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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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 …

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…

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. …

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…

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…

Reviewed: Aquaman, The Color Purple Top 5 Scenes of 2023 Trivia: “Stump the Kubinski” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Emma Stone Happy Holidays everybody! We continue our year-end wrap-up episodes, this week joined by the most prolific film critic in Chicago, perhaps the world. Mark Dujsik is back in the house. He has his Top 5 Scenes of 2023 …

Matt K., Ry The Movie Guy, KP, and Brian Tallerico Choose their Top 10 Films of 2023! Celebrating This Month: Emma Stone Here we are! At the end of another year in film. It’s time for a slate of fellow film critics to join us for a look back at the year that was. A highlight of these round-ups is certainly our Top 10 of the year, with guest, Presid…

Reviewed: Eileen, Poor Things, Wonka, The Boy and the Heron Trivia: “Stump the Kubinski” Movie Trivia Top 3 Emma Stone Performances Celebrating This Month: Emma Stone This time of year is perfect for back-to-back REVIEW-O-RAMAS! So we bring you another review-packed episode. This time out we take a look at 4 films: Eileen, Poor Things, Wonka, The B…

Reviewed: Napoleon, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, May December, Saltburn Trivia: Joaquin Phenix Co-star “Stump the Kubinski” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Emma Stone It’s that time of year. Time for another REVIEW-O-RAMA! We have four fantastic films for you today: Napoleon, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy…

Reviewed: Leo, Wish Top 5: Talking Animal Movies Trivia: Chris Pine “Stump the Kubinski” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Paul Giamatti That’s SOME PIG! This week on the ‘Jaw we are looking like crazy people as we talk to the animals and cover our Top 5 Talking Animal Movies. We’re talking to the quadrupeds in honor of our latest reviews which …

Reviewed: The Marvels, The Holdovers Top 5: Boarding School Movies Trivia: Bire Larson Stump the Kubinski Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Paul Giamatti The Holiday Season is heating up, and movies are coming fast and furious… although thankfully no Fast and Furious movies right now. Pfil and the lads are trying to make sure nothing slips throu…

Reviewed: Pricilla, Quiz Lady Top: Get Rich Quick Movies Trivia: “Quiz”/”Lady” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Paul Giamatti We are once again joined by the wonderful Brent Kado, one of the minds behind the long-running Chicago Comedy Film Festival, which is about to celebrate its 2023 season with a pair of table reads featuring a cast of char…

Reviewed: Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Killer Top: Stalkers in Film Trivia: Michael Fassbender Movie Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Martin Scorcese Be sure to look over your shoulder… is there someone watching you? Following you? This week, we wrap up the spooky season with a deep dive on Movie Stalkers, and Stalker Movies (whi…

Reviewed: The Burrial, The Pigeon Tunnel, Fingernails Top: Horror Based on a True Story Trivia: Tommy Lee Jones Movie Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Martin Scorcese This week on the ‘Jaw it’s time for another Review-O-Rama! The three films we will review are: a new courtroom dramedy starring Tommy Lee Jones and the amazing Jami…

Reviewed: Killers of the Flower Moon Trivia: “Flower/Moon” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Martin Scorcese Whenever the great Martin Scorsese makes a new picture, it’s an event. Speaking of events, we also got out to the opening night of the Chicago International Film Festival! On the ticket for opening night is a film called We Grown Now, abo…

Guest: John Laflamboy of Hell’s Gate Reviewed: Totally Killer Trivia: 1987 Horror Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Martin Scorcese Gird your loins, and abandon all hope ye who enter here. It’s time once again for our annual trip to the best haunted attraction in the Mid-West… Hell’s Gate Haunted House. Every year the ghouls who run the haunt ha…

Guest: Clare Cooney Reviewed: The Creator, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Trivia: “Wonder” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Michelle Yeoh This week on CinemaJaw we celebrate creativity (when don’t we really?) as we interview a guest whose career we have loved to watch grow! Clare Cooney is an actor and filmmaker on the rise! We got to hang …

