Highly Suspect Reviews

ONSLAUGHT MOVIE REVIEW The director of You’re Next and The Guest goes back to the action/horror style of his earlier works with Onslaught. The film follows Celeste (Adria Arjona) a super pissed-off single mom and ex-marine now managing a rundown trailer park in the middle of nowhere. Who should interrupt this existence of creeping despair […]

IDIOTS MOVIE REVIEW From actor/writer/director Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, The Toxic Avenger) comes Idiots, a twisted road trip comedy about a couple of losers who get more than they bargained for when they accept a job escorting a wealthy teenager to an exclusive rehab clinic. Davis (O’Shea Jackson) […]

THE LAST HOUSE MOVIE REVIEW Home is where the heart is. Unfortunately, it’s also where the doors won’t open, the windows won’t break, and something deeply unpleasant is wandering around outside in the rain. Netflix’s The Last House traps Jason (Wagner Moura), Ann (Greta Lee), and their two children inside their family home with absolutely […]

THE DOG STARS MOVIE REVIEW Is just surviving after an apocalyptic pandemic enough? This is the question that Ridley Scott’s new film poses. Based on the book by Peter Heller, The Dog Stars follows Hig (Jacob Elordi), a civilian pilot. He and his ex-marine friend Bangley (Josh Brolin) have holed up outside Denver in an […]

BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL PT.1 REVIEW Batman is having a very, very bad week. Can’t catch a break! If rehabilitating the murderous vigilante Azrael wasn’t enough, some jerk named Bane sets all the inmates of Arkham free. Well, not all of them… there are some confusingly notable exceptions. Raised in prison and deluded by his late mother, […]

BUTTHOLE SURFERS: THE HOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUTT MOVIE REVIEW Legendary music journalist Michael Azerrad said about his iconic book Our Band Could Be Your Life, “The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I’d always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates – which maybe they were […]

HELLCAT MOVIE REVIEW How’s this for a horror movie setup? Lena (Dakota Gorman) wakes up injured, confused, and locked inside a camper trailer hurtling down the highway. The mysterious Clive (Todd Terry), communicating from the truck ahead, insists she’s been infected with something nasty and they have only an hour to reach a doctor. Lena […]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON 3 REVIEW It’s been two years since season two of House of the Dragon premiered and the world has been waiting with bated breath to finally see some action in the show. We last left our heroes walking into a giant battle and season three picks up immediately in the […]

DON’T SAY GOOD LUCK MOVIE REVIEW There are two kinds of people in this world; those who get excited when they see Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production slate appear before a film, and those who brace themselves for two hours of lowbrow schlock. While neither reaction is entirely warranted, Sandler can be a divisive figure […]

VIVA CARMEN! MOVIE REVIEW Everyone knows the music from Bizet’s Carmen—one of the world’s most famous operas! Bits of it have riffed their way into everything from trailers to soundtracks and parodies. And of course, everyone knows the classic story of Carmen…Anyone? The story of a beautiful Romani dancer, wanted by the law, who falls […]