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Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Clown in a CornfieldCLOWN IN A CORNFIELD MOVIE REVIEW A clown? In MY cornfield? It could happen to you. Is your small town kept barely functional by the existence of a corn syrup manufacturing plant with a clown as the logo? Did that plant recently burn down and it at least appears that some local troublesome kids were […]2025-05-1535 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: FriendshipFRIENDSHIP MOVIE REVIEW So, this is why men shouldn’t have friends. Friendship is the new film by Andrew DeYoung starring the ever chaotic Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in an absurdist comedy that delves into the nightmare territory of a metaphorical (and occasionally literal) sandbox and just let them weird each other out for 90 […]2025-05-1532 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Final Destination: BloodlinesFINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES REVIEW 2025 is surprisingly turning out to be a big year for horror, and while returns to franchises that haven’t had a new entry in well over a decade certainly hasn’t consistently had gold results, we always hold out hope that a formerly great series can regain its glory once more. We […]2025-05-1430 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash in the Can: CybernatorTRASH IN THE CAN: CYBERNATOR What do you get when you take Bladerunner, add some Robocop, slash all but $7 from the budget, and throw in some remedial stripping? Find out as OneofUs.Net founder Chris Cox joins the boys for a raucous dicing of the inaudible sci-fi mess known as Cybernator! YOUR HOSTS […]2025-05-061h 36Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Thunderbolts*THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE REVIEW The final film of Marvel’s Phase 5 (is anyone keeping track anymore) follows a group of d-listers gathered together reluctantly because of forces arrayed against all of them. No, this isn’t The Suicide Squad, it’s Thunderbolts*. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is our central character and first point of contact, as we watch […]2025-05-0347 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: The Legend of OchiTHE LEGEND OF OCHI MOVIE REVIEW While A24’s latest release The Legend of Ochi may be a film directed at children, the review Chris, Wright, and Marco did for it is decidedly not (despite Marco’s best efforts to keep it on track). While discussing this little injured cryptid creature the film centers around, it was […]2025-04-2340 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: DropDROP MOVIE REVIEW Remember when everything was “Die Hard on a _____”? No? Ok, you may have been too young for that but trust me, it was incessant. With the streaming success of Carry-On when seeing what the plot of Drop was, I couldn’t help but think “Carry-On but in a restaurant”. Violet (Meghann Fahy) […]2025-04-1042 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: WarfareWARFARE MOVIE REVIEW While working on his previous film Civil War, Alex Garland got to be friends with the military advisor on it, Ray Mendoza. They decided to write a script together based on an experience Ray had gone through in his experiences in the Iraq War. Initially Garland was going to be sole director […]2025-04-0945 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash in the Can: Angels with AnglesTRASH IN THE CAN: ANGELS WITH ANGLES How did movies resurrect and exploit dead celebrities before Rogue One? Easy! Impressionists in Party City makeup and a budget so low the estate doesn’t bother to sue. Host of podcast Whatever Happened to Bette & Joan, Frank Calvillo, joins us for a bizarre vanity project about a […]2025-04-081h 43Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: The Ballad of Wallace IslandTHE BALLAD OF WALLACE ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Imagine you had more money than you knew what to do with that came upon you like unexpected manna from heaven. After you had traveled the world, bought your perfect house on your perfect island, what then? If you’re Charles (Tim Key) you make an offer to your […]2025-04-0340 minWright Sulek Archives -Digital Noise Episode 342: Stairway to Podcast HeavenDIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 342: STAIRWAY TO PODCAST HEAVEN Wright and Chris indulge in a mega-length review session of a whole bunch of movies. But if you listen very hard, it’ll come to you at last…. We talk about part two of the crisis that never ends for superheroes, and three parts of the con that […]2025-03-302h 08Wright Sulek Archives -Digital Noise