Reviewed: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Guest: Jeff York
Top 5: Star Wars Scenes
Monthly Theme: Sigourney Weaver

Movie Roundup:

My friend here doesn’t like your other movies podcast very much… I don’t like your other movies podcast very much.

And do you want to know WHY I don’t like that other movies podcast very much? Because it’s not CinemaJaw dip-dangit!! And over here on the greatest movies podcast ever, we’re talking (drum roll) STAR WARS!!!

Because, for the first time in what feels like forever, we have a new Star Wars movie. It is officially that time: The Mandalorian and Grogu is OUT. Ryan and I caught it, as well as our good friend, Jeff York. So, after our screening, we invited Jeff onto the show to pitch in his review for the new Mando movie.

Plus, it’s kind of a big deal when a new Star Wars movie comes out, so we’re not leaving it there guys. This doesn’t happen often. There are – all things considered – not that many Star Wars movies. So we’re going to turn this review into a Star Wars Special; the first Star Wars special since Rogue One, no less. And we’re talking our Top 5 Star Wars Scenes.

This one is fun as hell guys. It’s always great talking Star Wars. It’s always great hanging out with Jeff. And it’s always great jawing about the movies.

Love you guys,

-KP

-KP

Reviewed: Obsession, The Wizard of the Kremlin
Guest: Zach Schnitzer
Top 5: Post-Grad Movies
Monthly Theme: Sigourney Weaver

I have absolutely no idea how old you are as a listener. For all I know, you – the Jaw head reading this – are 83 years old. Or maybe you’re 19. I really have no clue. All I will say is this:

To the 20-something that needs to hear this… no – it doesn’t get any better than this. You’re gonna look around and think to yourself: “this isn’t what they promised me adulthood would be like at all; this timeline sucks balls dude what the hell.”

Feeling better? Good, because that’s the EXACT kind of headspace we go into this week during our Top 5 Post-Grad movies! A list we came up with inspired by our guest Zach Schnitzer and his feature film Loafers. We discuss his film, which is about a group of young adults who just finish school, his experience playing at the Music Box Theater for the Chicago Critics Film Fest, and what’s next in the pipeline.

PLUS – we also have a review of the newest in a whole slew of YouTube Horror movies, this one’s titled: Obsession. And would you believe me if I told you we also prepped a capsule review of The Wizard of the Kremlin for you as well.

This is a good one guys! At the very least stick around for the Billie Eilish moment. That was awesome. You’ll know it when you hear it.

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Mortal Kombat II
Retro Review: Womething Wild
Top 5: Video Game Movies
Monthly Theme: Sigourney Weaver

With the glass ceiling broken, all the oppressed groups shall prosper; especially the most oppressed group of all: Gamers.

For too long, gamers have been silenced in the movies – well NO MORE. Ry The Movie Guy and KP finally give gamers their chance to rise up this week with a whole episode dedicated to video games.

That’s right Jawheads – we’re going there as we cover our top 5 video game movies AND review the brand new Mortal Kombat II. Shout out if you’re a gamer. Shout out if you’re a video game movie fan. And giga shout out if you got my meme reference at the top of the show notes.

While we’re at it, we also have our capsule review of the Chicago Critics Film Fest, some Hollywood news to discuss, and even a retro review of Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith’s Something Wild. 

This is a good one! Lotta fun!

Love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: The Devil Wears Prada 2, Deep Water
Guests: Michael Glover Smith & Elizabeth Stam
Top 3 Meryl Streep Movies
Monthly Theme: Sigourney Weaver

I’m done guys. I give up. I can’t work anymore under these conditions. My boss is the devil and I’m done with it. And I’m not kidding either. CinemaJaw recently got acquired by new owners, and Ryan and I have been working for the actual devil. His name is Lucifer S. Atan and he keeps talking about his last startup called the Prince of Darkness LLC.

Ryan and I are desperate for relief from the new CEO, so we’ve been blowing off steam where ever we can. And we’re in luck this week because we got a review of a comedy film about a terrible boss! We’ve got the legacy sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2, to talk about this week.

And we’re not doing this alone either!! It helps to have friends around the CinemaJaw offices during times like these, and we have Michael Glover Smith and Elizabeth Stam on the show to talk about their new movie Hekla! MGS directed. Elizabeth Stars in. And they both co-wrote it! And we’re super glad to have them with us this week!

Plus, that’s not all, we’ve got one more review for you, and this time around… we’re talking sharks. That’s right; we went for it and reviewed the new killer shark flick Deep Water.

