Highly Suspect Reviews

BEST OF 2025 PART THREE Chris and Wright gather a different lineup of regulars and friends to discuss more of the best movies and tv shows of 2025 that MAYBE aren’t the things you’ve heard everyone else talking about. Things have gotten a little looser on this second (in person, third overall) segment as the […]

BEST OF 2025 PART TWO If you have listened to our Best Of podcasts in the past, you expect to hear Professor Jeff from Rage Select give some of his favorite games (and usually animes) of the year. This year the timing didn’t work out for him to join us at our ‘big crew’ recording, […]

BEST OF 2025 PART ONE We always try to do something a little different every year with our Best Of The Year shows. This year, we decided to get together just the Austin-based folks for a sorta mini-Gathering series of podcasts to take on the best of TV, Film, and Videogames of 2025. The conceit […]

NE ZHA 2 MOVIE REVIEW Ne Zha, the story of a rebellious and powerful child deity in Chinese mythology with origins in Buddhist lore, has been interpreted and adapted throughout the centuries through word of mouth, written folk lore, and like all the best myths, adapted to the silver screen. Therefore it is no surprise […]

IS THIS THING ON? MOVIE REVIEW Comedy can be good for a lot of things but personal healing is not one you hear as much about. Writer/Director Bradley Cooper offers this year in an unusually low-key release his take on the subject, Is This Thing On? Loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John […]

STARRING DICK VAN DYKE MOVIE REVIEW Go over to PBS online and do yourself the favor of watching Starring Dick Van Dyke for FREE! You have no excuse not to enjoy this beautiful documentary that celebrates the life, legacy, and unshakable charm of one of entertainment’s most enduring icons. This film traces Van Dyke’s journey […]

STRANGER THINGS – SEASON 5 VOLUME 2 REVIEW Once again, Netflix has dropped another volume of Stranger Things Season 5 episodes on a major holiday, and once again our reviewers took a break from their vacation plans to binge these three new episodes and record their thoughts ahead of the feature-length finale scheduled to drop […]

HEART/FELT – IT’S IN EVERY ONE OF US: EMMET OTTER’S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS & A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS In this holiday roundtable episode of Heart/Felt, I’m joined by returning guests Shira More, Frank Calvillo, and Rhett O’Hara to reflect on Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas and A Muppet Family Christmas. We explore how these intimate seasonal specials […]

INFLUENCERS MOVIE REVIEW Smash that like button and don’t forget to subscribe to that hashtag #MurderBeautifulPeopleOnVacation! Whether you follow on Instagram, Twitter rebrands, TikTok, or are over the hill and on Facebook, Influencers is that Gen X to Z killing spree goodness you need to close out your holiday shuffle as we all dance into […]

SMILING FRIENDS SEASON 3 REVIEW Smiling Friends returns on Adult Swim for a third season and it chronicles the employees of Smiling Friend Inc. and their never ending quest to chase the blues away and help you recognize the brighter days ahead. Smiling Friends employees Pim (Michael Cusack) and Charlie (Zach Hadel) are here to […]

ANACONDA MOVIE REVIEW If you’ve ever seen the 1997 horror film Anaconda starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Owen Wilson, and Eric Stoltz, you know that it’s not exactly a masterpiece of the genre. And yet, it stubbornly exudes a weird cultural fascination that only comes with movies that are very bad yet oddly […]

SONG SUNG BLUE It’s Christmas time so you can expect a few things: people acting like Mariah Carey is some horror movie villain, reconsiderations of the Grinch as a powerful anti-capitalist figure unjustifiably bullied by a bunch of yokels, and lately Hugh Jackman playing a singing role in a film. Song Sung Blue tells the […]

WE BURY THE DEAD MOVIE REVIEW The apocalypse arrives with a bang after a catastrophic military experiment off the coast of Tasmania wipes out nearly all life on the island. Slowly, the dead begin to rise and shamble due to the effects of the fallout. Ava Newman (Daisy Ridley) scours the post-collapse nation for her […]

ALL’S FAIR SERIES REVIEW RIta Rudner once said “Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?”. Hulu presents a show about a law firm of ladies helping women turn those I Do’s into I don’t […]

OH. WHAT. FUN. MOVIE REVIEW One Christmas you’re bound in a homemade leather suit decapitating mannequins while eluding the detective skills of a millionaire with daddy issues while awakening your independence and empowering an audience of all ages to do the same in the face of an uncaring apathetic world. Meow! Then three decades later, […]

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY SERIES REVIEW Sister duo “Patience and Prudence” sang the cheerful tune A Smile and a Ribbon which said “A smile is something special, a ribbon is something rare. So I’ll be special and I’ll be rare with a smile and a ribbon in my hair.” Decades have passed since the ironically […]

JAY KELLY MOVIE REVIEW Netflix’s Jay Kelly arrives as a quiet, contemplative drama about success, friendship, and the uneasy space between who you were and who you’ve become. Noah Baumbach uses his career-long craft of telling stories that explore themes of success, sacrifice, loss, and existential dread to get George Clooney and Adam Sandler Golden […]

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT MOVIE REVIEW Allen Ginsberg once said “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” Andrea Gibson is a poet whose works include the acclaimed […]

THE HOUSEMAID MOVIE REVIEW Ready for some trashy Paul Feig twisty silliness? The Housemaid is one of those films that you’re either going to be with its over-the-top, elevated Lifetime movie dramatics as super fun, or totally bored by it. Sydney Sweeney plays Millie, a desperate woman with a troubled past who is sleeping in […]

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH MOVIE REVIEW James Cameron has constantly been pushing the needle throughout his career in terms of visual F/X. If there’s a new Cameron movie, you can be sure you’re going to see some digital work that is the newest and shiniest thing out there. With the third in his Avatar series, […]

UNDER THE STARS MOVIE REVIEW Regarding true love, I give you this quote from the pages of “A Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King. “True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who […]

THE ABANDONS SERIES REVIEW ‘The way of the gun’ crashes against the power of wealth while the law watches with a big bucket of popcorn in this Netflix series by The Shield and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, The Abandons. Fiona Nolan (Lena Headey) is a ruthless calculating homesteader who adopted several orphans to […]

ELLA MCCAY MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director/Sitcom creating legend James L. Brooks is back with his first feature film in fifteen years with Ella McCay. Emma Mackey plays the titular role and she is a force of nature. When we meet her in the film, she’s a schoolgirl telling off her dad (Woody Harrelson) for being a […]

THE CHAIR COMPANY TV REVIEW It seems like cringe comedy has evolved quite the bit over the past decade. Some would say that both the UK & US The Office really kicked off the trend. But now with comedians like Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson, they’ve taken the comedic style to a whole new level […]

JINGLE BELL HEIST MOVIE REVIEW Nice Christmas tree you got there with all that silver and gold on it. Be a shame if something happened to it. Jingle Bell Heist follows Sophia (Olivia Holt) who is all dressed up in red and green, and making cash at the Christmas department store adorned with Christmas trees […]