Highly Suspect Reviews

THE DEB MOVIE REVIEW Every girl dreams of her big debut, with the perfect dress, the perfect date, and the perfect night to remember. Unless you’re a teenage feminist who thinks the whole thing is a patriarchal nightmare. Then it’s time to burn down the ballroom. Rebel Wilson makes her feature directorial debut with The […]

ANIMALS MOVIE REVIEW Politics is a dirty business. But when your family-values campaign turns into a hostage situation, things are about to get downright savage. In this Ben Affleck written and directed Netflix crime thriller, wealthy Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball (Affleck) is days away from an election when his young son is kidnapped […]

V/H/S MIXTAPE MOVIE REVIEW Shudder has got you covered for this season’s spooky screenings with the ninth segment of the popular anthology series V/H/S with V/H/S/Mixtape. The narrative that connects the horror shorts this time around is the heavy metal shock rock and roll band GWAR. The band have their own bizarrely disgusting wraparound narrative, […]

HAUNTED HOTEL SEASON 2 REVIEW Rest weary traveler and enjoy our continental breakfast. Whether you need a break from staring at the endless roads or need an impromptu episode for your struggling ghost hunter, there is nothing quite like a night at a hotel. Netflix presents its annual spooky animated hit, season two of Haunted […]

SLOW HORSES SEASON 6 REVIEW The series may be called Slow Horses, but the people making it are anything but slow. Other prestige TV shows would do well to keep pace with Slow Horses‘ production schedule, which has delivered six seasons in four years, with a seventh season already filmed and expected to release next […]

CLAYFACE MOVIE REVIEW The comic books to movie train keeps chuggin’ along and the results have been of late, hugely varied. But if you fall on the ‘not into those’ camp, you might reconsider your stance for Clayface. Telling the origin story of the DC comics supervillain, writer Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, […]

WICKER MOVIE REVIEW Wedding bells are ringing and shackles are shined, and a bottle maker is forever bound to his beloved. Bring out the feast and let the band play, love has won the day. Amongst the party goers is a very skilled fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who carries the weight of her parents craft as […]

HALLOWARRIOR MOVIE REVIEW Ellen Ripley. Laurie Strode. Nancy Thompson. In the world of horror movies, there is a certain type of woman who is powerful enough, smart enough, and cunning enough to navigate a world of apocalyptic threats and savage killers. You don’t expect them to offer you candy. Milly Shapiro plays Pumpkin, an innocent […]

KLARA AND THE SUN MOVIE REVIEW Some would say that Taika Waititi has been on a downward slope with his most recent films, Next Goal Wins & Thor: Love and Thunder, but he’s back with his latest film adapting the acclaimed novel Klara and the Sun. Starring Jenna Ortega as the titular Klara, she is […]

BELOW SERIES REVIEW On an island in Canada called Newfoundland, winters are hard, but the people are harder. With rod and sail, they mastered the elements and found wealth in the Cod. Back in the 80’s, the Penney family was relocating their home from harbour to harbour, when the sea took their house and their […]

CARRIE SEASON 1 REVIEW Legend tells that Tabitha, an editor of a spooky scary author, fished a manuscript out of the troubled scribe’s trash can. Reading what had escaped the author’s mind onto crumpled pages, she demanded the story be completed. Thus the novel Carrie was born. Fifty years later and the world is once […]

SACRIFICE MOVIE REVIEW A year after its premiere at TIFF, and a brief theatrical release in Italy, co-writer/director Romain Gavras’ film Sacrifice has found a home on Netflix. It tells the story of Mike Tyler (Chris Evans) a washed up movie star who had a nervous breakdown and (literally) torched his own career. A year […]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE HOUSE OF THE DAMNED MOVIE REVIEW Upon the windswept Yorkshire moors, where passion turns to obsession and the dead refuse to stay buried, Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned offers a decidedly bloodier interpretation of Emily Brontë’s Gothic classic. When the unfortunate Mr. Lockwood arrives at the remote estate, he discovers […]

MASTERPLAN MOVIE REVIEW Masterplan stars Stanley Tucci as Roger Cavendish, a legendary thief of international renown with one last scheme before he retires. Roger plans to steal the Mona Lisa, but to pull off the crime of the century, he’ll need the help of his children, master hacker Chiara (Simona Tabasco) and explosives expert Jay […]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 4 REVIEW Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, whose continuing mission is to boldly go where no one has gone before… much to the chagrin of some viewers this season. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for its fourth season, and Captain Pike […]

FUTURAMA SEASON 14 REVIEW An animated series that has survived more cancellations and network shuffling then South Park and Family Guy, Futurama is back on Hulu Plus for its alleged final season…allegedly. Fry, Leela, Bender, the Professor, Hermes, Amy, and Doctor Zoidberg are back with sci-fi adventures at the Planet Express, delivering your packages faster than […]

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING MOVIE REVIEW Elizabeth Holmes sits in prison for what seems to be a pretty open and shut case of fraud. Her company, Theranos, claimed it had a device that revolutionized blood testing by being able to take a fingerprick worth of blood and do a giant battery of tests on it. […]

WHALEFALL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get it out of the way right now: Whalefall is a movie about a guy who gets swallowed by a whale and has to figure out how to escape before his air runs out. Sounds like a Tubi original, right? But no, this is a wide theatrical release with big name […]

MISTY GREEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s not hard to see, given the immense talent of actress Rosalind Eleazar, that despite her mainly having a notable presence just on TV (check out Slow Horses if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing), she definitely can carry the weight of an entire film on her shoulders. She is the titular […]

THE STUNT DRIVER MOVIE REVIEW Some men chase fame. Some chase fortune. And some strap themselves into a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental and attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River at 280 miles per hour. Because dying of old age is for quitters. Based on the spectacularly outrageous true story of Canadian daredevil Ken Carter, The […]