Highly Suspect Reviews

COSMIC PRINCESS KAGUYA! MOVIE REVIEW Teenagers these days have all sorts of wild ambitions that blur the lines of dreaming big and living in a fantasy world. They want to get rich as young as possible and retire in your early 20’s. Fear not young listeners, such ambitions can be achieved! You could become a […]

FALLOUT SEASON 2 REVIEW Who needs a nuclear armageddon to turn America into a barren wasteland when water-hungry AI data centers belonging to Amazon and other tech giants can do the job just as well? It’s an irony befitting the world of Fallout, the long running video games series and now critically acclaimed TV show… […]

PILLION MOVIE REVIEW One of the biggest award winning and best reviewed films of 2025 was one that might not be on your radar at all. With an American release from A24 this directorial debut by Harry Lighton has garnered lots of attention in the indie cinema world. But why have you not heard about […]

100 METERS MOVIE REVIEW Good cardio may make the difference between life and death in an apocalypse but in this animated feature, it’s the difference between life and a shuffling zombie existence in a 9 to 5 desk job pushing pencils and remembering days long past when the act of running was an expression of […]

THE MOMENT MOVIE REVIEW There have been plenty of musical biopics, concert films, and documentaries about incredible music artists, but none like The Moment. The film stars pop music star, Charli XCX, playing a version of herself in this warped comedic mockumentary about the tail end of her iconic “Brat Summer” tour. As Charli prepares […]

THE CONFESSION MOVIE REVIEW Back in the dark ages there was a tale of a pied piper who led all the rats out of town. Take that, plague! Upon request for payment the the people of the town gave thanks but found no coin in their pockets nor charity in their hearts to pay the […]

ISLANDS MOVIE REVIEW Sometimes people take a vacation and they never go home. Then vacation then becomes a routine, and that routine becomes a whole lot of work. Islands follows a Tennis coach named Tom (Sam Riley) who at one time went by the pro nickname of Aces. His kindness, charisma, and all around chill […]

SHELTER MOVIE REVIEW There are three kinds of Jason Statham films. #1- Part of an ensemble cast of folks, pretty much always action-based, and more often than not a Guy Ritchie movie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ghosts of Mars). #2 – Action with some comedy but usually batshit crazy cartoon stuff (Crank, […]

SEND HELP MOVIE REVIEW Legendary director Sam Raimi isn’t the most prolific of filmmakers. His last film was Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022 and before that it was 2013’s Oz The Great and Powerful. But to go back to the genre he is certainly best known for, horror, you have to […]

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL MOVIE REVIEW In the year 20XX, a massive and mysterious flower known as Darol suddenly appears in Japan. Volunteers are sent in to help with cleanup and rebuilding, including Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman who has never quite fit in. When Darol emits a deafening signal, its fruit […]

COVER-UP MOVIE REVIEW 1991 marks the year the world wide web officially launched and became available to everyone. A new way to discover and share truth was available to every man woman and child on this earth in one way or another. With this new technology a plethora of news, stories, and of course, entertaining […]

DOWN CEMETERY ROAD SERIES REVIEW Nothing rebuilds and keeps the foundations of friendships solid like a good old fashion dinner party. Want to impress your spouse, wow your boss, and boost the morale of your community? Dinner party!! Nothing ruins a dinner party quite like a bomb going off, though. We ain’t just talking a […]

THE RIP MOVIE REVIEW When it comes to Hollywood power couples, there aren’t many that have stood the test of time or the pressures of the star machine better and longer than Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and they’ve reunited once again in a tightly wound crime thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. The Rip unfolds […]

RETURN TO SILENT HILL MOVIE REVIEW In 1999, Konami released a ‘flashlights in the fog’ horror game about a desolate town featuring puzzles, hidden secrets, nightmare fuel creature designs, and a surprising amount of heart within its character driven stories. With several games, remakes of those games, two feature films, and the weirdly long overdue […]

MERCY MOVIE REVIEW Imagine that an AI that has taken control of our legal system as judge, jury, and executioner. Those accused of capital crimes who are ranked above a certain percentage of being likely to be guilty are given 90 minutes to defend themselves in front of an AI judge and prove their innocence […]

GOODBYE JUNE MOVIE REVIEW Kelly Barnhill once wrote “Death is always sudden, even when it isn’t”. Though all of us will eventually choose to go quietly into that good night or fight against the dying of the light, death will come for all of us, and for some of us that meeting with the Grim […]

HIS AND HERS SERIES REVIEW A lotta things can call us back to our childhood home town. Adoring parents. Cherished memories. A reunion of some kind. Even a homicide! Investigative journalist Ana Andrews (Tessa Thompson) returns to her childhood home when a close high school friend is found stabbed over a dozen times and left […]

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE MOVIE REVIEW It’s 28 years after the 28 weeks after the 28 days later and The Bone Temple picks up right where 2025’s 28 Years Later left off, making it the first direct sequel in this franchise of post-apocalyptic ‘infected’ horror films. We find that Spike (Alfie Williams) has […]

THE MIGHTY NEIN SEASON 1 REVIEW Stranger Things, Critical Role, Vin Diesel on podcasts having hours of play time with friends and family, Henry Cavill with his Adonis looks and muscular glory geeking out with other players as he negotiates with Amazon to start a Warhammer series…Much like comic book storytelling in the early 2000’s, […]

PLUR1BUS SEASON 1 REVIEW From a single room in your house to the neighborhood grid of your city. All the way up to the panoramic satellite view of the state, then the country, up passed the atmosphere and finally the home we call Earth. The existence of life is both small and vast. What kind […]

DEAD MAN’S WIRE MOVIE REVIEW From director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting) comes Dead Man’s Wire, based on the true story of businessman turned kidnapper, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård). In 1977, Kiritsis walked into the Indianapolis office of mortgage broker Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery) and took him hostage by wiring the trigger […]

OBEX MOVIE REVIEW OBEX, the latest film from multi-hyphenate artist Albert Birney, is set in the pre-internet days of the 1980s. In addition to writing and directing, Birney also stars as Conor, a computer nerd and shut-in who lives alone with his dog Sandy. One day, intrigued by an ad, Conor orders a copy of […]

STRANGER THINGS – SEASON 5 PART 3 REVIEW Released in 2016 to relatively little fanfare, Stranger Things quickly became a word of mouth hit, a pop culture phenomenon, and Netflix‘s flagship show. Now, almost a decade later, the show has completed its final voyage. It’s possible the ship might have suffered some damage along the […]

THE ELEPHANT REVIEW According to legend, and a very quick google search, the very first animated story was by French artist Émile Cohl called Fantasmagorie back in 1908. It lasted a little over a minute and featured our protagonist trying to get rid of hats, a clown, and an elephant. Over a century later, a […]

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 […]