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Highly Suspect Reviews: The Mountain Between Us
Kate Winslet and Idris Elba are strangers but they both have important dates they can’t miss so when their flight is canceled because of weather conditions, they team up to hire a small plane to fly them to Denver together. Oops. Crash. Mountains. Snow. Mountain lions. Romance? Survival film love story is the name of the game as these two
Highly Suspect Reviews: Blade Runner 2049
I never, ever, EVER, thought this day would come. Even if I allowed myself to fantasize that it would, realistically speaking it was hard not to think that it would be a nightmare, not the sequel to 1982’s classic Ridley Scott sci-fi film that I would often envision in my dreams. Ok, yes, I (chris) am more than just a
‘Junk Head’ Review
In the past few years, stop-motion animation has achieved technical marvels previously thought impossible. The scale and smoothness of films like Kubo and the Two Strings or The Boxtrolls is something that could only exist today, given the technical marvels on display. Junk Head, an independent stop-motion feature from Takahide Hori, may not offer the technical prowess of its big-budget
Highly Suspect Reviews: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Director Noah Baumbach returns with another dramedy about a dysfunctional family. Shocker. But are we complaining? No, because nobody does these things better than he does. This time around, Adam Sandler (yes, Adam Sandler) and Elizabeth Marvel play brother and sister who are reengaging with their half-brother (Ben Stiller) when their irascible artist father (Dustin Hoffman) needs them. Anger come
Somebody Likes It Ep 112: Jerry Reed – “The Essential Jerry Reed”
SON! Pioneer of “trucker country,” Jerry Reed, turns out, falls in my sweet spot. The man was rapping (albeit with a country twang) before that was a thing, could finger-pick his way out of a wet burlap sack, and was pretty damn funny while doing so. I generally don’t care for my music and humor intertwined (see: Tenacious D), but
‘The Prince of Nothingwood’ Review
Salim Shaheen is one of Afghanistan’s, and perhaps the world’s, most prolific filmmakers. But his is a name probably not known to many outside of the Middle East. Nothingwood comes from Salim himself as he notes that America has Hollywood, India has Bollywood and, as he points to the desert around him, Afghanistan has Nothingwood. At the outset of this