Episode 354: That Orca Deserves His Revenge, And Those People Deserve to DieDIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 354: THAT ORCA DESERVES HIS REVENGE, AND THOSE PEOPLE DESERVE TO DIE Chris and Wright have a ton of goofy fun with this week’s stack of home releases. To what is probably the best of the Jaws rip-offs of the 70s (a low bar), to a horror movie where the joke is […]2025-03-281h 59Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: A Working ManA WORKING MAN REVIEW Say what you will about this new found collaboration between David Ayer and Jason Statham, but they really know how to turn b-movie action plots into ridiculous and eccentric flicks. Jason Statham stars as Levon Cade who works as a foreman on a construction site run by mild mannered Michael Pena. […]2025-03-2841 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Black BagBLACK BAG MOVIE REVIEW Who knew after Steven Soderbergh’s retirement back in 2017 that he would ultimately make another fifteen feature films? We all did. Now with his 40th film, Black Bag is a return to sexy form for Soderbergh with an all star cast. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play husband & wife spies […]2025-03-1435 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: NovocaineNOVOCAINE MOVIE REVIEW Full disclosure: This was our first experience seeing a film in 4DX, which are, as Beau puts it, massage chairs that kick the crap out of you. Some of us loved the experience. Some of us had to gag a few times. But either way, it definitely affected our experience of watching […]2025-03-1339 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Mickey 17MICKEY 17 MOVIE REVIEW A new science fiction dystopian satire with Robert Pattinson playing dual roles and with Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette as exaggeratedly evil bad guys is alone enough to sell one on being excited for the new film Mickey 17. When you see it’s the latest film by the legendary four-time Oscar […]2025-03-0534 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Last BreathLAST BREATH MOVIE REVIEW In 2012, a diving accident during repairs of oil lines in the North Sea led to a daring rescue of a trapped diver without heat, light, or air. In 2019 director Alex Parkinson released a documentary about the incident. In 2022, he got Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, and Finn Cole to […]2025-02-2729 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash on the Tube: The ConeheadsTRASH ON THE TUBE: THE CONEHEADS Just in time to miss the SNL 50th Anniversary celebration, Trash on the Tube presents two animated SNL sitcoms that make you yearn for the nuanced humor of It’s Pat. Join us as we watch The Coneheads and The Blues Brothers Animated Series! YOUR HOSTS Wright Sulek […]2025-02-261h 02Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: The MonkeyTHE MONKEY MOVIE REVIEW Director/writer Osgood Perkins is on a roll. Not long after making the horror movie everyone was talking about (good or bad) Longlegs, Perkins is back already with an adaptation of the Stephen King story The Monkey, but this time he’s playing with splatstick comedy-horror. Theo James plays twin brothers Hal and […]2025-02-2037 minWright Sulek Archives -Digital Noise Episode 352: Hidden GemsDIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 352: HIDDEN GEMS Chris and Wright get a stack packed with some real winners: some older all-timers that are new to one or both of them, some acknowledged classics with fantastic 4k upgrades, and at least one that has been a bucket-list item for them for a very long time and more […]2025-02-172h 39Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Paddington in PeruPADDINGTON IN PERU MOVIE REVIEW If you’re slow to catch this train, Paddington 1 and 2 rank among the best children’s films ever made. If even Pedro Pascal and Nic Cage cry together about how wonderful they are, you can give them a shot. So, when the most adorable bear ever returns for a third […]2025-02-1436 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Captain America: Brave New WorldCAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD MOVIE REVIEW Here we are at the 35th film in the MCU and the 4th Captain America film, albeit with a notable change. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) once a partner to Steve Rogers, was chosen by him specifically to take on the mantle of Captain America, after the events of […]2025-02-1453 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Love HurtsLOVE HURTS MOVIE REVIEW It was so great to see the return of actor Ke Huy Quan in the sublime Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2022. Having retired from acting for a very long time, Quan is known to Americans for his roles as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom […]2025-02-1036 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Heart EyesHEART EYES MOVIE REVIEW In continuing the ever-meta-ning of the horror-comedy genre, as we go deeper into the rabbit-hole of self-referentialism and winking at the audience, some of the entries have become absurdly lazy. Fortunately, one of the brightest lights in the field, Christopher Landon, is one of the writers of Heart Eyes and if […]2025-02-0547 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash in the Can: BlackbirdTRASH IN THE CAN: BLACKBIRD As fascism spreads across the globe, we look to the hero Dublin deserves, but not the one it needs right now. Or ever really. Lord of the Dance himself, Michael Flatley, whose acting can best be described by his last name, stars in this Bond pastiche he also wrote and […]2025-01-281h 52Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: PresencePRESENCE MOVIE REVIEW Certainly writer David Koepp seems like a safe bet for a haunted house film (if you’ve never seen it, Stir of Echoes is great) but Steven Soderbergh as director? As one of our critics put it, “He just wanted to shoot an entire movie like his buddy Spike Jonze shot Beastie Boys […]2025-01-2342 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Wolf ManWOLF MAN MOVIE REVIEW The early excitement over the new Wolf Man movie had less to do with there being a new reboot of the Universal classic monster, The Wolf Man, and more with the writer/director Leigh Whannell. As a writer he created the Saw and Insidious franchises with James Wan. As a director, he […]2025-01-2142 minWright Sulek Archives -Digital Noise Episode 350: Some Weird Cool StuffDIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 350: SOME WEIRD COOL STUFF Wright and Chris record a Digital Noise episode so long that it should be nominated for Best Picture this year. From a criminally underseen classic in the vein of the Coen Brothers (but not by them), to a Spanish classic where a dog plays Tommy Lee Jones. […]2025-01-142h 19Wright Sulek Archives -The Best Films of 2024 Part TwoTHE BEST FILMS OF 2024 PART TWO Our best of 2024 film list continues with double the speed and that many more films for us to gush about. Come sit around the round table with the One Of Us Austin crew and see if we can turn you on to some stuff you may have […]2025-01-141h 26Wright Sulek Archives -The Best Films of 2024 Part OneTHE BEST FILMS OF 2024 PART ONE This more accurately should be titled, the best films of 2024 that we haven’t already talked about (largely). Because we are not talking about Anora, The Brutalist, or The Substance here. We did those reviews. We’re primarily talking about the other greatest films that we didn’t get to […]2025-01-101h 26Wright Sulek Archives -Trash in the Can: Rich Little’s Robin HoodTRASH IN THE CAN: 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 […]2024-12-261h 36Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: The BrutalistTHE 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 […]2024-12-2649 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: NosferatuNOSFERATU 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 […]2024-12-2540 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: A Complete UnknownA 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 […]2024-12-1850 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Kraven the HunterKRAVEN 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 […]2024-12-1445 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: QueerQUEER 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 […]2024-12-1042 minWright Sulek Archives -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 […]2024-12-101h 38Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Y2KY2K 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. […]2024-12-0440 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash in the Can: Demons at the DoorTRASH 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 […]2024-11-292h 00Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Moana 2MOANA 2 MOVIE REVIEW It’s not usually a good sign when an animation company repurposes a planned tv series into a sequel film to one of their hits. I mean, I think. It’s happened before, right? Regardless, that’s the case with Moana 2. We were nervous because of that, Lin-Manuel Miranda not returning to do […]2024-11-2732 minWright Sulek Archives -Screener Squad: The PenguinTHE PENGUIN SERIES REVIEW Set just one week after the events of 2022’s The Batman, The Penguin