Highly Suspect Reviews: Stolen Kingdom

Screener Squad: Saccharine

SACCHARINE MOVIE REVIEW Push it to the limit! Each journey begins with a first step! Each step, each rep, each bead of sweat gets you closer to your goal. It’s not about losing weight, it’s about gaining a life. Several unquotable motivational speaking sayings can be pulled out of thin air. What takes real effort […]

Hollywood Royalty – Ep.12: The Handmaid’s Tale/The Temp/Running Mates

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: EP.12 – THE HANDMAID’S TALE/THE TEMP/RUNNING MATES This week on Hollywood Royalty, it’s time for our penultimate episode featuring the Faye you love to hate with three films that show the actress’ knack for exploring characters that, while not outright villains, defy conventional likability. First up, we look at Faye’s chilly take on […]

A Better Yesterday – Ep. 4: Chan Coming out of the Lee’s Shadow

A BETTER YESTERDAY – EP. 4: CHAN COMING OUT OF THE LEE’S SHADOW In this episode of A Better Yesterday–a conversation series about the origins and evolution of Hong Kong action cinema culture — Ross O’Brien and Bey Logan pick up the story in in the immediate aftermath of Bruce Lee’s death, and trace how […]

Screener Squad: Euphoria Season 3

EUPHORIA SEASON 3 REVIEW Oh the places you’ll go! is a lovely book by Dr. Seuss about how the future is a hopeful vast landscape of opportunities. When it comes to season three of Euphoria, those places are limited to a dead marriage, prison, or even the grave. A few years after high school, Rue’s […]

Highly Suspect Reviews: Disclosure Day

DISCLOSURE DAY MOVIE REVIEW It’s easy to be cynical of any art designed to move you in this age of deceit and the dying of empathy. Which is why you gotta bring out the big guns like Steven Spielberg to make a movie pleading for a sane return to empathy and truth. The best way […]