The latest and greatest of Blu-rays this week have Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski disagreeing on the films of Joe Carnahan. There are two Val Kilmer projects; one certainly better than the other (though it did produce a great John Frankenheimer story) as well as some early horror from Bob Clark and a more recent one from Osgood Perkins getting…

Reviewed: I Saw The TV Glow, Back to Black Best/Worst: Viggo Mortensen Movies, Musician Biopics, Teen Angst Horror Trivia: Viggo Mortensen Movie Trivia- Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Viggo Mortensen On this episode of CinemaJaw, we dip into the nostalgia supply with a look at a surreal horror that tackles 90’s kids TV (and MANY other t…

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at seven films this week. They include the latest directorial effort from Ethan Hawke (Wildcat) and the hilarious feature debut from Pamela Adlon (Babes). Horror gets a Danish sequel 30 years later (Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever) and Renny Harlin starts a new trilogy in the home invasion series (The Strangers:…

This week certainly has the latest and the greatest in Blu-rays. Depending on who you ask of course. If you inquire with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski you will certainly here about one of the greatest westerns of all-time (Erik’s favorite) as well as a film that deserves to be among the very best of Sidney Lumet’s career. Michael Powell direc…

Reviewed: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Last Stop in Yuma County Top 5 Human Vs. Animal Movies Trivia: Kingdom Movie Trivia- Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Viggo Mortensen It’s Human Vs. Animal on this episode of CinemaJaw! We explore our Top 5 Human Vs. Animal movies, and we tried to keep it to real animals, and both fantastic…

Reviewed: The Fall Guy Summer Movie Preview Trivia: Emily Blunt or Ryan Gosling – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Viggo Mortensen Greetings Jaw Heads! This week on CinemaJaw we bust out the highly collectible popcorn buckets, kick the chair in front of ourselves and scream at each explosion! It’s time for our Summer Movie Preview! Matt K…

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy stick to just four films this week including the acclaimed comedy from Joanna Arnow (The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed) and an adaptation into Anne Hathaway scandalously falling for a Boy Band member. The scandal! (The Idea of You). Jerry Seinfeld and a giant cast of comedians tell their versi…

This week’s physical media show has a little of everything and a lot of heartbreak. Nancy Savoca provides the latter as the “Savocaissance” continues on Blu-ray this year but there is also early James L. Brooks with Burt Reynolds missing out in a stacked year of Oscar nominees. We have an Anthony Mann western and a Roman Polanski thriller; a double…

Reviewed: Rebel Moon 2: Scargiver, Challengers Top 3 Farming Movies Trivia: Zack Snyder Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Kirsten Dunst This week we sew the fields, turn the soil, and farm up some good movies on our Top 3 Farming Movies. What is the fertilizer for this idea? Zack Snyders fresh and steaming pile (foreshadowing) of a sequel …

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at a half-dozen movies this week. If fashion design is your thing then Steve has a documentary for you (John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger). He has also been telling Erik about this great big spider movie since last year. Does he share the sentiment? (Infested). Steve catches up a pandemic-era comedy from…

This week’s physical media show features Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress talking about a seminal propaganda film from the ‘60s that inspired a ‘70s scene in Boogie Nights plus some science-fiction from the 1980s from Imprint. The ‘80s also across an all-star cast that helped launch Julia Roberts and a Nancy Savoca film from the ‘90s due for a r…

Reviewed: Abigail Top 5 Kidnapping Movies CinemaWAR: Who was the better Dracula, Gary Oldman or Nicolas Cage? Trivia: Kirsten Dunst Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Kirsten Dunst This week on CinemaJaw we welcome the amazing Erik Childress. Fellow critic, and organizer of the Chicago Critics Film Fest happening this May 3-9th at Chicago’s iconi…

Eight movie reviews this week from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy include both surprises and disappointments. Steve checks out a new crime film with Scoot McNairy and Kit Harington (Blood for Dust) and Erik goes to space briefly with the new IMAX short (Deep Sky). There are some lovely films to find including the latest and possibly last from Ken…

This week in physical media, Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress look at new releases from Bela Tarr to Luc Besson. Sony finalizes releases one of the best films from John Sayles and Shout Factory puts out an Oscar winning film from Paul Schrader. They discuss the merits of a classic western now in 4K as well as go through the entire Jack Ryan fran…

Reviewed: Civil War, Monkey Man Best/Worst: Kirsten Dunst Movies, John Wick-like Movies, Civil War Movies Trivia: Monkey Movie Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Kirsten Dunst This week on CinemaJaw these apes fight amongst themselves… (what else is new?) as we review the big-budget A24 film, Civil War, and Dev Patel’s directorial debut, Mo…

Another seven movies on the docket for Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy and a lot of variations on horror. Not so much with the third film from director Goran Stolevski that Steve suggests a look at (Housekeeping for Beginners). But Larry Fessenden crafts a werewolf metaphor for America (Blackout), there is a new giant spider film (Sting), Nicolas …

This week’s physical media edition has Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress looking at films with people getting lost as well as ones with murderers, looters, variations on classic horror and family fare plus a '70s era Kong. They include films by Peter Weir and the writer of Blade Runner plus a film hammered by MST3K and a dog murdered for their in…