follows Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) trying to collect what little is left in his nightclub, The Iceberg Lounge. He’s caught by Carmine Falcone’s son Alberto Falcone (Michael Zegen), but through a fit of rage Oz kills Alberto. Now […]2024-11-2127 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Gladiator IIGLADIATOR II MOVIE REVIEW After 24 years, Ridley Scott decided to dust off the old Gladiator garb and make a sequel to his 2000 epic that won the gold at the Oscars. Does Gladiator II have the same chances at becoming the best film of the year? Highly unlikely. Paul Mescal takes on the titular […]2024-11-2141 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: WickedWICKED MOVIE REVIEW Seems like a holiday season can’t go by anymore without a big event musical film. Not that Chris, Frank, Wright, and Kim are complaining (note: these four end up together on a lot of the musical releases). This year though, one of the biggest musicals of the past few decades that has […]2024-11-2048 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Red OneRED ONE MOVIE REVIEW The influx of Xmas movies has begun. With a big cast and with director Jake Kasdan (The Jumanji movies) at the helm, Red One inserts a Marvel movie feel to the proceedings. Dwayne Johnson is Callum Drift, a top agent at E.L.F. who protects Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) and other mythological […]2024-11-1839 minWright Sulek Archives -Digital Noise Episode 348: Late Nite With Chris and WrightDIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 348: LATE NIGHT WITH CHRIS AND WRIGHT Some off-color antics pervade this week’s episode of Digital Noise with Chris and Wright and who can blame them? It’s a tough stack. From a collection of the best-worst 80s tits and teens cheapies, to a rightfully maligned film legend’s daughter giving it her own […]2024-11-081h 52Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Memoir of a SnailMEMOIR OF A SNAIL MOVIE REVIEW There are some filmmakers out there that appear to have an agenda to make the audience feel utter despair and sadness. Much like his previous film Mary & Max, Adam Elliot’s newest picture, Memoir of a Snail, drives home how truly terrible it can be to just exist in […]2024-11-0833 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash in the Can: The KissTRASH IN THE CAN: THE KISS Get ready to lose your head over an escalator! Alan Galinsky joins us for a movie that can’t decide if it’s about voodoo, parasites, or vaguely European lesbian incest. Come for the rubber cat puppet and stay for the most shocking “Recycling” segment we’ve ever had. We watched 1988’s […]2024-10-261h 21Wright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Venom: The Last DanceVENOM: THE LAST DANCE MOVIE REVIEW Unbelievably, Venom: The Last Dance is the third film in the series to get made, starring Tom Hardy in the dual roles of Eddie Brock and his charming but homicidal alien symbiote Venom. This time he’s on the run from nearly everybody. The law wants him because after the […]2024-10-2539 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Smile 2Smile 2 Movie Review The saying “a smile is worth a thousand words” doesn’t even begin to describe the horror in Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 hit Smile. Smile 2 takes place 6 days after where the last film left us and we’re following the lone survivor of the Smile entity, Joel (Kyle Gallner). […]2024-10-1732 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: We Live In TimeWE LIVE IN TIME MOVIE REVIEW Who knew that what the world needed right now is the ridiculous amount of charisma of Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in a romance? Directed by John Crowley (Brooklyn, Boy A), We Live In Time tells the story of Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield) and how their car crash-cute […]2024-10-1727 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Saturday NightSaturday Night Movie Review In the midst of its 50th season on television, Saturday Night Live is without question a staple in American comedy. It’s hard to imagine that the comedy juggernaut was almost an impressive disaster right up until it aired on October 11th, 1975. Saturday Night, directed by Jason Reitman, tells the story […]2024-10-1036 minWright Sulek Archives -Screener Squad: AzraelAZRAEL MOVIE REVIEW Some time after the Rapture, we find civilization in disarray and no one can speak. Azrael follows the titular character (Samara Weaving) and her partner Kenan (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett), as they escape imprisonment from a female-led community of religious zealots. As she’s recaptured, she is