soul. Come for the incest and decapitation, stay for a performance that can… Read More »Trash in the Can: Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker

THE FABELMANS MOVIE REVIEW It seems de rigueur for older directors to eventually come out with a tale about the bucolic days of their youth and their experiences that led to them being interested in film. Steven Spielberg making one (semi-autobiographical sure, but come on) is going to stir up interest. The Fabelmans focuses on… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Fabelmans

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY MOVIE REVIEW We do declare there is a mystery afoot! Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s follow up to Knives Out, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Blanc is in search of a new case that will breathe life back into his detective skills. Luckily,… Read More »Screener Squad: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

ATLANTA SEASON 4 SERIES REVIEW From knock off marketplace FuBu shirts, to massive fat stacks and investment plans, childhood obligations of looking out for blood, to the family for life you’d choose for yourself, and on-again-off-again relationships with your baby’s mama, to seeing that love as more than the mother of your child but as… Read More »Screener Squad: Atlanta Season 4

NEXT EXIT MOVIE REVIEW In the Immortal words of Bender the robot from Futurama, “Afterlife? If I thought I had to live another life, I’d kill myself now!”.  For Teddy (Rahul Kohli) and Rose (Katie Parker) these words carry more weight then even society is ready to realize.  The afterlife unquestionably exists and a lot of people are just dying to get… Read More »Screener Squad: Next Exit

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES SERIES REVIEW Are you tired of horror anthologies? Of course you’re not. You’ve seen Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors on a train, or Trilogy of Terror all alone in a small apartment with a suspicious looking Zuni doll. John Kassir’s voice as the Crypt Keeper in Tales From the… Read More »Screener Squad: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities

THE FRIENDSHIP GAME MOVIE REVIEW I don’t know if you’ve ever been to High School, but it’s a fucking drag. You stink, so you need a shower all the time, peers make assumptions about your character, and everyone is filled to the brim with hormones… It’s great! (HEAVIEST OF SARCASM). So if you hated how… Read More »Screener Squad: The Friendship Game

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 311: BLOWN MINIONS John and Chris together again, singing songs of blu-ray and 4k that will resonate throughout the ages. Listen to their epic sagas on the best fighter pilot that everyone loves except his bosses, of a sincerely creepy relationship between a famous author, his muse, and the muppets, a tale… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 311: Blown Minions

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER MOVIE REVIEW The Black Panther has died and thanks to Killmonger in the first film, there is no more of the sacred plant that connects a chosen Wakandan with their ancestors to take up the mantle and gain the powers. The world, thinking Wakanda is without a protector, has begun making… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

SOMETHING IN THE DIRT MOVIE REVIEW The indie film duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have made five feature films: Resolution in 2012, The Endless in 2017, Spring from 2017, and Synchronic in 2019. And now, they’ve offered up Something in the Dirt. When neighbors John and Levi witness shocking supernatural events in their… Read More »Screener Squad: Something In The Dirt

THE GOOD NURSE MOVIE REVIEW Doctor Strange, Hawkeye Pierce, Doc McStuffins, Richard Kimble, Dr. Teeth of The Electric Mayhem: All practitioners that heal the body and soothe the soul. But what about the unsung heroes that draw blood and take grievances? There’s Nurse Ratched, Annie Wilkes, and of course Greg Focker to name a few. … Read More »Screener Squad: The Good Nurse

WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY MOVIE REVIEW It appears that Hollywood’s appetite for the musical biopic is truly insatiable. We’ve seen many a superstar receive the rise-and-fall biopic treatment, starting from their humble beginnings through their meteoric ascension, their drug-addled nosedive and eventually their triumphant return to the spotlight. It’s a tale as old as… Read More »Screener Squad: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

ENOLA HOLMES 2 MOVIE REVIEW Flush with the success of her first case, Enola Holmes 2 finds our titular heroine (Millie Bobby Brown) starting her own detective agency. Unfortunately, Enola finds herself overshadowed by her famous older brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and nobody wants to hire a private detective who is so young – and… Read More »Screener Squad: Enola Holmes 2

STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI SERIES REVIEW It is often said that no one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans. For some, the continued expansion of the franchise will simply never be good enough, because it isn’t what they’ve so deeply ingrained into their consciousness as “correct”. Anything after Return of the Jedi that isn’t the… Read More »Screener Squad: Tales of the Jedi

THE PATIENT SERIES REVIEW We here at one of us can not stress how important therapy is and are happy to participate in the takedown of the taboo surrounding mental health and psychiatric help. That being said, if you need a therapist please don’t abduct a doctor and chain them up in your basement. Joel… Read More »Screener Squad: The Patient

TRASH IN THE CAN: ALONE IN THE DARK Filmmaker and author, Paul Gandersman, joins us this week to discuss his new novel, The Dead Friends Society, and kissing Donald Pleasence. Watch as Jack Palance goes punk, Martin Landau goes firestarter, and A-Team star Dwight Schulz goes bald in 1982’s Alone in the Dark! Featuring elderly… Read More »Trash in the Can: Alone in the Dark

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL MOVIE REVIEW You’ve heard of Hogwarts and U.A. the school for superheroes but have you ever heard of a school for myths, legends and fairy tales? Well, yeah, there’s Regal Academy and Ever After High to name a few. Apparently it’s a whole sub-genre of young adult entertainment. Anyways,… Read More »Screener Squad: The School For Good and Evil

RAYMOND & RAY MOVIE REVIEW Raymond is a divorcee with the patience of a saint and the fashionable charm of the devil. Ray is a recovering addict with the fires of hell in his belly he conjures into the heavenly music of the angels. These estranged half brothers are on their way to accomplishing a… Read More »Screener Squad: Raymond & Ray

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT MOVIE REVIEW Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels ever written. It’s the story of teenager Paul Baümer who gladly enlists in the German army, and goes to war full of patriotic fervor, and youthful ideals. Those naïve feelings are… Read More »Screener Squad: All Quiet on the Western Front

QUEER FOR FEAR SERIES REVIEW There’s no divergence of opinions here between Rose, Jordan, Tessa, and Chad. Queer For Fear is a must see for any horror fan. Whatever you identify as, knowing that a lot of our modern horror shares roots with queer history is important. A lot of writers/directors/artists, all queer in their… Read More »Screener Squad: Queer For Fear

BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD SEASON 9 REVIEW “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” That’s a stupid way to live life. Sure, things can be timeless, but if you don’t slap a new coat of paint on it once in a while… maybe tighten some screws… eventually “it” will be broke. So why not give it… Read More »Screener Squad: Beavis & Butthead Season 9