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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Martin McDonagh has reunited with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, the two stars of his wonderful and criminally underseen In Bruges, for this new pitch-black comedy set in a small town during the Irish Civil War. Farrell and Gleeson have been drinking buddies for ages but when one […]

HALLOWEEN ENDS MOVIE REVIEW We really weren’t expecting when we went in to see the final chapter of David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy that it would end up spawning such a lengthy review. But that’s how Highly Suspect Reviews go sometimes. There was a surprising amount to discuss about this film including whether it’s the […]

PEARL MOVIE REVIEW After Ti West’s 70s slasher X came out in March of this year, everyone was really surprised to hear he and his star were returning a few months later for the prequel to the film, set decades earlier, and starring Mia Goth as a young version of her elderly matriarch from X. […]

BARBARIAN MOVIE REVIEW STOP! Our critics want you to know that you should stop reading anything at all about this film, and just go see it. Assuming you like really good horror movies. You can come back and listen to this really fun review with Chris, Wright, and Alan afterwards. Because although we start off […]

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING MOVIE REVIEW In Director/Co-writer George Miller’s first film since 2015’s Max Max: Fury Road, he traverses a very different path with Three Thousand Years of Longing. Tilda Swinton plays Alithea, a narratologist (the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception) who is on […]

DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM – VOL.3 EP.9: FOUND FOOTAGE PT.3 The Doomers take on found footage one last time in this series as they take a look at Hell House LLC, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, and Unfriended: Dark Web. If you haven’t seen any of these you are missing out and we give them the props they […]

BULLET TRAIN MOVIE REVIEW The co-director of John Wick and director of Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde (David Leitch) helms this new action comedy based on a Japanese novel, Maria Beetle. Now, most action comedies don’t seem like there’s enough plot going on to have been based on a novel, but Bullet Train has so […]

DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM – VOL.3 EP.8: FOUND FOOTAGE PT.2 The Doomers continue their exploration into the world of found footage horror films with a look at 2013’s odd comedy-horror faux-tv broadcast WNUF Halloween Special and then we move into the Grand Guignol monster chop-shop that is 2013’s Frankenstein’s Army.   YOUR REVIEWERS   Christopher Lawrence […]

DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM VOL 3 EP 7: FOUND FOOTAGE PT 1 It took us awhile but we finally got here. It’s our trio of podcasts about found footage horror films. And we’re going to kick it off with the 1992 pitch black horror comedy classic from France, Man Bites Dog. Naturally, whether we wanted to […]

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING MOVIE REVIEW Based on Delia Owens’ bestselling novel of the same name, Where The Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned child living alone in the marshes of North Carolina during the 1960s. Despite being poor, uneducated, and ostracized by the community, Kya (Daisy Edgar Jones) grows up to […]

THE FORGIVEN MOVIE REVIEW A wealthy collection of bored elites gather out in the Moroccan desert for a party thrown by a snarky couple (Matt Smith and Caleb Landry Jones) but there’s a problem. One couple (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) while on their way to the location accidentally hit a local boy on the […]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK MOVIE REVIEW Tom Cruise is back as Maverick, the unconventional and appropriately named pilot from 1986’s smash-hit Top Gun. Only now, it’s 30 something years later, he’s still a Captain and flying whenever he can, and for every person in his life that thinks he’s the greatest, there’s someone else who just […]

DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM VOL.3 EP 6 – COMEDY HORROR PT 3 Chris, Alan, Drew, and Madelynne wrap up this cycle of podcasts looking at Comedy Horror films with three more modern examples. First we give the proper props to 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods. Then we go a lot more obscure and weird with […]

DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM VOL 3 EP 5 – COMEDY HORROR PT 2 Our deep-dive into comedy horror continues with part two of our series. This time we take a look at the wildly underrated Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight from 1995. Then we swing to 2006 for a festival favorite that unfortunately never got […]

DELIBERATIONS OF DOOM VOL 3 EP 4 – COMEDY HORROR PT 1 The Doomers return after a bit of an enforced absence that we all went through. But we came back laughing as we dive into comedy horror films. Our first show in the trilogy explores 1982’s Eating Raoul, 1987’s Blood Diner, and 1989’s Society. […]