due to be sacrificed by an evil entity, […]2024-10-1020 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: MegalopolisMEGALOPOLIS MOVIE REVIEW Once heralded as one of the most gifted filmmakers of all time, Francis Ford Coppola has finally achieved his nearly 40 year dream in releasing his epic vision, Megalopolis. The film is jam packed full of incredible actors and some problematic ones. It is led by Adam Driver who plays Cesar Catilina, […]2024-10-0551 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: Joker: Folie à DeuxFolie à Deux Movie Review The Clown Prince of Crime has taken on Batman, the Justice League, and the Gotham Police time and time again, but his newest foe…musicals? Joaquin Phoenix is back in his Oscar winning performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux. Todd Phillips’ approach to the 2019 film was an […]2024-10-0533 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The Creep TapesTHE CREEP TAPES SERIES REVIEW After two successful and highly thought of found footage movies, Mark Duplass as Josef with Patrick Brice back in the director’s chair return to tell more stories of the strangest serial killer in The Creep Tapes. Going from films to a six-episode Shudder tv series may seem like an ‘uh-oh’ […]2024-10-0210 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Escape From the 21st CenturyESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY MOVIE REVIEW Three High School best friends, after an encounter with some toxic waste, get a super-inconvenient superpower. Whenever they sneeze, their bodies in 1999 fall unconscious and their minds go into their own bodies twenty years in the future. This also apparently wipes out the personalities that exist in […]2024-10-0210 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Daddy’s HeadDADDY’S HEAD MOVIE REVIEW A young boy named Isaac whose father has just died, and who not long before had to deal with the death of his mother, is withdrawn and upset. Laura (Julia Brown) had recently married Isaac’s father and now as the sole caregiver without much of a connection with the boy even […]2024-10-0210 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Better ManBETTER MAN MOVIE REVIEW Oh My God, It Was Earth All Along, You Finally Made a Monkey Out of Me. It was a missed opportunity not to have iconic singer Robbie Williams belt out a version of the Troy McClure song in the biopic about his life Better Man. Why? Because the part of Robbie […]2024-10-0212 minWright Sulek Archives -Trash on the Tube: The People Next DoorTRASH ON THE TUBE: THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR This week on Trash on the Tube, Master of Horror Wes Craven brings his most terrifying monster to the small screen – Jeffrey Jones! That’s right, noted character actor and pedophile stars as a cartoonist and “family man” whose imagination comes to life in this oddball sitcom […]2024-09-301h 13Wright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The ApprenticeTHE APPRENTICE MOVIE REVIEW Get ready for the movie that gives you the story of why we live in such an insane world. The story of Donald Trump and how he got to be…well…like he is. Sebastian Stan takes on Trump with a measured performance as we see him at first as a young man. […]2024-09-2812 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – House of SpoilsHOUSE OF SPOILS MOVIE REVIEW Ariana DeBose plays Chef, who has just gotten her big shot thanks to an enthusiastic investor (Arian Moayed) to run her own restaurant. It’s going to be very high-end, set in a crumbling mansion way out in the countryside. Expectations are high and she is ready to deliver, despite being […]2024-09-2809 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – TrizombieTRIZOMBIE MOVIE REVIEW In another ‘probably only at Fantastic Fest’ movie, one of the few zombie entries this year was the Belgian film Trizombie. In most ways this is a traditional zombie story with a group of survivors who must make a trek across zombie infested areas in order to reach their goal. The difference […]2024-09-2810 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Don’t Mess With GrandmaDON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA MOVIE REVIEW There are a lot of home invasion films out there these days, some of ’em pretty scary and intense. That is NOT the vibe that Don’t Mess With Grandma (formerly Sunset Superstar) is going for. Michael Jai White plays Jasper, a gentle giant and a big Dio fan who […]2024-09-2811 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Dead Talents SocietyDEAD TALENTS SOCIETY MOVIE REVIEW It’s odd to describe a film with as much gore and supernatural scary stuff in it as