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have eight reviews this week that range from one of the best surprises of the year thus far and a film that could be destined to give Tommy Wiseau’s The Room a run for its money. They begin with a pair of documentaries including the natural follow-up to Boys State (Girls State) and how the rise of memes and conspira…

Reviewed: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, The Last Starfighter (40th Anniversary Review) Mosterverse Ranked Trivia: Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Kirsten Dunst This week on CinemaJaw we have a science-fiction double feature for you, you could even call it a triple feature! We bring you reviews of Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (that …

Do not mistake a light week for physical media as evidence that it is dying. Even they need a break after Easter. Nevertheless Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress are here to tell you about five titles making the rounds this week. They include a debut from a one-time up-and-coming actor/director plus an early effort from George Lucas’ Huyck friends…

Erik Childress & Steve Prokopy review seven new movies over Easter weekend. They include a documentary about an evil son-of-a-bastard-fuck and his attempt to erase the memory of dead children (The Truth vs. Alex Jones) and another doc about one of the most legendary composers (Ennio). David Krumholtz is dying and just going about his deadpan remain…

Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to get you (and Carrie Coon) up to date on the latest in physical media. There are crime stories drenched in noir and including Nicole Kidman as a seductive weather lady and Edward Norton in his screen debut. There are all sorts of bizarre westerns including Jack Nicholson behind the camera, John Wayne babysitt…

Reviewed: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, Ricky Stanicky Top 5 Ancient Relics in Film Trivia: TRICKY Dan Aykroyd Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Dan Aykroyd This week on CinemaJaw we hit defrost as we unthaw some Ancient Relics in Film. These are the famous MacGuffins that our heroes chase, find, loose, unleash, what-have-you. Often they carry som…

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy review seven new movies this week, a couple of them even good. Which ones could they be? Is it this week’s killer with amnesia thriller starring Russell Crowe (Sleeping Dogs). Maybe the two-hander horror film from Shudder (You’ll Never Find Me)? Regina King plays the first black woman elected to Congress (Shirley) a…

Catching up on a couple weeks of releases, Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk westerns from the end of John Wayne’s career to the middle-ish of Tom Selleck’s. There are documentaries about art, filmmaking plus Harrison Ford with a Russian accent. Remakes of Stephen King, American J-Horror and just American remakes leading into political …

Reviewed: Damsel, Love Lies Bleeding Guest: Landis Wiedner – What The EF Podcast Top 3 Gritty Love Stories in Film Trivia: Kristen Stewart/Ed Harris movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Dan Aykroyd This week on CinemaJaw we take a look at Gritty Love Stories in honor of our review of the latest from A24, Love Lies Bleeding… which is, you guessed it…

Erik Childress is back from SXSW and Steve Prokopy joins him to catch up on nine films released this week. They include a pair of documentaries about one of our most beloved comic actors (Remembering Gene Wilder) and one of the 20th century’s most iconic artists (Frida). Mia Wasikowska tries to teach kids how to eat (Club Zero) and Zach Braff tries…

Reviewed: Spaceman, Kung Fu Panda 4 Best/Worst: Dan Aykroyd Movies, Adam Sandler Movies, Animated Series (that are not Toy Story) Trivia: Jack Black Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Dan Aykroyd Earth to JawHeads… Come in JawHeads… this is Mission Control, do you read me? This week on CinemaJaw we get Animated, and spaced out as we review the la…

Physical media continues to thrive though it is having a slight week this time around as Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski go over the new releases. Saw fans can grab the whole series in one fell swoop. There is esoteric stuff from Guy Maddin and a western with Vincent Cassel. Traditional Old West fans get a little treat from Walter Hill along wi…

Reviewed: Dune Part 2 Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Creatures Trivia: Dune Cast Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Dan Aykroyd It feels like summer popcorn season came early this year with the highly anticipated release of Denis Villeneuve’s second installment of DUNE. At this point, we think it’s fair to say the second installment in the Dune trilogy.…

Nobody wanted to open against Taylor Swift last fall and since nobody wanted to open against the sandworms, it’s a light week of reviews. Still five movies for Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy to talk about including an animated documentary about a missing pianist (They Shot the Piano Player) and the story of a burn victim seeking love and revenge …

This week on the latest and greatest in physical media, Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk about a wealth of new titles in 4K. But also a film noir package dedicated to Edward G. Robinson, a restored version of the 1970s French giallo picture and a horror film about a necrophiliac doctor. That is mixed in with new upgrades for Stanley Ku…

Reviewed – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Upgraded, Drive Away Dolls Oscar Predictions Trivia: “dolls” Stump the Kubinski Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Florence Pugh One, two… CinemaJaw is finally giving Freddy a review! Three, four… but wait there’s more! We also have reviews of some new movies, including the rom-com Upgraded,…

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy take on seven new films this week. They include a bored millennial trying to solve a pharmacy robbery (Drugstore June) and Orlando Bloom taking on mob boss Andie MacDowell (Red Right Hand). Steve looks at one of this year’s Oscar nominees (IO Capitano) and U2 getting involved in the war in Sarajevo (Kiss the Future)…

