Highly Suspect Reviews: The Front Runner

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Fri, 16 November 2018, 12:14

Hugh Jackman plays the guy who DEFINITELY would have become president in 1988 if he had just been able to keep his fly shut, Democratic nominee Gary Hart. This new Jason Reitman film, after a brief look at Hart’s unsuccessful bid against Walter Mondale for the Democratic nomination in 84, switches to his titular front-running campaign in 88. Vera Farmiga Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: A Private War

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 15 November 2018, 14:10

Rosamund Pike plays famed war correspondent journalist Marie Colvin in this film about her life, the danger she constantly put herself in so she could get the stories, and her friendship with her photographer (Jamie Dornan) who accompanied her on her final tragic voyage to war-torn Syria. Directed by Matthew Heineman, best known for his award-winning documentaries like City of Ghosts Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 15 November 2018, 13:58

When the Coen brothers get together for a new project it always demands scrutiny and their first project partnering with Netflix is no exception. Taking on their first anthology, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (premiering on Netflix tomorrow, November 16th) features an impressive line-up of talent (including Tim Blake Nelson as the titular singing cowboy character) and a lot of Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: Widows

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 15 November 2018, 13:48

Director/writer Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) teams up with novelist Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) for this movie version of an ITV series from 1983. So, there’s this bunch of thieves and they get blow’d up very shortly into the film (featuring an unusual amount of big-name actors in small roles). Left putting the pieces together are their wives. Liam Neeson Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 15 November 2018, 09:50

The Harry Potter-less prequel franchise continues, now continuing the search for the powerfully magic and emo Creedence Barebone (Ezra Miller) and with an escaped Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) looking for him as well, Newt (Eddie Redmayne), Tina (Katherine Waterston), and about, as near as we could tell, 3000 other characters have their work cut out for them. Chris, Taylor, Zach, and Continue Reading...

Review: The Angel in the Clock

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Wed, 14 November 2018, 15:00

With dozens of films targeted at all age groups, it’s sometimes easy to overlook those that are aimed at the very youngest. One of most interesting movies I got to see at this year at Annecy film festival is The Angel in the Clock (El angel en el Reloj), a Mexican animated adventure movie for preschoolers that deals with cancer, Continue Reading...

Digital Noise Episode 202 – The Gem Stack

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Mon, 12 November 2018, 14:27

Chris and Aaron have their work cut out for them with this giant stack of Blu-Rays and DVDs to report on for you, but as it turns out there’s a lot of gems in this stack. PLEASE USE OUR IMAGE LINKS TO BUY ANY OF THESE TITLES ON AMAZON. IN FACT, PLEASE USE THEM Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: Time Trap

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 08 November 2018, 13:04

Sometimes it really is the little indie films out of nowhere that surprise you the most. Take, for example, Time Trap. Made for a very low budget by an Austin School of Film alumni, its story about a group of young people that get lost in a cavern that exists outside of the normal flow of time is smart, fun, Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: Outlaw King

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 08 November 2018, 12:52

I know this film is called Outlaw King but YOU KNOW there was a discussion at some point about calling in Braveheart 2. Because it pretty much is. At least in terms of where the story picks up. Although Patience and Kim make an argument that to get the right crowds in the seats perhaps they could call it Chris Pine’s Continue Reading...

Highly Suspect Reviews: The Grinch

0 Submitted by Chris Cox on Thu, 08 November 2018, 12:38

This time it’s Illumination Entertainment’s turn (you know, that company that keeps torturing us with those nattering little yellow pill-shaped creatures) to adapt Dr. Seuss’ Christmas classic, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. And now we officially owe Jim Carrey an apology. Sigh. This time Benedict Cumberbatch takes over the role of the now more laissez-faire titular green guy and Chris, Ben, Continue Reading...