Highly Suspect Reviews

THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING MOVIE REVIEW Every generation have a few actors that become icons. Sometimes it's sheerly because of their skill at the craft. Sometimes it's because they've just got that ‘je ne sais quoi' that makes them stand apart. Sometimes, they're just Matthew McConaughey, and you can already just hear that voice […]

THE DEVIL'S MOUTH MOVIE REVIEW A wise Pixar fish once sang, “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.” It's a clever mantra reminding us all that when the storm hits, you've gotta hold onto hope and never give up. Amazon Prime presents The Devil's Mouth, a survival-horror shark attack film set in the beautiful country of […]

BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER SEASON 2 REVIEW When crime haunts the night, a silent crusader carries the torch of justice. He is vengeance. He is the night. He is Batman! For the second season, executive producers J.J. Abrams with Bruce Timm (creator of the iconic and award-winning Batman: The Animated Series) take us back to the […]

THE END OF OAK STREET MOVIE REVIEW Is it odd that director David Robert Mitchell, rightfully celebrated for his films The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010) and It Follows (2014) hasn't made a film since his severely underrated 2018 film Under The Silver Lake? Yes. Is it even weirder that when you look at […]

THE WRONG GIRLS MOVIE REVIEW I definitely did not have on my scorecard for 2026, NEON releases a stoner superhero movie with Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat. But here we are. The Wrong Girls follows these two (Frankie and Molly respectively) who are best friends, roommates, bombed out stoners, and total losers. Rent and bills […]

KING OF THE HILL – SEASON 15 REVIEW Dang ol' new King of the Hill, man. Not just talkin' about dang ol' Hank bein' back talkin' about propane and propane accessories, talkin' about new king as in Bobby Hill, man. Talkin' 'bout season 15 on Hulu and Disney Plus, man. Last season, Hank and Peggy […]

72 HOURS MOVIE REVIEW Another week, another Netflix comedy. And yes, another Netflix comedy starring Kevin Hart. In 72 Hours, Hart plays Joe, a forty-something advertising executive whose career needs a defibrillator. When he accidentally lands in a group chat for a Gen Z bachelor party, he crashes their three-day Miami blowout hoping to save […]

AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER MOVIE REVIEW Water. Earth. Fire. Air. 20 years after Nickelodeon gave us one of the greatest TV series of all-time, Team Avatar is back to the beloved animated continuity, catching up with an older Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Zuko as they navigate a world still healing from the Hundred […]

THE LAST PICTURE SHOWS MOVIE REVIEW From documentary filmmaker Rustin Thompson comes The Last PIcture Shows, an elegiac tour of old movie theaters in rural America. Thompson logged over 10,000 miles across 10 Southwestern states to document over 100 small town movie theaters and drive-ins that were built in the early 20th century. Some are […]

ONE NIGHT ONLY MOVIE REVIEW Filing under the ‘we are running out of ideas for this genre' department, in One Night Only the premise is that a conservative government has outlawed premarital sex. But one night a year, there's a “The Purge” but for sex, where (as long as you use protection, which you'll have to […]

CAPE FEAR SERIES REVIEW Based on John D. MacDonald's 1957 novel The Executioners, and later adapted for the big screen in 1962 and 1991, Cape Fear introduced audiences to one of cinema's most memorable monsters, Max Cady, a vengeful ex-con terrorizing the innocent Bowden family. Both the source novel and the original film were lean […]

TONY MOVIE REVIEW Everybody knows Anthony Bourdain, probably the best known celebrity chef of the late 20th/early 21st century. Whether it was from his amazing books, like the must-read Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly or one of his shows about travel and food, Bourdain was universally appreciated…except perhaps by people around him in […]

LITTLE BROTHER MOVIE REVIEW Everyone has that one person who mistakes “You're welcome anytime” for a legally binding contract. Little Brother joins the “proud” tradition of unwanted-guest comedies like What About Bob? and Jack & Jill, as a successful real estate agent's carefully curated life is turned upside down when the eccentric “little brother” from […]

THE DINK MOVIE REVIEW John McEnroe once said “I'm not a convert to pickleball, I think it sucks”. Pickleball is a very simple activity that's a lot like badminton, paddle ball, and table tennis on a smaller court and is much easier on the muscles and joints. Apple Plus' new sports comedy about the sport […]

MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED SERIES REVIEW Camboy (plural camboys): noun – A man who publishes webcam photographs or videos of himself. Apple Plus presents a series starring former She-Hulk Tatiana Maslany as Paula. She's a single mother with a laptop and private relationship with a camboy named Trevor. Paula doesn't seem like the type. She has […]

A CURIOUS MIX OF PEOPLE DOCUMENTARIES REVIEW The 90s were a wild time. Austin Texas certainly saw a boom during the decade on many different fronts but one of the wildest and most unique was what was going on in its music and club scene. Bands like The Butthole Surfers and The Big Boys set […]

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY After the spell caused everyone to forget who he is, Peter (Tom Holland) has fully submerged himself in being Spider-Man all of the time. Constantly on the prowl for crime, he still is haunted by the loss of his friendship with Ned (Jacob Batalon) and his girlfriend M.J. (Zendaya) who are […]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT SEASON 1 REVIEW String and tune up the guitar for utter chaos. Whether you're a groupie, a new listener, or a tourist that wandered off from the group tour. Time to mosh in the pit, and wail along with the children of the night, oh what music they make. AMC Plus presents […]

THE BEAR SEASON 5 REVIEW The kitchen is closing for one final service. The Bear returns for its fifth and final season, with Carmy, Sydney, Richie, Sugar, Marcus, Tina, and the rest of the crew racing against the clock to prove that The Bear can become the restaurant they've all sacrificed so much to build. […]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER SEASON 2 Team Avatar is back on the road! Their destination is Ba Sing Se, an Earth Kingdom city where the Avatar Aang (Gordon Cormier) can learn earth bending from a master. Netflix is back on the live action adaptation track by bringing to life one of the most popular animated […]

THE ODYSSEY MOVIE REVIEW Director Christopher Nolan has become one of the biggest ‘event' directors of his generation. Pretty much no matter what he's helming, he'll get exactly the cast he wants, the budget he wants, people will pre-buy tickets for the first few weeks, and it will be showered in awards. I mean, how […]

ENOLA HOLMES 3 MOVIE REVIEW Sherlock Holmes once said “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”. Netflix's popular film franchise Enola Holmes is up to three installments now with Enola Holmes 3! Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) is getting married to long time friend, first time finance, Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) though she may have […]

THE ISOLATE THIEF MOVIE REVIEW Winter has a way of revealing who people truly are, and this frontier western thriller unfolds at a remote Union outpost in the Oregon Territory after the Civil War, where a young woman named Ada (Mackenzie Foy), struggles to survive the icy wilderness. After an encounter with a mysterious man, […]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA SEASON 4 REVIEW Doty, take this down. It has been a year since the Chroma Conclave ravaged its way through the land of Exandria, mightily bested by the noble warriors of Vox Machina. The threat of dragons gone, these brave adventurers seemingly decided to go back to the mundanity of […]

VOICEMAILS FOR ISABELLE MOVIE REVIEW A long time ago there was a method of communication in which you could leave a message for a person if you called for them on your iPhone and if they were not available to speak with. We ain't talking a text or an DM, this ancient technology implemented a […]

EVIL DEAD BURN MOVIE REVIEW The sixth entry (I say 7th since I am counting the great tv series Ash vs The Evil Dead) in the consistently good Evil Dead horror franchise is here and fans are excited. As has become the tradition, producers Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell have pulled from the horror indie scene […]

COUTURE MOVIE REVIEW Maria Callas once said “Paris dictates fashion to the whole world” while Sonia Rykiel once mused “You can create fashion anywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris”. In case you haven't guessed, this film is about fashion in the city of lights during the biggest fashion […]

WIDOW'S BAY SERIES REVIEW Summertime is upon us and there are plenty of spots to consider for vacation. Are you looking for cozy yet sophisticated, quaint yet modern, Martha's Vineyard like locale yet affordable, to make memories with your family? A place that is definitely not cursed? Then you're (not) looking for Widow's Bay,  and […]

IN THE HAND OF DANTE MOVIE REVIEW From painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) comes yet another biographical picture about a tortured artist – two tortured artists, actually. Based on the novel by Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante tells two parallel stories; both starring Oscar Isaac as […]

THE GET OUT MOVIE REVIEW The Get Out stars Russell Crowe as Marco Kapak, a heavy set, viagra popping, hard partying Albanian who runs a popular nightclub in Los Angeles. In the course of a few days, Marco suffers a heart attack and is robbed at gunpoint. This run of bad luck convinces him that […]

