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Digital Noise Episode 349: THE LAST 2024 EPISODE IN 2025 DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 349: The LAST 2024 EPISODE IN 2025 With the variable pressures of the holiday season, Chris and John are sorry that they were unable to get this Xmas Digital Noise episode up until 2025. And so it goes. But we do have some great stuff to talk about this week from one of the best action films ever made (that you probably have never seen or heard of), to a trilogy of disaffected 90s indie-kid films. From the most expensive but weakest chapter in a sci-fi series, to two of the most inscrutable but fascinating art films… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 349: THE LAST 2024 EPISODE IN 2025 read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Final Season STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS – THE FINAL SEASON REVIEW Every journey begins with a first step and every voyage of a starship ends with a final frontier.  Paramount presents the final season of the Starfleet crew on the California Class USS Cerritos on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.  A lot has happened across the universe for a crew over the past 4 seasons.  Actions have created ripples that have affected the lives of entire civilizations.  This season, their choices won’t just determine the future of this universe.  The trendy and never tiresome multiverse is now at stake.  Things… Read More »Screener Squad: Star Trek: Lower Decks – The Final Season read more on One of Us

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Trash on the Tube: Rich Little's Robin Hood TRASH ON THE TUBE: RICH LITTLE’S ROBIN HOOD A holiday tradition continues and ends with today’s show. In 2022, we celebrated the season with Rich Little’s “star-studded” retelling of A Christmas Carol and we give it another go with Rich Little’s impression-laden Robin Hood. Is it festive? No. Is it fun? Try again. Did we force the same guest to sit through this next chapter in Rich Little’s unending career? You bet! Baylor Johnson returns with a pretty decent Jimmy Stewart impression as we enjoy Rich Little’s Robin Hood from 1982.   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Da Other Boss,… Read More »Trash in the Can: Rich Little’s Robin Hood read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: The Brutalist THE BRUTALIST MOVIE REVIEW Who knew a nearly 4 hour sweeping historical epic could move at a breakneck pace? Brady Corbet’s newest feature, The Brutalist, achieves that in spades and very well could be one of the best films of the year. Adrien Brody stars as László Tóth, a Hungarian holocaust survivor emigrating to America while trying to acclimate to his new home. Through many trials, Tóth meets wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) and his luck begins to change. Buren, so caught up in Tóth’s beautiful redesign of his private library, offers him the chance of a… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: The Brutalist read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Carry-On CARRY-ON MOVIE REVIEW Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is living his best life. His beautiful girlfriend Nora (Sofia Carson) has just had a positive pregnancy test and she is slaying problems as a career girl. His best friend Jason (Sinqua Walls) encourages him to reach for that next rung on the corporate ladder. He and Nora are talking vacation plans to celebrate in Tahiti for maybe next Christmas. There’s just one all encompassing issue standing in his way: himself. Ethan is a bare minimum, no ambition, kinda run of the mill, Jersey sad sack. Lucky for him, on this particular Christmas… Read More »Screener Squad: Carry-On read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: Better Man BETTER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Let’s go through our musical biopic checklist, shall we? Talented kid from a broken home dreams of becoming a pop star? Check. Serious daddy issues? Check. Fame and overwork leads to exhaustion, addiction, and self-destructive behavior? Check, check, and check. Protagonist is depicted as a CGI singing, dancing monkey voiced by the musical celebrity himself? Also check. Wait, what?! Based on the life and career of UK pop star Robbie Williams, Better Man rarely deviates from the standard musical biopic template; however, that last creative decision breaks with the formula entirely. This admittedly novel approach allows… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Better Man read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: Nosferatu NOSFERATU MOVIE REVIEW Nothing says “Merry Christmas” quite like a prestige horror film. Robert Eggers is back and has delivered his 4th feature film with his version of the classic, Nosferatu . Bill Skarsgård stars as the titular vampire whose shadow looms over the picture like a cold blanket while Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter who’s haunted by the beast. As her doting husband Thomas (Nicholas Hoult) has been tasked to finalize a lease for Count Orlok, Ellen becomes deeply concerned for his well being. Thomas’s journey takes a turn for the worse when he discovers that Orlok is… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Nosferatu read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: A Complete Unknown A COMPLETE UNKNOWN MOVIE REVIEW Director James Mangold more or less made the film that defined all the tropes of the musical biopic with his 2005 film about Johnny Cash, Walk The Line. Said tropes than thoroughly and perfectly satirized in 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Naturally, many were wary when Mangold was put at the helm of A Complete Unknown, following a young Bob Dylan, but we needn’t have feared. I suspect Mangold laughed at Walk Hard as well. Timothée Chalamet takes on the role of the legendary musician and he is presented as largely a cypher.… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: A Complete Unknown read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: Kraven the Hunter KRAVEN THE HUNTER MOVIE REVIEW Let us raise a glass to the end of the Sony era of Spider-man spinoff films that no one asked for. Morbius, Madam Web, and the Venom movies, have had a very rocky history with critics and their latest, Kraven the Hunter, is no different. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular hunter who is on a convoluted quest to take out as many evil doers as he can with his supernatural “animal” powers. We first meet Kraven as a young boy along with his meek brother (later played by Fred Hechinger) as they’re presented with… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Kraven the Hunter read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: The Franchise THE FRANCHISE SERIES REVIEW Making a movie involves hundreds of jobs, from key grips to craft services, actors to directors, producers to a marketing team, and don’t even get me started on the writer’s room. Movie magic is a lot less whimsy and wonder and a lot more delegating unforeseen problems to the assistant to the best person for the job. The Franchise isn’t just a series about making a big summer blockbuster but rather a show about making a film that fits perfectly into a run of films ala the current trend of the on-going film franchise universe. The… Read More »Screener Squad: The Franchise read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Juror #2 JUROR #2 MOVIE REVIEW Whenever a jury duty summons comes in, I’m annoyed, aren’t we all, but definitely not mad about it either. However, if I received this notice while my wife was enduring a second pregnancy in the third trimester, I’d be quite angry. Enter our protagonist Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult). A recovering alcoholic, Justin wants to prove that the dishonest and self sabotaging drunk he once was is a distant regret. He is appointed Juror #2 and eagerly awaits his chance to show his peers his newfound eagle scout levels of honour. There’s just one highly ethical and… Read More »Screener Squad: Juror #2 Movie Review read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: Queer QUEER MOVIE REVIEW Director Luca Guadagnino dives into the world of transgressive author William S Burroughs with his latest film, Queer. The story follows Burroughs, as his literary stand-in William Lee (Daniel Craig). The writer drinks his way through his days, living in Mexico, and looking for love. Well, sex anyway. He forms an irresistible attraction to a young man named Eugene (Drew Starkey) whose sexuality seems unclear. Eventually though, the two join (in multiple senses) and end up on an adventure to South America seeking a mysterious drug deep in the jungles that is rumored to give its users… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Queer read more on One of Us