Reviewed: A Haunting in Venice Trivia: Michelle Yeoh Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Michelle Yeoh Fight the system! Than make movies about it! This week on CinemaJaw we concentrate on movies about Fighting the system. First with our Guest Dan Stewart. Dan, a filmmaker whose first feature Local Band, is currently making the fest…

Reviewed: A Haunting in Venice Trivia: Michelle Yeoh Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Michelle Yeoh Freshly home from our trip to our Neighbors to the North, we return from Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with a recap for the JawHeads! Films we saw, people we met, and cocktails parties we snuck into. TIFF is always a b…

Reviewed: The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future Guest: Jennifer Reeder Trivia: ‘Blood’ Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Michelle Yeoh This week on CinemaJaw we get weird… well, when DON’T we really? First, we welcome back one of our favorite guests, genre-loving director Jennifer Reeder! Jennifer is a Chicago-based artist, filmmaker, screenwr…

Reviewed: You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah Trivia: HDifficult Adam Sandler – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Seth Rogan On this episode in honor of our review of the latest Sandler/Netflix collab staring the Sandman’s very own daughters, You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, we take a look at famous offspring… Not the band… a…

Reviewed: Grand Turismo, Blue Beetle, Strays Trivia: Seth Rogan Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Seth Rogan Ladies and Gentlemen… Start your engines! This week on Cinemajaw, in honor of our review of Grand Turismo, we are rocking toward the finish line of our Top 5 Racing Movies! Another week from Fan Expo Chicago has us out and about, an…

Reviewed: Heart of Stone Trivia: Stone Movie Trivia – Stump the Kubinski CinemaWAR: Should James Gunn connect the films of his new DCEU or let them standalone? Celebrating This Month: Seth Rogan This week on CinemaJaw, we dip into our arsenal and pull out a weapon you’d never expect… a live remote from Chicago Fan Expo! We’re also reviewing the lat…

Reviewed: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem Trivia: Seth Rogan Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Seth Rogan Sometimes, all you need to tell a good story is a couple of locations and two characters. Such is the case with a film currently making the festival circuit entitled Ghosts of the Void. This week, we chat with the writer/director …

Reviewed: Haunted Mansion, Talk To Me (A24), The Beanie Bubble Trivia: Zach Galifianakis Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Greta Gerwig & Christopher Nolan Fire up the projectors, because the films are coming fast and furious… well, not literally… You know what we mean! This week on CinemaJaw a triple-dose of movie mayhem! It’s time for an…

Reviewed: Barbie, Oppenheimer Trivia: Ryan Gosling/Margot Robbie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Greta Gerwig & Christopher Nolan In a year that has seen a new Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Spider-Man, and Michael Keaton in a bat-suit… the Movie Event of the Year is undeniably #Barbenheimer. An accidental double-feature that started out as a pe…

Reviewed: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Trivia: Mission Impossible Cast – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Greta Gerwig & Christopher Nolan So tempting to get an AI to write this post… but I assure you, we resisted the temptation. This year, there has been an explosion in popularity and paranoia about what we (perhaps erro…

Reviewed: Nimona, Blackberry, Run Rabbit Run Trivia: Greta Gerwig/Christopher Nolan Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Greta Gerwig & Christopher Nolan Movies come fast and furious in the summer season. Literally and figuratively! This week on CinemaJaw we bring you another one of our patented REVIEW-O-RAMA segments, with a trio of…

Reviewed This Episode: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (I for an I) Interested or Ignore: Allied Trivia: Brad Pitt Movie Trivia CinemaWAR: Which Steppenwolf ensemble member is better John Malkovich or Gary Sinise? Happy 4th of July to our American JawHeads, and happy Summer Holidays to everyone! We’re taking the week off for a little R&R, but we co…

