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Highly Suspect Reviews: Brigsby Bear
Imagine if your whole world wasn’t what you thought it was. You were raised living in an underground shelter by your ‘parents’ who had weird rules and rituals and had created an entire alternate reality for you, even creating a children’s tv show for you to watch (that as far as you know was the ONLY show) that you became
Highly Suspect Reviews: Wind River
The writer of Sicario and Hell or High Water shows up to script AND direct this new film featuring Jeremy Renner as a bad-ass hunter up in the frozen climes of Wyoming on an Native American reservation. He teams up with a noob FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) to solve the murder of a young girl. It’s a slow burn but
Highly Suspect Reviews: Annabelle: Creation
After Ouija 2 did everything right that Ouija 1 did terribly wrong, I thought to myself, “Self…maybe that’s exactly what Blumhouse is going to do with Annabelle 2“. ‘Cause, you know, that first one ain’t exactly The Conjuring, despite being a spin-off of it. Hell, it’s barely worthy of an Asylum rip-off of the idea. So, lo and behold they
Annecy Animated Film Festival: ‘In this Corner of the World’ Review
While “Loving Vincent” was the best thing I’ve seen visually this year at the Annecy Animated Film Festival, “In this Corner of the World” had the best narrative. This 2016 anime by Suano Katabuchi is set in Japan during World War II, and focuses on Suzu, a young artist. After an arranged marriage to a soldier, Suzu moves with her
Somebody Likes It Ep 110: Jay Som – “Everybody Works”
In this case, buzz begat buzz when Oakland’s Melina Duterte drunkenly uploaded a batch of hastily recorded tracks to Bandcamp, and launched a sensation. Better known as Jay Som, her pop-up indie darling status seems only cemented since its home baked inception, an arrival marked by her legit label debut, Everybody Works. Duarte’s ascent, begged by some clear experimentation and
Highly Suspect Reviews: Twin Peaks Episodes 12-13
The gang is all back to discuss the weirdnesses and brilliance of the latest two episodes of David Lynch’s, Twin Peaks: The Return (aka Season 3). The ending music is “Sycamore Trees” from the Fire Walk With Me soundtrack. You can buy your own copy here.
