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