Dead Talents Society as ‘delightful’ and even ‘heartwarming’, but here we are. It’s the sort of thing that can happen at Fantastic Fest. This Taiwanese film takes place on Earth, but from the […]2024-09-2811 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The Wild RobotTHE WILD ROBOT MOVIE REVIEW Dreamworks Animation is here with another big prestige project, The Wild Robot. With Chris Sanders at the helm, who directed Lilo & Stitch, How To Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, you can be reasonably sure it’s going to be a good one. And lo, it delivers. The story takes […]2024-09-2811 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Heavier TripHEAVIER TRIP MOVIE REVIEW One of the low-key hits of 2018 among folks who actually go to see bizarro foreign films at movie fests was Heavy Trip. The story followed the four members of the metal band Impaled Rektum and their insane misadventures. Basically, Wayne’s World in Europe but with a more surreal and very […]2024-09-2411 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Saturday NightSATURDAY NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW The story of Saturday Night Live’s beginnings is one of a show hindered by chaotic creatives, unconvinced executives, drugs, sex, and one very beleaguered but determined showrunner. Director Jason Reitman brings us the story of the 90 minutes before SNL went live for the first time and how close it came […]2024-09-2414 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – AnoraANORA MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Sean Baker hits Fantastic Fest with the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes this year, Anora. Ani (Mikey Madison) is a stripper whose life in New York City is filled with parties, sex, and fun. Because she can speak Russian, her boss connects her with a young Russian son of an oligarch […]2024-09-2415 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – Terrifier 3TERRIFIER 3 MOVIE REVIEW One of the best things about Fantastic Fest is how there’s something very nichey for every taste. And if your taste runs to unbelievably explicit gore and goofy clown killers, then you already know all about director/writer Damien Leone’s Terrifier series. The third entry dips into the beloved subgenre of Xmas […]2024-09-2414 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – The Rule of Jenny PenTHE RULE OF JENNY PEN MOVIE REVIEW John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush play two men in a nursing home who go to war with each other. That’s certainly enough of a selling point alone for the Fantastic Fest film, The Rule of Jenny Pen. But the film we saw wasn’t exactly what we expected. Rush […]2024-09-2412 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – PárvulosPárvulos Movie Review Mexican director Isaac Ezban returns to Fantastic Fest this year with his new post-zombie-apocalypse film Párvulos. The story centers around a house in the middle of nowhere where a teen boy and his two much younger brothers eke out a scant survival. Both parents are gone, ostensibly dead but it appears as […]2024-09-2315 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – What Happened to Dorothy Bell?WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? MOVIE REVIEW Found footage horror isn’t always everyone’s favorite, but if it’s playing at Fantastic Fest, it generally is better than most. Such is the case for What Happened to Dorothy Bell? written and directed by Danny Villanueva Jr. The film follows Ozzie (Asya Meadows) who has lost much of […]2024-09-2311 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2024 – BookwormBOOKWORM MOVIE REVIEW You just can’t keep Elijah Wood away from New Zealand. And who can blame him? It’s goddamn gorgeous. He gets to revisit the scenic countryside in his second collaboration with director Ant Timpson, Bookworm. The tale starts with Mildred (Nell Fisher) and her mom who don’t get along well. Mildred lives a […]2024-09-2215 minWright Sulek Archives -Infestation: U Are The UniverseU ARE THE UNIVERSE MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you were an astronaut on a deep space mission and discovered the Earth had blown up? If you were Ukrainian space trucker Andriy, then probably not much different. You’d continue to tolerate terrible dad jokes from your onboard robot trying to cheer you up, […]2024-09-2215 minWright Sulek Archives -Highly Suspect Reviews: The SubstanceTHE SUBSTANCE MOVIE REVIEW We’ve never seen Demi Moore like this before. Coralie Fargeat’s, director of Revenge, second feature film The Substance is a wild combination of David Cronenberg’s body-horror and Frank Henenlotter’s exploitation sensibilities. Demi Moore plays Elizabeth Sparkle, whose stardom has faded from Hollywood icon to hosting a tv workout show ala Jane […]2024-09-1850 minWright Sulek Archives -Screener Squad: Rebel RidgeREBEL RIDGE MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like a good ol’ fashioned solid action flick. Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) is back with his newest film, Rebel Ridge, starring Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb, and Don Johnson. We meet Pierre’s character Terry riding his bike down a long country road where he’s suddenly run off the road […]2024-09-1821 minWright Sulek Archives -Digital Noise Episode 346: The Men From Digital NoiseDIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 346: THE MEN FROM DIGITAL NOISE Chris and Wright have a stack that goes all over the place, from deadly electrified motorcycle beach killers to Costner “classics” getting a not-so-great reevaluation. From Bowie playing a con-man working with Rosanna Arquette to rob a restaurant, to a giant spider eating people in an […]2024-09-162h 07
Trash in the CanFind us on OneofUs.net!Hello to our devoted fans! You may be wondering why we haven't posted a new episode over the past few months. Were the trashy movies too much for us to handle? Has the mob finally found us? Did Wright ever figure out who the hell Phyllis Diller is? Most of these things did happen BUT we did, though, join a new podcast network. The lovely people over at OneofUs.net led by Chris Cox has taken us under their wing. Please find us on the OneofUs.net website or please listen to us on Spotify moving forward under Highly Suspect R...2022-01-2505 minTrash in the CanMausoleumWe kick off spooky season on Trash in the Can with a boob-heavy demonic possession movie financed by the Columbo crime family! Join Caroline Sulek and the boys for barking breasts, Italian belly buttons, and the sloppiest kisses this side of a church camp sleepover. We watched 1983's "video nasty," The Mausoleum.2021-10-061h 06
NecromancerEpisode 47 - Ghoulfriend Experience with Wright SulekBret and Shira welcome a very special ghoulfriend to the podcast: Wright Sulek. Wright knows a thing or two about changing a horror into a rom com because he already did it with Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. As he and Bret, a fellow fan of the series, horrorsplain Jason tropes for the newbie, Shira has lots of questions. For example, is Jason the most well traveled serial killer? Could Tom Hardy play Jason in the rom com version? Listen and find out.
2020-12-211h 45Trash in the CanRiding the Bus with My SisterOn a very special episode of Trash in the Can, we explore sisterhood, representation of the disabled in media, and whether this movie really happened or if it's just a problematic fever dream. Rosie O'Donnell stars as a developmentally disabled woman that loves Tweety Bird and we handle it with the sensitivity you've come to expect from us. Join us with returning guest and sister, Caroline Sulek, as we watch Hallmark Movie of the Week, Riding the Bus with My Sister.2020-09-021h 21Trash in the CanA Gnome Named GnormThis week, guest Rhett O'Hara joins the boys for a raunchy, gooch-stabbing family adventure with a screaming Anthony Michael Hall, a horny ass-eating gnome, and Jerry Orbach wearing the hell out of a trench coat. Watch 1990's A Gnome Named Gnorm and see why special effects legend Stan Winston never directed another movie.2020-08-191h 16Trash in the CanDemonwarpJoin the boys with guest Elisa Leichty for Bigfoot werewolves, a non-union zombie workforce, alien crabs, and the most evil thing of all, a priest. No, it's not the latest season of American Horror Story, it's 1988's kitchen sink horror Demonwarp.2020-08-051h 08Trash in the CanThe MutilatorFall comes early this year as Tessa Morrison returns to the show for matricide, picture perfect vehicular homicide, a surefire herpes cure, and topless podcasting. Join us for 1984's Fall Break aka The Mutilator.2020-07-151h 19Trash in the CanThe Beast in HeatItalian Nazis create a mutant sex fiend in order to...well, not really sure. No, it's not the latest in 2020 news. This is 1977's exercise in poor taste, The Beast in Heat. Join the boys and guest Caroline Sulek for buttock skin tags, baby skeet shooting, milky slobbers, and some stuff we don't think we are allowed to say!2020-06-2456 minTrash in the CanBaffled!What says charisma, machismo, and sexual magnetism more than Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy? Literally anything! Be bored! Be indifferent! Be baffled! Comedian Brendan K. O'Grady returns for a race car driving psychic, the wonder of becoming a woman, and