THE AUDACITY SERIES REVIEW Matt Damon once said “Fortune favors the brave” in an ad campaign for a crypto currency exchange. A very cynical outlook on this global phenomenon would be that the tech industry has a lotta nerve taking advantage of celebrities with more money than they know what to do with. The Audacity […]

MADDIE'S SECRET MOVIE REVIEW Leave it to John Early to make a melodramatic film that feels like a cross between Showgirls and a John Waters movie that can still produce oddly poignant moments. Written, directed, and starring Early, Maddie's Secret tells the story of Maddie Ralph and her rise to stardom from humble dishwasher for […]

HACKS SEASON 5 REVIEW Maya Angelou once said “Your legacy is every life you touch”. A famous journalist/second wave feminist named Gloria Steinem once said “There were never that many women stand up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that makes people upset.” In 2021 the […]

THE INVITE MOVIE REVIEW Olivia Wilde as a director hit the ground running with the 2019 very funny comedy Booksmart. Unfortunately, her sophomore effort in 2022, the dystopian sci-fi drama Don't Worry Darling did not fare nearly so well. So, returning to comedy seemed like the right move. Teaming up with A24, Wilde takes on […]

SUPERGIRL MOVIE REVIEW The new James Gunn DC universe continues with its second theatrical release, Supergirl, following Superman's cousin Kara (Milly Alcock) on her questionable antics through space. The only other Kryptonian other than Clark (David Corenswet) that we know of at this juncture in the Gunniverse, Kara may share all of Clark's powers but […]

HUNGRY MOVIE REVIEW Don't let the title fool you, Hungry has nothing to do with the classic board game, Hungry, Hungry Hippos. In fact, the film reminds us more than once that hippopotamuses are vegetarians so technically they aren't even hungry, at least not for human flesh. They are, however, very territorial, even if that […]

OFFICE ROMANCE MOVIE REVIEW You never know when you'll meet your soul mate. Time stops, your heart takes control, your mind finally understands Brian Williams' hit song ‘Everything I do, I do it for you', and you feel like the best brother from Legends of the Fall, Tristan. What if this happens to you at […]

HALF MAN SERIES REVIEW A lot can go wrong on your wedding day. The wrong flowers are delivered and placed in the wrong areas. The in-laws are outlaws and fighting with your parents. Cold feet and no warm socks for your wingtips. Also, your brother from another mother confronts you about the lives you've both […]

LEVITICUS MOVIE REVIEW Horror is big in 2026 and I'm not just talking about having a visceral reaction to the current state of America. The studios with horror projects on their shelves are getting dollar signs in their eyes after the wild and unpredicted success of Obsession, Hokum, and Backrooms and everybody wants in. No […]

THE TESTAMENTS SERIES REVIEW Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel The Testaments is a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale that was over 3 decades in the making. It's now been brought to life through a ten episode series on Hulu/Disney Plus starring a cast of on the rise. Praise be! The young plum Agnes (Chase Infiniti) has […]

FINNEGAN'S FOURSOME MOVIE REVIEW From multi-hyphenate filmmaker Edward Burns comes Finnegan's Foursome, a dramedy about a golf loving clan of Irish-Americans. Brothers Teddy (Brian d'Arcy James) and Freddy (Burns) and their respective grown children, Marie (Erica Hernández) and Frankie (Brian Muller) have traveled to the ancestral home of their recently deceased patriarch, James (Ian McElhinney) […]

SACCHARINE MOVIE REVIEW Push it to the limit! Each journey begins with a first step! Each step, each rep, each bead of sweat gets you closer to your goal. It's not about losing weight, it's about gaining a life. Several unquotable motivational speaking sayings can be pulled out of thin air. What takes real effort […]

EUPHORIA SEASON 3 REVIEW Oh the places you'll go! is a lovely book by Dr. Seuss about how the future is a hopeful vast landscape of opportunities. When it comes to season three of Euphoria, those places are limited to a dead marriage, prison, or even the grave. A few years after high school, Rue's […]

DISCLOSURE DAY MOVIE REVIEW It's easy to be cynical of any art designed to move you in this age of deceit and the dying of empathy. Which is why you gotta bring out the big guns like Steven Spielberg to make a movie pleading for a sane return to empathy and truth. The best way […]