Reviewed: How To Make a Killing, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie

Don’t even lie to me Jawheads – if you’re over 28, you’ve had an emotional collapse that lead you to do things you would have never done otherwise. DON’T even lie TO ME. I’ve had, like, 7 by now. And what better way is there to forgive yourself for the last time you crashed out than to watch a movie that involves somebody else crashing out!

And let me tell ya, we’ve got a good recommendation for ya: For Worse – the new film written by, directed by, and starring Amy Landecker. She plays a mom that joins an acting class after getting a divorce, and it’s full of laughs and charm. We also have a special peak behind the curtain on this one, because we got the chance to interview Amy herself! That’s right, the auteur behind For Worse is with us in this episode you guys. This is NOT a DRILL.

But that’s not all this week. Would you believe it that we even had the time to cram in a Review-O-Rama? We’ve got 3 reviews coming at ya’ this week. Glen Powell’s back and beautiful in How To Make a Killing, about an ultra rich family being the absolute worst people (shocker). So Glen goes on a revenge spree killing said ultra rich family. We also have the return of Sam Rockwell with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. A cheeky little flick that I can only describe as “Groundhog’s Day except there’s an urgent and pressing crisis that requires prudent action… and Sam -goddamn- Rockwell.” And finally, we top our Review-O-Rama off with the best of the best out of our neighbors to the north with: Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie. Yes… that is the title. We go over it and it makes more sense than it seems I PROMISE.

This episode is bonkers dude. There’s so much going on in it and all of it is good. I had an ear-to-ear grin the whole show and I just know you all will too.

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: “Wuthering Heights”, Iron Lung

Get ready to smash that like button and also smash a handsome romantic period dude who looks like Jacob Elordi. Because boy-oh-boy do we have a big episode for you guys today!

We’re starting the show off with our review of the new “Wuthering Heights” directed by Emerald Fennell. The quotations are important, because this is loosely based upon the novel by Emily Brontë. And, if you have seen any of the trailers for this movie, it. Is. STEAMY. 

And we’ve also got a review of the new Markiplier movie (yes, you read that correctly; the YouTuber Markiplier actually and for real made a feature film), Iron Lung. We also talk a little bit about the making of this film, because the fact that this movie got made and released at all is, honestly, pretty nuts. 

And, we’ve also got a good top 5 list too! We’re doing our top 5 Cross-Class Love Stories. So get poor. Or get rich, even though that’s unlikely in this economy. And get READY. Because it’s a good one you guys!

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: “Wurthering Heights”, Iron Lung

Get ready to smash that like button and also smash a handsome romantic period dude who looks like Jacob Elordi. Because boy-oh-boy do we have a big episode for you guys today!

We’re starting the show off with our review of the new “Wurthering Heights” directed by Emerald Fennell. The quotations are important, because this is loosely based upon the novel by Emily Brontë. And, if you have seen any of the trailers for this movie, it. Is. STEAMY. 

And we’ve also got a review of the new Markiplier movie (yes, you read that correctly; the YouTuber Markiplier actually and for real made a feature film), Iron Lung. We also talk a little bit about the making of this film, because the fact that this movie got made and released at all is, honestly, pretty nuts. 

And, we’ve also got a good top 5 list too! We’re doing our top 5 Cross-Class Love Stories. So get poor. Or get rich, even though that’s unlikely in this economy. And get READY. Because it’s a good one you guys!

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: “Wurthering Heights”, Iron Lung

Get ready to smash that like button and also smash a handsome romantic period dude who looks like Jacob Elordi. Because boy-oh-boy do we have a big episode for you guys today!

We’re starting the show off with our review of the new “Wurthering Heights” directed by Emerald Fennell. The quotations are important, because this is loosely based upon the novel by Emily Brontë. And, if you have seen any of the trailers for this movie, it. Is. STEAMY. 