Plus, a top 3 Meryl Streep listing, a new take on trivia, AND even a new monthly theme in store today. This is a good one y’all. I hope your May days were better than me and Ryan’s.

Love

-KP

Reviewed: Mother Mary, Hokum, Speed (1994)
Summer Movie Preview
Monthly Theme: Keanu Reeves

It’s shaping up to be a beautiful spring in Chicago and Ryan and I have a NEED FOR SPEED!!! And, yes, that is a movie pun because we’re talking about Keanu Reeve’s 1994 masterpiece Speed!! To start our spring off, we’re kicking it to you all with a retro review complete with Homer J. Simpson first ever CinemaJaw appearance.

And if you think watching 30-year-old movies is the only way we’re welcoming in the fairest of the seasons, then you are dead wrong! We’re also coming in hot and heavy with our annual Summer Movie Preview episode, which for a stacked year like 2026, that was no easy task to do.

Plus, we’ve got two more reviews coming out at ya! Ryan got out and checked out Mother Mary – Anne Hathaway’s new flick about… well… that’s confusing to say. Let’s just say it’s about a pop star, and the music and visuals are truly something to behold. Plus, Adam Scott, president of the the “Two First Namers In Movies” association, has a new horror film called Hokum out. You already know Ryan checked this one out too.

We had a ball recording this one and we think you’re gonna love the listen!! And you better believe we’re gonna catch ya at the Music Box for the Chicago Critics Film Festival this weekend, right??

Love

-KP

Guest: Erik Childress
Reviewed: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Normal, Outcome
Chicago Critics Film Fest Preview
Monthly Theme: Keanu Reeves

***Link to Chicago Critics Fest in Show Notes***

I don’t know where the hell you all live, but here in Chicago, spring has officially sprung!! And that’s bad ass for me personally. Not only because I am a fair weather fan in the most literal sense, but also because that means it’s festival season babyyyyy!!!!

And, like always, we start the Chicago festival season off right with the Chicago Critics Film Festival at the ICONIC Music Box theater. It’s a great fest with an ever-amazing lineup, and just like every year, we’ve got the organizer and fellow critic Erik Childress to come on and chat with us! We’re getting the hot takes on what to look out for and get most excited about for the upcoming fest!

We’ve also got something of a review-o-rama on our hands. Anything over 2 reviews is officially classified, and boy howdy do we have more than two! We’re doing Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (yes that is the actual title and yes we will discuss that). We also have the new Bob Odenkirk action flick Nobody!!… or wait… Nobody 2!!!… hang on… I’m checking the notes and it looks like it’s actually called Normal. Either way, we’re reviewing it. And for our final review, this one’s gotta have a stellar title. Or, honestly, I’ll take a title that’s just unoffensive to my sensibilities. And hey, would you look at that; it is! The last one is Keanu’s new diet to streaming movie: Outcome!

You know it. You love it. It’s some classic CinemaJaw guys.

Love

-KP

P.S. Here’s the link to the Chicago Critics Film Fest website and tickets!! Come on by and see something good! Maybe even see me and Ryan

https://www.chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com/films

Reviewed: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Top 10: Matt K’s Must Watch Films of the CinemaJaw Era
Monthly Theme: Keanu Reeves

*Good Riddance by Green Day plays quietly*

This is a big one everybody. This is huge. We’ve been talking about it for about a month now – this is Matt K’s final episode. And this time, for the last time, this show is all about one Matt Kubinski.

We wanted to make things special, so we’ve got an early clip from the Mother’s Era of CinemaJaw for an old segment called Cinema War. It’s peak Matt K in action. We’ve also got quite a Matt K film to review with the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. What better way to celebrate a video game lover like Matt, than with a love letter to Nintendo?? And, just to make this special, we are doing no top 5 this week. Instead, we’re giving the mic to Matt so he can lay down for all of us his Top 10 “Must Watch” Films of the CinemaJaw Era. These aren’t necessarily the best films over this nearly 2 decade journey; we’re talking the ones that you HAVE to watch. These are the ones that Matt K considers the absolute highlights of his tenure on this show. So PUT. THESE. IN. YOUR. QUEUES!!!

This Is a good one guys. Definitely a milestone episode that we hope you enjoy. Please continue to write in and show your love and support for Matt K. He’s not dying or anything and he’s gonna love to hear your favorite moments, favorite reviews, and favorite quotes from the one and only Matt Kubinski.