Reviewed: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Extraction 2, No Hard Feelings Trivia: Harrison Ford Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Jennifer Lawrence Summer Popcorn season is in full swing! There are so many great movies (and crappy ones) hitting theaters right now, that we knew it was time for one of our patented… REVIEW-O-RA…

Reviewed: Asteroid City, Flamin’ Hot Trivia: “City” Movie – Stump the Kubinski Top 5: Directors’ Signature Moves Celebrating This Month: Jennifer Lawrence Every good performer has a signature move. The Rock has the People’s Elbow, Babe Ruth would point to the bleachers as he took his stance, and so on. Film directors are no different. The good ones…

Reviewed: The Flash, Elemental Trivia: “Flash” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Jennifer Lawrence This week on CinemaJaw we celebrate our NEW STUDIO with a double feature review and celebration of the Best / Worst movies in a particular category. On the review docket: the latest DCEU film, The Flash, and Disney/Pixar’s latest, the long-awaited …

Reviewed: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Heroes of the Golden Mask CinemaWAR! Which film franchise is better overall – Batman or Spider-Man? Trivia: Good Sequel Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Jennifer Lawrence This week on CinemaJaw we swing through the podiverse as we cover two universe-hopping movies, the latest Sony Animation film Sp…

Reviewed: The Boogeyman Top 5 Steven King Scenes Trivia: Horror Movie Kids Trivia – Stump the Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Jane Fonda This week we make sure to check under the bed, and in the closet, as we take a look at our favorite Steven King Scenes! We are doing this top 5 topic in honor of our latest review of the summer scare, The Boogeym…

Reviewed: The Little Mermaid (2023), Fast X Top 5 Fish Movies Trivia: Stump The Kubinski Fast & Furious Cast Edition Celebrating This Month: Jane Fonda This week on CinemaJaw, we take a dive unda da sea and reel in our Top 5 Fish Movies! We are doing this in honor of the new live-action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. We join Ariel, Sebastia…

Reviewed: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movies, CCFF Capsule Reviews Top 5 Autobiographical Documentaries Trivia: Stump The Kubinski Celebrating This Month: Jane Fonda This week on CinemaJaw we talk about ourselves, as we cover our Top 5 Autobiographical Documentaries. We are doing so in honor of the new film by Davis Guggenheim, Still: A Michael J. Fox …

Reviewed: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW! Trivia: Stump The Kubinski Guardians of the Galaxy Cast Trivia Celebrating This Month: Jane Fonda This week on CinemaJaw we butter up the popcorn as we dive into the Summer Movie Preview! And what better way to kick it off than the latest MCU movie? We review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol…

Reviewed: Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, Peter Pan & Wendy Top 5: Movies That Parent For You Trivia: Stump The Kubinski Rachel McAdams Celebrating This Month: Jane Fonda Sometimes it’s a nice shortcut to all those difficult and awkward conversations that parents need to have with their kids to just plop them down in front of a good movie. This…

Reviewed: Beau Is Afraid, Evil Dead Rise Top 3: Anxiety Movies Trivia: “Air” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Kathy Bates This week is a double dose of anxiety-inducing horror as we review the new Ari Aster movie, Beau Is Afraid, along with the latest entry into the Evil Dead-iverse, Evil Dead Rise! It’s enough to make you reach for the medicat…

Reviewed: Renfield Trivia: “Air” Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Kathy Bates In honor of our review of the new horror comedy, Renfield, we look at our Top 5 Classic characters, stories, or scenes that get resurrected, revamped, or a fresh take. These are not straight-up remakes mind you. Rather, reimaginings. That plus our usual shenanigans! B…

Reviewed: Tetris, Murder Mystery 2 Trivia: Movies That Just Fit Movie Trivia Celebrating This Month: Kathy Bates Like solving a puzzle, or creating a work of art… you take a step back and… that’s it! All the pieces fit! This week on CinemaJaw we dive into Top 5 All The Pieces Fit Movies. In our use of the term, these are the movies that sound terri…