And we’ve also got a review of the new Markiplier movie (yes, you read that correctly; the YouTuber Markiplier actually and for real made a feature film), Iron Lung. We also talk a little bit about the making of this film, because the fact that this movie got made and released at all is, honestly, pretty nuts. 

And, we’ve also got a good top 5 list too! We’re doing our top 5 Cross-Class Love Stories. So get poor. Or get rich, even though that’s unlikely in this economy. And get READY. Because it’s a good one you guys!

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: Send Help, Secret Mall Apartment, Crime 101, Whistle

Roll for initiative Jawheads! We’ve got a new game this week that we’re excited to play on the show. And don’t worry – it is related to our movies! We’re calling it “Roll Film” and it’s a level up from the format we would use when we pulled director drafts. We’ll explain it on the show, but it’s a good time that we know you’re going to like!

And, what a good week to introduce our fun little new game,. We’ve got a lot of things to pull our drafts from with our REVIEW-O-RAMA and a lot of Hollywood stars. And for our Review-O-Rama, we start off with a big one: Sam Raimi. He’s got a new film called Send Help coming out about two coworkers that end up stranded on an island together. We also tap into the new documentary Secret Mall Apartment which is about… well… a secret apartment in a mall. We also checked in with Crime 101 with none other than the Hulk himself, Mark Ruffalo. And, to close things out, we even checked out Whistle – a horror film where blowing the whistle… could get ya got my friends.

This is a good one! I really do think you’re going to like the game, and I KNOW you’re going to like the reviews!

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: The Wrecking Crew, Shelter

I wrote a lot for this week’s episode description, but I quickly realized it was all plagiarized from what I wrote on the Top 5 Badasses episode. It had similar jokes about action movies as what I originally wrote. Something about walking in slow motion with an explosion in the background is where my mind oft goes.

But that’s because it’s f***ing cool!!! And you know what else is f***ing cool? Our Top 5 this week, the Top 5 Dumb, But Fun Action Movies. We’re talking guns. We’re talking car chases. We’re talking people more physically fit than I will ever be beating the stuffing out of each other. And you better believe we’re having a real fun time talking about it.

And that’s because we reviewed The Wrecking Crew this week. The newest entry in dumb but fun classics. It stars Jason Momoa, and Dave Bautista, is set in Hawaii, and has a lot of wonton violence.

We’ve also got a briefer review for you all at the backend. Ryan caught Shelter, the new Jason Statham flick – and with a star like Statham behind it, you know it’s another dumb action flick… and we love that.

It’s high octane insanity on this week’s jaw everybody. Get ready. Get tough. And get dumb y’all.

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: The Rip, Mercy

Get a load of those Oscar announcements eh?? That’s right – they announced the nominees for this year’s Oscar ceremonies, and you bet your sweet buppie we’re gonna talk about that.

And we’ve got somebody great to talk about that with. We’ve brought our old friend and annual guest: Jeff York! He’s a critic and cartoonist here in Chicago, and a fellow member of our very own Chicago Indie Critics group.

Just like Brian, just like Mark, AND just like Cati – Jeff is an annual friend at our yearly wrap-up, and Jeff’s job is to rank the Top 5 Male Performances of 2025.

Plus, we’ve got a review of the new Matt Damon and Ben Affleck detective thriller: The Rip! For everybody wondering why we’re celebrating Ben Affleck this month: here ya’ go!

We’ve got some fun trivia. We’ve got a capsule review of Mercy. We’ve got it all boy, girls, and enbies.

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

There are only a few things you can truly count on in this world. 1.) Death. 2.) Taxes. And 3.) CinemaJaw’s yearly recap of the Top 5 Best Female Performances of the year with returning guest Cati Glidewell. And, lucky for you, number three is the one we went with this week!

That’s right boys, girls, and enbies – we’ve got long-time friend of the show, stellar critic, and The Blonde In Front herself, Cati Glidewell. And in addition to the Top 5 Female Performances of 2025, she’s also here for our review this week.