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Trash in the Can: Alien from L.A. TRASH IN THE CAN: ALIEN FROM L.A. This week, we see a film that blends Journey to the Center of the Earth, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Mario Brothers, and a Jane Fonda Workout. Sound fun? No? What’s wrong with you? Nathan Flynn joins us for Kathy Ireland’s acting debut as a baby-voiced moron in 1988’s Alien From L.A.!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor) Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then… Read More »Trash in the Can: Alien from L.A. read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: Arcane Season 2 ARCANE SEASON 2 REVIEW Frederick Douglass once said, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” These words carry weight and wisdom in our own reality but also sum up the ending of Arcane Season 1, a League of Legends animated adaptation of a popular video game presented by Netflix and produced by the animation studio Fortiche. Jinx (Ella Purnell) in the aftermath of her terrorist attack on the… Read More »Screener Squad: Arcane Season 2 read more on One of Us

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Highly Suspect Reviews: Y2K Y2K MOVIE REVIEW Some of us are old enough to remember New Year’s Eve as we went from 1999-2000. There was a big scare dubbed Y2K that was about fears that all computerized devices were going to shut down (or something) because their internalized clocks were not set up to deal with that calendar change. In retrospective, it seems pretty stupid (they literally just got in there and fixed the problem before it became one) and in fact, nothing happened. But in the new comedy-horror film from A24, Y2K, it’s a different story. Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison)… Read More »Highly Suspect Reviews: Y2K read more on One of Us

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Screener Squad: The Order THE ORDER MOVIE REVIEW Bank robberies, car heist, a disappearance, a terrible work of fiction called The Turner Diaries…What connects them? An offshoot Aryan Nation group calling themselves The Order. The film The Order tells the story of FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) investigating the rise of a Nazi militia led by young charismatic second generation bigot-boy Bob Mathews (Nicholas Hoult) in the way back time of 1983-84. It wasn’t all kids on bikes, hair bands, and sewer clowns back then, kids. Sometimes evil lurked in broad daylight carrying a message of hope wrapped in fear with instructions for… Read More »Screener Squad: The Order read more on One of Us

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Trash in the Can: Demons at the Door TRASH IN THE CAN: DEMONS AT THE DOOR What do you get when you throw Satan, rubber puppets, a pug, and Richard Elfman into a blender? Nothing good! Guest Josh Santo helps the boys make sense of this Juggalo directed battle of good against evil. Crack open a bottle of Faygo and join us for 2004’s Demons at the Door!   YOUR HOSTS   Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor) Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make… Read More »Trash in the Can: Demons at the Door read more on One of Us