unnecessary exclamation points in 1973's Baffled!2020-06-031h 33Trash in the CanFlesh Eating MothersHere's to all you mothers out there! Wright's sister, Caroline Sulek, returns this week for a celebration of motherhood with sexually transmitted cannibalism, a teenage girl Toby Jones, and the world's smallest medical examiner! We watched 1988's Flesh Eating Mothers.2020-05-201h 15Trash in the CanThe FanaticA few names come to mind when you think of great cinema - Hitchcock, Scorsese, Durst. We attempted our first quarantine episode and it could be our last. This week we watched 2019's The Fanatic starring an elderly Joe Exotic lookalike, John Travolta. We spar over mental handicaps, Scientology related deaths, and the classic rock band - Limp Bizkit.2020-05-061h 35Trash in the CanR.O.T.O.R.Two words - SHOULDER PADS. Friend of the show, Tessa Morrison, brings us this Robocop-on-a-dime starring coffee drinking horses, candy corn, and the most offensive Native American portrayal since F Troop (Google it). We watched 1987's R.O.T.O.R.!2020-04-081h 08Trash in the Can1313: Haunted FratDo you wish porn would cut out all that sex to concentrate on the terrible dialogue and wooden delivery? Chance Ellis joins us this week for tighty whities (whitey tighties?), soapless showering, and absolutely nothing else. We watched 1313: Haunted Frat and cannot stress enough that you shouldn't.2020-03-231h 26Trash in the CanTwisted PairWho am I? What am I? Prepare to not only have those questions not answered, but have even more when it's over. Watch how far one middle aged David Brenner impersonator's vanity and real estate money can go! Returning guest Caroline Sulek joins the boys for artificial intelligence, scotch tape mustaches, and voice modulation in Neil Breen's Twisted Pair.2020-03-111h 04Trash in the CanMicrowave MassacreThe original voice of Frosty the Snowman has intercourse with and eats various sex workers using his microwave. Yeah, this one is pretty problematic even by our low standards. Join guest Amanda Schiff for plastic crab sandwiches, comatose line readings, and a lady slathered with mayonnaise in 1983's Microwave Massacre!2020-02-261h 25Trash in the CanThe FanComedian Brendan K. O'Grady joins the boys for screen legend Lauren Bacall's comeback vehicle, 1981's The Fan. They'll talk flat notes, black Hitler, and Wright's confirmed heterosexuality. *Note - The deepest voice featured in this episode is Lauren Bacall.2019-11-271h 36Trash in the CanThe SucklingIt's a family affair on this week's Trash in the Can. We're joined by Wright's sister, Caroline Sulek, to revel in mutant fetus mayhem, expert pegging foley work, and how many drinks at dinner before recording is too many for Eric. We watch a ninja turtles origin story, but with 100% more abortion, 1990's The Suckling.2019-02-271h 06Trash in the CanHard Rock ZombiesDo you like Footloose, but wish it had 100% more nazis? The boys are joined by returning guest Tessa Morrison to discuss Wright's sexy aunt, hair metal beefcakes, and werewolf grandmas. We watch Hard Rock Zombies on this week's Trash in the Can!2019-01-1655 minTrash in the CanThe BabyGet ready for twists and turns galore, as we dissect the 1973 adult-baby exploitation extravaganza, The Baby. Join Wright, Eric and special guest Matt Ryan, and David Manzy as Baby.2018-06-0657 minTrash in the CanPhantom of the ParadiseJoin Eric and Wright as they time travel back to the 70s, where everyone was ugly, had just okay voices and it didn't matter because Watergate, man. They watch 'Phantom of the Paradise' - a rock opera featuring the music of Paul Williams at his tiny, coked out best! They're joined by Fiber Artist, Cosplayer, and Beef Fan Club Chair, Tessa Morrison!2018-05-301h 13Trash in the CanCrawlspace"A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices." - imdb.com Tourist Trap meets Schlindler's List in the most tasteful episode of Trash in the Can to date! Eric and Wright with special guest, Travis Patten, discuss the 1986 classic, Crawlspace, starring Klaus Kinski and Tequila Milk!2018-05-1657 minTrash in the CanNight of the Lepus"Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west." - IMDB.com Eric and Wright are joined by Kat Keating to discuss furry fiends, cowboy butts, big Rory Calhoun, and Janet Leigh slumming it in this week's episode of Trash in the Can.2018-04-2545 min
Trash in the CanBlood Harvest"In a small town, people are being murdered by having their throats cut." - IMDB Eric and Wright are joined by Rhett O'Hara (Podcast - Of Pixels and Polygons) to discuss Tiny Tim, clowns, hard bodies, and murder in the premiere episode of what people are calling "a podcast."2018-04-131h 03