Love

-KP

-KP

Reviewed: They Will Kill You, Pretty Lethal, Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice
Monthly Theme: Keanu Reeves 

First Position. Third. And spin!!

No, I’m not rehearsing for my role in the Broadway adaptation of Billy Elliot – but thank you for confusing me with somebody genuinely talented. What I’m ACTUALLY doing is preparing myself to go see Pretty Lethal – the new ballet assassins movie starring Uma Thurman! And you can prepare too my dude!!! Just by listening to this podcast!

We have a review of Pretty Lethal, as mentioned. And would you believe me if I told you that this week is a Review-O-Rama too?? You should. Because it is. We’re also reviewing They Will Kill You – not to be confused with Ready or Not 2. And Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. Yes that is the name of the movie. No, I don’t like it.

We’ve also got a new monthly theme starting this week, and I am genuinely stoked about this one. Trivia. Fishtank. All your favorite segments and more – nowhere else buy CinemaJaw baby!

Love

-KP

Reviewed: Project Hail Mary, Ready or Not 2, The AI Doc
Top 3: Ryan Gosling Movies
Monthly Theme: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Stardate 03232026. Producer’s Log:

My name is KP Fujiwara, producer for the galaxy’s greatest movies podcast: CinemaJaw. I’m alone in space due to a podcast recording gone wrong. There’s nobody around me. I’ve got nothing but a rock monster and my prized collection of Ryan Gosling Blu Rays to keep me company.

If you’re reading this, I’ve included the podcast that got me stuck out here in this endless abyss. In it, Matt K and Ry The Movie Guy discuss Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling – it explains the DVDs and the rock monster.

The boys also list the best Gosling movies in this episode as well as two other reviews. The good old days from before I was lost in space… A time when we **COULD** talk about how Ready or Not 2 was a completely unasked for sequel and the new documentaries we caught like The AI Doc.

But I can’t go back now. Even if I did make it back to Earth, so much time has passed that I wonder if I would even recognize it. No. Impossible.

This is my life now. Me. Ryan Gosling. And the rock monster I still haven’t provided context for.

I have to go now.

-KP

Reviewed: Undertone, War Machine, Dolly
Monthly Theme: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Alrighty everybody, listen – we know the Oscars just happened for y’all and we will get to it next week I promise. To tide everybody over before we can get to recording our thoughts and feelings, we’ve got a good one for you all! It’s another Review-O-Rama for us, which – for Q1 – is pretty impressive. We’ve got things to say about the new podcast horror flick Undertone. That genre didn’t exist before now so think about how exciting that fact is kiddos.

We also caught Netflix’s newest #1 – War Machine. And, in case you were wondering if CinemaJaw’s changed in the slightest, you better believe we haven’t. We DO talk about direct to streaming movies vs movies that get theatrical releases.

And, to take us home, we finish the show with Dolly – our last review. It’s a horror movie starring none other than Seann William Scott… Stifler is back in the movies baybeeeee.

Some other things are trivia, it’s another Stump the Kubinski week which we know you love. And even a capsule review for Project Hail Mary as sort of a preview for what’s to come next week.

Plus – There’s some really big news towards the top of the show this week. There’s some big changes coming up that we wanted to let you all know about. Definitely not one to miss.

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: The Bride, Man on the Run, Scream 7
Roll Film: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neve Campbell, Wes Craven
Monthly Theme: Maggie Gyllenhaal

This episode is a graveyard smash you guys; we’re reviewing The Bride by Maggie Gyllenhaal. That’s all I’ve got on for this one. I’m a day late, and I still cannot think of a better introduction than a Monster Mash reference.

BUT – there’s more to a write up than just the intro. Just like how there’s more to this episode than just The Bride! We are full on in Review-O-Rama mode because we have two other reviews coming at ya. The first is the new Paul McCartney documentary: Man on the Run. The other review is for what I will say is certainly a horror movie in February: Scream 7.

Plus – we play our new favorite game Roll Film! Guys, we love this game. We’ve heard back from some of you that you do too, and that makes me really REALLY happy.

And, if all that wasn’t enough, we do even have a brief recap of our night out at The Music Box theater for the screening of For Worse – Amy Landecker’s new film we discussed 2 weeks ago.

Sorry for being late y’all. I got back from a trip to Wisconsin late this weekend and it delayed my affairs. I oblige your forgivenesses heartedly.

I love you all,

-KP