Highly Suspect Reviews

THE COMEBACK SEASON 3 Covid restrictions, writers strikes, the ever looming threat on the horizon of AI taking away jobs…How's an Emmy winning actor supposed to find work? The third season of the cult series on HBO The Comeback explores this, and features Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish. After walking out on a lead role […]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SEASON 2 Jena, Lewayne, and T.C. meet up in the hidden backroom of the One Of Us pub to discuss Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, which wastes no time reminding audiences that New York City is no longer merely corrupt. It's occupied. What began as a simmering rivalry between Matt Murdock and […]

REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES MOVIE REVIEW Frank, Neil, and T.C. swim to the shallow end of the One Of Us wading pool to discuss a sad woman who works at a facility with an intensely intelligent and sensitive sea creature who wants to escape into the world. The two form an intense bond. Is it… love? […]

IS GOD IS MOVIE REVIEW In the cinematic debut from multiple award-winning playwright Aleshea Harris comes the unexpected curve ball of Is God Is, based on her 2018 off-Broadway play. Kara Young and Mallori Johnson play two twin sisters (Racine and Anaia). Both have terrible burn scars but Racine's are easier to cover up. Anaia's […]

LORD OF THE FLIES SERIES REVIEW Unless you've been living on a desert island, you've probably heard of William Golding's classic 1954 novel Lord of the Flies; you've probably even had to read it in school. The novel has been adapted multiple times for film, as well as for stage, radio, and at least one […]

STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD SERIES REVIEW Luke Skywalker once said “No one's ever really gone,” and no other character in the Star Wars franchise has taken that to heart more than Darth Maul; a character that has canonically died twice(!) already. And yet, fans can't seem to get enough of the former Sith […]

BALLS UP MOVIE REVIEW To compete with a product that's the best known of its type in all countries you'd have to come up with a brand new innovation and a very popular sponsor. This is the premise of the new Amazon Prime Video film about a brand new prophylactic, Balls Up. Brad (Mark Wahlberg) […]

APEX MOVIE REVIEW Charlize Theron heads deep into the wild in this straight to Netflix survival thriller, where isolation turns into something far more dangerous. Sasha (Theron), a grieving climber seeking solitude in the Australian wilderness, finds herself thrust into a brutal game of predator and prey when a mysterious hunter (Taron Egerton) targets her […]

OUTCOME MOVIE REVIEW Reef Hawk (Keanu Reeves) is one of the nicest and most successful actors in Hollywood who has managed to keep his private life private — a rare feat in the world of the movie making machine. Secretly five years sober and trying to rebuild his life, literally and emotionally, he has stepped […]

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE: LIFE'S STILL UNFAIR As the They Might Be Giants performed theme goes for the 2000-2006 sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, “You're not the boss of me now and you're not so big.” Twenty years later, the dysfunctional family and their boy genius returns on Hulu and Disney Plus with a 4 […]

ROOMMATES MOVIE REVIEW High School graduation: that's the time to steel yourself with courage, say goodbye to those lifelong friendships you made next to the bleachers, the lockers, in algebra, and of course in the confines of your heart. But wait! What if you don't have any BFF's to bid adieu to? Roommates on Netflix […]

THE PITT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Pitt returns for Season 2, continuing its unflinching, real-time look at life inside one of America's busiest emergency rooms. Set ten months after the explosive first season, which was marked by a mass shooting, the new season unfolds over a single 15-hour real-time shift on the Fourth of July, […]

STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM '85 SERIES REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to cancel your Netflix subscription, Stranger Things: Tales from '85 is back to deliver another shot of 80s nostalgia, or at least nostalgia for a streaming series that ended less than five months ago. Set between the events of seasons two […]

THE MADISON SERIES REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “I'm in love with Montana. For other states, I have admiration, respect, recognight, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love.”  Paramount Plus presents  the new show by Taylor Sheridan; a story of a man who had two great loves in his life: his wife, and […]

FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY'S END SEASON 2 REVIEW Jonathan Larson once pondered how one would measure a year. Cups of coffee, sunsets, laughter, strife? Regardless, a year is five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Frieren, and elf, by this measure is approximately five hundred twenty five million six hundred thousand minutes. Give or take […]