Keeping your physical media collection up to date? That is what Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are here to do again this week. The latest and greatest in Blu-rays include a female-led martial arts double feature extravaganza as well as a double bill of films from the Civil Rights era. There’s a new film with Isabelle Huppert along and a collec…

Reviewed: Madame Web Top 5 Physics in Film Trivia: Dakota and Don Johnson Stump the Kubinski Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Florence Pugh No guest this week, but you probably already knew that… because you can see the future! We’re also reviewing Madame Web, and covering our Top 5 Movie Psychics… but you knew that already. Enjoy! Top 5 Movie …

Eight reviews this week from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy run the gamut from good documentaries to surprisingly-not-so-bad to shockingly awful. Where do all of these films fit in? How do you feel about an action film from the director of Underwater with this name (Land of Bad) or the rookie secret service agent trying to save the President with…

Peter Sobczynski again joins Erik Childress to tell you what’s available in physical media this week. You can stock up on your French auteurs, Eric Rohmer and Jean-Luc Godard. There are lions and Cagneys and Willy’s, oh my! They go through the good and mediocre in the pricey new 4K set from Sony and Peter offers his two cents on his choice for the …

Reviewed: Orion and the Dark, Lisa Frankenstein Top 5 Screenwriters Trivia: Light & Dark Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Florence Pugh Get your pencils out, and get ready to being your research. This week on CinemaJaw we are taking a seat at the typewriter as we take a look at our Top 5 Screenwriters! This is one of those topics I cannot belie…

Seven new films get reviews from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy this week. They include a new mistaken identity rom-com with Camila Mendes (Upgraded) and another story of a novelist plunged into a murderous plot (Ghostwritten). A teenage girl comes of age in the time of Terry Schiavo (Suncoast) while a trio of friends discover the harsher realiti…

Getting you caught up on the latest and greatest (and sometimes not-so-great) in blu-rays, Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress run the gamut this week. They include Billy Wilder doing Agatha Christie and George Segal doing Michael Crichton. A film from the late Norman Jewison and a reimagining of the late Adrienne Shelley’s final film. Plus in mayb…

Reviewed: The Greatest Night in Pop, Argyle, The Conversation Trivia: Gene Hackman Stump Kubinski Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Sam Rockwell Not going to write a big long-winded post this week, it’s time for another Review-O-Rama, and that speaks for itself! We have three films on the docket for you this episode, two new ones and a classic. …

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy return to the weekly beat of reviews with seven new titles this week. They include a new 3-D documentary from Wim Wenders (Anselm) and another with the master of giallo (Dario Argento Panico). Leah McKendrick writes, directs and freezes her eggs (Scrambled) plus you can learn all about the making of We Are The World…

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy returned to Park City in-person for the first time since 2020 and they brought back a lot of reviews. 18 films are discussed on the show including the latest works from Steven Soderbergh, the Zellner Bros. and the makers of Saint Frances. Jesse Eisenberg delivers his sophomore Sundance effort and it resulted in one …

Peter Sobczynski helps Erik Childress get caught up with a few weeks of Blu-ray releases. They include what may be John Sayles’ finest film along with one of the better Nicolas Cage movies that nearly got buried. There are movies with submarines and others with serial killers and stalkers plus a genuine animated gem you may have missed. One of the …

Reviewed: The Kitchen, Eight Legged Freaks Top 5 Creepy Crawlies & Dangerous Animals in Film Trivia: Bug Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Sam Rockwell This week on CinemaJaw we take a walk on the wild side with Ali from The Reptile Den. And you know he didn’t come alone! Ali brings several of his slithering and crawling friends to meet Matt K. …

Reviewed: The Iron Claw, Lift Top Male Performances of 2023 Trivia: Wrestling Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Sam Rockwell This week we finalize our wrap-up of 2023 with the guys as we cover our Top 5 Male Performances of 2023! Joining us is a guy who knows a thing or two about movies. In fact, he is A Movie Guy… Leo Brady! Inspired by the gre…

A tradition that has gone absent for too long on the podcast has been this show that began with Sergio Mims and Erik Childress on WHPK Radio Chicago and continued on here. Films that has still yet to get the upgrade treatment on physical media and every time a new one emerges you can hear Sergio screaming down “WE GOT ONE!” We are finally continuin…

Reviewed: American Fiction Top 5 Female Performances of 2023 Trivia: Jason Statham Trivia Celebrating This Month: Sam Rockwell This week on CinemaJaw we continue our annual wrap of of the year in film that was 2023. This week we are looking at the ladies as we cover our Top 5 Female Performances of 2023. Joining us is (as we’ve come to discover) on…

The first new reviews of 2024 are here, even as a few late 2023 titles sneak into the mix. 13 in all starting with Anthony Hopkins, this time not as C.S. Lewis (Freud’s Last Session) and Renny Harlin dialing up some action with Aaron Eckhart (The Bricklayer). An Elvis, a Spock and a monkey go on a strange journey (He Went That Way) while Kaley Cuoc…