We’ve got the follow up to last year’s hit zombie movie 28 Years Later, and Matt, Ry, AND Cati all caught The Bone Temple.

And, if that wasn’t enough – we’ve also got an absolute banger for trivia this week. Ryan wrote “Devil’s Play” trivia for Matt and Cati.

It’s a great start to the year, and if you aren’t excited about The Bone Temple then you clearly didn’t see 28 Years Later. You won’t wanna miss it y’all.

I love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: Marty Supreme, Primate, Wake Up Dead Man

Oookeeee okeeee. Oou ouuh oh. Oookeee.

And for those of us who are *NOT* capuchins – let me translate this episode’s writeup:

We’re reviewing Primate BABYYYY. It’s our first review of 2026, and Matt, Ryan and myself are known to be kinda like our furry ancestors, so we were excited to find out if this new horror film will drive us bananas.

AND – to contrast this show’s hosts being monkey-adjacent, we have THE HARDEST working critic on the planet; our friend Mark Dujsik! And I’m not kidding – the guy goes ape s*** insane on watching movies. He’s always in the ball park of 500+ movies a year. He’s a friend of the show. He’s a hell of a critic. And we couldn’t be happier to have him in on all our monkey business.

Plus, c’mon guys. We’ve been off for 3 weeks eating leaves and bananas. And we didn’t spend all that time picking flies off our backs. We also grabbed some movies from last year that we wanted to review too! We’ve got the ping pong… I mean *table tennis* flick Marty Supreme. And we even logged on to Netflix to screen the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man.

Plus… listen… If you couldn’t tell by the bad monkey jokes already – this is KP writing this week’s writeup. And let. Me. Tell. YOU: this is the best trivia week of my life, because we are playing MONKEY MOVIE TRIVA!!!!! I cannot emphasize enough how much I like monkeys guys. I wish every week was monkey movie trivia week.

This is a good one! We’re welcoming in 2026 with our bests… our at the very least – our most… *us*. We’re ready to rock the new year with y’all.

Love,

-KP

Top 10: of 2025

You know it. You love it. It’s the annual top 10 lists for the year with our dear friend, Brian Tallerico. Ryan’s got his top 10. Matt’s got HIS top 10. And, if you can even believe it, Brian has HIS top 10 also! That’s 30 times one of Chicago’s finest critics touches on all the things that made this year so magical.

Horror. Comedy. Drama. And the expected levels of “you put that at number _____???” bickering ya’ love to hear from CinemaJaw!

This one’s the last episode of the year, so please PLEASE have a great holiday season. We’re super excited about 2026, and believe you me – everybody on this podcast would agree that all of you listening are a huge reason we’re so excited. 

Love you all,

-KP

Reviewed: Jay Kelly, Train Dreams, The House Made

It’s that time of year. We’re cramming in our last few movies before the year ends, and boy HOWDY is CinemaJaw having fun clearing up our final watchlist.

And we want to share that fun! We’ve got a review-o-rama for ya’ this week JawHeads where we go over 3 movies. Jay Kelly – the new Netflix film starring Adam Sandler and George Clooney. Speaking of Netflix, Matt and Ryan also caught Train Dreams, the meditative period piece about a man working on a railroad during the western expansion. And finally, Ryan also caught The Housemaid, a steamy thriller flick starring Sydney Sweeny and directed by Paul Feig.

It’s a good one guys!

-KP

Reviewed: Five Nights At Freddy’s 2

Grab the tissues and find somebody to hug! Tis the season to watch something heartwarming and that’s just what we’re doing today. We’ve got our Top 5 Heartwarming movies this week Jawheads.

That’s not all – we’ve got one of the last horror movies of the year in for our review this episode too. Matt got out to see if Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 is pizza party worthy. 

Ryan’s got some brief thoughts on two year-end sequels just before trivia this week as well folks. It’s a jam-packed one!