Highly Suspect Reviews

SACRIFICE MOVIE REVIEW A year after its premiere at TIFF, and a brief theatrical release in Italy, co-writer/director Romain Gavras’ film Sacrifice has found a home on Netflix. It tells the story of Mike Tyler (Chris Evans) a washed up movie star who had a nervous breakdown and (literally) torched his own career. A year […]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE HOUSE OF THE DAMNED MOVIE REVIEW Upon the windswept Yorkshire moors, where passion turns to obsession and the dead refuse to stay buried, Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned offers a decidedly bloodier interpretation of Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic. When the unfortunate Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote estate, he discovers […]

MASTERPLAN MOVIE REVIEW Masterplan stars Stanley Tucci as Roger Cavendish, a legendary thief of international renown with one last scheme before he retires. Roger plans to steal the Mona Lisa, but to pull off the crime of the century, he’ll need the help of his children, master hacker Chiara (Simona Tabasco) and explosives expert Jay […]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 4 REVIEW Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, whose continuing mission is to boldly go where no one has gone before… much to the chagrin of some viewers this season. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its fourth season, and Captain Pike […]

FUTURAMA SEASON 14 REVIEW An animated series that has survived more cancellations and network shuffling then South Park and Family Guy, Futurama is back on Hulu Plus for its alleged final season…allegedly. Fry, Leela, Bender, the Professor, Hermes, Amy, and Doctor Zoidberg are back with sci-fi adventures at the Planet Express, delivering your packages faster than […]

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING MOVIE REVIEW Elizabeth Holmes sits in prison for what seems to be a pretty open and shut case of fraud. Her company, Theranos, claimed it had a device that revolutionized blood testing by being able to take a fingerprick worth of blood and do a giant battery of tests on it. […]

WHALEFALL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get it out of the way right now: Whalefall is a movie about a guy who gets swallowed by a whale and has to figure out how to escape before his air runs out. Sounds like a Tubi original, right? But no, this is a wide theatrical release with big name […]

MISTY GREEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s not hard to see, given the immense talent of actress Rosalind Eleazar, that despite her mainly having a notable presence just on TV (check out Slow Horses if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing), she definitely can carry the weight of an entire film on her shoulders. She is the titular […]

THE STUNT DRIVER MOVIE REVIEW Some men chase fame. Some chase fortune. And some strap themselves into a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental and attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River at 280 miles per hour. Because dying of old age is for quitters. Based on the spectacularly outrageous true story of Canadian daredevil Ken Carter, The […]

FORGOTTEN ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Some friendships last forever. Others come with an expiration date, a magical portal, and a flying demon straight out of Filipino folklore. DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island follows lifelong best friends Jo (H.E.R.) and Raissa (Liza Soberano), two young women preparing to go their separate ways after graduating high school. But one […]

PRESIDENT CURTIS SERIES REVIEW Keith David’s foul-mouthed, no-nonsense President Andre Curtis is back, and this time he’s getting his own damn show! Spinning off from Rick and Morty, President Curtis follows the coolest commander-in-chief in the multiverse as he attempts to protect America from supernatural threats, extraterrestrial catastrophes, government conspiracies, and the occasional constitutional crisis. […]

TED LASSO SEASON 4 REVIEW At the conclusion of Ted Lasso Season 3, everyone’s favorite mustachioed Coach Ted (Jason Sudeikis) resigned from London’s AFC Richmond, and moved back to America to raise his son. The Series 3 finale also hinted at a possible spin-off about Richmond’s first ever women’s football team. We do get to […]

FINAL FANTASTIC FIVESOME FORUM I know we have been pretty exhaustive this year (and most years) with our coverage of our favorite movie festival Fantastic Fest. Promise, this is the last thing we’re putting up for it this year. But it’s a big one. We get five of our attending critics, Chris, Wright, Martin, Mike, […]

ADULT SUPERVISION MOVIE REVIEW In this Swedish entry this year for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars, we get to explore trauma in a different way then we’re used to seeing it of late (in horror movie after horror movie, natch). In Adult Supervision, three dads are roped into being chaperones for their daughters […]

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS MOVIE REVIEW Throughout the years, several students of the pen have been inspired to share their deepest longings with an audience who also longed for a carefree sexy time romance. Some of those ideas may have gained inspiration from works that have already been published. Thus the fanfic was born. Today’s “will […]

LANTERNS SERIES REVIEW For a show about space cops armed with powerful cosmic jewelry, this new DCU show spends a lot of time in rural Nebraska. Pitched as a “True Detective” style series set in the DC Universe, Lanterns is a a small-town murder mystery spanning several decades, multiple generations of family trauma, and dark […]

THE SOCIAL RECKONING MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 16 years since David Fincher’s masterpiece, The Social Network, hit the silver screen. It felt timely and acted as a cautionary tale of how one’s ego could effect millions of people. Now, Aaron Sorkin, the original screenwriter, wanted to go back into the Facebook feed and tell another […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? – WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO KENNETH HYMAN? On the second episode of this bonus season, we look at the career of Kenneth Hyman, the influential movie producer who spearheaded the production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, as well as many other classic titles. First up, the […]

WITHOUT BLOOD MOVIE REVIEW Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality, other people get killed; not you”. A more modern writer, multiple award winning Alessandro Baricco, examines the fallout of war in his work Without Blood which now has been adapted and directed […]

UNABOMBER MOVIE REVIEW For two decades, the notorious Unabomber terrorized America, until 1996 when the FBI finally apprehended Ted Kaczynski, a former professor of mathematics now living as a recluse in a small cabin in Montana that lacked running water or electricity, but had a typewriter and lots of bomb-making equipment. A gifted student, the […]