THRASH MOVIE REVIEW It's been 4 decades since Jaws chomped beach goers to an iconic John Williams score. Netflix is reminding us that it's still not safe to get back into the water with the survival horror original feature Thrash. Dr. Dale Edwards (Djimon Hounsou) is an expert on the oldest predator on the planet, […]

THE CHRISTOPHERS MOVIE REVIEW From prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh comes a dramatic comedy about elderly artist, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellan) and his newly hired assistant Lori Butler (Michaela Coel). Unbeknownst to Julian, his greedy children Barnaby and Sallie (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) hired Lori not because of her experience as a personal assistant, but […]

JURY DUTY PRESENTS: COMPANY RETREAT SERIES REVIEW As part of our ongoing commitment to workplace synergy and content optimization, the One Of Us Screener Squad has asked Felix, Eoin, and T.C. to complete a comprehensive evaluation of this recent entry into the hidden camera comedy genre. This innovative offsite simulation places a group of employees […]

SHRINKING SEASON 3 REVIEW From prolific creator and showrunner Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town, Ted Lasso) comes the third season of Apple TV‘s hit Shrinking. When we first met licensed therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) he was a grief-stricken widower and single father spiraling out of control, lost in a haze of substance abuse and […]

LORNE MOVIE REVIEW There has been no shortage of media analysis of the unexpected phenomenon that is Saturday Night Live. More books and documentaries about aspects of it from all different viewpoints have been released than would be practical to print here. But not much in specific is said about the man himself: the guy […]

BROTHERS UNDER FIRE MOVIE REVIEW What do soldiers fight for? Some would say that they fight for mom, apple pie, baseball, and a little ideal we sometimes take for granted called freedom. But for those who have actually been a soldier, perhaps they would say that mainly soldiers fight for each other. Brothers under Fire […]

DTF ST. LOUIS SERIES REVIEW Henry David Thoreau famously said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” One can only imagine what he would think of the sex lives of lonely, middle-aged suburbanites suspected of murder. Jason Bateman and David Harbour play Clark and Floyd, two friends who are sexually unsatisfied in their […]

MOTHER MARY MOVIE REVIEW Nothing is as passionate as a hate that was once love. This is the simmering tension between mega-popstar Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) and famous fashion designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel). Arriving unannounced at Sam's giant English countryside mansion in the middle of a huge thunderstorm at night, the stage is set […]

BAIT SERIES REVIEW Tomorrow Never Dies at the James Bond Rumour mill and with Amazon pulling the strings, The World is Not Enough. It'll take a real GoldenEye casting director to pick the next actor to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Comment sections are being real Dr. No about all suggestions stepping away from […]

REFUGE MOVIE REVIEW Lewayne, Mike the Editor, and T.C. gather in the One Of Us cabin in the woods to discuss this tightly wound thriller that starts as a simple fishing trip between four friends, but quickly reveals itself to be something far more sinister. What unfolds in the new film Refuge is less a […]

PRIMAL SEASON 3 REVIEW From his early work on a show about a boy genius with a secret laboratory beneath his family home, to a time traveling samurai with a sword of destiny, Genndy Tartakovsky has created timeless moments of animation that inspire the imaginations of children and adults alike. The legendary animator decided next […]

BODYCAM MOVIE REVIEW “When you were eight and you had bad traits. You go to school and learn the golden rule. So why are you acting like a bloody fool? If you get hot then you must get cool!” These were lyrics in the song “Bad Boys” before the massively popular show “Cops” hit syndication, […]

EXIT 8 MOVIE REVIEW Imagine you're coming out of the subway, going down those meticulously scrubbed (at least in Japan) white tile tunnels on your way to the surface. You're looking at your phone and not really paying attention. Then, you notice no one else is around. One guy, seemingly oblivious to you, walks by […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: MINISODE 6 – THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR On this round of 60s/70s Faye, we look over our shoulder to make sure no one is watching before we revisit the actress in paranoia mode with 1975's Three Days of the Condor. Sydney Pollack directs this tale of a CIA researcher named Turner (Robert […]

