DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 349: The LAST 2024 EPISODE IN 2025 With the variable pressures of the holiday season, Chris and John are sorry that they were unable to get this Xmas Digital Noise episode up until 2025. And so it goes. But we do have some great stuff to talk about this week from one… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 349: THE LAST 2024 EPISODE IN 2025

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS – THE FINAL SEASON REVIEW Every journey begins with a first step and every voyage of a starship ends with a final frontier.  Paramount presents the final season of the Starfleet crew on the California Class USS Cerritos on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.  A lot has happened across… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Trek: Lower Decks – The Final Season

TRASH IN THE CAN: RICH LITTLE’S ROBIN HOOD A holiday tradition continues and ends with today’s show. In 2022, we celebrated the season with Rich Little’s “star-studded” retelling of A Christmas Carol and we give it another go with Rich Little’s impression-laden Robin Hood. Is it festive? No. Is it fun? Try again. Did we… Read More »Trash in the Can: Rich Little’s Robin Hood

THE BRUTALIST MOVIE REVIEW Who knew a nearly 4 hour sweeping historical epic could move at a breakneck pace? Brady Corbet’s newest feature, The Brutalist, achieves that in spades and very well could be one of the best films of the year. Adrien Brody stars as László Tóth, a Hungarian holocaust survivor emigrating to America… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Brutalist

CARRY-ON MOVIE REVIEW Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is living his best life. His beautiful girlfriend Nora (Sofia Carson) has just had a positive pregnancy test and she is slaying problems as a career girl. His best friend Jason (Sinqua Walls) encourages him to reach for that next rung on the corporate ladder. He and Nora… Read More »Screener Squad: Carry-On

BETTER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Let’s go through our musical biopic checklist, shall we? Talented kid from a broken home dreams of becoming a pop star? Check. Serious daddy issues? Check. Fame and overwork leads to exhaustion, addiction, and self-destructive behavior? Check, check, and check. Protagonist is depicted as a CGI singing, dancing monkey voiced by… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Better Man

NOSFERATU MOVIE REVIEW Nothing says “Merry Christmas” quite like a prestige horror film. Robert Eggers is back and has delivered his 4th feature film with his version of the classic, Nosferatu . Bill Skarsgård stars as the titular vampire whose shadow looms over the picture like a cold blanket while Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Nosferatu

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN MOVIE REVIEW Director James Mangold more or less made the film that defined all the tropes of the musical biopic with his 2005 film about Johnny Cash, Walk The Line. Said tropes than thoroughly and perfectly satirized in 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Naturally, many were wary when Mangold was… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: A Complete Unknown

KRAVEN THE HUNTER MOVIE REVIEW Let us raise a glass to the end of the Sony era of Spider-man spinoff films that no one asked for. Morbius, Madam Web, and the Venom movies, have had a very rocky history with critics and their latest, Kraven the Hunter, is no different. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Kraven the Hunter

THE FRANCHISE SERIES REVIEW Making a movie involves hundreds of jobs, from key grips to craft services, actors to directors, producers to a marketing team, and don’t even get me started on the writer’s room. Movie magic is a lot less whimsy and wonder and a lot more delegating unforeseen problems to the assistant to… Read More »Screener Squad: The Franchise