STRIP LAW SERIES REVIEW “If you are committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it” – Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul. Netflix presents an animated series featuring legal counseling in Las Vegas, Strip Law. Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott) […]

LOVE STORY MOVIE REVIEW Love is a many splendored thing, and back in the 90's two lovers, named John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, kissed and the world stood still. The two would be lifted up by love where they belonged but alas not every love is like like in the storybooks. While all […]

THE DRAMA MOVIE REVIEW Don't let the title fool you, The Drama is a comedy, albeit a very dark, pitch-black comedy; the kind where the laughs offer a welcome and much needed respite from the discomfort you'll feel as its narrative unfolds. In a classic rom-com set-up, the movie begins with a meet-cute in a […]

FORBIDDEN FRUITS MOVIE REVIEW The online discourse (in some disturbing corners) says you should pass on cinema made for and by women in the industry. That wouldn't be very fetch of you, no cap. If you thought that was cringe, that's because an adult wrote it after googling “Is Gen Z a thing, how does […]

FANTASY LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Are you a fan of Noah Baumbach movies? Maybe some classic Woody Allen New York Jewish anxiety films? How about a quiet walking and talking film? Well, Fantasy Life might be right up your alley. This feature directorial debut from Matthew Shear takes us on a sun-soaked stroll through the Big […]

THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE REVIEW Well, I guess we can no longer say that video game movie adaptations aren't profitable because there have been more than a few of late, notably The Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2023. Now, it's inevitable sequel is here with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Mario (Chris Pratt) and […]

THE SERPENT'S SKIN MOVIE REVIEW Since the dawn of time, snakes have been given a terrible rep. Sketchy marketing practice? Snake oil salesmen. Surprised by bad news? Snake in the grass! Really good at lying? Forked tongue, like a snake! Poor reptiles have suffered the slander for years but with that bad boy reputation also […]

THEY WILL KILL YOU MOVIE REVIEW Russian writer/director Kirill Sokolov (Why Don't You Just Die!) is continuing on with his actiony weirdness wearing its influences on its sleeve with They Will Kill You. Zazie Beetz plays Asia Reeves, a woman who ten years ago was on the run with her little sister trying to protect […]

ONE PIECE SEASON 2 REVIEW Hoist the colours and set sail into the long time coming season two of One Piece streaming on Netflix, adapted from the still ongoing manga and anime by Eiichiro Oda. Even if you are not a fan of the magnum manga opus but you are a fan of swashbuckling adventures, […]

THE GRAY HOUSE SERIES REVIEW Sam Houston once said “Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not fiery, impulsive people as you […]

MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE MOVIE REVIEW Writer director BenDavid Grabinski steps into the spotlight with the soft sci-fi crime caper Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. Not to be confused with the 1969 rom-dram Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Grabinski's film takes place over the course of one tumultuous […]

BUDDY MOVIE REVIEW “It's Buddy” is an older children's tv show centered around a lovable orange unicorn who lives in a clubhouse with lots of Pee-Wee's Playhouse style anthropomorphic friends (the mailbox, the couch, a child's backpack, etc). A group of human children sing with and learn lessons from Buddy. Only, sometimes one of them […]

KILL ME MOVIE REVIEW Jimmy (Charlie Day) wakes up in his bathtub, filled with his own blood from his slashed wrists. He manages to call a 911 dispatcher named Margot (Allison Williams) who sends in paramedics to save his life. His family (Aya Cash and Jessica Harper) gather around him in his hospital room; this […]

BEAST RACE MOVIE REVIEW The director of the legendary City of God returns for his first Portuguese language film since that one, teaming up with two other directors for Beast Race. Set in a post-climate disaster Rio de Janeiro, the city has come under the control of the very rich who host a violent race […]

I LOVE BOOSTERS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Boots Riley made his bizarre debut in 2018 with the enormously popular Sorry to Bother You. There's been much anticipation for his second film I Love Boosters and for fans of his socialist surrealism there's plenty to like here. Keke Palmer plays Corvette, the leader of a group of […]